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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1930
Page
3
Publisher and editors listed with long establishment dates for several papers. Advertising reps include major cities. Local AP news rights noted. The piece lists newspaper names, merger date September 2 1918 and syndicate involvement. Contact details for Iowa exchanges are provided.
The article notes a decline in child traffic fatalities over the past decade due to school safety campaigns. Despite population growth and more cars, fewer children are killed, marking a real achievement and honoring those who volunteer in safety efforts.
The Chicago authorities collect evidence in hopes of trying Al Capone for murder. Despite hundreds of attributed murders, no murder charge has stuck. Officials seek proper evidence to indict him while noting reform is needed to curb his power and change city conditions.
Marshalltown Times-Republican laments reckless driving after a 14 year old pleads guilty to second degree murder and is sent to a boys industrial school. The piece calls for license revocation and stricter police highway supervision amid rising Iowa road fatalities from motor accidents.
The speaker condemns guards who terrorized a delinquent boy with long tales of electrocution and calls for firing the entire staff at the boys' industrial school to restore its rehabilitative purpose.
A Douglas Malloch poem explains that many parts must mesh in harmony to produce effect. Individual effort alone may fail without unity and cooperation with others. The piece suggests self importance ends without collaboration and shared action.
Summary explains 1659 Massachusetts General Court penalized Christmas observance with fines, noting English opposition and later repeal in 1681. Cites sources like Enzyklopädie fur Theologie und Kirche and Washington Irving. Teases tomorrow’s feature on a southern noblewoman.
In Washington the Interstate Commerce Commission weighs the New York Pittsburgh and Chicago railroad plan to pierce the Appalachians between Easton and Pittsburgh. Leonor Fresnel Loree, 72, president of the Delaware and Hudson, argues the route would form a cost efficient Great Lakes to Atlantic link, while rivals led by the Pennsylvania and New York Central oppose it citing uncertain business and large construction hurdles.
A column recalls events on this date across years: a La Salle boy dies after choking on a peanut shell, Ponca chiefs seek schools and farms from Secretary Schurz, a Conesville grain mill fire causes about 5000 in losses, and chief notes from ten years back include President Harding’s meeting on domestic issues and farmer John Bell’s death plus a 26 degree temperature drop to 2 degrees above zero.
L F Loree, at 72, takes on rail rivals to build a Harriman favored line routing across 5000 acres. The plan promises easy grades, five year costs around 177 million dollars, and 20 000 jobs, reflecting his fighter persona and engineer driven approach to railroading. He prizes labor capital harmony and technical progress.
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