Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune Publication Notes
Advertising representatives listed for major cities. Merged titles announce consolidation on Sept 2 1918. News from Associated Press and Lee Syndicate. daily issues and subscription rates detailed for Muscatine Iowa readers.
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News
News and Tribune
Journal and News-Tribune
Associates Press
Associated Press
Lee Newspaper Syndicate
Iowa
Daily Journal
Jones
Muscatine
Muscatine Highway 38 paving welcomed as public works win
Muscatine officials celebrate the restoration of No. 38 pavement linking the city to West Liberty Wilton Atalissa Moscow and northern territory. The project creates jobs expands trade and may boost through tourism while improving winter travel and regional commerce.
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Muscatine
U. S. Highway 6
Iowa
No. 38
Highway Commission
West Liberty
Wilton
Atalissa
Moscow
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Thimble Tale Stirs Local Beer Concession Rumor
A humorous note suggests a restaurant might reuse a wife's lost thimble to serve a five cent beer, reflecting playful urban lore and small town gossip about local dining spots.
Judge Fisher Denies Labor Injunction At La Mode Plant
Judge Harry M. Fisher of Illinois circuit court refuses to enjoin Chicago La Mode Garment strikers from actions deemed violent. He reframes the clean hands principle, denying equitable relief amid the strike.
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Fisher
Illinois
Circuit Courts
la Mode Garment Company
New Deal
Harry M. Fisher
Circuit Court of Illinois
Chicago
Court of Equity
Public backlash against mob violence and corruption in recovery drive
A St Louis incident reports a mob beating a restaurant owner who refused the NRA pledge and forcing a kiss on the blue eagle emblem. Officials warn such mob lawlessness harms the recovery program and fear Ku Kluxery flare ups may spread. Other items note Soviet saboteurs sentenced to death for adding harmful material to soup and a doctor warning about girl bathers overexposure.
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St. Louis
Ku Kluxery
Explorer claims cannibals dislike white men cigarette taste
A returning explorer asserts cannibals avoid white men because smoking makes their flesh taste too strong for cannibals. This sensational claim is presented as a quirky sales hook for cigarette advertisers.
Believer Laughs and Yields to Pacific Poet Life
The feature explains LAFCADIO HEARN born 1850 on Leucadia to Irish and Greek parents, raised in Wales, educated in England, worked as a newspaperman in Cincinnati and New Orleans, then Martinique and Japan. He became a Japanese subject, Buddhist, married a Japanese woman, and died 1904. MONDAY-AMOS NANDY BIRTHDAY.
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Lafcadio Hearn
Leucadia
Wales
England
Cincinnati
New Orleans
U. S
Martinique
West Indies
Japan
Yakumo Koizumi
Imperial University of Tokyo
Amos
National Whirligig on Relief and Gold Market Hints
In Washington a Roosevelt era relief debate centers on the NRA signers and a $35,000,000 monthly grocery bill for the unemployed. Harry Hopkins pushes state participation, warning that federal aid hinges on self help. Baruch and gold policy rumors stir markets as Emile Hurja readies public works patronage tools amid Ickes’ staffing strains.
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Washington
George Durne
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Roosevelt
NRA
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Sam
Harry Hopkins
Hopkins
New York
Hurja
Ickes
Hurja to vet applicants with backing and ability
News behind the news notes Hurja will ensure applicants for emergency government roles have political backing and ability. A man claimed federal ties on a job application linked to Lawrence Richey, Hoover's secretary, prompting self recommendations. NRA circulates clip-sheets of ready to use stories and cartoons for papers.
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Hurja
Lawrence Richey
Richey
Hoover
NRA
Blue Eagle’s Nest
Industrial code fights and political showdowns roil New York
A McClure Syndicate column surveys the NRA era tensions across industry. It notes disaffected business leaders resisting unions and code controls, hints at Mellon aluminum politics and tariff use, praises Simpson’s enforcement, and outlines steel oil coal motor sections amid national policy battles.
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Andy Mellon
Henry Ford
NRA
Africa as Peaceful Continent Says Historian Ferrero
Historian Guglielmo Ferrero describes Africa as peaceful and quiet, free from tyrants, dictators, revolution, and war, marking a contrast to other regions.
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Africa
Guglielmo Ferrero
Muscatine Political Nominations Lead Local Republicans
At Muscatine county convention Hon R M Burnett was chosen as republican candidate for state representative and Capt D E Vore was nominated for sheriff. The notes appear as a nostalgia column marking anniversaries and local civic events.
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R. M. Burnett
Muscatine
D. E. Vore
J. H. Selden
John Hoffman
Huttig and McDermid
Third and
Oak Streets
Samuel A. Potts
Woebber
Miller
Walcott
League Field
Muscatine Island
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Boge, Quineneers
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Aker
Buster
EGAD
HE and
Sarah Ingersoll
Auburn
Maine
Cincinnati Fire Department
Bowdle
Clifton
Ohio
Jeanne Mauls
San Anon, Tex
Ric
Lone Star
Isso
Gomme
Colorado
Kentucky
Cleveland
White
West Virginia
Kump
Baruch
Barney Baruch
United States
Homestake
Hearst
Federal Reserve
London
General Johnson
Mellon
Aluminum
Army
Navy
Simpson
Hercules
Kenneth M. Simpson
STEEL
Federation of Labor
Motors
Russia
McClure
By WiLliams
Mallard
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