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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1912
Page
5
A parade of local residents depart for Davenport Rock Island and Colona for visits and work. People including Mrs Els Was Avia tor and Miss Oilon fittchendort are seen leaving by noon trains. The Bijou offers entertainment as Lytle theatre promotes cool evenings.
Society music pupils of Mya Amalia Schmidt Gobble offered an informal program at the Weed Park clubhouse Friday evening. The decorated venue featured a diverse slate including songs by Mary Turner Salter and pieces by Florenci Bloom, Carrie Jacobs Bond, Victor Hems, and others performed by a group of about a dozen young singers with Miss Nellie Rise and Miss Hazel Keath among the featured performers.
Advertisement item notes the W. G. Block Company contact line with phone number 49, typical early 20th century classifieds style. No additional context about services or location is provided in the readable text.
In San Francisco on June 29 twelve hundred clubwomen begin the biennial General Federation of Women’s Clubs session with a conference on industrial and social conditions led by Miss Helen Verick Boscelle of New York. Topics include registration enforcement child labor and worker efficiency. Endowment plans and suffrage prohibition divisive issues prompt debate as delegates weigh party politics versus federation unity. Local and national figures including Mrs. Percy V. Peniacker and Mrs. Sarah Platt-Decker advocate funding. debates foreshadow potential resolutions on suffrage.
Evening gathering closes season for Aujssian circle of First Congregational Church at a West Fourth street home. Mrs Graves presents an essay on Mohammedanism. Local tennis club plans and White Brethren group meet for a quarterly supper at Weed Park. Mrs Gilman entertains Old Ladies Home inmates. Howard Gremmel’s 28th birthday celebrated by about a dozen friends with music and light refreshments.
A Denver group of automobile tourists plans a run through Muscatine County tonight. Davenport Automobile Club members intend to meet Colorado visitors in Moscow and guide them upriver, where they will stay overnight. The governor of Colorado is described as the premier of the party traveling across the state along the River to River Road.
The Rev Stephen Morrell Newman has been elected president of Howard University Washington DC to succeed Dr Wilbur Thirkield who left for New Orleans to become bishop of the Methodist Episcopal diocese of New Orleans. Dr Newman a Falmouth Maine native studied at Bowdoin and began in Taunton Massachusetts. He served twenty years as pastor of the First Congregational Church in this city and led Eastern College Front Royal Virginia and laterien of Ripon Wisconsin.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court held that Nathan Allen a Kenosha manufacturer must accept service of a subpoena in a $100,000 suit filed by Mrs Halen Jenkins Dwelle against him and private detectives. Allen previously faced a $12,000 fine in a U S district court for jewelry smuggling linked to Dwelle. The appellate division reversed a lower court ruling that immunized Allen, finding he was in the city voluntarily but under compulsion of law.
A surge in demand for brewing amber liquid in hot weather ahead of Independence Day prompts Rock Island to attach an additional baggage car to the westbound Firefly for carrying wooly liquid. The car runs first trip yesterday afternoon and will operate daily until July Fourth, with limited service to Muscatine and back to the main line after. Miss Gertrude Titus returns home from Oberlin College after a year abroad, stopping in Chicago to visit friends during the journey.
Joseph Kelso of Bellevue Iowa is floated as a candidate for president of the Power Boat Association. The Bellevue horticultural group backs him as the association prepares for the Mississippi Valley Power Boat Regatta coming to Davenport. Kelso has long been active in administration and racing and this year fields two unusual craft expected to perform well. Commodore Pugh of Chicago has launched a high powered hydroplane now en route to Davenport.
Hudson County Republican Committee met in Jersey City to endorse President Taft. A motion to declare Roosevelt the only true Republican failed 21 to 349, denouncing the Chicago convention and claiming Roosevelt secured nomination by fraud.
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