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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1933
Page
3
The notice lists telephones for the Towa Private Branch Exchange as numbers 26 and 27. It directs callers to ask for the person or department wanted when the operator answers.
The Iowa statesman Gilbert N. Haugen who died in Northwood faced political defeat last November yet left a record of farm and dairy sector achievements. He helped define butter standards and defended butter producers against substitutes, sponsored co op and collective bargaining laws for farmers, and served 34 years in Congress as a noted figure in Iowa politics.
Articles discuss Elliott Roosevelt struggling with job access due to his presidential ties and media scrutiny after a Reno divorce. The piece also surveys a boom in railroad expansion 1924 to 1929, later declines, and a tragic Omaha explosion injuring and killing people. It ends with light notes on a film star and a balloon flight using buckshot ballast in Chicago.
Roosevelt eludes a band of Chicago reporters by slipping from a hotel via a service elevator and through a street tunnel with Ruth Googins of Fort Worth. He hints at entering the publicity business, while Reno divorce interest and presidential lineage heighten public attention.
Dr. Donald A. Laird notes 56 kinds of fatigue with the worst involving a husband forced into helping his wife with spring house cleaning, presenting a humorous yet pointed view on domestic strain.
Washington column accuses home loan board and Home Owners' Loan Corporation of patronage abuses and dual pay while Democratic insiders benefit. It details Stevenson and aides, preferred lists, and a Johnson backed emblem program to push NIRA aligned products.
News Behind The News explains licensing issues could trigger a court injunction stalling progress of the NIRA. It recounts a New York brokerage pair using a loophole where House A underwrote silently while House B advertised sales then routed buyers to House A, masking agency roles and evading the act’s coverage.
The piece notes opposition to the securities act from manufacturers seeking capital and cites a plan to protest. It reports on a National Distillers and U S Industrial Alcohol joint venture to blend and rectify rye whiskey, with a 7 to 1 rectifying ratio. It covers speculative alcohol stock activity and political views within Republican circles, utilities finance trends, and cotton yield expectations amid crop cuts.
A historical column recalls Hans Adamsen’s Siamese lecture at First Baptist Church Muscatine. Muscatine Street Railway paid wages to workers with first cars expected by August 15.
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