Annual New Era Festival Opens With Apple Show
The ninth annual New Era community festival features a large apple display as a major attraction at the gymnasium. A radish of 38 inches and nine pounds, plus 15 foot tall corn stalks grown by local farmers, draw interest. Judging in education and hand work divisions proceeds this afternoon with awards to follow at 8 pm after a cafeteria supper at 5:30.
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New Era
G. Maasen
Charles Rock
Park Drive
Mr Rock
Muscatine
Wilton News Briefs and Local Notifications
Edith Long 8 fractures both bones of left forearm after horseback fall. Dr L C Winters set it. Rev H A Kossack travels to Washington for Iowa City Presbytery meeting. Grace Reformed Ladies Aid to hold all day work meet at Mrs Frank Martin’s. Numerous local families host visitors from Muscatine Moscow Rock Island Durant and Peoria. L N Ayres ill with acute indigestion. Bolivia pharmacy graduates boost local regard for U S proprietary medicines.
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Frank Martin
A. W. Chamberlain
Arlie Chamberlain
Betty Jean
Mildred
Tummerwilkie
Dorothy
Rock Island
Dale Bishop
Alvin
Belle Rodgers
Muscatine
Verne Chamberlain
Albert and Lyle
Moscow
Ed Chamberlain
James Chasteen
Arthur Budelfer
Moscow Township
Oscar Knouse
Herman Ellis
C. W. Bailey
C. H. Brumbaugh
John Duran
Ola Baker
A. J. Kleinjohn
Durant
E. F. W. Maurer
Camp Perry
Maurer
Irwin Kelley
Peoria
Daily Fashion Hints Names Directors for Seal Sale
W. E. Downer, chairman of Muscatine Welfare association public health bureau, and E. D. Bradley, county superintendent, will direct Christ mas seals sales for the Iowa Tuberculosis association in Muscatine county during December. Downer oversees Muscatine. Bradley handles other areas, mainly schools.
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W. E. Downer
Public Health Bureau
Muscatine Welfare Association
E. D. Bradley
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
Muscatine County
Mr. Downer
Muscatine
Mr. Bradley
Publi Health Bureau
Herbsts celebrate fortieth wedding anniversary in Stockton
The children and grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Herbst hosted a surprise party for the couple at the home of their daughter Mrs. Harry Bohnsack marking their 40th anniversary. Attendees came from Dixon Davenport Muscatine and Wilton among others and many gifts were exchanged.
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Stockton
Fred Herbst
Harry Bohnsack
Henry Steffen
Ernest Wulf
Arthur All
Dixon
Max Thoensen
Burnetta
Lester and
Lloyd
Davenport
Henry Herbst
Earl Kenyon
Calamus
George Broders
Hamilton
Wilton
C. H. Anderson
Alice
H. E. Moeller
Walcott
E. E. Moeller
John Vogt
George Ormsby
D. B. Ormsby
James Ennis
Mt. Joy
Book of Fashions 1925 1926 Fall and Winter
Advertises a up to date fall and winter fashion book for 12 cents in silver or stamps. Mentions sizes and states a publication for the 1925 1926 season. Appears in a damaged OCR fragment with scattered letters and terms. No clear author or publisher identified.
Conesville Social Roundup Sees Travels and Visits
C M Estle returns from Canada. Dr and Mrs H H English travel to Atkinson Illinois to visit his ailing father. George McVey Mrs Allen McCurdy and couples visit Davenport to see Elma and Lloyd McKee. Oral Fay Gay returns to Iowa City to finish high school. A W Jones and others attend a family picnic in Iowa City with regional relatives. Miss Lillian Johnson heads to Davenport.
