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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1930
Page
3
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Miss Marian Snydergaard a 15 year old Grundy county girl is named the healthiest Four H girl in the United States after scoring 99.7 percent at the Four H Congress in Chicago. The report notes she sleeps nine hours nightly drinks milk eats vegetables and does not diet to maintain weight. The piece humorously contrasts her win with the Four H boys from Iowa losing to Missouri and quips about potential husbandly insecurities.
An editorial urges readers to keep belief alive for children by supporting those in need. It warns that economic gloom could leave stockings empty and disillusioned youngsters, and calls for communal effort to preserve Christmas spirit for all.
A Iowa City Press-Citizen analysis argues worker health is a business necessity, noting illness disables 2.45 million Americans daily and that healthier workers cut losses. The piece compares human capital to machinery and cites industry shifts toward valuing health. The Knoxville Express comments on a Democrat facing one-term limits and redistricting plans for Iowa’s Second district.
The poem reflects on beauty and kindness hidden in ordinary life. It urges pausing amid day’s clatter to notice near wonders and to open the door to others.
The Kansas City Star argues William M. Doak is a qualified pick for secretary of labor. Doak, rising from railroad work to labor leadership, earns Hoover's confidence and faces questions over union affiliations but is deemed fit for cabinet service.
A collection of historical quotes spanning politics, culture, and society. Prominent figures include Kemal Atatürk, H. L. Mencken, George Wickersham, William Green, Mussolini, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, and James Truslow Adams. The selection touches on war, justice, jobs, government, women, prosperity, and national life.
A condensed recap of Appollon the French strongman famed as a “Demi God of Strength” at the 1900 Paris Exposition and his 160 pound weight demonstration. Also notes a student from Haddonfield earning a high school diploma in 20 weeks by cramming and passing exams, plus a Wool Industries study grafting hair from guinea pig skin to a watch crystal to study hair growth.
Bruce Catton retells the life of Mother Jones from 1913 onward. The piece recalls her acts at Ludlow and Homestead, her arrests in Denver and Charleston, and her enduring fight for workers as she aged. A final anecdote shows her wary view of police and a wartime proverb from her.
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