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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1939
Page
9
Author notes science guides moral choices and argues science cannot define right. The piece discusses love across ages from 20 to 50 plus, praising mature emotion and depth. It critiques youth’s intensity and cites Stevenson on seeking a partner with experience.
Interview reveals a reporter’s path from unpaid year of assignments to a paid position at twelve dollars weekly. The speaker urges young people to gain real job education through sacrifice, while noting long training periods before earning. The piece also discusses 1938 highway fatalities dropping about 22 percent due to driver education and training, not just better machines.
New Newport talk cites Rep. Hamilton Fish condemning President Roosevelt for not sending a birthday message to Adolf Hitler. Fish calls the move utter stupidity and political folly, saying the President acted like a sulky spoiled child as the nation sought peace with dictatorial powers.
The menus planned for a family of five two adults and three children aim to deliver a balanced diet for about $12 weekly. Each day’s recipes provide calories for heat and energy, protein for tissue rebuilding, and essential minerals and vitamins to regulate bodily functions.
A cereal of breakfast items including grapefruit juice rolled oats top milk toast jam coffee milk. Luncheon features cream of tomato soup croutons peanut butter sandwiches applesauce milk tea. Dinner centers on spareribs and sauerkraut with beverages.
A 1939 nutrition column lists a day’s ration including boiled potatoes pickled beets bread and butter fruit cup vanilla wafers coffee costing about 1.60 and delivering 11 500 calories. It promotes festive cake recipes such as chocolate chiffon cake coffee ice box cake orange sponge and strawberry cream roll with requests for leaflets and booklets to be sent to The Cedar Rapids Gazette. The piece notes help lines for marketing budgeting and dieting and trivia that Uranus has four moons.
The Cedar Rapids YMCA Old Timers Club held its fourth annual dinner with 43 members. Arthur Poe presided as president, speakers Akiko Hino and Morris Sanford shared lives and Iowa history, a nominating committee named officers including S. L. Wick as president and T R Warriner as vice president.
A meeting of the executive committee was held to plan other programs for the club. The group discussed potential activities, scheduling, and member involvement to expand club offerings.
In San Francisco, Robert S James known as the rattlesnake slayer of his seventh wife, awaits a re hearing of his appeal from a death sentence as the California state supreme court remains undecided on his guilt or innocence. The court reversed a prior affirmation by a lower court and granted the rehearing Friday.
Los Angeles Superior Court considers a petition for rehearing after James was convicted in 1936 of holding his wife Mary Busch James and a Confederate over snakes until she was bitten and drowned. Attorney William J. Clark argues five serious errors occurred during the trial before James. The court's action signals ongoing legal battles surrounding the high profile case.
The record notes that since 1066 there have been 29 monarchs in England, four of them women, and that on 16 occasions the throne passed from father to eldest surviving son.
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