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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1913
Page
12
A local note lists a Princess program headlined by a Vitarraph feature The Webs tonight. East Tenth resident Mrs J W Waller plans a Clinton visit while Mr and Mrs Saunders depart for Galesburg. Dress sale promotions at Ryan Dry Goods and Bryan Dry Goods are advertised with prices and short customer memories.
Denver hosts competitions at Lakeside stadium as part of the North American Gymnastic Union thirty first Olympiad. Musical and literary events at the auditorium attract crowds. a midair concert from a 380 foot tower thrills spectators. Veterans from Newark and New York arrive, while local turnverein members fear the result. Officials enforce midnight closing, provoking anger from commercial organizations and protests to the district attorney.
Harrisburg Pennsylvania on June 27 reports a public utilities bill awaiting Governor Tenner’s signature after more than two years of debate. The measure seeks to reform utility regulations and set new rate standards.
Two years in Fennsrivaria, now under Governor Venner, with a seven member commission to serve ten years at ten thousand dollars yearly. The act, to be known as the Public Service Company Law, will regulate rates schedules and service for over two dozen public service corporations. New York June 27 Albert Schlicht also known as Al Bellman, a vaudeville actor, killed himself in a billiard room with poison after performances.
City engineers plan to oil shell roads in residential areas using asphalt to upgrade crushed shell cinder and granite sheets. Charles Young urges the measure arguing it could produce first class roadways, with John G. Baker Co of Chicago visiting to discuss permanent improvements.
The visiting veterinary will survey farms near Herr to inspect herds as part of a state effort to monitor and control disease. Critics say the state veterinary department should intensify checks to curb the spread of beg cholera on southern area farms.
Dr Thompson of Davenport, a veterinary supplied with state serum, has been dispatched to Muscatine to visit farms with reported disease. The state department is coordinating aid after appeals by the jcrop organization. Curtis received telegrams and replies, while cholera has appeared in additional herds though no official county report has reached the county seed advisor.
Attorney Lloyd Eugent Cas terline of Tipton, a recent Iowa University Law graduate, returns to Iowa City to wed Miss Merle Shaver of Columbus Junction Ia. She is described as his college sweetheart in this brief society note from the Journal.
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