Community Concerts Membership Drive Under Way
The Community Concert association reports an eleventh annual campaign aiming for 900 adults and 400 students with over 50 workers soliciting memberships from the Montrose hotel headquarters. Maria Gambarelli stars next season with two male dancers, plus St Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Warren, and Zino Francescatti on the program.
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Community Concert Association
Montrose Hotel
Clark A. Beems
Beems
Gary Cooper
Nino Martini
St Louis Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Golschmann
Leonard Warren
Metropolitan Opera
Zino Francescatti
Menuhin
Heifetz
Kreisler
St Louis Orchestra
Chilren
Exercises to Improve Neckline and Firm Throat Tone
Dr. Mary MacFadyen prescribes head elevation to tighten the platysma and reduce a double chin. Practice neck muscle control with stationary head and facial grimace avoidance, add chewing motions, and limit sessions to prevent jaw soreness.
Food Dealers Press Open Air Display Ordinance at Third Reading
The city council gave the open air display ordinance a third reading and received a Linn County Retail Food Dealers Association communication urging the city market and retailers to comply. The association said the health department has carved out a significant enforcement task.
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Linn County Retail Food Dealers Assciation
Health Department
House Fire Destroys Home on Twelfth Street NE
A Thursday morning blaze gutted the one story home of Dick Lones at 929 Twelfth street NE. The family was away. neighbors reported the fire and firefighters arrived to stop the flames. The fire damaged furnishings, wallpaper and left a heavy smoke film inside.
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Dick Lones
Twelfth Street
Personal To Fat Girls Advertisement Claims Easy Slimming
An advertisement promotes Marmola Tableta as a simple way to slim faces and figures without dieting or strenuous exercise. It claims long-term sales, cautions Marmola is not a cure, and targets adults with thyroid deficiency symptoms while urging consult with a physician.
City Attorney to Rule On Movie Operator Exam
City Attorney Don Hines told the council the board must be examined for integrity as to licensing tests for motion picture projector operators. Kenneth Childs and John Kubik argued the exam tests unnecessary technicalities, while Kubik passed and Childs was fined for operating without a license. A plywood plastic fuselage plane test promising faster mold production was noted.
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Don Hines
Kenneth Childs
New Times Theater
John Kubik
Kubik
Childs
Electrical Board
Jim Lilly
Harry Martin
Don Atherton
Frank Jiruska
Child
Hines
Flower Medallion Pattern 331 for Bride Gifts
Special delivery crochet pattern 331 offers a flower medallion for bridal gifts. Includes directions, illustrations, stitches, and materials, with mail request details to The Cedar Rapids Gazette needlecraft dept in New York for 10 cents plus 1 cent postage.
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Easy Flower
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
County road workers seek wage increase from Linn board
A three man committee for Local 231 AFL requests a general 15 cent hourly raise for about 60 county workers plus sick leave and seniority rights. They ask eight hour days year round with certain holidays, 48 hour weeks, and vacations with pay. Beeson cautions no decision today. union may expand to include courthouse staff.
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Linn County Board of Supervisors
AFL
Clarence Beeson
Board of Supervisors
R. L. Lynch
J. B. Hurt
C. W. Fredericks
Beeson
Mortgage Burned in Ceremony at St. Pauls
Four hundred persons gathered at St. Pauls Methodist Church on Wednesday night as the mortgage was burned after A L Killian, trustee chairman, lit the flames. The event included reminiscences, old time costume winners, and acknowledgments from church leaders and longtime members. A final fundraiser for the mortgage was announced by Russell Knapp and supported by Mrs Wayne Foster and other officers.
