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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 14, 1940

Page

7

Housecleaning Uncovers Many Articles For Sale In Ads

The listing highlights numerous items for sale including roofing materials, lumber, garden supplies, nursery stock, flowers, and seeds from Montgomery Ward and local suppliers. It also includes classified want ads for cash sales, farm supplies, and household goods with contact details and delivery offers.

Collector maps vanished Iowa post offices and stamps

Special to The Gazette reports Guy R Ramsey ex extension forester of Iowa State college in Ames pursues a hobby of collecting cancellations from discontinued Iowa post offices. He has three volumes with a state list by counties, 41 Cedar county offices, 3,000 to 4,000 statewide. He owns 225 covers with post marks of defunct offices and photographs abandoned towns. Ramsey catalogs histories under each cover and credits sources. photography is tinted and affixed. Ramsey previously gathered 1,100 postmarked covers from existing post offices, fueling his interest in vanished offices.

Gazette Tipton Guy R Ramsey Iowa State College Ames Cedar County Ramsey

DeWitt Man 90 Today Writes Local History

Robert M Smith of DeWitt observes his ninetyeth birthday and is noted for a life in the community since 1863. Born April 14, 1850 in Morgan county Ohio he farmed before retiring. He has a son Earl and many grandchildren, plus a brother Thomas who lives with him.

Dewitt Robert M Smith William Smith Morgan County Ohio Earl Thomas Smith Smith

Andrist To Present Masters Concert At Cornell Today

Karl Andrist violinist and Cornell professor presents a recital at the Cornell college chapel in Mount Vernon this afternoon at 4 o clock with Handel Beethoven and Mozart on the program accompanied by Helen Schroeder a Rockford College Conservatory graduate and Chicago pupil of Silvio Scienti. The no admission concert features a varied program including Beethoven Mozart and a suite of modern pieces with an intermission and a set of Impressions of San Gabriel Mountains.

Mount Vernon Handel Beethoven Mozart Cornell College Karl Andrist Andrist Paris Ysage Cincinnati Symphony Jacques Thibaud Nadia Boulanger New York Town Hall Cornell Helen Schroeder Rockford College Conservatory Chicago Silvio Scienti Alberon

Yawn Snap Breaks Sioux City Man's Jaw

SIOUX CITY AP Harry Mcc Clare woke before dawn stretched and yawned Snap! His lower jaw popped out of place doctors reinserted it at a local hospital. He vows to be more careful and limit extreme yawns in the future.

Sioux City Harry Mcc Clare Harry

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