Iowa
Old Press
Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa
August 5, 1921
New York - Day - By - Day. Breezy Little Stories told
Daily of The Gay White Way & Broadway Life - Gotham Gossip
The Cherry Sisters are to return to New York shortly. For several
years they have been out in Iowa on a farm. Theatre goers of 25
years ago remember the famous duo and their names have become a
byword in the stage world. The Cherry Sisters couldn't act. They
were so bad that they were funny and they became the headliners
at old Hammerstein's Victoria. Then they toured the country and
evoked screams wherever they went. Even London and Paris hailed
them as the biggest theatrical jokes in history -- but they got
the money. So much so that they were able to retire in plenty.
Now the old stage call has come to them.
[transcribed by S.F., April 2004]
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Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa
August 13, 1921
MARENGO NEWS
Funeral services were held on Monday morning for the repose of
the soul of Mrs. Michael Muen, one of Marengo's oldest
inhabitants. She would have been ninety-three years old on
Tuesday of this week had she lived, being born in County
Tipperary, Ireland, on August 9, 1828. She was Mary, the daughter
of Peter and Mary Maher, and is the last of a family of 6
children. She came to America in 1856 and resided for about a
year in New Jersey coming from there to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1856
where she lived until 1875 when she married Michael Muen, civil
war veteran of Company C, Third New York Light Artillery with
whom she came to Iowa County and lived on the Muen farm until
twenty-nine years ago when they came to Marengo where they have
lived continuously since. Mrs. Muen was a devout member of St.
Patrick's parish and a valued member of the Altar and Rosary
society of that parish. She was a woman of many splendid
qualities of mind and heart and had endeared herself to a host of
friends by her long life of service and beauty. Besides her
husband she leaves to mourn her loss two children, Mrs. Mary
Lonergan of Marengo and Mrs. F.W. Wells, of Caspar, Wyo., who was
here with Mr. Wells for the obsequies, and six grandchildren,
Winifred, Leo, Lucien, Mildred and James Lonergan and Mrs.
William Cooney. A solemn high mass of requiem was sung at nine
o'clock on Monday by Rev. Carroll, pastor of the deceased, with
Rev. Maurice Hanson of Grinnell as deacon and Rev. Edward Barron
of Brooklyn as sub-deacon. The choir sang the Georgian requiem
and during the Offertory Mrs. E.J. Sullivan and Mrs. E.P. Hogan,
Jr. sang Rosewig's Ava Maria in duet form. Following the Mass
Mrs. Hogan sang "I Would Not Live Away," and after the
prayers for the dead St. Patrick's male quartette, composed of
Messrs. Michael McGivern, Herman Meis, Frank McGiver, and Gerald
Glenn sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." Father
Carroll paid a beautiful tribute to the memory of Mrs. Muen and
she was laid to rest in Calvary cemetery by family friends,
Messrs. J.J. Glenn, W.D.F. Hogan, John Delany, William Griffin,
Leo Franey and Mark Simmons. Out of town relatives who were
present for the funeral were Mrs. Mary Maher of Chicago; Dennis
Dwyer of Wilton; Mrs. Ella Moynihan of Muscatine; Michael Maher
of Iowa City; Mrs. Anne Maher, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Maher of
Wilton and Judge L.J. Horne of Muscatine.
[transcribed by C.J.L., April 2005]