Centennial stamp mixup spurs Cedar Rapids post office tale
A Cedar Rapids clerk mistook an Iowa Centennial stamp for a statehood issue on a first day envelope triggering an internal review. The stamp proved a 1938 territorial issue, not the new state emblem, and will be offered for sale Monday at the Cedar Rapids post office. The item sits amid a roundup of local notes, from a fishing trip widow’s door panic to theater material and Cuba ad curios.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Territory of
Freman
Twenty-first Street
New York
Hollywood
Culver City
Calif
Nadine
West Coast Pictures
Charles French
Cuba
Andy Ceballos
Consulado 24
Havana
Ceballos
Hawkeye State
U.S.A
Furriers Launch Fingerprinting Plan for Pelts
New York reports furriers are adopting a fingerprint like system to register pelts at purchase. The International Registry of Newark maintains master files and microfilm, with a personal code mark inside each coat for identification and theft prevention.
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New York
NEA
Central Bureau of Registration
International Registry
Newark
N. J
Admiral Leahy as Guest at Iowa City Weekend
Mt Vernon Iowa hosts Admiral William D Leahy as guest of Dr and Mrs Russell E Cole with a dinner party including notable local and university figures such as Virgil E Hancher Byron Hollinshead C Ward Macy and James Barry Cedar Rapids visitors and faculty guests fill a Cedar Rapids weekend social scene while other residents host relatives and alumni in related social events across town.
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A. L. Killian
Sutherland Dows
S. W. Wilder
Cedar Rapids
J. B. MacGregor
Cornell College
Charles Hedges
Mt. Vernon
Gladiolus Show Opens at Bever Park Pavilion Today
The annual gladiolus show begins at noon in Bever Park Pavilion with displays from professional and amateur growers. Sponsored by the Cedar Rapids Gladiolus Society, awards include ribbons medals and other prizes by color and size. Entries must be in by 10 30 a m for single and three spike entries and by noon for baskets and vase entries.
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Bever Park
Cedar Rapids
Netmen Honored At Country Club
Informal dinner dance at Cedar Rapids Country Club honored participants in the Iowa State Open tennis tournament with hundreds of guests and more than 40 tennis players as guests of honor. The Skeet Davis Orchestra provided music for dancing from nine until one. Also noted are visiting families and individuals in Cedar Rapids including Lester E. Burmeister from Chicago and relatives staying with local residents.
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Cedar Rapids Country Club
Skeet” Davis
The American by Howard Fast reviewed as leftist yet engaging
A critical look at The American by Howard Fast portrays the novel as a persuasive though biased portrait of John Peter Altgeld governor of Illinois 1893 to 1897. The reviewer notes Fast champions the common man, critiques midwestern politics, and highlights Altgeld’s Haymarket pardons as central yet controversial.
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Howard Fast
Mr. Fast
Altgeld
John Peter Altgeld
Lincoln
Pete Altgeld
Eugene Debs
Fast
Elizabeth North Hoyt
Paul S. Rays
Verne Marshalls Frances Return From Vacations
Verne Marshall and wife Frances return from a two week North vacation with son John at 532 Knollwood drive SE Cedar Rapids. They are joined by Frances mother and father in law from New Orleans who will visit several days. Frances also visited the East six weeks including a Pi Beta Phi convention Swampscott MA and Chicago with grandmother in Cedar Rapids area.
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Cedar Rapids
Lester E. Burmeister
Chicago
North
Verne Marshall
John
Knollwood Drive
Peter
Sunset Beach
Glenwood
Minn
Swampscott
Mass
Charles L. Hoffman
Darien
Gardner Quartons Visit Mrs Quarton For Week
Dr and Mrs Gardner Quarton of Boston spend a week in the home of Dr Quartons mother Mrs Bertha Quarton 514 Indian road SE Dr Quarton has just been discharged from naval service He and Mrs Quarton were guests of honor at a dinner party Saturday evening hosted by Mr and Mrs W Sandoe Jordan 655 Cottage Grove avenue SE with twenty two guests attending
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Henry H. Hamilton
Cottage Grove Avenue
C. P. McDaniel
Chicago
Hamilton
James Bevers
Illinois
Gardner Quarton
Boston
Dr. Quarton
Bertha Quarton
Indian Road
Naval Service
Quarton
Dr Quarton
W. Sandoe Jordan
Des Moines Guest Visits Raymond Reid Home
Robert E. Chapman of Des Moines stayed with Mr and Mrs Raymond A Reid at 2135 Blake boulevard SE on Thursday and Friday to visit Harold E Reid who lives with the Reids.
