Clyder Rabedeaux and Walter Russell Lead City Daily
The Benda wuuuay Daily announces carriers deliver in city with 15 cents weekly, annual mail rates for inside and outside districts, and advance payment requirement. Advertising reps listed in major cities. Associated Press rights and Leo Syndicate membership noted. Local postal filing shows March 8 1879 act.
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Catine
Iowa
New York
Kansas City
Detroit
Atlanta
St. Louis
San Francisco
NOEE
Rothenberg & Jann
Associated Press
Leo Newspaper Syndicate
Teleperonel
Get a Sticker Boosts Iowa Highway Safety Efforts
Iowa figures show 158 motor vehicle deaths in the first four months, up 21 from last year, with 629 projected for 1934 if trends continue. Muscatine joins highway safety week with the Legion, auto dealers, garages, and Boy Scouts promoting free testing for safety devices. passing cars receive an OK sticker.
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Lew A. Wallace
Iowa Motor Vehicle Department
Iowa
Wallace
Muscatine
The
Legion Post
Legion
Ames Hears State to Bid on No 22 Grading and Bridge Work
The state highway commission will receive bids Tuesday for grading and bridging a section of state primary road No. 22. Local boosters note the move follows long efforts by the Muscatine chamber and residents to extend the route westward and connect with linked roads, benefiting Johnson and Washington counties.
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Ames
State Highway Commission
Johnson and
Washington County
Muscatine
Chamber of Commerce
Nichols
Muscatine County
Highway Commission
Road extension marks step toward Lone Tree dream
A six and a half mile stretch east from No. 161 toward Lone Tree moves the highway project forward. The effort showcases how united community action helps turn dreams into reality and calls for continued unity among the linked communities.
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No. 161
Lone Tree
ISU Graduate Hikes 20000 Miles for Employment
Alfred Zissler, an Iowa State College electrical engineering graduate, spent 1932 seeking work by hitchhiking across about a dozen Iowa cities and then east. He finally found a job in Dayton, Ohio, after a vast cross country trek. His first paycheck partly bought new shoes and sex amid public skepticism of hitchhiking.
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Associated Press
Ames
Iowa State College
Alfred Zissler
Iowa
Horace Greeley
Dayton
Zizzler
Iveness
Fascists' Folly and a Crackdown on Fas cism
A column recalls Art J. Smith once head of the Khaki Shirts who boasted he would lead 7,000,000 followers to a fascist state. He was later jailed in New York for perjury as his movement collapsed and faded into a historical footnote.
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United States
Art J. Smith
Smith
America
Washington
New York
General Johnson
Ed McGrady
NRA
McGrady
Johnson
National Labor Board
A. F. of L
Roosevelt
Labor Advisory Board
Advisory Board
New York City
Carl Rauchenbauch
Atta Boy Ringling Shows It Pays To Work Up
Comment praising Bob Ringling leaving grand opera for the Ringling circus founded by his family. It extols the American dream of merit through hard work, from cook tent to ticket wagon, contrasting enterprise with absentee ownership and socialist critique.
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Bob Ringling
Chicago Daily News
Radio transmitter cake pan feats battery power
The article describes a cake pan shaped radio transmitter built by Thomas A. Blanchard that operates on two tubes and ten flashlight batteries. It has a 100 foot range without ground or antenna, weighs two pounds, and is fully self contained with only a wavelength dial and on off switch as controls. A fuller description and photo were to appear in The Modern Mechanix and Inventions.
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Cake Pan
Thomas A. Blanchard
New York State
Wall Street
Congress
Kennecott
General Foods
Standard Brands
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Washington column outlines basic commodities tariff stand
Washington column notes Congress considers exempting basic commodities wheat cotton corn hogs rice and sugar from tariff moves under Roosevelt trade policy. It cites bipartisan support to bar tariff rate cuts and worries about consumer costs if prices rise. U.S. manufacturers warn against ceding tariff power and unions shift stance amid NRA tensions.
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Congress
Senate
Roosevelt
Spy Activity at Panama Canal Tightens Vessel Surveillance
News Behind The News recounts spy activity and independent Naval Intelligence gathering guiding a strict canal surveillance regime. U S fleet transits prompted special measures with foreign ships required to bank fires and be towed by electric engines near lock parapets. Incidents include Dutch and Japanese steamers damaging lock valves, prompting US naval officers aboard vessels and on bridges to prevent accidents.
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U. S
Rounsevelt
U. S. Naval
Walter Ja
Fifty years ago hail storm causes minor damage in Muscatine
On this date a hail storm six inches deep damaged the area modestly. Complaints were filed with railroad officials that trains blowing steam at the station caused runaways.
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John Sterneman
Muscatine Baseball Association
Levi Cross
Muscatine
Fairport Biological Station
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Walter Russell
Benda
Atta Boy, Ringling
Akern
Root
John Hix
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Eobs
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Canal Zone
Tokyo
Eay
Hirota
Japan
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Teddy
Tugwell
Felix Frankfurter
James McMullin
AAA
Prief
New York Farmer
Syracuse
Agricultural Administration
Lexington
Co . Nano
Paris
Sofia
Bulgaria
George Durne
National Association of Manufacturers
White House
Senate Finance Committee
Umn
Blue Eagle
W. Averell Herriman
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Panama Canal
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