Letter to Aunt Sadie from Muscatine Sept 7 1963
A Muscatine reader writes from the friendly Mississippi city in September describing autumn, roses, and local scenery. The author critiques Interstate 80 progress, noting a seven year span to connect Davenport to Des Moines and arguing funds diverted from highway use. He cites Iowa figures on federal highway taxes, urging preservation of highway funds for roads and calling for constitutional amendments to limit fund diversion.
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Sadie
Muscatina
Mississippi
Seary
Muscatine
Lake McBride
Ina
Des Moines
Stnk
Iowa City
Grinnell
Durant
Stockton
Davenport
Paso Hineax
Robert C. Phillips
Towa Petroleum Committee
Towa
Bureau of Public Roads
Ted
Iowa
Highway Trust Fund
Town
Washington
Mumnber
AP Now Dispatches
Iowa Daily Press Association
Des Moines News
Ousinews
Agi
Voters urged to elect two directors in Muscatine schools
The Muscatine Community Schools District voters will select two school directors and two county board members next Monday. Three polling places will operate from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. DST. Despite low turnout in school elections, three candidates vie for the director positions, and citizens are urged to vote.
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Muscatine Community
County’ Board of Education
Fio
Iowa tech education center offers data processing training
An Ottumwa program under the Ottumwa Community School District operates the Iowa Technical Education Center. It is the first data processing school under federal manpower legislation with a large class enrolled and graduation set for June. A second class begins in October for those who test qualifying. The facility formerly housed a naval air station.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Kennedy Books and the Kennedy Image Clash with Schlesinger
A review contrasts Arthur Schlesinger Jr. with Victor Lasky over Kennedy and Nixon. Lasky’s forthcoming I Poke the Man and the Myth argues Schlesinger’s Kennedy portrayal created a hollow noble image, while showing both Kennedys as human and ambitious figures amid political and financial forces. The piece reflects on campaign literature, generational rivals, and the shaping of historical narratives.
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Christian Democrats
Italy
West
Kennedy
Professor Lehresinger
Schlesinger
Nixon
Victor Lasky
Schlésinger
Macmullian
Lasky
John F. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy
Mr. Lasky
Iather Doe
Lowells
Laawrences
Cabots
Kennedys
Joe
John
Mr, Lasky
Damascus
Muscatine Journal Directory and Delivery Rates
The Muscatine Journal announces delivery details and pricing with a historic note on paper content. It lists publisher Harold L. Nelson editor Walter Russell business manager John Talbot and other staff while detailing daily and Sunday editions, pricing within Muscatine, readers outside the city, and special services for missed papers.
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Harold L. Nelson
Walter Russell
John Talbot
Gilbert Dietz
Foler
Edwin. Walwer
Margaret Ghiefith
Anvertigal Carl. Walter
Reincarnation and cosmic classrooms in Dr Crane talk
Dr Crane argues in Muskegon that reincarnation explains heaven and hell as progressive stages. He cites ancient theology, theosophists, and planetary life from Harvard to illustrate eternal learning. The audience questions include whether Jesus reincarnated and how past deeds shape future lives.
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Earth
Heaven
Harvard
Observatory
God
Coscim
Demotion and redemption themes amid a quirky verse
A quirky verse imagines a fourth grader Blake facing demotion to second grade while a parody of Hitler and Capone shifts through reincarnations. Dinosaurs threaten humanity as the piece muses on ethics and a potential chance at higher virtue through rebirth.
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Hitler
AP Capone
Earth
The
Hopkins i Syndicate, Inc
Face Slapping Record Held By 2 Russians
A quirky column notes a Soviet Kiev record for face slapping lasting 30 hours with five Russians tied to a draw. It also references Broadway figures, fashion bits, science quotes, and a jumbled montage of celebrity anecdotes and curiosities.
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New York
U.S.S.R
Kiev
Broadway
Jim” Brady
Africa
India
Australia
Antarctica
Prayer text on faith and deeds ends with Amen
Short devotional prayer emphasizes faith with prayer arising from the heart and good works as a path to lead others to praise. It invokes the Father and Jesus, citing a biblical verse for context and closes with an amen.
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Jesus
Villainous promenade ends in jail then released
Our Yesterdays recalls a nefarious visitor in Muscatine last Sunday afternoon who insulted women. Citizens arrested him and he was jailed and then released the next morning. He is a stranger and warned to leave promptly. The town declares such behavior intolerable.
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Shetts
Muscatine
F. M. Witter
Town Association For Scientific Research
Des Moines
L. E. Kettlekamp
German Methodist Episcopal Church
Dear Abby column excerpt with reader pleas and humor
A fragment from Dear Abby features multiple readers venting about domestic and social annoyances. Topics include a child complaining about a messy sister sharing a single bed, restaurant customers demanding extras, and a wedding shower invitation requests Toys for a baby. The voice mixes humor with practical grievances.
Cryptogram Verse Clue and Hidden Motto Split
A cryptogram quotation teases decoding with letter substitutions. It hints that yesterday’s quote says a bad plan admits of no modification and nods to a king and syndicate in a playful, puzzle style.
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Publilius
King
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