Loss of Bruner Field Endangers Muscatine Baseball Facilities
Dear Aunt Sadie reports Muscatine faces losing Bruner Field on private land leased by the city park commission. Rising assessments and a high purchase or rent offer threaten continued use. The park seeks alternatives at Musser Park and Kent Stein, but more funds and time are needed to maintain and expand facilities.
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Sadie
Muscatine
Bruner Field
City Park Commission
The
Park Commission
William Mull Sr
Oneida Lo Street
Adia- Gil Dietz
Kent-Stein Park
Mull
City Council
Buildings and Grounds Committee
John Robinson
Bruner
Robinson
Hayes High
Red Sox
New Indians
Junior Legion
Community College
Musser Park
Muscatine Lighting Manufacturing Company
Kent-Stein Complex
Abby
Heating heat and asthma relief advice column
In response to the reader, Dr. Molner explains that the dryness or moisture of home heat depends on the system and piping, not the fuel. He suggests humidifiers and surface water trays to control humidity, notes tight houses worsen dryness, and gives practical tips for maintaining comfortable air quality for asthma sufferers.
Dear Abby Advice Columns on Family Conflicts and Lessons
A reader asks whether to cave to a stubborn teen after a speeding ticket and another seeks guidance on a sister’s messy room. Abby offers blunt counsel on handling kids attitude, spousal trust, and the value of not overreacting to family tensions.
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Abby
Canada Aims Lobster Colony Off Vancouver Island
Canada tries again this summer to establish a New England lobster colony in Pacific waters near Vancouver Island. Marine biologists have gathered 130 pregnant lobsters at Martha’s Vineyard hatchery and shipped them to Vancouver in cartons.
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Boston
Canada
Vancouver Island
Pacific Ocean
Martha’s Vineyard Island
Vancouver
Prayer Text From The Daily Prayer Page
A brief prayer invocation thanks God for His Word and asks for wisdom to seek truths, apply teachings, and carry the church mission forward so that all may have eternal life in Christ Amen.
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Christ
Indoor air quality worries move into closed rooms
Helena Independent Record reports Dr. Louis C. McCabe urged Senate investigators to study sulphur oxides and hydrocarbons inside confined spaces. He warned that shoe pollutants may concentrate in conference rooms cars and airplanes, challenging the notion that outdoor air pollution is the sole danger.
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Helena
Senate Air and Water Pollution
House
Louis C. McCabe
Los Angeles
Dirksen Plan Hurdles Toward Constitutional Convention
The Burlington Hawk-Eye notes that only two states stand between a national constitutional convention and a potential amendment. It explains the Dirksen plan to allow apportionment by nonpopulation factors, the complex approval path, and the odds of success, urging calm assessment of the risks and political obstacles.
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Burlington Hawk-Eye
Congress
Sen. Dirksen
A National Look at Passenger Rail Service Decline
The Sheridan Press argues that railroads pulling passenger service isolate communities and create a national transportation crisis. It questions future adequacy of transport as billions fund moon missions while small towns lose basic links. The piece urges Congress to examine the trend and its human cost.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Congress
Yield to Pedestrians Signs Too Faint to Matter
Iowa City residents report scattered yellow signs near campus and business districts urging drivers to yield to pedestrians. The signs, likely ornamental rather than utilitarian, risk misleading newcomers who may take them seriously and be endangered by false assurances.
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Iowa City
Towa City
Third Street walk project to start immediately
A long needed improvement on Third Street between the Methodist and Baptist churches will begin at once. The item notes several past events and residents linked to the neighborhood across the years.
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Third Street
Walter Cohn
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa Wesleyan University
Titus and
Jackson
J. J. Wall
Rebecca Woods
Culver Street
Alfred Moore
Kimball
Neb
Ernest. Moore
West Fourth Street
First Baptist Church
Leroy Thomas
Corp
Leo Batchelor
Fort Knox
Ben Batchelor
East Front Street
Walter Russell
West Fourth SL
Europe
Frederick Crane
Cologne
Germany
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Iowa
Dial
Your Community
H. L. Nelson
Margaret Griffith
William Fahy
Carl Walter
Adv
Gilbert Dietz
Edwin Walwer
Mer
Wire Service
Muscatine Journal
Associated Press
Dowling
Sillings Gazette
Joseph G. Molner, M.D
Bear
Dr. Mather
Motner
Cain
Altho
ABBC
Law
J. Keeps
Tanitian National Yard
Tributan
Columbia River
Rossword
Cin& Buckevening
Peel
Boy
Mosten
the Daily Prayer
Dirksen
Fred Vetter
Kensington
Mulberry Ave
C. T. Club
Frank Fisher
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