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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
2
A local motion picture theater scene turns tense as four khaki clad youths march in and arrest a young man for missing drill. The incident, part of several last night, sees Captain Muth enforcing strict attendance with a permanent detail assigned to round up absent battery members.
Amos Illinois reports a statewide drive to conserve food yields a projected 40 million quarts of canned goods from Town canning efforts. The campaign, aided by the agricultural extension department and school officials, aims to boost yearly production well beyond normal levels, potentially adding 16 million extra quarts and totaling about 116.5 million quarts, valued at roughly ten million dollars.
A dispatch notes local railway officials urging all workers to aid rail service in wartime, citing inefficiency and poor car use. A specific case reports forty two cars found only partly loaded, with twenty nine carrying the total load and seventeen for other uses. Also reports Mason Assembly: Banton lodge No 69 held third degree work with thirty five visiting members from Aledo Joy Lester Oakville and Iowa.
An ad proclaims a turning point in health as digestive aid and body builder. It promotes Johann Hoff's Malt Extract as a palatable tonic benefiting men women and children. Distributed in Iowa by Chureau Drug Co Turlington and Cedar Rapids.
Police nabbed four newsboys found swimming within city limits as a first 1900s offense under the local swimming in public prohibited rule. They were detained and ordered out of the water with clothing rules explained, while officials promise brief enforcement amid lack of local swimming facilities.
Local physicians warn that Muscatine’s high water will leave a legacy of mosquitoes if pools in riverfront depressions and stagnant areas are not filled or covered. Rains and rising streams create breeding grounds for malaria and typhoid. residents are urged to drain holes or pour oil to kill larvae as an urgent public health measure.
A fragmented article argues bananas play a key role in national nourishment. It notes large US imports, calories in fruit, and relates price points while asserting bananas as a staple and protective against hunger.
A Richmond Kentucky reader, F B Tromey, praises Chamberlain's Tablets as a wonder. He claims they never sold anything that beat them and recommend trying them for constipation relief.
An elderly Lone Tree resident, Lee Gearga Windess, died at his daughter’s home on June 2 after a long life marked by Civil War service. Born in 1634 in Pennsylvania, he spent many years in Lone Tree. His wife preceded him in death. Surviving are three of eight children Charles of Tet tendorf, Maude Driver of Molino, and Frank Pitton of Lang Tree, plus nine grandchildren.
Iowa City Red Cross workers formed frat chapters after the parent society began in Dubuque. Delotations here will organize chapters in Lone Tree, Washington, Brighten, Allerton and other towns as the county launches a $12,000 goal. A meeting tonight will set the campaign in motion.
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