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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1921
Page
3
Voters in Muscatine will decide on a municipal lighting plant after petition drives urged a special election. Proponents expect bond approval as debates over gas rates and utility charges frame the issue. The council will refine the proposal before the election, and residents are urged to inform themselves and act with businesslike judgment.
City debates a proposed bond for a municipal electric light plant amid fears of reduced private utility revenues and higher taxpayer costs. Proponents cite waterworks success. critics warn of rate cuts, service dislocations, and potential streetcar fare impacts as city takes on control.
A feature describes wireless broadcasting of Chicago grand opera to homes miles away, with transmitters on stage feeding music and news via land wires to rooftops and receivers at home. It notes bedtime stories sermons and synopses, and envisions farming weather reports and broader national cultural enrichment.
The resignation of Secretary Villareal hints that President Obregon will ease militant enforcement of agrarian laws. Expropriation of large haciendas has transferred land to peasants, triggering protests and charges of radicalism. Critics warn of lost rightful owners and illiterate peons profiting from land sales.
The piece notes flying torpedoes self propelled shells and advanced submarines as frightening new weapons. It warns that scientific warfare could unleash horrors if battle tech is used widely, arguing fear might drive peace when love cannot.
Syndicate links Chicago and New York to a $30 million loan to Peking in exchange for a twenty year monopoly on China’s wine and tobacco revenue. Critics warn such arrangements trap China in economic servitude and urge governments to stop nationals from binding China’s wrists. The essay also notes Bryan’s slow progress on disarmament and recalls his wartime pledge of a million-man mobilization, while papers debate Georgia’s reflection on Tom Watson and recount a San Francisco man who once held Lincoln’s hat at Gettysburg.
A health column advises readers on personal health and hygiene, noting letters to Dr. Brady will be answered if enclosed with a stamped return envelope. It includes five foot safety guidelines, hospital practices in Durand, and a Q&A section on infant weight, croup remedies, constipation, and grip.
The ruling planets Mars and Jupiter define the Sagittarius birth sign Archer. It highlights refinement, grace, love of beauty, musical talent, writing ability, strong work ethic, loyalty, and decisive likes and dislikes. It suggests executive skill and wealth potential with turquoise as the birth stone and advises selling homes via Want Ads.
Surveyors report Australia sits 100 yards off the north south meridians, prompting a revision of the continental map. The error affects measuring lines, cartographic references, and potential navigation charts. Adjustments are underway to align political boundaries and geographic labels with true coordinates.
On this date in history 1780 General Nathaniel Greene arrived in Charlotte North Carolina and took command of the Southern Army. In 1823 President Monroe delivered a message to Congress enunciating the Monroe Doctrine. In 1863 the first ground was broken at Omaha for the Union Pacific railroad.
Notice is hereby given that the Armed Wise Company was dissolved by unanimous consent of all stockholders according to law on May 20 1921. Dated at Muscatine Iowa this 20th A G Bond Secretary. Want Ads Get Rocmers.
The Bryson household faces scrutiny as Mollie and John raise seven daughters under meager means. Family tensions swirl over marriages and money while Marion Lane forges a new life at the office, drawing attention from Gayerson and others.
Sir Humphry Davy, famed inventor of the miner's safety lamp, died after paralysis struck him during a hunting expedition causing his death.
An old advertisement urges mothers to give a teaspoonful of California Fig Syrup to constipated children. It claims the syrup cleans the bowels within hours, calms fussiness, and leaves sour bile and poisons out without griping. The ad warns to insist on the genuine product with age directions on the bottle and to refuse imitations.
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