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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1907
Page
9
The final arrangements for the local high school graduation are announced. The complete program for the commencement ceremony is released for public viewing, detailing order of events, speakers, and seating.
Final arrangements for Muscatine high school commencement week set. June 7 graduation exercises at the school auditorium will feature a high school orchestra with multiple essays and orations by class members. Diplomas, gifts, and a Jaqueminot rose class flower accompany the End Crowns the Labor motto.
The widow serves Farmer Giles as he declares he must fulfill the provisions of his late rival's will. He claims executor duties and claims three hay carts are waiting, prompting a comic, domestic shop scene with butter ham sugar and assorted goods.
A young woman told New York officers how her engagement to a Bohemian man ended in distress. Her father tested the match by three card evenings and warned that the suitor would be no good husband. After the union broke, she came to the United States with her brother. she and Max later married, and she laments the cards proved true.
Wilton will host the 29th annual commencement for the high school on Wednesday May 29 at 8 o'clock in the M E church. Thirteen graduates seven girls and six boys will receive diplomas, led by the baccalaureate sermon to be delivered by Rev. G W Pool. The class motto is Rowing Not Drifting and colors are yellow and white with a white rose as class flower.
The official opening of Citizens' Railway park scheduled for this evening is postponed due to bad weather and will instead be held Sunday if conditions are favorable. The A O U W entertainment planned for the park moves to the A O U W quarters on West Second street.
Chicago Wheat and Corn futures edge higher with May and July contracts. Live stock market shows steady to mixed demand for cattle hogs and sheep. prices listed for bees, cows, veal calves, lambs, and stags. Retail meat, produce, and groceries space includes diverse prices for vegetables fruits and nuts.
Butter weak for creameries 18 22 and dairies 17 20 1 2 c per lb Eggs steady at 14 c per dozen Market note from Chicago May 15 with dairy and egg price marks.
Chicago market report shows poultry barely steady with turkeys and chickens mixed. Prices listed for ile and springs at 13 1 2 cents per pound and related items.
New York May 15 butter steady with renovated common to extra at 16 25c and factory to firsts at 18 21c. Eggs steady with firsts at 16c official 16c and seconds 15 15?4c.
New York May 15 poultry market shows alive birds steady with spring chickens at 28 cents, fowls 6 cents, turkeys ile. Dressed, firm with turkeys at 10 10 and fowls at 11 15 cents per unit.
Market quotes for corn oats wheat and byproducts with retail and dealer pricing. Eggs butter and live poultry values noted. figures include per hundredweight per ewt per dozen and per pound with regional Muscatine references and entity names.
The City of Mexico uses varied block names and shop titles, unlike New Orleans. Streets progress through names like St Augustine and the Holy Ghost with others such as Rats and Crosses. A pulque shop named Los Perros hints at patrons, while El Castillo del Diablo and San Janes reflect local humor and customs.
A dentist debates tin versus gold fillings with a patient, noting tin's early durability and higher cost to work with. He cites a Wall Street broker who pays $20 an hour for tin fillings, arguing long term savings since tin may never need renewal.
George Fitch in American Magazine argues the Missouri river should be navigable by steamboats built to its quirks. He imagines a shallow, lithe stern wheeler with a hinged midsection and a suction dredge that can climb sand bars or use channels, even crossing fields when needed.
The oldest book by date is a set of proverbs similar to Solomon’s and attributed to Ptah-hotep an Egyptian king with an antiquity of at least 360 B C Abraham left Ur in 1921 B C making the volume 1100 years before Jewish history began The flood is placed at 2348 B C suggesting the papyrus was prepared before the deluge Methuselah born 3317 B C implies the proverbs were gathered when the oldest man on record was about 300 years old
Notices list regular meetings for Masonal lodges and chapters in Muscatine Iowa including Lodge No. 2 A F and A M first Tuesday eve, Washington Chapter No. 4 second Friday, Council of Royal and Select Masters third Thursday, De Molay Commandery No. 1 third Wednesday, Musquitine Tribe No. 95 Thursday 8 pm, Muscatine Aerie No. 815 Tuesday 8 pm with venue details and officers' names.
The Brotherhood of American Yeomen Muscatine Homestead No 336 meets Wednesdays in Yeoman hall over Jacob Fisch Sons hardware on East Second Street with J M L Wayne as Foreman. Correspondent Mrs E C Ingraham. Pagl Lodge No 10 A O U W meets Thursdays in the A O U W hall on Second Street with W F Schoenig, M W, and officers welcoming Brethren in good standing.
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