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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1913
Page
7
Ad offers two complete readings for 50 ets with names and dates, urging immediate call at Pare Tore 805 Sycamore Street from 9 to 4 50. It warns readings are not given on Sunday and a fee of 32.90 applies after the week.
Local notes list residents and visitors with appointments and travel. Several names from Wilton, Nichols, Lone Tree, and Fairport visit the city for business or events. An organ recital is announced at the German Congregational church by Professor R. J. Jones with a silver collection.
Tocorator H W Huttig of Muscatine is named as incorporator in a subsidiary organized to extend the Interurban network. Proposals include a line from Tipton to Muscatine and connections with Davenport and Cedar Rapids routes. Cedar Rapids syndicate explores multiple routes from Iowa City to Muscatine and Tipton to Davenport, seeking eastern capital. Fern Trautman returns home from Conesyville after visiting jelly factory.
George Kubo Jr of West Pront street leaves for Ann Arbor to attend the University of Michigan commencement. His sister Miss Lilian Kuhn will graduate from the department of Art Literature and Science on Thursday. About a thousand graduates, including Miss Helen Martin and Miss Mary Martin, are noted among the first graduates.
San Diego June 23. Anna Lersen aged 76 died in poverty in a small room. She had $1,000 in local banks and owned property in Kansas City and Denver Missouri. The room held empty tin cans and a blackened corncob pipe. Her sole luxury was tobacco and her only known relative is niece Emma Thrasher of Altoona.
In Manhattan Kansas on June 23 the city commissioners passed an ordinance requiring all mulberry trees in the city to be grubbed out and burned after residents complained ripe fruit stained skirts on sidewalks.
Activists plan to pressure all 1014 candidates in Iowa to pledge repeal of the mulct law, uniting temperance groups and targeting governor and lieutenant governor races. A statewide petition drive will circulate before the next general assembly, with endorsements tied to pledge records and campaign support.
West Liberty notes an unusual moonlit party for the third losing division of the Pythian Sisters attendance contest in the K P hall. Mrs William Hardin led as losing captain as guests were invited, entering a moonlit garden like setting with a celestial display described.
Thirteen turnvereine arrived in Denver for the thirty first North American Turnerbund annual turnfest. Delegations from Marysville Kansas Medigan Wisconsin Fort Wayne Indiana and St Louis greeted visitors at union station as local hosts arranged hotel receptions and city tours amid mounting anticipation for the opening ceremonies tomorrow morning featuring gun salutes and flag drills by students.
A man learned his $10,000,000 fortune had vanished and attempted suicide at his mother’s home in San Mateo suburb. He was resuscitated with his mother Mrs Rose Maggi present. He planned to travel to Switzerland to pursue a claim to an estate share.
In Washington on June 2 speculation ran through diplomatic circles that Frederic C. Penfield of New York would be offered an embassy by President Wilson. The five remaining postings mentioned were France, Germany, Russia, Austria, and Turkey.
A Lincoln county delegation visits Oklahoma City to petition the State Board of Agriculture to halt a grasshopper invasion across central Oklahoma. In Warwick and Wellston the crop loss includes corn and alfalfa, with damage reported in other areas as well.
Washington June 33. Gifford Pinchot proposes a national river commission in a regressive party measure introduced by Representative Temple of Pennsylvania. The body would include senators, representatives, governors, and heads of waterways improvement groups serving without pay to tackle flood prevention pollution water power and related subjects.
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