Cedar Rapids Businessmen Lead Convention Fund Drive
Fifty three local business men plan a drive next week to fund the Cedar Rapids convention bureau. The campaign opens with a luncheon at the Hotel Roosevelt and will run through Friday, with each dollar spent bringing forty dollars in visitor expenditures to the city.
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Cedar Rapids
Convention Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Bureau
Hotel Roosevelt
Convention Fund
Joseph B. Miller
A. L. Killian
Harold J. Rowe
Ed Hetherington
M. H. Morrison
Henry J. Kling
W. H. Schaffer
Perry C. Rude
L. M. Millsap
A. C. Gertsen
Horace G. Hedges
Benjamin Tait
G. D. Barger
H. E. Pratt
Roy Doty
George E. Corey
Jess Kitterman
A. J. Ramsey
E. M. Pinney
Dempsy Jones
J. J. Studer
Earl G. Nichols
North W. Lientz
William R. Kemble
A. L. McKinstry
Frank R. Wingert
Alex
Local list of names reads as historical note
A fragmentary roster lists Baldridge, A. J. Cassel, Paul Costas, Emil Pardera, Cosy E. Collins, Ed ward E. Lowe, Clyde G. Landis, John A. Limback, Travis DeWitt, Dan. The context or affiliation remains unclear from the snippet.
Local Grocery Ad Lists Wide Range Of Cheap Specials
A. N. Watson offers free delivery with a Saturday Monday and Wednesday schedule. The ad lists dozens of staples and sale prices including flours, cereals, beans, coffee, sugars, soups, detergents, produce, and fruit with unit prices and bulk quantities.
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3Rd Ave
Notable Names Listed in Party Luncheon Invite
A list of attendees includes Kruidenier Sumner Quarton Merrill Bellas Brookhiser Keehn Blaul Hruska Gaffney Smythe McCormick Parkes Tegen Curry and Spencer. The roster highlights a mix of local officials and business figures.
Gazette Editor Named Director Press Ass'n
DES MOINES AP Code provisions were discussed by Iowa newspaper men at the nineteenth annual convention of the Iowa Press association. Grant Caswell announced a goal to complete signup within two months of Iowa newspapers and print shops under the new graphic arts code. R. R. O'Brien was re elected president of the Iowa Daily Press association and Dale Carroll was re elected secretary and treasurer. Directors named include George F. Thayer, WSS. Merryman, John Huston, F. W. Woodward, Jackson Mc Coy, Verne Marshall, Lee Loomis, James R. Rhodes, A. M. Clappe, C. M. White, C. R. Robinson, and Tracey Garrett.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Iowa Press Association
Grant Caswell
Iowa Daily Press Association
R. R. O'Brien
Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Dale Carroll
Keokuk Daily Gate City
Daily Press Association
George F. Thayer
Marshalltown
Wss. Merryman
Fort Dodge
John Huston
Ottumwa
F. W. Woodward
Dubuque
Jackson McCoy
Waterloo
Verne Marshall
The
Cedar Rapids
Electrical Engineers Of Iowa Meet Here Monday
Sutherland C. Dows of Iowa Light and Power will discuss The Economics of Public Utilities at the Iowa section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers meeting Monday at 8 p.m. in the Roosevelt hotel. A 6:30 p.m. dinner precedes the talk with student guests from Iowa State College and the University of Iowa.
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Sutherland C. Dows
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Iowa
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Roosevelt Hotel
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa University
Iowa City
John Drabelle
Harold Brown
Probe Urges Thorough Review of Telephone Company
A government inquiry recommends a yearlong probe into the American Telephone and Telegraph system. It should study accounts, depreciation, contracts, and potential political contributions. The report notes assets near 5 billion dollars and 1932 revenue of about 989.7 million.
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Splawn
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Gearhart To Serve As Engineer In Buchanan
Buchanan county board of supervisors announced R. W. Gearhart of Cedar Rapids as county engineer. He will work part time at five dollars a day for three days weekly with mileage at five cents. Gearhart has acted as engineer for Buchanan county at intervals for ten years.
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Buchanan County Board of Supervisors
R. W. Gearhart
Cedar Rapids
Gearhart
Buchanan County
Sequoia Tops Elm in National Tree Poll
New York reports that a National Life Conservation Society poll shows the sequoia as the most popular tree in America, with the elm in second and the pine in third. The group urges Congress to designate a national tree once results are completed.
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New York
National Life Conservation Society
America
Society
Congress
Chicago woman shuns doctors over a century
Mrs Agnes Petschauer of Chicago says she never trusted doctors and has been treated by one man only once in the last 102 years.
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Chicago
Agnes Petschauer
Want Ads Offer Bargains On Shrubbery And Plants
Advertisement urges readers to check today’s want ads for bargains on shrubs ever greens and plants stating don’t wait to select stock for gardens.
Rigby Files Candidacy for 33rd District State Senate
A. G. Rigby, former Independence postmaster for ten years, announced Thursday his bid for the Republican nomination for state senator from the Thirty-third district, which includes Buchanan and Delaware counties. With Warren F. Miller’s resignation creating the vacancy, no other candidates have yet entered the race.
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A. G. Rigby
Independence
Buchanan
Dela- Vedio
Phe Vrice
Warren F. Miller
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