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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1937
Page
4
Reporters describe Bever park animals in playful talk back during a walk through the zoo. Bears refuse to pose for baby talk while raccoons debate human life and fences, goats dream of mahogany, and birds gossip behind the cage lines.
Cedar Rapids Iowa hosts Battery E field artillery veterans for a twentieth anniversary gathering. Seventy seven of the original 190 members from Iowa Nebraska Kansas Minnesota Illinois attended the reunion at the Roosevelt hotel. Notables included Barry S Jehmeem assistant commander and Leo Duster Cedar Rapids past state commander with several extemporaneous talks recalling wartime service.
A portrait of Rich ard Bonelli, Metropolitan Opera baritone, preparing to sing the lead in Verdi Il Trovatore at Shrine Temple on May 5, under Coe College music department and Chicago Festival Opera. The piece traces his rise from Port Byron New York to Syracuse University, with various jobs before a music scholarship and a performance career.
Sixteen year old Elbert C. Lamb was jailed in Murphysboro after signing a statement admitting he beat 82 year old Mrs Mary Flannery to death in her East St Louis home. He said she reprimanded him for breaking a dish and he used a five pound iron skillet.
A British editorial reflects on the late king's popular appeal and the monarchy's constitutional role. It argues Parliament as real ruler, the throne as a figurehead, and stresses unity of the empire as essential to crown legitimacy amid a nation watching coronation pageantry.
The text envisions a three year period and a 28 percent figure as a compensating fact woven into rejoicing around the monarchy. It argues the coronation remains a symbol of Britain and that the throne’s occupants must transform that symbol into real influence and prove its value.
The South Side Civic Club meets Monday at 8 p m in C S P S hall. George Nissen Cedar Rapids University of Iowa gymnastic captain and tumbling champion, Larry Griswold Iowa City and other exponents present a specialty number. A middleweight wrestling bout is planned and State Representative B B Hickenlooper will relate experiences in the current legislature. Cyrus McCormick patented the reaper in 1634.
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