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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1917
Page
3
The piece presents a wartime recruitment appeal urging Americans to support the liberty loan and back public effort, arguing that victory hinges on U S financial aid and unity. It emphasizes patriotism and sacrifice to fund military needs and preserve liberty.
A fragmentary report notes a revolt in China as provinces oppose the wartime policy of the Chinese president. The piece suggests such unrest could widen martial strife and invites possible Japanese intervention if Japan acts on the crisis.
The article analyzes how colonial expansion risks shape China’s future and Japan’s intervention as guardian of Chinese stability. It notes Japan’s aim to avoid native participation in Europe’s war while preserving influence in the Orient and questions how China’s broadlay will affect Japan’s policy and power.
A late nineteenth century style admonition urges gardeners to attack weeds as enemies to the garden and food supply. It describes weeds as a grave threat to crop yields and household welfare, calling for immediate thorough weeding and continuous vigilance against their spread.
The narrator recalls meeting renowned con man Clever Dan Credon in a seedy room. A powerful, silver-voiced singer and a destined marriage loom as he recounts career crimes and a fateful encounter that changes his life.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an uncured catarrh case with Hall's Catarrh Medicine. The copy claims the remedy has thirty five years of use and acts through the blood to heal catarrh and related symptoms, urging immediate purchase.
A tense exchange unfolds as a clerk agrees to help an artful thief gain access to a bank vault. After climbing through the safe, the young man is caught by surprise, the plan collapses, and the protagonist retrieves the money. The thief later falls into wealth and marries the boss’s daughter, acknowledging the helper.
Reminiscences recount events from fifty to ten years ago. The piece notes Hershey Bumber Company plans to build an independent telegraph line to its mill for faster business and fire alarms in Muscatine. It mentions a future line to the company’s red line and a notable accident involving Will Farrell and a graduation ceremony. It also recalls a large gathering and a Smith family address, with details of community events and social activities from past decades.
Lone Tree hosts its annual alumni banquet at the Plaza Opera House featuring patriotic songs, a clarinet solo by Glen Walford, a piano piece by Annie Day, and vocal numbers by Fred C. Hacke and others. Attendees, including Lesa Carl and Rev. Lantz, welcomed guests with a formal program.
A health column by Dr. A M Huner discusses cheese as a nutritious, low-cost food and contrasts it with meat, remarks on digestion, and notes cheese’s appeal to English tasters. The piece also includes reader questions about birth marks in infants and a nocturnal cough, with brief medical guidance and submission details.
Gompers of the American Federation of Labor urges workers to support government needs during conscription. He argues for exemptions for indispensable munitions workers and cites Britain's wartime mobilization as justification for preserving essential labor. The piece details proposed classifications and exemptions for industry.
The discussion centers on compulsory wearing of industry service badges for munitions workers and exemptions. British labor representatives argue the badge rule was not mandatory and could cause hardship, while cooperation between unions and government is credited with maintaining wartime production and worker welfare.
Plans for a Muscatine Island Memorial Day service at Inland Methodist Episcopal Church are completed but postponed from last Wednesday due to bad weather. Rev. G. W. Barber will deliver the principal address.
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