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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1940
Page
15
A long unreadable ad contest text describes rules and prizes including $25 weekly rewards and grand cash prizes up to $300 for best ad ideas. It instructs submitting single sided entries with name and address, and notes 130 newspapers awarding prizes with public notice of winners.
A garbled collection of ad like fragments lists brands such as Ford Tractor Firestone and Paramount Pharmacy. It includes stray phrases like daily seed Chad and a note about a theater building and a laboratory at 730 Merchants at Bank Ride.
The text urges readers to study the advertising in tins or posters to gain insights. It promises valuable suggestions hidden in promotional material.
A noisy jumble of ertain ads describes drug company tips and cedar ran counters along with products from Rosenbaum Furniture and Penney's. It highlights linoleum work, drapery and blinds, home decoration items, and seasonal gift ideas as well as flexible installment plans and ready-made desserts from a tea room.
Herbert I. Horton, president of the Iowa-Des Viernes National Bank and Trust campus, was named chairman of the finance committee of the Iowa Taxpayers Association. The quarterly board meeting announced several committee appointments to support a membership campaign and fund a field force to assist local associations and taxpayers.
The First Presbyterian church of Mount Vernon was announced a gift of 590 dollars from Mr and Mrs James Mahonty in memory of Mr Mil Holmes, at the annual congregational meeting.
On Wednesday evening E C Bergmann was elected elder replacing Mrs Lloyd eal. Neal and Frank Moore were reelected elders. Albert Blinks was elected trustee to replace James Milholm who moved to Spat Lake. Lloyd Neal and Harvey Fliison were reelected trustees. Rev Joseph W Gras Jr presides with Charles Ford as secretary.
Inmates at the West Stewartstown jail faced tightened rules after attempting to order items from the jail mail catalog. Jane Guillmette, 25, and Henry Roberts, 2, were found to have ordered hacksaw blades used on window bars and were recaptured in Berlin, New Hampshire.
Major General Percy P Bishop announced camps in the Seventh Corps Area will run July 2 to 31 at Fort Crook Nebraska Fort Des Moines Iowa Fort Riley Kansas and Jefferson Barracks Missouri and July 3 to August 3 at Fort Leavenworth Kansas Fort Lincoln Nebraska Fort Snelling Minnesota and Camp Joseph T Robinson Arkansas.
London reports belated word that German air raids on five British fishing trawlers in the North Sea Wednesday sank the 208 ton Gorspen. Crew members were rescued.
Hickman Kentucky AP Guy Barnett 35 father of two daughters will graduate next Friday and serve as valedictorian at Sylvan Shade High School where he works as a school bus driver. His brother Joe Barnett is the principal.
Five McKinley senior high students join staff members for the seventh annual guidance conference at Iowa State College Ames on Saturday. Prof A H Hausrath will preside and Dr Homer W Anderson and others will address the program. A motion picture on vocational guidance titled How to Choose a Vocation will be shown along with Journalism and Radio and Television topics in the Memorial union south ballroom.
Darold J Jack son of Mr and Mrs E D Jack 1923 Higley avenue SE earned a bronze plaque for his role in the University of Iowa law school junior moot arguments at the Supreme Court day dinner in the Memorial union He one of sixteen top scholastic performers and has been invited to write for the Iowa Law Review.
Special to The Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hardin of Maquoketa were injured when their car overturned three miles east of Oxford Junction on Highway 136 Wednesday night. They dimmed lights for an oncoming vehicle and failed to see a road turn.
Mr Hardin suffered a fractured nose and severe bruises while his wife sustained a fractured rib and bruises after an unfamiliar vehicle caused them to run off the highway. They were en route to visit Mr Hardin's uncle Cato Eades and are being cared for at his home.
Fort Madison Iowa Feb 20 Prisoners working on a prison enlargement project uncovered railroad cars and tracks buried when a landslide dumped 200000 cubic yards of earth down a hill. All 60 men evacuated safely. A prior slide a week earlier killed one man and wounded another.
The northwest corner of the penitentiary wall experienced a major landslide on Thursday, the largest since work began seven years ago. Warden Glenn C. Haynes notes the slide as part of ongoing hillside instability at the facility.
The Susquehanna River flood crest moved down the valley for a second time in a week as headwaters rose. In Wilkes Barre low lands flooded again with the river at 25.4 feet and a crest near 275 expected by Saturday, following last Monday's 316 foot high mark.
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