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Conesville
C. M. Estle
Canada
H. H. English
Atkinson
George McVey
Allen McCurdy
Oliver Giffin
Davenport
Elma McKee
Lloyd McKee
Oral Fay Gay
Iowa City
A. W. Jones
Mmes. Gunderson
McMichael
Isaacs
J. A. Gunderson
Montezuma
John Storms
Lone Tree
Harry Nichols
West Liberty
Lillian Johnson
Dav
Keota Youths Attend Various Colleges and Hospitals
Twenty five Keota youths are enrolled at institutions including Cedar Falls Cornell Mt. Vernon Des Moines University and Iowa Wesleyan with others at Immaculate Conception Davenport Mercy Iowa City and St. Luke Cedar Rapids. Other notes mention Bernard Peiffer injuring his wrist at age six and the death of George Herr after a long illness with arrangements pending.
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Cedar Falls
Helen Korf
Mary Levnin
Louise Willis
Mary Coe
Dwight Mound
Sheldon Morris
Dale Lyle
Thelma Kirkpatrick
Raymond Thompson
Harold Holmes
Immaculate Conception
Davenport
Marguerite Klein
Elizabeth Flander
Cornell Mt. Vernon
Herbert Hulse
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Pauline Randolph
Iowa Wesleyan
Louise Luers
Des Moines University
Dorothy White
Fred Ralston
Parsons College
Glen Huston
Stephens
Columbia, Mo
Mildred Ochs
Hinscill
L. A. Marr
Thomas Marr
Fairfield
John Bailey
Washington
George Herr
Keota
Surrey official scorer gets lifelong pension of five dollars a week
Fred Boyington the official cricket scorer for Surrey England has been granted a pension of 5.00 dollars weekly for life.
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Fred Boyington
Surrey
England
Rickard Eyes Return Match Walker Versus Shade at Madison Square Garden
Tex Rickard announced negotiations for a winter rematch between welterweight champion Mickey Walker and challenger Dave Shade. He cited the indecisive 15 round title bout at Yankee Stadium as reason to pursue a second meeting, with plans for Madison Square Garden. Jack Kearns favors signing, while Leo Flynn’s involvement was not yet arranged.
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New York
Mickey Walker
Dave Shade
California
Tex Rickard
Walker
Shade
Yankee Stadium
Rickard
Dicker
Madison Square Garden
Jack Kearns
Leo Flynn
Flynn
Nichols News Briefs Include Local Travels and Band Finale
Mr and Mrs John Ellis and their young son left Friday for Kentucky. Next Wednesday evening marks the final band concert of the season. Ben Smith returned Saturday from French Lick Indiana where he attended a convention. Ben Oostendorp Louis and Ernest Umschied and John Croutcup came home Saturday from a fishing trip at Rusk lake. Bert Fry arrived home Sunday from Swan River Canada. Mr and Mrs Joe Korgstadt and son were also listed in this local notices roundup.
Miss Mable Estle Enrolls At State University In Iowa City
Miss Mable Estle traveled to Iowa City on Monday and now attends the state university there. She plans an indefinite stay with friends pending further arrangements.
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Enport
Mable Estle
Iowa City
the State University
Hard Knocks for Carpenters and a Tonics Ad
An advertisement extols common ailments among tradesmen and promotes STOCKS NU-TONE as a natural tonic to strengthen stomachs and tissues. It claims benefits for dyspepsia headaches and nervousness and directs readers to Havercamp drug store Muscatine as exclusive distributor at $1 per bottle or six for $5.00.
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Havercamp
Muscatine
Local travel notes and hospital update
Amos left Sunday for Sweet Springs to visit relatives. Charles Pike and Jim Smith returned from a trip through Minnesota and the Dakotas. Word from Mercy hospital in Iowa City says Mrs. Lloyd Ramsey is recovering from her operation.
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Amos
Sweet Springs
Charles Pike
Jim Smith
Minne
Sota
The
Dakotas
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
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American Colleges of Pharmacy
Bolivia
United States
KOTEX
Muscatine Journal
Pattern Dept
Iowa
Mickey
Nichols
Scholls
Putnam
Wrigley’s
Wrigleys
Bla Bank
Supreme
American Lead Pencil Co
Fifth Ave
G. C. Mentink
Atalissa
Baltimore
Maryland
Polarine
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Muscatine, Iowa
America
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Bell System
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