Heinz Company contracts boost Muscatine tomato prospects
The Muscatine Journal reports that a 1927 Heinz tomato acreage contract could put about $200,000 into local growers and sustain a cash market. With 850 workers at peak, the Heinz plant would gain payroll, and farmers within 20 miles are urged to contract for crops. The paper calls Heinz a community asset and urges local production to keep the factory thriving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Heinz Company
Muscatine Journal
Heinz Company
Muscatine
Tariff politics shift as farm publication backs hog duties
A farm publication once opposing the tariff now urges higher hog and pork duties. It argues Argentina pork imports and McNary Haugen export plans justify stronger tariffs to aid corn belt farmers, while southern votes remain unreliable. The piece frames tariff debates as politically driven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
New York
Farm Magazine
McNary-Haugen
Dawes Peace Prize Victory Praised In American Press
Announcement that Vice President Dawes will receive the Nobel Peace Prize draws broad American pleasure. The Dawes plan is cited as the only practical step toward European peace since the war, with Locarno and other conferences considered secondary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawes
Europe
Locarno
Theiry
United States
Minor Musings and Witty Observations From 1926
A compact, quotational column by Wilbur E. Sutton offering satirical reflections on politics, media, aging, gender, economics, and odd anecdotes from a Paterson New Jersey boy able to see through a pig’s eye. The piece wryly notes public figures, show business oddities, and social double standards with tongue in cheek.
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Paterson
N. J
Iowa road reform urged by Harrison editor in winter session
E P Harrison editor of Harrison's Home Farmer and four time Iowa House member argues in favor of abolishing county control of the primary road system. He calls for uniform state-wide road construction regardless of local costs, citing injustices and the need to curb unwarranted expenditures. His record as a fiscally responsible legislator adds weight to his recommendations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
E. P. Harrison
Home Farmer
Iowa House
Iowa
Winterset
Madisonian
Radio Rialto: Eastern and Western Stations Air Classical and Dance Tonight
Eastern stations WMAK WTIC and WOR schedule concerts at 8 pm and 8 15 pm CST with WCBD at 8 pm and WBAL Jubilee Singers. WGN has Songs of Romance at 9 30 while Syncopators at WRC and a dance orchestra at WHT. West Coast stations KNX KGW KFI go on at midnight with late pop and dance on WCFL WFAA WHO. WEAF offers four programs with Vikings Eveready Auction Bridge and orchestra. WOC supports all but the last program and WHO KOIL present 7 30 band and dance at 11.
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Associated Press
WMAK
WTIC
WOR
WCBD
Jubilee Singers
WBAL
WGN
WRC
WHT
KNX
KGW
KFI
WCFL
Chicago
WFAA
WHO
WDAF
WEAF
Vikings
Eveready Groun
WOC
Cliquot Club Eskimos and WEAF Music Hour
The schedule lists a 9:00 to 10:00 program featuring the Cliquot Club Eskimos and later 10:00 to 11:00 musical hour with Mrs. O D Doran soprano Leona Bliven pianist and John Bishop reader Weather updates for Iowa and Illinois come after 10:00 o clock at first opportunity.
Mid-West Gas Group Sets 1927 Ames Convention Dates
The Mid-West Gas association executive committee chose St. Paul Minnesota as the 1927 convention site and fixed dates for April 2022. The association includes gas manufacturers from Iowa Minnesota Nebraska North and South Dakota.
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Ames
Mid-West Gas Association
St. Paul, Minn
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
North and
South Dakota
Radio Schedule Highlights On WOC December 16
WOC presents a December 16 afternoon lineup with a 57 time signal, 00 to 210 weather and grain dairy quotes, Aunt Jane home management, chimes concert, sport news, an educational talk on famous characters in literature from WEAF, a Santa Claus chat, studio musical programs, and a Moline Plow boys set from Moline Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WOC
Jane
WEAF
Santa Claus
Moline Plowboys
Moline Implement Co
Moline
Editor's temper feud traced to Young Bill White
A collection of brief items notes that an Emporia Gazette editor's heated editorial was attributed to Young Bill White a Harvard man. The column also laments the treatment of Mrs. Claus, praises Santa's wife, and includes assorted quips from Kansas and Arkansas papers.
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Emporia Gazette
Young Bill White
Young Bill
Harvard
Cambridge
John Harvard
Chicago
Bill White
Jack Harris
Ottawa
Kas
Herald
Hindus break away from restrictions amid changing beliefs
The piece notes Hindus in India loosening some dietary and ritual observances while keeping the idea of avoiding social mixing with outsiders. It mentions a ploughman George Barker honored after decades of service at a single employer. It also states Egypt imports $7,000,000 of tobacco annually for cigarette production from foreign sources.
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India
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the Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune
BY Journal Printing CO
Clyde R. Baredeaix
George M. Hinshaw
Tribune
the News
News and Tribune
Journal and News-Tribune Co
Solidateaq
Erein
Daily Journal
Towa
No Eee
Lee Newspaper Syndicate
el Paso Times
Indianapolis Star
White House
Thrifty
Turkey
Wilbur E. Sutton
RADIO
Rialto
KOIL
Mrs. Santa Claus
Santa
Mrs. Claus
Mildred Hunsig
S. Claus
Icy Cape
the Star
Mildred
Kansas City
Florence
Ala
Benito Mussolini
Accate
Chamberlain Medicine Co
Park, Des Moines
California
Golden State Limited
American River Canyon
Salt Lake City
Heart of
the Rockies
Pike’s Peak Region
Pullman
Rock Island
FE. Ferguson
BUICK
L.R. Heitz
East Second Street
Super Service
Henderson-Halbert
West Front Street
George Barker
English Agricultural Society
Egypt
Luellen
Texaco
Texaco Gasoline
Brower Oil Co
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