Symphonic Concert With Elias Blum In Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids Symphony offers its final season concert Wednesday at 815 in Memorial Coliseum with free admission. Organist Elias Blum performs Bach pieces and his Symphonic Vacations for organ and orchestra, and hornist Dr Freeman McClelland delivers Mendelssohn’s Nocturne. The program includes works by Nicolai Brahms Bach Berlioz Mendelssohn Dvorak and more.
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Cedar Rapids
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Keepe
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Elias Blum
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Acceenee Berlioz
Mendelssohn
Prench
Freeman McClelland
Dvorak
Mr. Blum
Roosevelt Signs Huge Jobs Bill
Roosevelt plans a large relief to work program with $1.48 billion earmarked to taper off relief and fund new projects. Rexford Tugwell would lead highways. Harold Ickes to supervise public works and housing funds. The plan also includes land purchases for national forests and wildlife protection.
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New York
Warren Delano Robbins
Canada
White House
Walker
Hopkins
Interior
Harold J. Ickes
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Frank C. Walker
National Emergency Council
Mr. Roosevelt
Ickes
Tugwell
Bureau of Public Roads
National Forest Reservation Commission
National Forest
Commisson
Texas
Kighoma
Jay N Dongs
Aege
Stould
Will Rogers Says Man Is Not Mighty
Beverly Hills dispatch notes a girl aviator stops a crash by striking a man with a fire extinguisher, briefly rendering him unconscious. Will Rogers cites a Florida native Arthur Brisbane quip about gorillas and the might of women.
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Gazette
Beverly Hills
Calif
Florida
Arthur Brisbane
Maby
Dentist At Ossian Turns Hobby Into Valuable Sideline
OSSIAN A. Winneshiek county native Dr J P Schneberger Ossian dentist developed a profitable sideline from a boyhood love of outdoor life hunting and fishing He breeds and sells silver fox registered black pure bred white northern gray raccoons and eleven varieties of pheasants He has shipped animals coast to coast and to foreign countries He studies fur and plumage to improve quality He also hunts and fishes in his spare time and is regarded as an expert outdoorsman.
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Ossian
J. P. Schneberger
Winneshiek County
Safety Zones for Pedestrians Urged in Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids traffic safety committee proposed downtown safety zones marked with brass markers or white cement lines to guide pedestrians. The plan recommends white cement school crossing markers, brass downtown markers, and signs on signal posts to improve safety and education. The committee voted to forward the proposal to the city council and to meet monthly through summer.
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Traffic Safety Commission
Cedar Rapids
Edward Lowe
Ray Tapper
Gordon Hughes
Notable nativity: George Arliss featured birth note
The item notes George Arliss as a notable birth occurrence, describing a birthday propelling towards opportunities and achievements if temperance is kept. It warns of potential vigor and impulsiveness requiring restraint. The horoscope frames planetary influences and character traits for the day.
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George Arliss
Addition to Store Denied by Board
The board of adjustment denied Alex and Tillie David permission to add a 5 by 7 foot indoor basement entrance to their store at 511 Seventeenth Street SE. A petition by fourteen nearby residents and objections by leader George T. Stewart influenced the decision.
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Board of Adjustment
Alex and
Tillie David
Seventeenth Street SE
George T. Stewart
Fifth Avenue SE
David
Almore Strauss
Sixteenth Avenue
Vernon
Union church revival nets two week series in town
Nightly services run for two weeks in H op k inton with meetings this week at the Methodist church and next week at the Presbyterian church. The series opened Sunday with Rev W G Rowley district superintendent of the Methodist church addressing both congregations. Speakers include Rev David deBest Monday and others through Friday from Monticello Greeley Strawberry Point Earlville.
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Hopkinton
Methodist Episcopal
Presbyterian
Methodist Church
Presbyterian Church
W. G. Rowley
David deBest
Macauley
Monticello
Pease
Greeley
Gable
Strawberry Point
Smith
Earlville
Oldest Resident Of West Chester Is James Daniels
Special to The Gazette. West Chester Iowa named James Daniels 94 the oldest citizen of West Chester and longest resident. Born May 19, 1841 in Hartland Connecticut he moved to Iowa in 1853 and settled near Harper. He recalls the railroad arrival and station agent George H James naming the town Chester later changed to West Chester. He also knew pioneer Samuel Davis who served in the War of 1812.
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West Chester
Iowa
James Daniels
Hartland
Conn
Harper
Daniels
George H. James
Chester
Samuel Davis
West Chester Pioneer Leader Served as Mayor and School Board Member
Described as a man with broad friendships who discusses pioneer days, he served West Chester as mayor for one term and has also been a member of the local school board.
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West Chester
Ruth Olsen Weds No Hathaway at Bethany Lutheran
West Branch announces the marriage of Ruth Olsen daughter of Mr and Mrs N P Olsen to No Hathaway son of Mr and Mrs W H Hathaway of Logan. The ceremony at Bethany Lutheran church was led by Rev E L Erlander with attendants Mrs Henry Hicks and Verle Hathaway. The couple will reside in Logan.
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West Branch
Ruth Olsen
N. P. Olsen
No Hathaway
W. H. Hathaway
Logan
Bethany Lutheran Church
E. L. Erlander
Henry Hicks
Omaha
Verle Hathaway
Waterloo
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la France
First Avenue
E. White
L. C. Knolk
Lamir Lorence
Frank Kent
White
B. B. Hickenlooper
Nyaa
Craemer’s
Keller Kohn Sterling Brand
Emons
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