5000 Chapters Of Jazz History Belong To Cedar Rapids Musician
Cedar Rapids musician ESLIE ZACHEIS has amassed 5000 phonograph records forming a personal archive of modern jazz history. His apartment on 1624 D Avenue NE doubles as a listening hall housing rare recordings from Benny Goodman to Louis Armstrong and the Jean Goldkette era. He identifies top soloists and legends, arguing swing is jazz in its pure form.
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Cedar Rapids
Eslie Zacheis
L. Jazz
D Avenue NE
History of Jazz
Zachers
Benny Goodman
Louie Armstrong
Gene Krupka
Jean Goldkette
Jimmy Dorsey
Frankie Trumbauer
Zacheis
Joe Venuti
Bix Biederbecke
Eddie Lang
Biederbecke
Davenport
Lang
Wolverines
New Orleans
Rhythm Kings
Bing Crosby
Paul Whiteman
Bessie Smith
Trambauer
Bennie Carter
Coleman Hawkins
Jack Teagarden
Frank Teschmaker
Carter
Hawkins
America
Europe
Bennie Goodman
Artie Shaw
Louie
Y M Boys Department Reports Busy Camp Season
The Y M C A Cedar Rapids department notes 436 boys attended five one week sessions at Camp Wapsie Y with 40 subsidized underprivileged youths. New building boys' work committee members include Rev Vernon L S Jones and Dr Leo B Sedlacek. 277 attenders were subsidized, totaling 1737.50 dollars, and 72 percent are in the Y program.
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Cedar Rapids
Building Boys’ Work Committee
Camp Wapsie Y
Vernon L. S. Jones
Daniel Kerr
M. W. O’rieley
F. A. Carstens
Leo B. Sedlacek
Boys’ Work Committee
Fred A. Carstens
Richard Hart
Camp Wapsier
Grace Episcopal Church
Britain faces uneasy fate as warmaking races resume
In a column by Bob Estabrook the British empire is described as wobbling with a base seemingly rotten or pruned. Observers debate alliances and pre arranged deals with totalitarian powers, while Britain and France defend Europe and fear a larger eastward axis clash.
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Basseaziapar
Britain
France
Europe
Russia
New School
Fisherman nets three pound James river catfish
In Gallia Virginia Herbert Dudasill reels in a three-pound James river catfish on a wooden minnow after a perfect cast and fierce strike. Across the world in Tokyo demonstrations mount as Britain protests Japan's China moves and talks of alliances with Germany and Italy rise.
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Gala
Herbert Dudasill
Far East
Tokio
Robert K. Craigie
Shanghai
Nippon
China
Britain
Japan
Riot injuries and labor actions ripple across midwest towns
Cleveland quiet after riots injure about fifty as CIO workers strike at Fisher Body plant. Francis B. Sayre urges declaration of independence from America in 1946. WPA dismissals delayed by Col. Harrington awaiting action. House passes Civilian Conservation corps extension to 1943. Labor leader Harry Bridges calls communist connections a joke on deportation trial. Chanute field payroll train robbery thwarted for 56 613. Murder of merchant Harry J. Dreher remains unsolved as police seek female suspects. Hoover labels Iowa crime a problem in Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids man Harry H. Young drowns after alleged steam valve discharge on bridge.
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Cleveland
CIO
Fisher Body
Sympany
Wth Brother
Higan
America
Francis B. Sayre
WPA
F. C. Harrington
Civilian Conservation Corps
House
Senate
Harry Bridges
Chanutefield
Harry J. Dreher
Mason City
Des Moines
Ottumwa
Sioux City
Iowa
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Cedar Rapids
Harry H. Young
Cedar River
North Western Railway
Automobile Used for Mail Collection in Buffalo 1899
An automobile was first employed to collect mail in June 1899 in Buffalo New York marking an early use of motor vehicles in postal work. The report notes the milestone in the city’s postal history and highlights the transition from horse drawn to motorized collection methods.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Unveiling Tablet for Iowa Poet Sigmund in Waubeek
Several hundred friends and admirers of the late Jay Sigmund will gather in Waubeek at 3 p.m. Sunday to unveil a bronze tablet in his memory. The stone rock from Sigmund birthplace farm will bear the inscription and be set at the site of the old Waubeek stone store. Speakers include Grant Wood Iowa artist Dr H M Gage Coe college president and Henry Hood and Fred Payneer.
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Jay Sigmund
Iowa
Waubeek
Sigmund
Grant Wood
H. M. Gage
Coe College
Henry Hood
Fred Payneer
Stanley Vesely to Direct Mass Bands at Chicago Festival
Stanley Vesely, director of the Coe College band, is selected by the Chicago Tribune to direct the massed bands at the Chicagoland Music Festival on August 19 at Soldiers Field. He is named chairman of the band contest to be held that day at the Lake Shore Hotel.
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Stanley Vesely
Coe College
The
Chicago Tribune
Soldiers Field
Lake Shore
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Art Snider
Gazette
Leslie Zacheis
Y. M. Boys’ Dept
Bob Estabrook
London
Canada
Germany
Danzig
United States
Italy
Ukraine
British
Gibraltar
Spain
Adolf Hitler
Hopeh
Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Roosevelt
Pat Pourri
Mer. Nat. Bk. Bldg
Paramount Primncy
Paramount Theater Bldg
Chicago
Jet
Hawkeye Downs
All the Family
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!