Muscatine airport sale offered to city council
Muscatine Airport Inc offered to sell the Muscatine Airport to the city for its cost, about $16,000, with more than 250 stockholders and a five year lease to R. M. Bahnsen starting April 1. The airport, an emergency landing field on the Chicago to Kansas City route, could be worth $30,000 to $40,000 in a few years.
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Stein
Muscatine
City of
Muscatine Airport, Inc
Middlewest
Thompson
R. M. Bahnsen
Rock Island
Ill
Bahnsen
Chicago
Kansas City
Sunday visits dot Moscow area with local families
Mrs Charley Marolf and children visited her parents in Iowa City while Harvey Leech and family called on relatives in Muscatine. Charley Lincoln and family visited Tipton kin and Grant Hearst returned from six months in Florida. Multiple locals from Sand Hill West Liberty and Atalissa spent Sunday with relatives, including Muscatine and Buffalo trips.
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Moscow
Charley Marolf
Clifton
Virginia
Deane and Rolland
Allen Miller
Iowa City
Harvey Leech
Muscatine
Charley Lincoln
John Karns
Tipton
Grant Hearst
Ray Simpson
Elmer Hain
Charley Wildasin
Harry Hahn
Charley Long
George Healy
Leo
Glen Healy
Dick Smith
Alvin Bailey
West Liberty
Fred Bailey
Robert Finley
Sherman Lange
Carl Hearst
Pleasant Prairie
Ova Leggins
Hershey Hospital
Will Leggins
Stand Pat on Station Permit in City Council Session
Objections to the Second and Walnut street filling station permit led a special council meeting to uphold the previous decision. City engineer H. H. Fitzgerald will supervise construction. proponents argue improved appearance and fire safety, while opponents fear lowered property values and loading hazards for motor coaches.
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Second and
Walnut Streets
H. H. Fitzgerald
Joe Manjovie
Frank Giesler
Fred Giesier
Illinois City Social Notes March Weekend Visits
Illinois City residents hosted and visited relatives across towns. Families including Elllis Thomas Dunker and Dunker families were mentioned, while Ethyl Tyler left for California to visit kin. A number of whooping cough cases were reported in the community. France Seidler and George Vetter visited relatives. Valentine Vetter and others were also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois City
Ill
Ellis Thomas
Elmer Dunker
Mary Dunker
Andalusia
Clifford Miller
Fliza
Melvin Rounds
Ethyl Tyler
California
William Thomas
Muscatine
George Vetter
Spirit Lake
Heflin Denounces Doheny Acquittal as Rank Travesty
Senator Heflin of Alabama denounces the Do heny acquittal as a rank travesty on justice. He urges keeping jurors from sitting in trials again and asks for a standard of justice for rich and poor alike. He contrasts a loaf of bread theft with a millionaire bribery case affecting government property.
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Washington
Edward L. Doheny
Senate
Senator Heflin
Alabama
Heflin
Honor Aged At Theater Party In Muscatine
The Muscatine Journal invites residents 65 and older to a 2:30 Friday Palace Theater event featuring Song of the West. Guests will be escorted to seats, with all talking and singing scenes recalling old time west life and pioneer drama.
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The
Muscatine Journal
Muscatine
Palace Theater
Committees of Council Named by Mayor Thompson
Standing committees for the year were named by Mayor Herbert G. Thompson on Monday evening. Council approved the appointments with Aldermen Richley Barr Othmer Stolzenau and others named to Finance Street and alley Ordinance Police Fire Paving Sewer Sidewalk Building and grounds Light Board of health and other appointments including Sam Brenner and Frank McKibben.
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Muscatine’s
Muscatine Airport
Edward Burns
KE. C. Schoermaker
A. E. Othmer
John Richley
Herbert G. Thompson
M. A. Barr
Albert Stolzenau
Henry Matthiessen
E. C. Schoemaker
E. C. Horst
KE. C. Schoemaker
E. D. Horst
Board of Health
E. C. Shoemaker
Sam Brenner
Frank McKibben
Rail Taxes Pass Million Day Mark During Past Year
Burlington Wis March 25 AP Railroad taxes topped 400 million dollars for the first time in 1929. C D Morris of the Western Railways Public Relations committee said the figure equaled about 1 103 million per day and 1 665 per mile of line in operation last year. He noted 6 34 dollars of every hundred spent on transportation went to taxes. A blind man in England has invented a rapid camera that prints nearly as fast as it makes negatives.
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Burlington, Wis
C. D. Morris
Western Railways Public Relations Committee
England
Confessed Attacker Named by Woman in Hotel Fire Attempt
Miss Wilma Jones 23 identifies Tom Dodd 30 as the man who tried to burn her to death in a Fairfield hotel room. Texas Rangers spirited him from jail with undisclosed whereabouts after an investigation with county officials. Dodd and his mother Mrs Sarah Jane Dodd were charged as accessories in a forgery case. The woman was released on 500 dollar bond.
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Fairfield
Tex
Wilma Jones
Tom Dodd
Texas Rangers
Rangers
Dodd
Sarah Jane Dodd
Miss Jones
Howat Attacks Lewis Union in Springfield
Alexander Howat, president of the rebuilt miners’ union in Springfield, orders John L. Lewis to appear before the international executive board to answer charges of fostering a dual union. Lewis calls for Howat and other leaders to show cause why they should not be expelled. Opposition argues Lewis’s authority ended in 1929 and the union was reborn March 10 1930 in Springfield.
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Springfield
Ill
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Alexander Howat
Lewis
International Executive Board
Howat
Reorganized Mine Workers
United Mine Workers
Miners’ Union
Indianapolis
Parole Granted to Three Teenage Auto Thieves
Judge D W Jackson granted parole to Marion Donley 16 and Charles Schreiber 18 after sentencing them for operating cars without owners consent. Donley to Eldora training school until 21 with two year cigarette abstinence and guardian reporting. Schreiber to six months in county jail with employment and wage-use reporting conditions. Bennie Sharer 17, recently released, to return to Eldora until 21. All three confessed to stealing 14 automobiles in 60 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. W. Jackson
Marion Donley
Charles Schreiber
Donley
Eldora
C. R. Stafford
Schreiber
Mark Taylor
Bennie Sharer
Donley and Schreiber
Sharer
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Mayor Names Committee
Pat
Atwater
Kent
RADIO
Dick Anderson
Chee St
Arctu da
Doheny
Journal En
Sam
Stok Stars
Iana
Ding
Teer
Miss Ware
Oswald
Ossie
Lewis’ Union
Sterneman
Emerson
Hollywood
Sterneman’s
Beans
Grocer’s
Heinz
Tsaig
Sytsbur
Red Paint Store
Iowa Ave
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