Grant Wood Liked to Work with Soil and Land Worth Fighting For
Grant Wood cherished the Iowa landscape and daily labor as subjects. The painter, famed for Spring in Town and Spring in Cedar Rapids, drew from his Cedar Rapids garden and Midwestern life, portraying ordinary people and tasks with affectionate detail.
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Grant Wood
Park Rinard
Wood
Iowa
Arkansas
Carolina
Cedar Rapids
Miss Prescott
Grant
South
Mason-Dixon Line
Iowa City
Anamosa
Our Suave Trees by Alman Arborist On Sap Sucking Birds
City arborist K Alman reports sapsucker damage on maples with evenly spaced holes in bark and sap running down trunks. Note burlap wrap to deter, dormant oil spray for ash flower gall, and emphasis on fertilizing trees to prevent starvation.
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Franklin School
D Avenue NE
Twenty-fourth Street
E Avenue NE
Lemon Juice Recipe Ad Promises Quick Rheumatic Pain Relief
An advertisement touts Ru-Ex Compound as a simple home recipe to ease rheumatic arthritis or neuritis pain. It recommends mixing with water and four lemons, taking three spoonfuls twice daily. The ad claims rapid results within 48 hours or overnight and offers a money-back guarantee if not improved.
Navy Plans Massive Plane Count With 15 000 Authorized
The United States Navy already operates over 4,000 naval aircraft and expects 4,000 more to be completed by July. Congress has authorized a total of 15,000 planes for the service, indicating a sweeping expansion of naval air power.
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U. S. Navy
Congress
Could the Earl of Sandwich Have Stomach Ulcer Pains
An old advertisement links the Earl of Sandwich to small snacks during card games and questions whether his stomach ulcers spurred the sandwich’s origin. It then promotes Udga Udes tablets for ulcer relief and related indigestion symptoms with a money back guarantee.
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Earl of
Sandwich
Earl of Sandwich
Y M C A Boys Activities Gurney Day Winners Named
Y M C A boys announced winners in the supermen physical efficiency tests including chin ups potato race high jump and basketball throw. Winners span Marcell Chavez Y Bears Paul Gourley Cadet class Bob Hoff and Ray Yeakle Junior class.
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Gurney Day
Marcell Chavez
Paul Gourley
Bob Hoff
Ray Yeakle
Evening is Conscientious Objection of the Draft
Ronald Oswald will lead the evening event as new Y M C A boys department members join. John Sweeting Richard Bushnell Carl Berry Bobby Sherman Chester Geiger and Gerald Barrett serve in the navy at the U S naval training station in San Diego. Charles J Lynch Jr will discuss Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act law as it applies to accounts and contracts at the Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association dinner Monday at 6 pm at the Roosevelt hotel. Miss Celia Armstrong government defense worker from Des Moines ordnance plant transferred to Lincoln air base Nebraska. she is private secretary to Howard Green and staying at the Cornhusker hotel.
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The
Y.M.C.A
John Sweeting
Richard Bushnell
Carl Berry
Bobby Sherman
Chester Geiger
Gerald Barrett
Charles J. Lynch, Jr
Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act
Cedar Rapids Retail Credit Association
Roosevelt Hotel
Celia Armstrong
W. R. Armstrong
Fifth Avenue SE
Des Moines Ordnance Plant
Lincoln Air Base
Lincoln
Neb
Cedar Rapids Club Meetings and Local News Briefs
City briefs note the Cedar Rapids Coin Club meeting Monday at 8 p.m. in the Montrose hotel and Light Company cooking school events. Townsend Club No 2 gathers at 7 45 p.m. in Memorial building court room as LeRoy Muir speaks on The Business of Building Men at Optimist club appeal. Jack McBride, 23, of 1532 Fifth Ave SE, is recovering from an emergency appendectomy at Mercy hospital last Tuesday. Czech National Alliance meeting set for half Monday 7 30 p.m. with bazaar committee convening as well. Committee members from various lodges are urged to attend. Clifford Devere Geiger, son of Mr and Mrs Chester Geiger, has enlisted after attending Foursquare Bible school in Los Angeles.
