Muscatine Journal masthead and staff credits
The Muscatine Journal lists its staff including Margaret Griffith as Assistant Publisher Walter Russell as Editor Carl Walter Advertising Director William Fahy as Business Manager Gilbert Dietz Managing Editor Edwin Walwer Circulation Manager and notes its founding in 1840 with AP wire services and feature support.
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Wise Men Follow A Star Of Hope This Christmas
Reflecting on the First Christmas, the season highlights the wise men and shepherds as emblems of hope and peace. The piece contrasts ancient joy with modern efforts, noting gifts to loved ones and acts to aid the less fortunate in a bid to foster goodwill and universal peace.
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Labor Situation Brings Reports GE Plant May Leave Schenectady
John Chamberlain argues GE may move Schenectady operations if its Make Schenectady Competitive program falters, amid a nine week local strike and high piecework pay. He notes GE experiments with participative management in Mt. Vernon Indiana as a potential model for nonunion productivity.
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Union College
New York
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General Electric Company
National” Union
John Shambo
Clover
New York City
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Mt. Vernon
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Notices From Yesterdays Advertisers Recall Local Events
A retrospective column recalls notices from 50 to 75 years ago including lodge banquets, installations by Mrs. Lulu Evans, Air Corps enlistments, Christmas baskets by Muscatine Elks, approaching marriages Ellamae Demorest and Bruce Ratcliff, and a Sunday School social at the Kirchners with church work.
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Miram Rebekah Lodge
Lulu Evans
West Liberty
Harold J. Bloom
James Bloom
Montpelier
U. S. Air Corps
Wichita
Texas
Muscatine
Worries and Problems This Christmas
AP reports that this Christmas mirrors past years with no major shifts. Civil rights progress remains fitful, poverty persists, and Vietnam dominates national concerns as Johnson weighs peace terms and the risk of a Communist coup.
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Southeast Asia
United States
Johnson
South Vietnam
Dear Abby carte literals and dating advice column excerpts
Readers ask how to end visits and laundry help from relatives on Sundays and why men mistreat wives. Abby suggests clear boundaries and honesty. A 17 year old seeks to dump his steady girlfriend for another, and Abby advises kindness and a strategic breakup plan.
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Abby
Talk Stirs Troubles New York
A collection of quoted lines shows family, workplace, and social tensions as speakers debate authority, responsibility, and behavior. The snippets reveal everyday conflicts and confrontations spanning manners, etiquette, and personal boundaries in urban life.
Christmas Santa controversy at Florence D Sunday School
Dr. Crane Florence D aged 34, a Sunday School Superintendent, recalls a 20 year old Christmas service at the church with a large tree in the sanctuary, a children's carol program and a manger play ending with Santa Claus delivering candy. Some parishioners now consider Santa an irreligious inclusion.
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Santa Claus
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Santa Symbolism in American Christmas Ritual
The Worry Clinic argues for keeping Santa in the Christmas program noting that attendance by seniors has declined when Santa was moved downstairs. They credit Santa with American religious symbolism and call for preserving the tradition against materialistic influences while urging parents to protect the Santa figure as a positive guide for all ages.
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Liquor and Tobacco Companies
Santa
America
Santa Claus
Daily Crossword Aogress 1 Displeases to Fabulous bird
A compact puzzle item listing crossword clues across many numbers with entries such as Displeases, one, Beetle, Great Lakes name, Mail India, Fix a chair seat, Exchange premium, Noahs boat, Thulium symbol, Fabled Taurine creature, Hawaiian gari and a Sea eagle, Prong, Typewriter, fruit of the rose, Greek letter, Mollifies, Close to, Fabulous bird, Chinese monetary unit, Expose sham, Narrow indet, Rental contract, Manager, Finished. The prayer text follows, giving a Christian blessing about giving and happiness.
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