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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1927
Page
3
America enjoys entertainment on a national scale while the football season ends and Congress begins its session. The line contrasts leisure with legislative action, noting the quick transition from sports to political activity.
The piece critiques Brookhart's plan to replace the McNary Haugen farm program with a government surplus buyout starting at 1.5 billion dollars. It contends the plan lacks practicality and notes a shift in the Des Moines Register's stance toward Brookhart, accusing it of fickle republican loyalties and personal publishing ambitions.
A Saturday fire on Second Street drew a crowd as spectators watched volunteers and a long ladder reach the roof. Firemen faced a test of extended height, but the blaze was controlled with manpower on scene and nearby support.
The piece recalls a moving photo of Albert Lilliendahl taken to the courtroom where his mother faces murder charges. It contrasts with Lorraine Snyder’s letter to Ruth Brown Snyder hoping for her mother’s return and Christmas wishes.
The Journal reprinted Oswald Garrison Villard’s critique of Al Smith’s personal observance of prohibition. The editorial casts doubt on Smith’s pledge to enforce the law if elected and notes Newark women supported prohibition after his plea.
Mason City Globe-Gazette critiques Wisconsin campus figures and student turnout in the Daily Cardinal referendum. It argues only 759 vote for continued voluntary drill, 76 against, while 650 students serve voluntarily and Illinois has 2000 in a required program. It blames weak leadership and human nature.
Louis and Frank Youpe of the Chippewa tribe appeal in St. Paul for 12,000 to fund a small national Indian orchestra. The project aims to include about six tribes, with native musicians and music adapted from Indian melodies. It has support in Montana's Fort Peck reservation and reflects a shift in recognizing native talents beyond farming.
Learning through the eyes emphasizes observation as a path to health. Readers are invited to send health questions to Dr. McCoy at Muscatine Journal for personalized guidance, with examples covering palate drops, compatible foods with starches, golf with tuberculosis, and anemia related symptoms.
New York Evening Post notes Vienna marks ten years under socialist rule while Russia celebrates a decade of communism. It credits Vienna with stabilizing after World War I, overcoming famine, and facing harsh economics with housing projects and public welfare, though unrest and economic strain remain.
The Des Moines Tribune notes Ford plant reopenings in Des Moines and nationwide as a milestone likely to lift jobs and consumer spending across industries. It highlights Ford’s vertical integration idea and two common profit models while predicting larger corporate combinations shaping future practice. The San Francisco Chronicle adds a quip about female efficiency.
A critic argues that reading characters only in segments reveals why true literature works. He compares short stories and serials to life, noting unreal figures lack inevitability and depth. Real fiction makes characters live their own lives, shaping plot with coherent purpose beyond a single creator’s control.
A critic notes that even famed authors may craft mere potboilers as they live from names and coincidence. Mark Byers comments on art and commerce, suggesting some signatures do little more than string together convenient luck.
The Associated Press notes Iowa radio fans see Iowa-Knox game on WSUI at 8 pm and Drake on WOI. Local Iowa station lineups include WOC 7 pm studio program, KMA square dance, KOIL quartet, WOI 4-H club, with WHO at 6:30 for Roxy and his gang and network relays at 7:30 and 8:30.
The schedule lists events from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM including The Happy Hour and The Four Percent. Features include Weather Forecasts on Grain Livestock and Dairy, Home Management talks by Aunt Jane and a Chimes Concert.
In a late game clash at 9 09, the Ver wmni College unit edged past an unnamed opponent 11 6, securing a divisional win as spectators watched the Soportaaien Iowa scene unfold.
Programs include 9:45 Housekeepers and Weather Reports. 11:30 Devt. of Agriculture Radio Service. 12:00 Market Reports. 3:00 The Victorians. 4:00 Bankers Life Trio and Clif ford Bloom. 6:30 The Victorians. 7:30 Bankers Life Little Symphony and Myrtle Williams. 9:00 U. Playing Card Co. NBC. 9:30 National Gal le ties NBC. 10:00 Palais DOr NBC. 10:30 Janssen Hofbrau Orch NBC.
WSUI presents December schedule with talks by Mrs Grace naffee on The Modern Community Prof R B Wylie on Why Plants are Plants dinner music and Prof Bruce E Mahan on Early Territorial Days.
A December program lineup lists daily events from December 5 to December 10 at WOI. Activities include 4-H Girls, Homemakers Half Hour, engineering and health talks, Sigma Alpha Iota music, and a Drake University entertainment program with a Boy Scouts program closing the week.
The government of South Africa outlines a plan to fund a nationwide building program. Officials say the initiative will create jobs and boost infrastructure across multiple regions.
Advertisement touts McCoy's Tablets as a safe inexpensive solution for underweight men and women. It claims rapid flesh gain, improved energy and vigor, and a money back guarantee after four 60 cent boxes or two 1 dollar boxes if the user does not gain at least five pounds and feel better. The product is sold as McCoy's Tablets, shorthand for McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets.
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