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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1941
Page
13
A nutrition guide outlines a weekly family menu aimed at four, projecting about 18 dollars weekly. It promotes liver as iron rich and includes a liver croquette recipe plus rhubarb stew, oatmeal, and cinnamon toast. The article urges universal weekly liver consumption for iron adequacy, with basic costed ingredients and preparation steps.
A messy OCR sample lists drinks and meals such as Eye Lemonade and Tea for adults, Milk for children, and various soup and cracker items. It references navy bean soup, liver patties, tomato sauce, and blackberries with scattered quantities and notes that imply a kitchen or household menu from a past period.
A list of baking ingredients and simple dishes including apricot upside-down cake with dried apricots and multiple pantry items. Also notes boiled potatoes and buttered vegetables with bread and butter amounts. Cost for the day estimated at about 1.35.
The shutdown of the soft coal industry in Appalachia and nearby areas cut coal car loadings to 58 841 in the first week of the strike, a drop of 109 986 cars from the prior week and 41.5 percent under 1940. Despite the decline, rail lines noted large coal stocks at shipping points as the sit down continues.
In Clinton Missouri a 41 year old man and wife donated the ground for Leesville Methodist church. On Thursday a 7 year old Mrs Craleton pleaded against bidding at an auction to sell the unused church and she collapsed and died as the sale was halted.
America First said Col. Charles A. Lindbergh would discuss America's foreign policy at a rally in the Chicago Arena on Thursday night, April 17.
The Rev August Cramer resigned as Sinclair Memorial Presbyterian pastor after serving since 1926. He accepted a call to Lyon County First Presbyterian at George Iowa and will leave May 1 with Mrs Cramer. He came from Emmanuel Marion South Dakota and had earlier worked as a synodical educator.
In final preliminaries of the Northeast Iowa district music contest Cedar Rapids collected 16 entries with 12 firsts and four seconds. George S Malone resigns Bolton Co to manage a mortgage loan business in Columbia Missouri. Miss Helen Denning injured bicycling at Sev enteenth Street and Washington Ave. Local markets list prices for wheat corn oats barley rye hay straw hens eggs hogs calves lambs. M J Sutherland may remain at Coe College for another year. Freeman R Conway and wife return to Cedar from Des Moines. Traffic patrolman Lockwood rescues an aged woman from an oncoming box car at Second Ave crossing. Local markets show price updates for wheat ca. 1.35 and rye.
Market quotes list hay straw hogs steers and lambs with prices, alongside a resignation of Lieut F K Hahn from the Fifty third regiment staff. A farewell banquet honors Rev Mr and Mrs E Schultz as the Schultz retire from ministry. Librarians Miss E Joanna Hagey and Miss Fannie Wolfe attend a district library convention in Muscatine.
Dr Warren N Keck of Coe College lectured on Bird Eggs at the Cedar Rapids Bird Club meeting in Science hall. He used Coe museum eggs for demonstrations and reviewed Field Marks of Shore Birds. Members noted 64 species seen in field trips to Conesville marshes and Amana lake and that waterfowl migration was lighter than last year. The article also mentions the Diamond Shoals quicksand near Cape Hatteras.
The National Sojourners color guard will join Cedar Rapids Masonic chorus for a rededication ceremony featuring a masterly theme prepared by Henry S Nollen of Des Moines on the subject "Vouchsafe Thine Aid." Refreshments will follow the program.
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