Red Cross drive in the county continues amid rain delays
Red Cross canvassing persists in city and county with slow county totals. City reports were expected tonight while rural drive proceeds Sunday and Monday. Factory subscriptions include Kresge 10 cent store clerks averaging five dollars, Stouch and Musser 570 subscriptions totaling 871. The Huitt workers gave 622.50, Punnant Button Company 503, and the McKee and Buvem office 3673. An appeal urges higher gifts from those with lesser means and donations welcomed at the Red Cross deck in Laurel Building from W I Jayne, local chair.
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Red Cross
Association of Commerce Rooms
Vlowns
Canvay Seids
Kresge Sant
Stouch and Musser
Huitlke Will
Punnant Button Company
McKee Amt Bu
Former Local Resident Clarence Ogilvie Dies in California
Clarence Ogilvie, a long time resident of this city and nephew of Frank Ogilvie, died in California after a yearlong illness. Born June 7, 1840, he spent most of his life in this town and recently travelled through the West. He is survived by a brother, Pant Ogilvie, in training at the Naval Training Station in Newport, Rhode Island. The remains will be sent to Mud Eatine for burial with plans pending arrival of his brother.
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Clarenty Ofilvie
Frank Ji
Lawa Avenue
Als Vity
Cilense
Clarence Ogilvie
Muscatine
Lie
California
Biow
Relie Tives
Pant Ogilvie
Naval Training Station
Newpore
Ithode Teland
Dackson
Colons Avenue
Red Cross Nurse to Speak Monday
A Red Cross nursing meeting led by Misa Tittman will be held Monday at 2 o clock in the central chamber of the city hall. Nurses from the central division and varied branches will attend to hear about the newly organized home defense nursing service and other reconstruction work.
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Tittman
Tleid
Tie Amer
Musee Vine
Tig Varians
Eten Crosd
Hone Defense Nursing
Servion
Witere
Itelief
Hormat Comfort Division
Red
Cross
Move Day Nursery Opens In New Quarters
Miasesetine's Day Nursery moved into new quarters on ast Fourth Street this morning, with 22 children transferred and attendance rising to around twenty daily. The nursery is run by the Mie Masvitine Welw Association with Mrs Wedackson as supervisor. The facility had previously occupied rooms above the Nester Drug Company before winter relocation.
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Masvitine Welware Association
Mra
Wedackson
Enimite Tee
VY. M. Co AL
Nester Drug Company
Peptiron Iron Tonic Promises Quick Health Boost
A spring health ad touts Peptiron iron tonic with iron and enzymes to boost blood, strength, and nerve energy. Promises rapid anemia relief and vitality, noting the product is chocolat coated and easy to absorb, made by C I Hood Co of Lowell Massachusetts.
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Leverston
Syoumn
C. 1
Hood Co
Lowell
Mass
Engagement of Local Girl Announced at Home
A social event at Miss Henrico Jloottin’s home on Rasevoe avenue celebrated the engagement of her sister Miss Gladys Mary Hoeftlin to Warren XN. Dodge. The wedding is planned for early June. The guests enjoyed games, contests, music, and a luncheon, with prizes awarded for “Heart” and other events.
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Rasevoe Avenue
Gladys Mary Hoeftlin
Warren XN
Dodge Aves R
Wouriksera
Romayn
Mias Mother Punch
Gertrudy Davidson
Nettie
Heiih Hoefiln
Melen Brown
Gertrude Davidson
Hazel Deluteh
Helen Deitrich
Gothic Club Plans May Day Picnic at Park
Yesterday afternoon the Gothic club at Mrs L Tucker's home 40 East Ninth Street Atlanro met to plan a May Day picnic for members and families The event will be held at Weel Park with dainty refreshments served by the hostess Mrs Tucker A speaker Mrs Bessie Mach from Industrial WI attended The next meeting will be with Mrs Carl Schwandie Towns Avenue Two local residents Mr and Mrs Israel Kintale celebrate their eighty fourth wedding anniversary Monday Families to gather at the Kintale home for a reunion next week Mr Kintale will also celebrate his eighty fourth birthday Saturday
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Charles Midforth
New York
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Davenport
Cesavlety
Fine
Cothic Club
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East Ninth Street
Clu
Weel Park
Caempantine
Bessie Maeh
Industrial Wi
Orville Martin
Weat
Carl Schwandie
Town S Avenue
Muscaltino
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Israel Kintale
Most Seventh Street
Amair
Kintale
Kintche
Navy Calls for Men Offers Fine Opportunity
The United States navy seeks five men in Davenport for aviation and landman training. Enrollees undergo short processing, then training at Harvard University funded by the government, leading to skilled roles after the war. Benefits include high pay, schooling, good living conditions, and honorable discharge.
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Brady
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Landaman
At Jones
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Sturvard
Navy
Tehind
Young
Amelia
Birthday Qainiversary and Mrs Kintzle Farewell Party
A community note describes birthday celebrations for Mrs Kintzle and a retirement mention for Alr Wintala after twenty four years with the trucdy Mann. It details gatherings, tributes, and invitations, with plans for future events and a Red Cross service.
Watch the Little Pimples Warn of Skin Dangers
An old advertisement warns that pimples and rashes signal skin diseases and urges prompt blood purification with an $8 vegetable medicine. It claims only the remedy reaches the root cause, promising a personalized medical history to Swift Specific Co of Avaita, Ga.
