Local city visit snippets and society notices
Wilton visitors, city shopping, and afternoon trips dominate today’s local notes. Clara Hylak and Ella Ericson return to Durant and Wilton after daytime city sojourns while Faye Statler of Witron also spends the day in town. Mrs. Thomas Dilley and Mrs. Wm Hidlebaugh travel for short visits, and Miss Vivian Cipple and Miss Ethel Gefferts head to Letts and Ungton respectively. Community shop ads urge insured protection with Mark and Son.
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Agke
Mes
L. Wells
Wilton
O. Snyder
Ads
Mia
W. Pierce
East Third Street
Ieft
Keokuk
Misg
Clara Hylak
Durant
Wiss Faye Statler
al Witron
Mark
John A. Robbins
Adv
Htlus
Dowell
Vivian Cipple
Letts
W. B. Umphreys
Garden City
James Henley
Burlington Road
Iowa City
Mussarville Ladies’ Art Society
Evangelist Sunday to Lead Des Moines Revival Campaign
The Rev. Sunday will conduct a six week revival campaign in Des Moines in fall 1914. An inter-church council invitation was extended in May and Des Moines papers announced his acceptance. A 5,000 seat tabernacle will be erected with about $10,000 needed to finance the campaign.
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Bly Sunday
Des Moines
Tabernacle
Counci
Mtr
Ttig
Ste
Last Raft Boat Seen On The River
A raft passed Muscatine this week on the Mississippi en route to Keokuk via the Ottumwa Belle and Pathfinder. The long raft brails measured wide and the log convoy headed to Tabor Lumber Company. The article notes mills waning and river traffic fading as box factories rise.
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Muscatine
Ottumwa
Koolkuk
Tabor
Mississinni
Taw
Officers elected by Starck s Big Boys band
At a regent meeting of Starck s Big Boys band officers were chosen by the members. Results show Manager Louis Elfers, President Vincent Eppel, Secretary Edward Elfers, Treasurer Clifford Randleman, Assistant Director Edward Valdos.
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Starck
Big Boys Band
Louis Elfers
Vincent Eppel
Dward Elfers
Clifford Randleman
Eid@ward Val- 2
Metropolitan Symphony Delights Muscatine Audience
The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra gave two performances at Weed Park during the Muscatine Chautauqua season, opening nine days of events with a strong audience showing. Conductor James Thatcher led a polished program of classic selections and arias, featuring Mrs. Jonnie Thatcher Beach and Johann Berthelson.
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Weed Park Thoraday
Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Paul F. Voelker
Misa Peay Carpenter
Miss Carpenter
John Ruskin
Golden River
Goya
Buch
James Thatcher
Muscatine Music Towers
Thatcher
Jonnie Thatcher Beach
Sampson
de- Jilgh
Johann Berthelson
Mr. Ber
Instructress Thelson Tops Musial Program At College
Thelson, an instructor at Chicago Musical College from a musical family, sang the Toreador from Carmen and presented a selection with Yacare. Antonio Barrile, Italy a harpist, and AM Seilin cellist added solos. both performed second numbers. Children Hour at Four featured Miss Carpenter teller of two hundred stories, active in Cincinnati Story Tellers League and editor of Our Little Folks in Home and Country Magazine.
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Thelson
Chicago Musteal College
Ya Ciare
Antonio Barrile
Italy
AM. Seilin
Grigo Am
Sig. Bartile
Miss Carpenter
Aecnueo
Muscatine
Cincinnati Story Tellers’ League
National Story Tellers’ League
Mothers’ Meeting
Tragic Death Follows Unrequited Love tale
A young man Henry Stensake dies by self harm after a bogey ride with Miss Eisie McVey near Linby. He was jilted when she married another, with notes to her cited as motive. The incident, dated June 27 in Packwood Ta, is reported as a grave tragedy from recent years.
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Packwood
Henry Stensake
Linby
Eisie McVey
Germany approves Gerard for ambassador to Germany
Berlin reports Joy W. Gerard of the New York supreme court is named United States ambassador to Germany. The German foreign office sent the selection to Emperor William, who is at the Kiel regatta, and officials expect prompt acceptance. The nomination is favorably received and likely to be confirmed without delay.
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Berlin
Jay W. Gerard
New York Supreme Court
United States
Germany
Foreign Office
William
Kiel
E. Richard & Sons
Congressman Pepper and Justice Pitney Talk Rate Case Plans
Washington reports Justice Pitney urged Congressman Pepper to discuss a bill shaping rate discrimination cases. Pitney favors allowing plaintiffs to prove discrimination only to obtain damages and to try cases in federal courts before Interstate Commerce Commission hearings. The note also covers Iowa politics and Roosevelt’s potential moves ahead of 1926 campaigns.
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Washington, D. C
June Si
Pepper
Tussin
Justice Pitney
Supreme Court
Jowan
Pitney
Supreme Bench
Yeas
Congress Shoul
Congress
Government Man Keller Inspects Harbor Works Tour
Major Charles Keller detailed by the government for duty on the upper Mississippi visits the city for harbor work inspection. He commands river duties from St. Paul to the Missouri mouth and travels from Rock Island with Captain B L Chapman of the engineering corps to review river flow and discharge at this point.
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Charles Keller
Keller
St. Paul
Missouri
Rock Island
B. L. Chapman
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