Sweetland Grange To Hold Open Meeting
Sweetland Grange prepares for an open meeting on the coming Wednesday evening, June 28, inviting all to attend. A program follows with songs, solos, readings, dialogues, and a string orchestra, plus ice cream and cake after. Members are asked to bring cake.
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Sweetland Grange
The
Grange
J. W. Merril
Hazel Wanamaker
Hazel Miller
Henry Romann
Esss
Ena TeStrake
Claude Healey
Gertrude Romann
Mabel Miller
J. W
Merril
Clara Bermel
Harry Bermel
Gladys’ Miller
Della Kramer
Clark Miller, Sr
Ella TeStrake
Hazel
Gladys Miller
Void sales declared on 1915 grain and sugar by empire control
Berlin via London reports the federal council voided all contracts for 1915 harvest grain including rye wheat spelt barley and oats and for crude sugar where fulfillment extends beyond August 31. The commodities remain under empire control through the war’s end.
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Berlin
London
Federal Council
Question of Weeds in Muscatine City Debate
Muscatine council faces a funds gap to cut its own weeds but opts to act on private property. Police will notify owners to clear premises and the city attorney will explore taxing weed-cutting costs if owners refuse. A council member quipped that silence on weeds helps no one.
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Muscatine
Hanley
Greater Town Association Sends Prize Cattle to Panama Expo
Muscatine county farmers learn that fifty carloads of prize cattle and a car of prize poultry will be sent to the Panama Exposition in San Francisco. The plan was approved at a small meeting of about ten members of the Greater Town Association.
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Muscatine County
Greater Towa Association
San Francisco
Waterloo Leaders Plan Cattle Shipment To San Francisco
Members of the association at Water loo meet Wednesday to discuss shipping cattle to San Francisco. They praise Towa for grand prize in agriculture at the Panama Pacific Exposition and expect Iowa cattle to gain national honors. A committee including C. B. Cass of Waterloo Col. G. W. French of Davenport and C. F. Curtis of Ames was formed to arrange the shipment.
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Waterloo
Towa
San Francisco
Iowa
Frisco
C. BD. Cass
Foreigner victim of railroad accident near West Liberty
An Austrian man naming himself Joseph Betrakal was struck by a fast passenger train near West Liberty on Wednesday afternoon. He was brought to Muscatine county farm and placed under the county physician. He was not seriously hurt, knocked unconscious by a bar on the locomotive and thrown to the trackside. he is expected to recover.
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Joseph Betrakal
West Liberty
Muscatine County
Carranza Agent Foresees Victory
Gustavo Mireles private secretary to General Carranza, visiting San Antonio, declares Carranza will triumph and sets a three month limit for the first chief’s movement.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Texas
Gustavo Mireles
Carranza
Mireles
Vardaman Tackles Negro Problem in Southern Talk
Southern Senator Vardaman spoke to a large Jackson audience on the so called Negro problem. He warned against racial equality, claimed prewar conditions favored blacks morally and economically, and cited higher crime and education gaps to argue for continued segregation.
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Vardaman
Senator Vardaman
Abraham Lincoln
Senator Tillman
South Carolina
Tillman
Willam J. Bryan
South
North
Thomas Jefferson
Pennsylvania
Washington, D. C
Resinol Skin and Scalp Remedy Endorsed by Doctors
Wash affected areas with Resinol Soap and hot water, dry, then apply Resinol Ointment. Itching and burning stop instantly, sleep returns, and healing begins quickly at low cost. Doctors have prescribed it for twenty years and druggists carry it. Also use Resinol Soap for scalp rubbing to stop dandruff and itching, keeping hair thick and healthy.
Senator Vardaman Slams Races In Western States Speech
In a controversial lecture Senator Vardaman claims Chinese could govern permanently since ancient times while Negroes have degenerated. He argues alcohol impacts whites and blacks differently, calling the black man a ferocious animal under liquor and urges repeal of the tariff amendment to restrict this race. Advertising line then promotes workman’s compensation insurance with the line Moral, Insure with Mark.
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Alexander the Great
Vardaman
United States
Scarlet Fever Epidemic Shows First Signs of Improvement
Joliet Illinois June 18 Dr C E Crawford chief inspector state board of health in charge of scarlet fever fight says the situation is improving for the first time in four months. Except newsboys all children under sixteen must remain at home under medical inspection program.
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Associated Press
Joliet
Ill
C. E.crawford
State Board of Health
Tariff Rise Affects Almost All Imported Turkish Goods
Tariffs climbing 15 to 20 percent ad valorem on nearly all imports into Turkey went into effect June 4. The increases were reported to the state department by the American consul general at Constantinople via case advices.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Turkey
State Department
Constantinople
Mercer bankers and farmers to hear Eckhardt address
Aledo lawmakers report that bankers of Mercer County and farmers from Rock Island and Mercer counties will attend a Rock Island county bankers meeting at Reynolds on June 28. William G. Eckhardt, DeKalb County adviser, will speak on the benefits of advisory services and practical farming. Eckhardt, son of Casper Eckhardt, is noted as a leading expert. A delegation from Aledo plans to attend. Lightning struck a maple tree in front of the George H. Boyles home near the court house on Lamb College avenue Wednesday afternoon. Boyles, seated on the porch about 35 feet away, was stunned briefly but unharmed.
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Aledo
Mercer County
Rock Island
Mercer Counties
Reynolds
William G. Eckhardt
DeKalb County
Eckhardt
Casper Eckhardt
Buffalo Prairie
Aledo County
George H. Boyles
Court House
Lamb College Avenue
Big Hagenbeck Wallace Circus Promises Spectacle in Muscatine
Carl Hagenbeck Wallace Circus announces two performances in Muscatine on Wednesday June 30 with over 400 acrobats gymnasts riders contortionists and athletes plus 50 clowns and a trained wild animal exhibition. A three mile street parade roars through downtown at 1 30 p m prior to the shows.
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Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace
Muscatine
Carl Hugenbeck- Wallace Circus
Carl Hagenbeck
Zoological Paradise
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Wis
Horlick
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Panama Exposition
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R. R
A.W
Morgan
Mississippi
Mark
Aledoans
Rock Island County
Mercer
F.F. Dalley Co., Ltd
Buffalo, N
Hamilton, Can
J. F. Shallenberger
Chicago
Grand Hotel
Muscatine, Iowa
Shallenberger
Fiis
Skallenberger
Otters
F. Shallenberger
M. D
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Oakwood Bivd
Chicago, I
Kodaks & Cameras
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Home Tea Co
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