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Swift
Swift Laboratory
Avaita
Junior Pupils Give Musicale At St Mathing School
The second in a series of special music recitals by St Mathing School classes was held yesterday afternoon in the school auditorium. Junior pupils Nellie and Irma Dyche Florence Winslow Dorothy Detthol Mary Grima Esthar Maher Markin Waller Arthur Stark Kenneth O Xeete Orvilio Foster and Idosephing UtLEL performed, showcasing progress in the music program amid audience interest.
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St. Mathing School
Nellie and
Irma Dyche
Florence Wineslow
Dorothy Detthol
Mary Grima
Esthar Maher
Markin Waller
Arthae Stark
Kenneth O'Xeete
Wil
Learn New Blue Band Dressings at Hind Cross
Attendance at Hind Cross surgical dressing rooms reached 193 this week with 2,402 dressings completed. A training session covered making Blue Band packages for use in first aid trenches, containing five kinds of pads, compresses, a tampon and bandages. instructors included Mrs. GT. Masser and Mrs. 7, 13. Chaplin, after recent Chicago study. About forty workers attended as a workshop schedule noted closure all day Thursday and one week left in May to meet the quota.
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Worldac Hess
GT. Masser
Mra
Chaplin
Chicago
Postpone Red Cross Benefit Social to May 28
Due to wet weather and poor field conditions at the Rond a on Friday evening, the Red Cross Ride social at We Uavel Dell school has been postponed. The event will now be held Tuesday evening, May 28, with a high bidding sale of a large Red Cross quilt and many fancy articles. A fish pond, baked goods, and refreshments will be available, and music by the Blue Grass Band will conclude the evening.
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Red Cross
We Uavel Dell School
Blue Grass Band
Moving the Taree Pumps From Old Waterworks to South Muscatine
The large double Nutton pump is being moved in three pieces from the Front street waterworks to the South Muscatine facility. Each 12,000 pound piece requires block and tackle for lifting. Work started immediately with men using a barge salvaged from Ay McMillan, sunk in a prior storm and loaded with shells that were removed yesterday.
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South Muscatine
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Jacal
Divorce Filed by Sy A. Gmkappy Against William Gilapp
A divorce petition was filed by Sy A. Gmkappy against her husband William Gilapp in the district court. The couple married in Rack Island in April 1901 and lived together until September 15, 1901, when the husband disappeared.
Night's News Briefs From Washington To Chicago
A swept set of terse items notes price cuts for coal by the fuel administration. Officials deny Pullman business takeover rumors. Express companies possibly to be merged under George Taylor. Adoo orders furlough soldiers and sailors to receive reduced rail fares. Minor personnel change at a presidential warrant case is reported. A boy charged with internment in Georgia is mentioned. A July anniversary of entering the war is observed in Seattle with a christening noted. Additional notices reference kingly and ad related items.
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Chicago
Pullman Company
Ttwis
George Taylor
Adoo
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Waa
Fredden
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Seattle
Heror
Inly
Che King
Italy
Hun Fliers No Worry for Elsie on Broadway Front
May 26 report describes a wartime open air prize revue staged for exhausted American troops near the German border front. Risie Janis, a performer now at the front, sang, told stories, and danced while aircraft overhead and antiaircraft fire echoed. The show paused briefly when a German air raid faltered as Miss Janis feared for her safety.
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Broadway
Uifs Wnique
Fermin Airphine
Olesky
Janis
Teachers Demand Higher Pay Protest At County Court House
A crowd of about twenty five teachers gathered at the courthouse to urge better wages. They planned to prepare a communication for the board of education at its annual meeting, noting that prewar salaries were the minimum and that increases since then have raised the cost of living.
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Affernoon
Alon Twanty
Tiwage
Reta
Permalife Batteries Guaranteed for Life Ady
Kreera Nero Battery Works in Ady guarantees Permalife batteries for life with promise of durable power and ongoing service.
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Permalife
Kreera Nero & Battery Works
Ady
Picnic Honors Head of School at Spear Brown's College
Reed, principal at Speat Brown's business college, was honored at a picnic at Wheel Park club house. The evening featured a rendition of Star Spangled Banner, welcome by Glen Downing, and a response by Horace Zeng. Parasol prizes were given, dinner for about 100 prepared, and dancing followed. Reports noted the class size and October graduation date. William Mugser, local figure, returns home today.
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Speat Brown
Business College
Jung
Ransomarhin College
Karsie City
Weel Park
Teo
Glen Downing
Horan Zeng
Reed
Rome
Rogers to Give Foster Address at Memorial Service
Rev. W. L. Rogers of Central Baptist Church will deliver a Memorial address on The Consecration of the Sword to the Cause of Liberty. Services at Foster Memorial Church Sunday afternoon feature a community program with multiple speakers and a Civil War era theme of democracy and liberty.
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Siogers
Iron and Blood War Health Tonic Exposed
In wartime rhetoric a tonic called Trontic from Dr. Pierce's Buffalo Surgical Institute is promoted as building red blood and vigor. Claims link iron content to bravery, urges outdoor exercise and appetite boosters, and advises a trial package for ten cents.
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Pierce
Physi
Avery
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