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Jack McBride
Fifth Avenue SE
Mercy Hospital
Czech National Alliance
Clifford Devere Geiger
Chester Geiger
First Street
Foursquare Bible School
Los Angeles
Masonic meeting and Rotary luncheon events in Cedar Rapids
Trowel chapter No 49 Royal Arch Masons meets Tuesday at 4 30 p m at Masonic hall for mark master degree work. Prof T H Roberts of University of Town educ college speaks on Australia at War and Its Significance for America at Cedar Rapids Rotary luncheon Monday noon at Roosevelt hotel. Cedar Rapids Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Assoc unit 126 meets 7 45 p m Monday at Montrose hotel. Rodney Coulson of Chicago lecturer and demonstrator featured through George P Hardy. refreshments served. All cosmetologists.
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Royal Arch Masons
Masonic Haul
T. Hew Roberts
College of Education
University of Town
Australia
America
Cedar Rapids
Rotary Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Funeral postpones Linn County safety council meeting
Funeral services for Lee Fitzgerald cause the Linn County Highway Safety council to postpone the April meeting to Monday April 20 at 3 p.m. in the courthouse.
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Lee Fitzgerald
Linn County Highway Safety Council
Cartwright Promoted To First Lieutenant In AAF
Everett J Cartwright of the Army Air Corps has been promoted from second to first lieutenant. He serves as a weather officer stationed at Berryfield Nashville Tennessee. He is a former employee of the Inter Ocean Reinsurance Company.
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Everett J. Cartwright
Army Air Corps
Lieut
Cartwright
Berryfield
Nashville
Tenn
Inter-Ocean Reinsurance Company
Lecture on Christian Science by Judge Greene in Cedar Rapids
A free lecture will be given Monday April 13 at 8 p.m. in the First Church of Christ Scientist Cedar Rapids by Judge Samuel W Greene C S B of Chicago. He is a Board of Lectureship member of The Mother Church Boston. His topic is Christian Science The Religion of Authority.
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Church of Christ, Scientist
Cedar Rapids
Samuel W. Greene
C.S.B
Chicago
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Masonic Bodies Meet Wednesday at Scottish Rite Temple
Kilwinning lodge of Perfection Bruce chapter Rose Croix St Andrews council and Iowa Consistory plan a Wednesday 8 p.m. gathering at the Scottish Rite temple with Bruce chapter officers to be elected and a women’s social hour cards and refreshments arranged by committee members Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J Hervet and Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Frink
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Kilwinning Lodge of Perfection
Bruce
Rose Croix
St. Andrews
Prof Cowan Heads Language Program to Win Peace
Prof J Milton Cowan of the University of Iowa, in the faculty since 1933, becomes head of the American Council of Learned Societies language program. He will be on leave until the 1943 academic year and will direct national administration for training in languages such as Chinese Japanese Portuguese Russian Siamese Korean Malayan Persian and Turkish across colleges and universities. He will establish new courses and maintain existing ones.
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Iowa City
J. Milton Cowan
University of Iowa
American Council of Learned Societies
America
Cowan
Japanese relocation issue examined by attorney general
Senator Johnson says Attorney General Biddle is examining the relocation of Japanese migrants from California to Colorado prior to a federal evacuation order issued March 29. The probe focuses on how the transfer was conducted and its compliance with federal policy.
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Ponder
Washington
INS
Sen. Johnson
D-Col
Biddle
California
Colorado
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New York
Dave Turner
Turner Alley
Frances Prescott
McKinley School
Clear Lake
Golly
Grantt
Saturday Evening Post
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By &. J. Alman
Fr. K. Alman
Missouri Botanical Garden
Royal Order of “Y” Bears
Stamp and Coin Club
McKinley Hi-Y
Bever Park
Harry Kelley
Paul Anthony
Clinton Bradford
Frank Koutnik
John Low
David Warren
Bob Mach
Roosevelt Hi-Y
Atelite
Star Jewelry CO
Second St
Buler Nl
Werkly
Ronald Oswald
Navy
U. S. Naval Training Station
San Diego
City Briefs
Coin Club
Montrose Hotel
Townsend Club No 2
Superior Court
Memorial Building
LeRoy Muir
Optimist Club
Roberts
E. J. Cartwright
Christian Science
Aianel
U.R.C
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
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