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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1913
Page
6
In East Hill, fishermen along the Owa Chut are launching boats as river ice clears. Ice along banks melted and drifted downstream, promising fuller fishing days ahead though ice remains thick in some sections. Rail gates on East Second Street begin repair to handle daily traffic. A box supper and entertainment is planned at Sweetland Methodist tomorrow.
The advertisement touts Neal Institute in Davenport Iowa offering a drug free cure for liquor craving. It claims thousands cured and promises quick, positive results without hypodermic injections. Contact or write for the free book detailing the treatment.
A fragmentary notice highlights Frederick Knight Logat presenting Killarey My Home O’er the Sea as a modern ballad, with praise for the lyric and melody. The piece challenges the Song Trust’s exclusivity while readers are informed of church basement funds and local East HOE notes. Community updates include church work delays due to thawed roads and upcoming events.
Washington report outlines Iowa postmasters and other federal offices eyed for reappointment. Pepper and Kirkpatrick urged rapid filling of twenty eight Iowa postmasterships with additional civil service constraints noted. President Wilson promised Iowa recognition and specific placements including J. T. Jones Des Moines for war department auditor and W. P. Cleveland Harlan for assistant secretaryship.
General Porfirio Diaz declares in Naples that he will not go back to Mexico. He arrives in good health aboard the Adrhate and says his primary wish is rest. He adds he would aid his court in seeking prosperity and would only return if the United States intervened. Diaz notes Taft assured him the U.S. has no such plan, but cautions that future policies are uncertain. He plans to stay two days.
In Hancock county Chicago man W Lenave found an ancient coin he says is Roman or Greek, dated between 250 B C and 266 A D, in an Illinois Indian mound. Dr Alfred Emerson calls it a potential prehistoric link to Europe or early explorers, raising questions about prewhite contact.
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