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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1916
Page
6
A Muscatine based campaign highlights the role of local industries in showcasing famous artists. The project invites participation from prominent firms and cultural groups to portray Muscatine’s industrial identity through staged screen performances.
Judge Wills Brown arrives to oversee a two day road tour across the county to film Muscatine industries and schools for a nationwide See America First project. Sixty stops are planned with tours from West Liberty to Muscatine and depictions of local labor, industry, and biology stations.
Bon Hasbrook and Ab Gould will be guests of honor at a Muscatine banquet at the Mudearine Hotel Tuesday evening. Also attending are Mimoarhoon Hugane flealoy fares Collen Shekton Schreurs and Volker Rollable Jewels as well as the basketball champion team. First practice for the basketball squad will be held at the YMCA gym Wednesday evening with Lisle work only for now. Masbrook, returning from Grundy Center, is expected Monday noon.
Chicago Oct. Thorn reporters describe secret meetings of principal stockholders about manager Joe Tinker. Tinker, unable to sign, appeared calm after the session though tensions mount over his future with the Cubs. President Woerschmann remained noncommittal while owners weigh whether to keep or replace him.
County Agent J W Morvill and two county representatives led a discussion at the Henry County Live Stock Breeders Association meeting. About Ss attendees heard Merrill Wise Chton and Walker discuss feeder and breed conditions with emphasis on stock breeding practices. Curtis of Ames spoke on hay and stock health in South America, while Coverdale of Ames Agricultural College covered low tvs stock topics.
The state board will decide on appropriations for the next two years covering the State University at Ames Cedar Falls College and Amex College, with proposed sums of 150000, 130600, and 60000 respectively. The board discusses budgets and financial needs, meeting with President W A Joamnip to prepare figures for the assembly's upcoming session.
In Groen Bay and La Crosse counties, damage suits were dismissed after probate orders. A $8,000 settlement with a railroad company followed a fatality near Levin. The move affects a boy’s death and estate administration. Barbers in Groen Bay plan a 26 cent cut increase after October 30 due to higher costs.
Batting averages for the World Series are presented with figures for players and teams. Musholuih and Takeda are named among leading hitters with shares and totals including $703,008 in receipts and a reference to attendance figures around 15,011.05.
Mercer County Crop Improvement Association will hold four meetings on Oct 1, 17 and 18 at different farms across the county. The events aim to boost interest in the soy bean and corn, promote crop growth, and are led by Cowan Ay Axont Gilmore who will discuss the merits of the combination crop.
Oct 10 report from Ninola details campaigners denied access to a court yard for a meeting and church talk as prohibition supporters and Republicans plan activities in Peteraburg Ashlnud Jacksonville Mount Sterility and Quincey. Campaigners head to New Ero Church Bazaar on Oct lath with a chicken supper at 3 PM.
Interclass basketball organiz ation steps taken this afternoon at the High School to select candidates for the fast and aggressive team. Coach Walfren will lead the meeting with captains and likely name a sufficient number of players to form a squad for the season.
Iowa City notes emphasis on the Hawkeyes after a rough day in the drizzle. Coach Jones cooled the team through a hard drill ahead of Grinnell with Grinnell and Purdue looming as the next tests. The Gore Inoll University football opened with a 36 to 0 win over Gettysburg despite a slippery field and rain.
A 17 year old freshman, Waldeman, from Vingland North Dakota, at the University of Pennsylvania area, died in a hospital after a training incident during a football practice. The event occurred in Philadelphia with medical staff responding promptly to the injury.
A likely destructive blaze at Rock Tala area near 10546 mm damaged a locker area where employees hang their gear. Investigators consider a theory of spontaneous ignition from oily rags or chemicals in a locker, with effects on one shop building and nearby facilities.
Millard Bailey of Jatlbara confessed to buying and retailing liquor in Rock Island and implicated two Tipton men in the transport. Sheriff Dunker arranged a sting, Bailey and two companions left town in an auto with ten quarts of liquor. pursuit failed to catch them.
Oct 10 1900 Cannellaville Pennsylvania report of a family tragedy. Richard Giltner left home at 3 to tend a frolic then discovered smoke. He and his wife Mrs Giltner escaped the blaze but three youngsters perished in an upper room. The mother was believed fatally injured from smoke inhalation.
An Associated Press report notes a single operator in New York linked 18 000 miles of telegraph lines to transmit Boston beating Brooklyn in the World Series to 800 AP offices nationwide. The feat, achieved by J A Bates, stretched from New York to as far west as San Francisco and as far north as Duluth, spanning two and a half hours of continuous wire service delivery.
Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy died Monday at Paleonera in Daventry. He was born in 1838 and served with distinction in the naval service.
Rudolph Gundrum of 60 Cypress Street died after a lengthy illness. He was born in Germany May 3, 1861, came to America at age 25, and married Katherine Kelemann in Davenport on September 3, 1870. Survived by nine children, two brothers in Germany, and several grandchildren, with funeral Thursday at 2 PM from the home followed by interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
City aldermen debate whether Muscatine should carry its own risk or come under the State Compensation Act. Several officials favor Muscatine's self insurance for municipal workers, with a ten year certificate on file. The issue to be revisited at the next council session with a definite policy decision expected. Also noting a political appearance by J T Meredith at the Wilton, Iowa event on October 14.
For governor and JM F Cronin, candidate for representative to Congress from the Second district on the Democratic ticket, will speak today in the interests of their campaigns.
Foreign flagged vessels stay at anchor at Philadelphia harbor as the New England coast blockade and submarine activity concern extend. The British consul blocks crew changes while shipping lines halt sailings until convoys outside the Delaware breakwater arrive. Seventeen British French Italian and Japanese ships remain docked with cargo valued around 14 million dollars.
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