Cancer Crusade Volunteers Call Saturday and Sunday
Linn County Cancer Society mobilizes 2,500 volunteers to canvass Cedar Rapids and Marion this weekend. Crusade chair John C. Rice unveils a KCRG TV kickoff show titled Salute to the Volunteers featuring Rob ert C. Moorman and Mrs. George W. Sullivan. The effort seeks to educate and save lives amid a county where 6,750 of 40,500 residents are expected to die from cancer.
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Linn County Cancer Society
Linn County
Linn County Cancer Crusade
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Crusade
John C. Rice
Corps of Cedar Rapids and Marion
Kcrg-Tv
George Patrick
Robert C. Moorman
Iowa
American Cancer Society
George W. Sullivan
Rice
James Owen
American Cancer Society In
America
Jack Carl Miller
Margaret and Howard Hall
Dear Genie Genealogy Queries From Linn County Heritage Society
Readers seek genealogical details on Alcinous Leonard and Adeline Clark of Pennsylvania with Linn County deaths in 1889 and 1923, Truman George Hall and Elizabeth Wilbur Hall with 1860s 80s Benton County ties, Luke and Anna Bradley Kief descendants, Nathan Douglass and Caroline Mills 1860 marriage and offspring, plus related family lines and birth death records.
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Genie
Linn County Heritage Society
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Alcinous Leonard
Adeline Clark
Pennsylvania
Edith
Charles
Clara Rose
David
Cora
Bertha
Emma
Linn County
William Leonard
Kesler Road
Truman George Hall
New York
Elizabeth Wilbur Hall
Benton County
Dysart
Alma Hall
Marianne Michael
E. Fairchild
Iowa City
Nathan Douglass
Caroline Mills
Promise City
Wayne County
Charlotte E
Burke O
Molly M
Kimberly S
Mahala Sevilla
Carlton E
Harold H. Burris
Indiana Street
Production Control Unit Meeting Tuesday
Members of the American Production and Inventory Control Society Cedar Valley Rhodes chapter meet Tuesday at 7 30 p m at Square D Co 8700 Sixth Street SW Byron Rhodes production control manager at Square D speaks on Bills of Materials Design Formats and Uses in Inventory Management A plant tour will be conducted.
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Square D Co
Sixth Street
Byron Rhodes
Square D
Ceylon Faces Export Shift From Cinnamon to Tea
Ceylon, the world second largest tea producer behind India, shifted exports as cinnamon declined. Coffee plantations rose as a substitute after the cinnamon trade waned, with tea becoming a major crop only after coffee blight in the 1880s.
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Ceylon
India
MacMurray College Choir to Perform in Cedar Rapids
The 38 member MacMurray College Concert Choir from Jacksonville Illinois will give an April 18 11 30 am concert at Washington High School Cedar Rapids as part of a nine day 16 concert spring tour through Missouri Kansas Colorado Nebraska and Iowa The program features Bach Mozart Schwartz excerpts and traditional songs plus secular pieces by Zanielli Cacavas and Lowe The MacMurray Singers a 13 member subset will perform Hassler and Boyd works during the program.
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Jacksonville
Til
MacMurray College
Ill
Washington High School
Cedar Rapids
The
MacMurray Choir
Missouri
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Iowa
Bach
Mozart
Stephen Schwartz
Narwhal Ivory Cups At French Court Until 1789
Narwhal tusks used as drinking cups and eating utensils at the French court through 1789. Believed unicorn horn properties protected the user from poison and misled rulers about the tusks’ powers.
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Cancer Crusade
16Th Ave
Riverside Drive
Fales Fashion Fabrics
Luke
Anna Bradley Kief
James
William
Davenport
William P. Kief
Birch Street
Atlantic
American Production and Inventory Control Society
Cedar Valley
Rhodes
Byron
Washington
Zanielli
Cacavas
Frederick Lowe
MacMurray Singers
Hassler
Boyd
1St Ave
Perpetual
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Second Ave
S.E
East Washington
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