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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1913
Page
5
A lively society event titled The Poort of Nubians is planned for the First Methodist Episcopal church banquet rooms Wednesday evening. Epworth League members host the second serial event to raise funds for finishing the $1,000 "Fiedge" toward church construction with costumes, booths, and a speaker program.
Wiest Baptist Church at Corner Third and Cedar streets announces Madar Dora Davies Williams as musical director. She will oversee all music tomorrow and for the Sunday school. Services include 8:30 a.m. Sunday school with preaching at 10:50 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Morning and evening worship feature organ selections, anthems, and solos. Week announcements outline gatherings and a forthcoming musical festival.
Weekly religious notices from Malford Congregation and First Church of Christ Scientist detail Sunday services, Bible study times, and evening themes. Also listed are Church of Christ, United Brethren, and First Presbyterian schedules, weekly readings, and social notes from Wilton and surrounding towns including guest visits and community club actions.
Local residents and visitors cross in and out of Wilton as families move in and out of homes, attend theater ownership changes, and visit relatives in Muscatine and Davenport. Names include Mrs. Ed Stevens, Attorney A. R. Whitmer, Mrs. Frank Agnew, D. G. Agee, Albert Baird Jett, Mr. Bleeden, Mrs. A Kelley and children, Mrs. W. F. Warner, Mrs. Fred Maurer, Mrs. A. C. Teten, Mrs. G. W. Ghiendorf, Wm. BR. Summerhayes, Orval Ford, Mrs. Lee Watham, George Corey and family, Rev. C. Job, Mrs. Pred Mayver, Misse Vera Smith, and Bernhardt Reinsch among others. The American Theater change of ownership is noted along with plans to reside in the former H. A. BH property.
Partial OCR text reports patent grants for week ending May 1, 1075. Names Wilfred Lann and William F Hetchendorf appear with addresses Des Moines and New Albion. Entries list No 1,067 204 Animal Heavy S Bay and No 1,461,351 Under-frame pears or components.
A fragmented OCR extract lists names and patent numbers with firms and locations including Davenport Marshalltown Ottumwa Boston Swaledale and Blockton. Items include a planter frame a transmission device spark plug and harness nickel with various inventors and assignees. The text reads as a registry of mechanical devices and owners, not a cohesive narrative.
A Newton Iowa resident reports his sister’s husband suffered rheumatism in the arm. He was given Chamberlain's Liniment which relieved the pain by morning. The advertisement claims it effectively cures muscular rheumatism and urges purchase from dealers.
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