Miles Reports on Legion Legislation at Hanford Post
Frank Miles, editor of the Iowa Legionaire, spoke before Hanford post detailing progress in the American Legion legislative program both state and national. He praised lawmakers like B. B. Hickenlooper and Frank Byers while warning of a tough fight ahead and urging continued public support.
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American Legion
Frank Miles
Iowa Legionaire
Hanford Post
Armory
Miles
Legion
B. B. Hickenlo
Congress
American Civil Liberties Union
Hickenlooper
House
Roosevelt
Senate
Iowa
L. J. Dickinson
Louis Murphy
Coe College Military Band
Darlene Trout
Chamber of Commerce Young Men’s Bureau
Dempsy Jones
Vernon Family Keeps Delta Grocery Name Change
Delta Rex O. Vernon of Vernon and Shelby grocery buys the Shelby stake and the store becomes Vernon grocery. Rex Vernon is the third generation to operate at the same corner with his father J E Vernon and grandfather William Vernon noted as Delta pioneers.
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DELTA
Rex O. Vernon
Vernon and
Debunker explains leap year and calendar corrections
The piece argues the solar year is 365 days 5h 48m 45.5s, not 365.25 days. It says days are omitted to balance the discrepancy, with 1900 as the last omission and 2100 as the next, totaling three days dropped every 400 years.
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Copyright
Public Ledger, Inc
Camp Wapsie Y Enrollment Drive Friday
More than 300 Pioneers Friendly Indians and Comrade club members and leaders will compete Friday evening from 6 to 9 in a city wide Camp Waapsie Y enrollment drive. The group with the most enrollments wins an award. Y Boys band and Live Wire club members compete for individual honors.
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Penick and Ford Company
Y. Pioneers
Friendly Y. Indians
National Recreation Report Urges More City Playgrounds
The National Recreation Association report, received by Cedar Rapids chair J W Carberry, calls for more indoor recreation centers and notes public playfields are only 30 percent adequate. It cites five million children under 17 using playgrounds, 1,624,000 in indoor centers, 200,000 in arts and crafts, 84,000 in drama, 984,000 on municipal tennis courts, 612,000 in baseball, and 400,000 in basketball.
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J. W. Carberry
Cedar Rapids
Joseph Lee
National Recreation Association
New York City
Recreation drives demand as unemployment rises
The report notes shortened work time and unemployment boosting public interest in sports drama music and crafts. The association's consultation service saw 40 percent more requests in 1934 than 1933 from 800 more localities totaling 5 922 communities. It highlights needs of the unemployed including two and a half million school graduates and stresses recreation as social tie and self-expression.
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Association
Sara Wonders If Family Will Help Her Out Of Trouble
A young woman named Sara, estranged from her family, faces scandal after an unhappy affair. The letter-writer notes Sara fears parental coldness but suggests parents would likely help if she reaches out.
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Sara
Notice of Probate Will No 15545 in Linn County
Notice is given that on April 15 1935 at 9 o clock a.m. the instrument purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Lemuel Hunt late of Linn County Iowa will come before the District Court for probate. Dated Cedar Rapids Iowa April 6 1935 Edwin W Lundquist Clerk District Court Dale Q O Stentz Attorney.
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Linn County
District Court
Lemuel Hunt
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Edwin W. Lundquist
Dale QO. Stentz
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Byers
Jerome Nixon
Cedar River
Dubuque
Frank Stepanek
H. H. Wage
Robert Vesely
John Fryrear
James B. Franken
W. E F. McFann
James P. Winn
Fred Parrish
Henry Ha
Dan Kruidenier
Louis Dvorak
Lial Ross
Sophus Klinge
Walter Payn
Carl Basemann
M. H. Monroe
Oscar Lundquist
Ae Tan
I. PT
John Harvey Furbay
Ph.d
Eraiment
Camp Wapsie-Y
National Recreation
Mary Manners
Farmerette
Miss Manners
California
Eversharp
P.O
Notion
Bpeeoseverene
Rewmars
Newmans
Heddens
Newman
Fireston Garden
Fabric Gloves
Scranton
Armstrong
Sale Group Fyelet Batiste
Smart Sport
Oxfords
Mhedden
Hedden
D.M.C. Royal
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