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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1913
Page
5
An advertisement touts Dandering as a hair treatment that promises to cleanse, beautify, and invigorate the scalp. It claims visible new hair growth after weeks and urges purchase for 24 cents from Knowlton’s Drug Store. The notice also mentions local events surrounding social clubs and May plans.
Miss Lela Thompson became the bride of Alva Randall Tipton at Trinity Church in a May ceremony. The Rev Webster Hakes officiated before about forty relatives and friends, with music by Mendelssohn. The couple, both prominent locals, will reside at 605 West Third Street after a wedding trip east.
Outing parties mark Hashball Day with Half holidays, many businesses closed, and workers heading to woods and streams for fishing and garlands of May flowers. Flowers, Mayapple and other blooms appear, blossoms fill baskets, while fishing along rivers proves good as water levels fall. A child's birthday party for Mira Hales Shields hosts a dozen guests with white decor and a cake.
A severe blaze at 126 South Clinton Street, Chicago, trapped several hundred workers. Fifty men carried exhausted employees to safety as smoke filled the stairway, forcing dramatic exits and dangerous escape down ladders.
Des Malies Ta May 1 Gilbert and Gibsonson, former state treasurer, appeared yesterday at the state house for the first time in three months. He was partially stricken with malady but has begun resting at home and is recovering slowly.
At a well attended Park Avenue M. E. church meeting arrangements for major renovations were approved. The chancel and hall will be refreshed with a re-shingling and painting of the building, with several other improvements planned and contracts set to start soon.
In Guthrie County a program seeks to prevent double taxation on bank stock held via an investment company. The assessment rules deduct land value from the bank’s assets to avoid double taxation, but a provision forbids other deductions, leaving the stock value unreduced. Legislation has been sent to the statehouse for action.
Alfred L Wood, claiming a Taft era wedding, forced into the White House main corridor and threatened with electrocution before being seized by White House police. He is confined to an asylum hospital as authorities investigate his sanity. The incident is dated May 1 in Washington.
State Superintendent A. J. M. Deyoe releases the year’s Normal Institutes schedule. Sessions run six to seven days, with many events set to begin in early June across towns including Des Moines, Grinnell, Charles City, and Dubuque, among others. The list covers dozens of counties and cities with August dates completing the season.
Delegates from Washington meet to elect officers for the next year amid spirited voting. Many old officers expected to be reelected as Sig Minna business session opens the program.
William de Wilton and family spent yesterday with friends in Davenport while others, including Mrs. Dillon and Mrs. Nicolaus, drove to Muscatine for visits. Attendees also traveled to Durant and Bradenton before returning home. Several local residents conducted business and attended a funeral for Tipton Will of Chicago, with short returns planned for summer stays.
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