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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1939

Page

5

Last of Perkins gang captured in New York

Claude Dickerson 31 alias Charles Adams the last surviving Perkins gang member was nabbed by New York and Indiana police in suburban Jamaica Queens where he worked as a glazier. He faces charges for violating New York gun law and is wanted in several states including Indiana for the Bloomingdale Indiana holdup murder of Wood Carter on March 20 1936. The Perkins gang led by Will Bis Perkins robbed 20 to 30 banks across the southwest and Midwest.

New York INS Claude Dickerson Charles Adams Indiana Jamaica Queens Wood Carter Bloomingdale Ind Perkins Will Bis” Perkins Midwest

Let's Explore Your Mind Albert Edward Wiggam

A Q A from Albert Wiggam on science versus morality with insights on compulsive hand washing phobias and female extremes. The piece cites Dr Wesley Peacock Jr and Dr Frank Thone noting self governing classes teach democracy by practice and that wrong actions harm collective welfare.

Albert Edward Wiggam Frank Thone O. H. Mowrer Yale

Pioneer Suffragette Memoir Clue Puzzle Glimpses 1939

Puzzle text references Emmeline Pankhurst and a jailed activist, with scattered clues about suffrage, sun, Irish fuel, and various words. The snippet includes a line about a woman going to jail for her cause and a note on changes in children's character from a 1939 copyright item.

Hollywood gossip on Jeanette McDonald and rising stars

Jimmie Fidler recounts Jeanette McDonald’s demanding, polished routine from daily singing and language studies to constant interviews and photo testing. He notes other Hollywood figures and lighthearted anecdotes about Eddie O’Brien, Nancy Kelly, and Johnny Weissmuller, reflecting on industry pressures and glamour.

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Theaters Listings and Executor Notice in Iowa

The listing shows Paramount and Palace theater bills with stars such as Bob Burns Deanna Durbin and Barbara Stanwyck plus The Oklahoma Kid and The Mad Miss Manton. A notice of appointment of executor in Linn County Iowa names John W. Tobin as Executor of Sarah Kelly's estate with payment and claim filing instructions.

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