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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1939
Page
24
The Cedar Rapids public library will track staff duties hour by hour during April and May to quantify how time is spent serving patrons. Miss Joanna Hagey notes about 70 major processes stem from ten core activities, with 40 libraries of similar size joining the effort to build a cost accounting plan for library needs.
The El Kahir Shrine band expands to seventy five with guest musicians for the Palm Sunday concert at the Shrine temple. William F. Vesely directs a free program starting at 3 p.m. with marches, solos, and choral pieces.
The St James Methodist church choir will offer a 7 30 pm sacred music program at Oakdale featuring guest soloists Kathleen Check violin and Charles Moel tenor. Directed by W J Hemmer and Ruth Hemmer the 26 voice choir will perform pieces including works by Gounod Dickinson Greene Buck Parker Bach and Handel with Rev T C Collister delivering the sermon.
Wheaton College 32 voice women's glee club from Wheaton Illinois will give a concert at Westminster Presbyterian church on Thursday April 13 at 730 p m As part of its spring tour the group will also sing in St Louis Kansas City Augusta Kan Colorado Springs Denver Gavan Waterloo and Moline Tl Mignon Bollman Mackenzie director of the conservatory of music has just earned her master s degree in church music
Charles L. Eshleman, an advertising executive, opened a car trunk to find a rattlesnake inside. The snake struck but could not pierce his arm due to a coat thickness. He killed it with an umbrella. In Allahabad, India seven people died and twenty eight were seriously injured in Hindu Muslim rioting sparked by a demand to stop religious chanting at a Hindu temple.
Trinity Lutheran church will hold its annual Good Friday service at the Paramount theater next Friday at 12 10 p m to accommodate about 1000 worshippers. A Jaeger will play the organ and Rev P L Bornhofft will give the sermon on And there they Crucified Him Luke 23 33 with the Call of the Cross emphasized in music and sermon. Proceeds support the church mission in Africa and the noonday service expenses.
A man reflects on his six hour daily six day week street sweeping job. He says receiving the first check inspired gratitude to his country and a decision to be an honest man, finding purpose and dignity in work as his bread tastes sweet.
A field survey reports an extraordinary termite count with four thousand individual insects found in a single cubic foot of wood, signaling intensive infestation potential and prompting regional pest control attention.
The Fellowship of Prayer recalls Jesus's Jerusalem entry with palm symbolism. It contrasts the cross's necessity with the crowd's acclaim and urges believers to embody hope by losing self to advance the Master's Way, ending with a prayer for obedience and consecration to the Kingdom.
Barrymore suffers laryngitis and cancels the remaining performances of My Dear Children in Washington. It marks his first stage appearance since the early 1920s, ending a run that had drawn capacity crowds.
In AlIiquippa Pennsylvania townspeople collect to move Mario Izzo from a potter's field to a cemetery and buy a tombstone. Izzo, an elderly Italian immigrant on relief, began a self chosen task to make his bread taste sweet and died in the poorhouse from burns after seeking aid last summer. Local residents hope funds will cover burial costs and memorial marker.
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