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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1928
Page
3
A 1928 Douglas Malloch poem recalls climbing high hills for life lessons and music. The speaker warns that wealth distracts from richer gains, while a wiser climber keeps a song in heart and hears melody everywhere.
At national conventions leaders sway public view, but true influence varies. Mellon and Vare did not hold a telling “key” to outcomes, while Borah’s farm plank speech shifted hundreds of votes, showing real leadership beyond headlines.
The editorial lauds Herbert Hoover as the GOP’s unifying choice across regions. It traces his engineering, public works, and Quaker upbringing, noting early support, and cites favorable judgments from the Washington Star and Kewanee Star-Courier. It argues Hoover’s experience and character make him a safe, capable president.
The passage opines on political figures linked to the federal bureau, noting a recurring presence at Kansas City but not Cleveland four years prior. It claims certain individuals are not leaders or bosses, only experienced voices, and dismisses claims of their influence as bosh.
The New York Times notes a lack of visible fervor in the Kansas City convention and says women delegates find thrill in practical politics and duty. It contrasts women focusing on Hoover as administrator of relief with men emphasizing efficiency, predicting evolving political energy.
The Minneapolis Journal argues for a statewide traffic safety council as a key step to reduce motor accident deaths. It notes 1927 had the highest auto fatalities in state history yet still lower than 1924 per 100,000 cars. Police enforcement and public responsibility are repeatedly emphasized.
Assistant Secretary Robbins says wars may not end but urges making treaties and agreements while the educational process continues. Publication from Marshalltown Tin Pot notes this cautious stance as part of a public discourse on international peace efforts.
The article advises a summer diet focused on watery melons and warns against mixing with heavy foods. It details types, storage, ripeness, and salt use, notes on digestion, and includes reader questions about gall bladder and mastoid-related symptoms with home-care responses.
Advertisement promises speedy relief from bunion and corn pain using Emerald Oil sold at Henderson's drug stores. It claims rapid pain reduction and inflammation easing with a few drops, boasting dramatic shrinking of corns and a guaranteed bottle outcome.
The writer declines to guess the reader's problem calling for a proper diagnosis to identify the real cause of symptoms. If the diagnosis yields no help, the reader should report results by mail with a self addressed stamped envelope for further guidance.
Mrs Louis Cook of Des Moines known as Aunt Elizabeth will be the principal speaker at the Muscatine county Farm Bureau Achievement day at Weed park club house on Wednesday June 27. Morning will include arrangement and judging of the post exhibit. A basket dinner follows. In the afternoon a township group will present a short play and Mrs Cook will speak. Miss Florence Perkins, county home demonstration agent, will arrange other program numbers.
King James I, heir to the English throne, was the son of Mary Queen of Scots, uniting the Stuart claim with deposed Scottish royal lines and shaping succession in early modern Britain.
Enumerators for the Muscatine Independent School District compile the annual city census for ages 5 to 21 and check empty houses. The figures will be included in the board of education’s annual report filed at the July 1 meeting.
The water board chose Hy-Tex royal full range raindrop finish bricks for the new water and light administration building to be built this summer on the old city hall site. About 40,000 bricks will be required.
An old advertisement promotes baby fluid intake guidelines and Fletcher's Castoria as a remedy for fevers colic and digestion. It touts three ounces per pound daily for six months and two ounces per pound afterward, plus weighing infants to measure intake. The message highlights Castoria as plant based, says it regulates bowels aids sleep and growth, and notes a signed package by Chas H Fletcher with a 35 dose forty cent bottle.
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