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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1926
Page
3
A midwestern market analysis argues Iowa lies near a bottom with an uptrend likely. Babson charts and an accounting firm forecast bargains in farm property, bank consolidations, and improving long term demand as confidence returns and infrastructure like roads advances.
The New York Evening Post reports Chile favors a U S backed plan to cede Tacna and Arica to Bolivia to gain sea access. Bolivia accepts. Peru's stance remains. The proposal would reduce regional tension and let Latin American nations enforce any agreement.
An array of pithy witticisms touches on virtue, luxury, and politics. The piece riffs on slang, social norms, and public figures with light humor, mentioning Marie, Canada, billboards, barbecue stands, and Mussolini in quick quips.
Count Ludwig Salm Hoogstraeten sues his former wife Millicent Rogers for separate maintenance alimony child custody and restoration of conjugal rights. Reported settlement talks range from 500000 to 1000000 as the case adjourns in New York. The piece muses on aristocratic norms and the fate of lineage and fortune.
Radio listings show Wabash Iowa basketball game at 7 30 p m on WSUI Iowa City with a wide slate of evening orchestras and programs across stations WHO KFNF WOI KPRC WYNC WMBC JZ KMOX WEAF KPO KNX KOIL WOT reading and theater segments plus a University of Pittsburgh address and a Library and 4 H features through December 18 with Scouts and civic programs highlighted.
Radio program from Iowa State College Ames station WOT lists daily livestock markets weather and quotes from Chicago and New York. Educational talks given by professors in animal husbandry horticulture poultry and farm crops with topics on fertilizers. Week includes musical programs YMC A lectures and Ames Players performances May run through December with various time slots.
The listing outlines a dense radio program block from 1:57 PM onward featuring weather forecasts, grain and livestock updates, a home management segment with Aunt Jane, chimes, sport news, educational lecture by the Old Hickory Man, a Vikings musical program, Peter MacArthur and guests, Eve Ready Hour, an Auction Bridge game, and a two part lecture by Dr. B J Palmer on Confessions of a Tolerant Man plus late evening weather for Iowa and Illinois.
KTNT program notes a Noonday Calliaphone Concert from 12:00 to 12:30 with Ernest Schoenig and Studio Trio performing violin and piano pieces. Showfolks’ Hour runs 11:00 to 12:00 midnight, and Home Folks’ Hour airs 8:00 to 9:00 p m with Calliaphone bass.
Thursday evening 22 friends gathered at the host’s home to celebrate his sixty six birthday with an oyster supper. Mrs. John Verink has returned home after hospital treatment at Hershey and her son remains in Muscatine for care. Ruth Bennett stays at the Laurence Estle home. David Blankenhorn and wife of Washington visited here last week.
American and British residents in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo launch a weekly English newspaper to be circulated direct or as a supplement to 112 South American newspapers. Despite Spain's weak business, railways show higher profits than last year.
Letts Iowa December event notes that the Ladies Aid Society of the M. E. church plans a second play after the success of a previous old fashioned production. A trio of committees led by Mrs. William Lieberknecht Mrs. M A Shellabarger and Mrs. Delia Shellabarger will choose the next work. M L Shellabarger honored in related item.
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