Iowa dealers report strong January use tax receipts
The Iowa Tax Commission notes January use tax payments from automobile dealers show sales of new cars and trailers up by 3 million dollars versus January last year. Muscatine likely contributed, with Fed reports showing local bank clearings up 18 percent from January 1962, and statewide city averages up about 15 percent. County residents also increased investments in Savings BondsLevies E and H in January compared with a year earlier.
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Iowa Tax Commission
Iowa
Janary
Hawkeye
Muscatine
Reserve Bank of Chicago
John Hendriks
Muscatine County
Jann & Kelly
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Atlanta
Ranges
Los
Angeles
San Francisco
Daily Journal
Muscaseat
AL Mail
Cold Weather Ripples Through Economy and Politics
The piece notes continued effects of a January cold snap including fruit and vegetable damage in Florida and rising January living costs driven by fruit and vegetable prices. It also covers Khrushchev’s election rally remarks and close Soviet elections, with little impact on U.S. sentiment, and mentions Hungary’s near-total Communist vote.
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Southland
Florida
Ment
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Russia
Hungary
U.S
China
Galbraith Should Be Pleased Tail Fins Fade From Cars
Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith returns from New Delhi amid reflections on American car styling. The piece notes a shift away from flashy tail fins, questions what replaces novelty, and critiques Puritanical attacks on consumer enjoyment while citing postwar spending patterns and the economic debate on waste.
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Galbraith
Harvard
John Kenneth Galbraith
India
New Delhi
Gathynille
Tall Dixon
Detroit
Daily Muscatine Journal and Advertiser details
Muscatine Journal announces publication hours and circulation. It lists staff positions including Publisher Harold L. Nelson and Editor Walter Russell. The paper operates as a daily in Muscatine, priced at 40 cents weekly and $12 yearly in-town, with out-of-town and out-of-state rates.
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Harold L. Nelson
Walter Russell
Robert Bauer
Gilbert Dietz
Dwin Walwer
Margares Naerin
Mar
Gan Advertising RL
Letter From Muscatine on Local Sports and Social Notes
A Muscatine column mixes community updates with social commentary. It applauds West Liberty gals basketball advancing to a Des Moines tournament, jokes about fund drives, ponders a united health campaign, and includes reflections on time use and a tourist cotton joke. It also notes a pen pal inquiry from a Japanese student, Hisako Fukasawa, seeking correspondence with Muscatine youth.
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West Liberty
Liberty Belles
Des Moines
Muscaline
Japan
Gir
Muscatine
Buck sheep antics amuse Rev Tremaine and farmer tale
A Hopkins Syndicate piece recounts Rev. Guy Tremaine using a Bible based storytelling style, then relates a farmyard episode with a buck sheep that acts like a human, wandering into a home, butting a door and provoking debates about whether the animal is playful or dangerous.
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Guy Tremaine
Ile Masier
Tremaine
Ins Wile
Rev
Rev. Tremaine
Shortages of Minor Articles Prove Annoying
New York reporter HAL ROYLY critiques daily shortages showing how households endure missing basics like bathroom tissue shoelaces light bulbs aspirin soda water and chicken noodle soup while stocked items like beef and vegetable soup abound. A humorous exchange with his wife Frances underlines the recurring household friction over trivial scarcities. Keener Arkansas reports two giant turtles found in Keener Cave weighing a ton each.
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Walter
U Army
Frances
Sonce
U Tao
Keener Cave
TM PRAYER The Upper Rooms and the publican in Luke 18 13
A devotional prayer segment reflects on the publican's contrite posture and the prayer for mercy. It urges repentance and draws near to God through grace for Jesus sake.
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Jesus
Local items and notices from Muscatine area past years
A collage of old Muscatine items notes Yesterdays Robert Priion and a patriotics wagon ride, store improvements by Hine Brothers, enrollment at Lincoln school at 300, casting for Polly With a Past at Muscatine Junial College with several named participants, a Muscatine Christian Business Men's Cate organization affiliation, Good Friday Union services planned, and spring fashion trends with pumps and spike heels returning.
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Robert Priion
Hine Brothers
Saimyday Evening Journal
Iowa
Lincoln School
Muscatine Christian Business Men's Cate Aities
Muscatine Comity Mteria) Association
Longer Wait to Remarry in a Small Town
Dear Abby column discusses social norms around remarriage after a spouse dies, noting a 44 year old man planning to marry soon after his wife’s death and the town’s reaction. Includes reader questions about marriage timing, and a rural response emphasizing tradition and empathy.
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Abby
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Wspaper
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Heart
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Whan
Hisako Fukasawa
Komao
Hisako Pukeasawa
Apallomen
Kirikida
Hitachi City
Ibaraki Ken
Youth Council For International Contact
Jimbocho
Kanda
Chiyodaka
Tokyo
Gil Wicte
Dr. Crane
George W. Crane
Rev. Tremine
The
Hopkins Syndicate, Inc
Blake
Hal Royly
An Annang
Charlotte Braun
Millard
Mills
Polly
Muscatine Junial College
Gordon Jack Ficken
Jack van
Ladd Sheinmelz
Bruty Leu
Elsie McKinney
Marion Narvis
Evelyn Krieger
Heck Aly
Abigail van Buren
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Tont
Tony
Alabama
Terepqn
Yowineday
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Napoleon
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Sinise
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Iol
TATRA
Maasive
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Afela
T. Conatellaimal
Yeaterday
Jacob
Nicosia
Prior
Senior
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