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St. Paul’s Methodist Church
A. L. Killian
Elmer A. Johnson
Finance Committee
Board of Trustees
David Ring
Dean Ring
J. H. Calder
S R. Hawkins
C. P Stansby
Amelia Mackey
St Paul's Church
Charles A Laurance
Laurance
Bishop McCabe
Pioneer Singers
J M Tallman
David Pugh
L. D. Stubbs
Marvin Gard
Russell Knapp
Young Men’s
Wayne J Foster
Women’s Society of Christian Service
E. J Lockwood
Waterloo
St. Paul's
Circles 5
C. A Laurance
JL. B Gray
T. Jackson
Dr Bready
JE. Ives
Mattie Tschirgi
Floyd Knapp
W. J. Foster
J. A. Yessler
Hugh Harrington
H. R. van Slyck
Robert C Armstrong
G. E Hillier
W . Foster
Forest S Rutgers
Bertha A. Pownall
J. L. Smith
Hawkins
Bready
Elmer Johnson
Hans N’ Boyson
Wounded Evacuated to Australia from Manila
In a big Australian military hospital near a lagoon more than 200 wounded US and Filipino troops evacuated from Manila on New Year’s Eve recuperate. The group includes Charles Freemand of Canton Illinois, among early war casualties, with accounts of field dangers and stories of Filipino resistance.
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Sydney
Australia
United States
Manila
Clark and
Nichols Fields
Pearl Harbor
Luzon
Stewart Beck
Cedar Rapids
F. W. Eubank
Nichols Field
Charles Freemand
Canton
Ill
Enthusiastic Cedar Rapids Symphony Hears Fourth Concert
The Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra presented its fourth concert of the season to a large, representative audience. The program opened with Brahms Academic Festival Overture and featured Wagner Dreams in memory of Alice Inskeep, underscoring the ensemble’s high standards and community role. Conductor Joseph Kitchin and the players received marked praise, with Karl Andrist of Cornell College noted for a splendid solo.
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Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Brahms
Violinist Andrist Shines in Mendelssohn with Symphon y
A violinist of exceptional ability in the Cedar Rapids area delivered a brilliant Mendelssohn concerto with the symphony. His performance drew enthusiastic audience applause and several encores. Helen Bartholomew Schroeder accompanied him on piano in a sympathetic manner.
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Ist
Cedar Rapids
Symphony
Helen Bartholomew Schroeder
Andrist
Orville C. Frank Takes Own Life
Orville C. Frank 42 was found dead in his garage by his father at 730 a.m. Thursday. Coroner Dr. Munden ruled death by own action due to carbon monoxide poisoning after a note indicated poor health. Frank, a Cedar Rapids sheet metal worker, left his doorway with the motor idle and rags stuffed under the door. He was born December 24, 1899 in Osawatomie Kansas and had lived in Cedar Rapids for years. Surviving are his parents Henry and Mrs. Frank of Cedar Rapids, two brothers Leo of Tacoma and Vernon of Des Moines, and two sisters Mrs Laura Anderson of Chicago and
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Orville C. Frank
Oakland Road
H. F Frank
RE. Munden
Munden
Frank
Osawatomie
Kan
Cedar Rapids
Henry Frank
Leo
Tacoma
Wash
Vernon
Des Moines
Laura Anderson
Chicago
Mrs Gertrude Davies Funeral Arrangements
Mrs Gertrude Davies of Billings Montana is noted for funeral arrangements at Brady mortuary after 1 pm Friday pending.
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Gertrude Davies
Billings
Mont
Brady Mortuary
Burglar Takes Only Toothpaste and Teakettle
Seattle police reports detail a peculiar burglary in which Peter Smith and spouse reported a thief stole just a tube of toothpaste and a copper whistling teakettle from their home. The incident underscores unusual targets in local crime reports.
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Seattle
Peter Smiths
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C.R
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Beck
Clark Field
Army Recruiting Office
Emmett Gibson
Maywood
Lll
Red Cross
Netherlands East Indies
Hervous
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sioux City Ave
BCL
Bee
Navy
72Nd Street
LILY
Lily White
Rinso
Ata
New Rinso
C.R. Symphony
Prof
Max Naenmler
Boston Fish Market
3Rd Ave
Library
Wilson
Sarah Bernhardt
Rector
A. T
Wilson & Co
Spring Garden
Suoken
Ian Pansiey
Candace
Unison
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