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...Dixon (pop. 10,000) and Davenport (60,000), Americans anguished with the Lindberghs, exulted with Earhart and fervently argued national politics. The Dixon Evening Telegraph came out for Hoover, who took the county...
Like Americans everywhere, the local residents of Dixon and Davenport fumed and spatted about Prohibition, which brought violence even to Davenport: the mysterious shooting and murder of Bootleg Kingpin Nick Coin on the street after raids on sub rosa saloons...
...most of all, people were talking about the Depression. In a poignant cartoon, the Dixon Evening Telegraph memorialized dejected workers leaving a steel and wire company carrying their lunch buckets home after being laid off. In Davenport the Union Bank failed, a year after the American Savings Bank and Trust Co., and the John Deere Co. shut down six plants, throwing 716 men out of work. In surrounding Scott County a monthly average of 7,000 persons -10% of the population-were on relief, getting beans, flour and potatoes. People were understandably riled that Iowa farmers, angered...
Hard times, the wet-dry fuss, national politics-these things obsessed Americans all year, but not to the exclusion of all else. In Dixon, Davenport and all over, people avidly followed sports. Baseball was the game, Babe Ruth the hero-and one who alone would have made the year memorable: flamboyantly gesturing toward the centerfield bleachers where he intended to hit the home run that would, and did, help the Yankees sweep the Cubs in the World Series...
...radio-which everybody was talking about more and more. The infant NBC-Red Radio Network delivered Amos n' Andy into Dixon living rooms at 6 every weekday night. Radio was such a captivating novelty that even Reagan's maiden effort as sportscaster rated a review in the Davenport Democrat and Leader. He narrated-for $5-Iowa's loss to Minnesota, 21-6, before some 10,000 spectators who had paid $2 to $3 and got rained on. Gushed the critic of Reagan's play-by-play: "His crisp account of the muddy struggle sounded like...