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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1930
Page
3
The Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune prints a condensed item from local coverage. Details are faint but indicate standard newspaper brief noting upcoming events or notices within the community.
The Marshalltown Times Republican reports on a American Foundation survey of 2,036 daily newspapers totaling 41 million readers. Of these, 1,357 favor U S ratification, 265 oppose, 58 neutral, 342 no reply, and 14 unclassifiable. Iowa shows 34 favorable and 8 opposed. The piece notes opposition citing foreign entanglements while praising the court as a forum to settle disputes before conflicts arise.
The Christmas savings clubs organized by banks grow each year, expanding participation and offering households a disciplined way to build year end funds through regular deposits and collective savings.
Figures from the Alexander Hamilton Institute show more than 632 million dollars will be distributed this year to about 11 million Christmas club members. The average payout per member is 54.60, down five dollars from last year, but the total funds and depositors rise. Banks expect roughly 70 percent of the money to be spent soon, boosting commerce nationwide.
A brief verse on home as an undiscovered country beyond distant voyages. It contrasts distant search for new lands with the wealth and wonders waiting at home, urging exploration of the domestic frontier before departing. The poem invokes Columbus and a railroad journey as steps to discover what lies nearby.
Under Soviet direction Russian farms adopt modern machinery replacing older farming methods. Men and women work side by side to operate new equipment as the nation expands production for export markets.
Dr Thomas S McWilliams reports on Soviet agriculture moving from tiny plots to vast state owned farms with heavy machinery and mass labor The Lenin American commune example shows 2000 acre farm with 300 residents In this model women work rotating duties from dairy to field to kitchen and nursery care for children feeds into a communal living setup while fathers and mothers return exhausted at night The wage on collectives averages three rubles per day about 50 cents in U S money totaling roughly 1 50 a day per worker
A roundup of past events notes seven deaths by freezing in New York City. It also recalls the Singer Sewing Machine and Wheeler and Wilson merger, a severe Southern railway wreck near Curls Alabama injuring all aboard, a Muscatine sidewalk injury claim for 2000 dollars, Gianni Caproni’s giant Atlantic plane plan, Automatic Pearl Button Company forming under Webb Act, a first local button factory aligning with export trade, and a 1920 US postal service deficit of 17,270,482 dollars, a record shortfall.
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