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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1930
Page
6
A Sunday School review reflects on visualizing Jesus beyond art. It notes Jesus as a living teacher through the moving world around him, rejects coercive faith, and urges living by the Golden Rule. The speaker favors faith based on personal belief and prayer over formal proofs.
The speaker argues that Jesus’ appearance matters less than His teachings. He portrays Jesus as natural and approachable, teaching through scenes from Palestine life such as flowers, fields, a widow, and the temple. The Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes shape the moral path for the humble, merciful, and peacemaking.
In a sparring exchange a veteran boxer urges his younger rival to rally by recalling forebears who fought and died. The losing fighter responds with a stark reflection on fear and mortality as the bout tests resolve.
Capt Eddie Rickenbacker, VP of Fokker Aircraft, told the American Automobile association conference that air travel will be the safest transport within three years and cross continental routes in 10 hours within a decade. He forecast 26 to 30 hour transoceanic flights with in-air berths and noted a big rise in air traffic.
Chairman Dempsey told a hearing that President Hoover Secretary Hurley and Major General Brown support a nine foot channel on the Mississippi from St Louis to St Paul and Minneapolis. Minnesota delegation pressed to include the project in the omnibus river and harbors bill.
Saturday’s lineup features Morning Devotions and Cheerio in NBC slots followed by Orthophonic and Stradella Musicians. Highlights include Radio Household Institutes, Markets, Aunt Jane's Home Movement Club, National Farm and Home Hour, Keystone Wire & Steel, Luncheon with Foreign Policy Association, Marionettes, London Iowa High School Orchestra directed by Melvin Dean, Beulah McGee contralto, and Davenport Daily Times News Summary.
Radio lineup from 4:00 PM to 12:00 AM features NBC broadcasts including Helen Berry piano segments at 4:45 and 11:00 to 12:00 Rudy Valee. Also on air are the Black and Gold Room Orchestra, Rocking Chair, Phil Spitalny, Marguerite Kahl, Polk Company, Sunderland Lyrics, General Electric Hour with Walter Damrosch, B A Rolfe Day Strike Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, and restive news and summary segments. Des Moines listed, 5,000 watt transmitter notes appear.
A Chicago report notes discussions on starting a nine foot project after Hull drafts a resolution to push all further work to a nine foot basis. Dempsey states the board of army engineers has done all feasible to cite the survey. The item was raised during a delegation meeting with ongoing program schedules.
The listing shows a dinner concert at 6:00 p.m. on 870 Ec.- WENR with 50,000 watts, followed by a 6:30 p.m. Farm Service Bureau segment. Programs go off air at 7:00 p.m. and return for a 12:00 midnight to 1:00 a.m. dance with Maurie Sherman’s Orchestra and Jimmy Green’s Orchestra.
On Saturday March 23 WBBM Chicago broadcasts a carnival at 8 00 p m and a Bulova time signal at 8 30 p m Dir Leon Bloom hosts Chicagoans at 8 30 p m followed by An Hour About Chicago With Ted Weems Coffee Dan s and Lloyd Huntley at midnight This listing outlines station events and programs for the evening.
The program lists acts and times from 5:30 p.m. through 11:15 p.m. including ice cream party, Canton Tea Gannon Orchestra, Sammy and Cally Grennan, NBC Fuller Men, Dixie’s Circus, Jules Herbeveaux Orchestra, Fio-Rito’s Congress Orchestra, Russo’s Edgewater Beach Orchestra, Dutch Master Minstrels, Art Kassel’s Club Metro le Orchestra, Miss Ad Taker, World Book Man, Chicago Herald and Examiner News Flashes, Champion Tube Weather Forecast, Olsen & Ebann Time Signal, Amos ’n’ Andy, Wayne King’s Aragon Ballroom Orchestra and Sessions Chimes.
The program lists performances by Louis Panico's Canton Tea Garden Orchestra at 12:00 and 12:45 a m with interruptions by Fio Rito's Congress. Art Kassel's Club Metro Orchestra appears at 1:15 a m followed by Panico's Canton Orchestra and Kassel's Metropole Orchestra at 2:00 a m for one hour slots.
The listing shows a night of broadcasts including National Refining Co. music at 7:30 followed by the Corn Belt Hatchery Program at 7:30 p m and National Barn Dance first section at 8 40 p m A late slate includes Miller Minstrel Show Calumet Sociability Time Railfence Ramblings Brad Kincaid Hiram and Henry comedy Maple City Four and Tonight's Old Favorite with Ted Roy and John concluding at 11 33 p m
A 40 by 10 foot scale model dam will hold back a Mississippi river in the University of Iowa laboratory this spring. The model mirrors the proposed Davenport dam across the river, part of a series to give the upper river a 9 foot waterway. The project calls for a 1,400 foot wall with upstream ramparts, at an estimated cost of six and a half million dollars. The model will be built next month and subjected to varying conditions and alterations to assess its effectiveness.
Prof. Floyd A. Nagler of the College of Engineers supervises an experiment at Hastings Minn to model the most effective dam type. A 1000 foot miniature dam will raise the river 20.8 feet forming a 31 mile pool to show land submersion and salvage areas in a government backed study. Two US Army Engineers civilians from St Paul assist in the tests. University engineers have often aided federal projects in this field.
The report notes the improvement project will not be reported to Congress until next year, delaying commencement. No start date is set and funding or approval timelines remain unclear.
The article states that sanding a road costs from 1600 to 2000 dollars per mile. It notes this range as the current estimate for road maintenance by sanding operations.
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