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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1913
Page
3
An OCR fragment lists phone numbers and internal codes for department staff. It mentions the publisher managing editor and several department or room identifiers with numeric labels, and directs callers to contact a party at specific numbers. The text is incomplete and contains misspellings and garbled names.
A 3000 year old Grecian or Roman coin reportedly found in an Illinois Indian mound prompts speculation about indigenous origins, early exploration, and ancient links across the Americas. observers note vast gaps in knowledge about American antiquity and migrations.
In the Ottumwa Courier reproduced editorial the piece signals growing interest in the county crop advisor movement. It notes counties where leadership has not yet been secured and offers a deserved tribute to the value of early contributions to agriculture.
The Journal reprints Prof Kirkpatrick’s Muscatine crop articles for Wapella county farmers. Ottumwa plans a farm bureau with a crop advisor in charge. The Courier urges local adoption while consigning daily articles by Prof Nirk yatri¢k. Frank Johnson Goodnew, Washington DC, named chief adviser to China’s constitutional reform.
A historical column recaps district school closings and community events from 30 to 10 years ago. Notes include winter term ends, a ginserstiapa drive for army sanitariums, arrests for burglary, a Baptist society musicale, competition within Company C, and updates on Ella Foster’s appendicitis recovery and Rev J Fath’s resignation and return.
A farmer guidance column on sweet potato rots including black rot black shank dry rot and soil rot with control measures such as selecting disease free roots burning infected material spraying with Bordeaux mixtures applying sulfur soil rotation and proper storage ventilation.
The Kansas City Journal criticizes President Wilson for mock heroics while acknowledging a drift toward exclusive official atmospheres in Washington. The Keokuk paper notes aviator Lincoln Beers plans to quit, citing risks and waning public interest as aviation becomes less of a spectacle. Iowa politics look toward Democrat prospects with Pepper as a strong Senate candidate in the Second District.
Agricultural advisor K. A. Kirkpatrick warns that a bread mold like fungus causes trouble in lamense roots. Apores spread in large numbers with greenish blue color and linger in the soil. Do not take plants from diseased roots or store any diseased roots.
Des Moines March 14 Senator Balkema's committee on highways reports a broad highway bill. It enlarges the highway commission's power to enforce the law across the state and allows removal of county engineers failing in duty. Public utilities and bluesky bills face committee action next week. Senate considers reforms to consent petitions and a law repealing the assumption of risk in railroad damage cases. Headlight requirement for locomotives and Polk county primary nominations for judges also move forward.
Washington dispatch reports Iowa patronage negotiations with President Wilson's administration. Congressmen Kirkpatrick Spepner Reed, Attorney General McReynolds, and Secretary McAdoo discuss district postmasters, collectorships, and marshals. Reed favors Wade line, Bronson seeks northern marshalship, with bickering over district attorneyships. The White House conference aimed to brief the president on policy advises.
Abe Martin comments on Iowa political patronage in the thirteenth year of the century. discussions renew claims for assistant generalship and district posts, with several names from Dubuque Davenport Leavenworth and Harlan cited. The piece notes limited home posts and restless candidates, ending with a mock editorial from the Cedar Rapids Gazette on reform and punishment in penitentiaries.
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