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Robert E., Chapman
Des Moines
Raymond A. Reid
Blake Boulevard
Harold E. Reids
Raymond Reids
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Gazette
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Alabama
Urbana
Furriers
Express
Montieur Studio
First Ave
Roosevelt Ph
Admiral Leahy
R. E. Coles
Marc W. Boddine
Marc W. Bodoine
Martha Ware
Marc, Jr
Martha
Williamsburg
Montrose Hotel
Bodoine
Ely Ware
Donald S. Barrys
Milwaukee
Robert Fisher
Bonnie
Richard
Wis
Mr. Fisher
Donald S. Barry
Glidden
Mabon
E. A. Mabon
E. Harold Skinner
Eighth Avenue SE
Alpha XI Delta
Alpha Xi Delta Sorority
Band
W. G. Lindgren
Meadowbrook Drive
Roy M
Swanberg
Galesburg
Mr. Lindgren
Veterans Administration
Ann Wadsworth
Council Bluffs
Edwin H. Wadsworth
Nassau Street
John G. Wadsworth
Marvin Seldens
Ruth Kemble
Marvin R. Selden
Greenwood Drive
Henry Hamilton
James D. Bever
Park Avenue SE
Tommy
Edmund W. Miller, Jr
Inverness, Ill
J. C. Ramseys
W. A. Owens
Ames
Bever Park Pavilion
Country Club
Lester Burmeister
Karl Swanbergs
Leroy D. Weld
Karl E. Swanberg
Jon Weld
Karl Christian
Altoona
Broad Avenue Presbyterian Church
Carl Kirwins
Duluth
Kansas City
Carl Kirwin
W. K. Alford
Minnesota
Richard Ryans
Julann Caffrey
Richard D. Ryan
Blakes Boulevard
New York City
John Northcott
John B. Northcott
Ridgeway Drive
Charlotte Rominger
Long Beach
Anna Winterberg
Indianapolis
Ind
Max Daehlers
Wisconsin Lakes
Max Daehler
Rockwell
Max, Jr
Mark
Shell Lake
Crawling Stone Lake
Ricky Olney
James Olney
Glenway Drive SE
Olney
Carl E. Bowman
Avenne NE
Robert M. Bowman
Philadelphia
Frank L. Kinch, Jr
Harriet Ray
Sheldon Fillenworth
Malcolm Thompson, Jr
la Vogue Beauty Shop
Ave, SE
Dial
Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Roosevelt
Pete
Haymarket
Albert Parsons
Cleveland
Washington
Brand Whitlock
Springfield
Clarence Darrow
Bathhouse John
William Jennings Bryan
Richard Parks Bland
Missouri
Bryan
Patrick Henry
Cicero
Daniel Webster
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Paul S. Ray
First Avenue SE
Ray
Susan
Paul, Jr
Indiana
Mr. Ray
Chattanooga
Tenn
Harold Mutz
A. W. Lawin
Edinburgh
P. M. Ray
Howard I. Bair
Twenty-sixth Street
Anne and
Howard, Jr
Kabekona Bay
Leech Lake
Dolores Barber
C. G. Barber
Seventeenth Street
Charles Proctor
Charles H. Proctor
B Avenue NE
W. R. Nielson
Howard, Fast
Ount Mercy
Junior
Smith
The
N.Y. Lovae
H.allen Smich
S Neess Boon Betpmaes Lal Pees, Life In
Sanford
Siges
Frances
Gardner Quartons
Mrs. Quarton
Raymond Reid
Evelyn Waugh
England
St. Elmo's
Christopher Morley
Bardsley Ook
Cedar ‘Rapids
Owa
Second Ave
May's Drug Store
Second
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