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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1926
Page
3
A Christmas reflective piece lauds James J. Davis founder of Mooseheart as among the happiest men for giving children a chance. It celebrates Mooseheart’s gift filled Christmas mornings and urges readers to mentor youths, teaching loyalty integrity and hard work.
A Birmingham News analysis reviewer Victor H Hanson notes Alabama built roads with a 25 million bond issue but split funds by county hindered through highways. Since 1922, 1645 miles surfaced with 2408 miles under construction by July 1926. The article questions financing via county allocation and suggests state driven planning plus improved highway commission structure as solution.
Joseph H. Donovan, who started in a carpet factory at 11 earning $1.50 a week and vowed to retire after his first million, died at 44 eleven months after that vow. He kept no secret to happiness beyond work and continued purpose in life.
A collection of wry dicta on money, politics, and society. Observations touch on lending among friends, supervised playground costs, Aimee as devil, spinach as edible, Emma Goldman’s stance, European trips, the next senate, radicals and conservatives, Ma Ferguson’s tenure, hair and babies, laziness and committees. Signed Wilbur E. Sutton.
The Associated Press reports Iowa radio tonight features a Leo Humphrey led quartet on KSO at 7, Santa Claus chats on WOC and WHO with KOIL dance music at 11. WBAP airwaves carry an Hawaiian trio at 7:30, WHAS and WJZ also on air, with later shows from WHB, WCAU, KYW, WLS, and WGY. WEAF chain airs at 7:30 and 9. Overnight schedules include Aunt Jane, Crescent Orchestra, Moorman Melody Mixers, La France Music, Whittall Anglo-Persian Orchestra, a Lincoln lecture, and weather forecasts after 9:30.
WOC presents a Friday afternoon schedule with a 1:57 PM standard time signal followed by a 2:00 to 2:10 PM weather forecast and closing quotations on grain live stock and dairy products.
Marcus, ITa., Dec. 9 AP reports Francis Joseph Marquis, a 14-year-old Cherokee County prodigy known for size and strength. He stands six feet three inches, wears collar number 21, belts at 58 inches, and clothing size 124.
Joseph, a Marcus High School freshman, weighs 330 pounds and can lift 500. Coaches praise his speed and power on the field and say he can play center or tackle. He lives on a farm near Marcus and aims for college and an electrical engineering degree after graduation. He is offered circus jobs but plans to stay in school. He also has a good singing voice and a solid amateur boxing and baseball record.
Four years into systematic road building, Alabama completed 1,645 miles of federal-aid highways by July 1 1926 with 2,408 miles under construction. A 1922 bond law required $300,000 per county, limiting through routes and leaving only $4.9 million for interstate work. A two cent gasoline tax helps maintain through-route roads while officials consider a new bond issue with fewer prohibitions to expand interstate highways.
A long delayed postcard mailed twenty three years ago in Waeminster East Flanders has finally reached the recipient in Brussls.
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