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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1928
Page
3
The poem narrates two pups chasing a bone and fighting, then learning to share. It contrasts conflict over possession with cooperative sharing leading to both happiness. In a final moral, each gains a portion and a friend, highlighting friendship and mutual care.
A Kansas City reader recalls an Iowa AP account of about 400 farmers marching to Convention Hall seeking admittance. Police showed no violence and few were admitted without tickets. Organizers and self appointed leaders drew the spotlight while officials kept order and avoided clashes.
The Kansas City Star defends the city after praise for hosting the Republican National Convention but jokes about a supposed soup ban and rising hotel prices. It notes menus shrank then expanded again, with cheap plate lunches disappearing briefly while hosts pledged not to raise prices during the event.
As delegates drifted toward Hoover, the convention’s opening night tilted to a fast finish. Food vendors rushed to collect payments, while a revived menu card titled Among My Souvenirs offered a quick memorial note.
A Kansas City column defends the city against claims that hotels removed soup to speed delegates dining at Hoover’s convention. It argues the roll call and deliberations caused delays, not city kitchens, and mocks jealous reports from Indianapolis and Houston while praising Kansas City hospitality.
Edwin T Meredith 51 prominent farm publisher and Democratic presidential candidate died at his Des Moines home Sunday night after a long illness. A former secretary of agriculture under Woodrow Wilson and Iowa gubernatorial and senatorial candidate, Meredith shaped farm journalism and Democratic politics in Town. The obituary notes his influence waned by 1928 as the party shifted.
Dr Frank McCoy extols sun energy as the source of life and bodily processes. He links solar exposure to blood composition and disease prevention, warns against overdoing sunbaths, and offers diet and bathing advice for anemia tuberculosis and rheumatic conditions with reader questions on nutrition and orange juice fasting.
Edna Wallace Hopper promotes a skincare line claiming a perfect powder base and smoother skin. She cites French discovery of Youth Dream and offers three types for oilier or normal skin, available at toilet counters in several sizes.
Reports claim an amazing treatment stops seizures. R. Lepso of Milwaukee offers free treatment to all sufferers who write for it, hoping to reach those not helped.
The text argues that growths must be absorbed and eliminated through the bloodstream if growth is not cut out. It states fasting reduces tissue building, lessens assimilation, and frees body forces to remove toxins or abnormal growths.
LaMonte Swartz funeral services were held at 12 30 PM at the Curran home with Rev H W Munster officiating. The burial followed in West Liberty and Masons led the grave service. Attending from distance included families from Chicago and Bloomington. Children day program at United Presbyterian Church drew a large crowd. Forrest and Ferrol Whitham departed for Pittsburgh to work with Westinghouse.
An advertising pitch claims McCoy's Tablets are a supreme health tonic that builds weight for underweight men and women. It cites a thin woman who reportedly gained 10 pounds in 22 days and offers an ironclad guarantee: if no at least 5 pounds gained after four sixty cent boxes or two one dollar boxes, the druggist will refund the purchase price.
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