Merged Muscatine papers reflect historic consolidation
The note lists Muscatine papers the Muscatine Journal and News Tribune and their 1918 consolidation date, detailing publishing history, Associated Press rights, subscription terms, and contact information for advertising and staff. The piece records longstanding local newspaper lineage and syndicate affiliations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Journal
Tribune
News
News and Tribune
Journal and
News-Tribune
Waterways program gains federal backing and rosy river future
A Mississippi Valley association meeting at St Louis urges a rapid 9 foot channel and federal funding. President Hoover calls for emergency appropriations to speed waterways, flood control and highways as job relief. Leaders from 26 states see Muscatine as a key inland hub and Davenport as the West’s Pittsburgh. The plan faces railroad opposition but experts largely back river development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi Valley Association
St. Louis
Mississippi
Congress
Hoover
Valley Association
Commerce
Association
Patrick J. Hurley
Hurley
Hennepin Canal
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Muscatine
Davenport
Pittsburgh
Iowa
Nebraska
Shopping as an Art and a Call for Educational Reform
A Globe-Gazette column muses on shopping as humanity’s oldest activity, then shifts to a Columbia University report on experimental education. It notes Columbia’s two secondary schools have become conventional to prepare for college, urging colleges to admit graduates without exams if teachers recommend them. The piece cites a $225,000 Congressional study into secondary education and warns colleges risk overstandardizing lower schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden of Eden
Mason City Globe-Gazette
Jessup
The
State University
Columbia University
Columbia
Angell
Yale
Wilkins
Oberlin
Congress
Des Moines Register
Life Lyrics by Douglas Malloch
Poem contrasts wealth and status with humble work and duty. It urges equality among laborers and stresses value in labor for God world and neighbor. The speaker acknowledges personal limits and calls for meaningful contribution over idle ease.
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Douglas Malloch
Quotations from notable figures and writers
A collection of short sayings from Agnes Mac Phail Knute Rockne Isaiah 66 13 Elmore M McKee Albert Einstein and Dryden offering views on self sufficiency coaching comfort wisdom equality and wealth in a concise literary fragment set.
Explanation of Yesterday's Cartoon on Bully Waterman
The cartoon recalls Captain Robert H. Waterman known as Bully Waterman, master of the Yankee clipper Challenge. Reported as a monster, he allegedly shot 17 men of 42 at sea near October 1851 Golden Gate. He evaded justice and died in California. Tomorrow: The Kangaroo's Chair.
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Bully Waterman
Robert H
Bully
Waterman
Golden Gate
New York
California
Tower of London
Mother Jones in 100 Years of Labor Fights and Fame
An editorial sketch traces Mary Harris Jones, born in Ireland, from grim childhood seeds to a century of labor agitation. It recalls her early teaching, dressmaking, and marriage, then chronicles plucky battles across Chicago, Kensington, Arnot and beyond, ending with public reverence and a promised next installment.
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Mother Jones
Mary Harris
Ireland
America
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
National Guardsman
Constabulary
Richard Harris
Revolu
Monroe
Mich
Chicago
Memphis
Tenn
George Jones
Jones
Henry Ford
Haymarket
Arnot
Kensington
Philadelphia
New York
New Jersey
Princeton University
Pennsylvania
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Muscat
the Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune
BY Journal Printing CO
Clyde R. Rabedeaux
D. D. Mich
Associated Press
Daily Journal
Kansas City
Detroit
Atlanta
Cone, Rothenburg & Noee, Inc
Lee Newspaper Syndicate
Waterways Program
Agnes MacPhail
House of Commons
Knute Rockne
Notre Dame
Jerusalem
Rev
Elmore M. McKee
God
Albert Einstein
Dryden
Maryland
Sales Gautier
London
Amatlo
Ex el
Celencia
AOA Presidente DE Mexico
Elieve
Ripley
F. Donohue
U. S. Pat
BY Bruce Catton
NEA Service
the Journal
Sherif
Wiaams
Hane the
Hets
Mister
PAL Wool
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