Liquor Stocks In Bond Hit New High After Repeal
America's liquor stocks in bonded warehouses reached a new high after repeal, with 310,792,545 gallons of distilled spirits as of July 1. Whisky dominated the stock, about 300.7 million gallons, while cordials and other spirits filled the rest. Treasury officials credit improved quality and enforcement as bootlegging declines.
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Bond
Treasury
Doran
Washington
America
James M. Doran
Federal Bureau of Industrial Alcohol
The
Distilled Spirits Institute, Inc
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgent
Death notices: Roy B. Johnson dies of heart attack in Cedar Rapids
Roy B. Johnson, 264 Thirty fifth Street SE, in real estate with his father G. E. Johnson, died suddenly in his office at 618 Cedar Rapids Savings Bank Building at 10 a.m. Thursday from a heart attack. Born February 9, 1892 in Marion, he lived in Cedar Rapids thirty years and was a Cedar Rapids High School graduate. Survived by widow Cora, two children George B. and Janet, parents Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Johnson, and two sisters Mrs. Walter Hanson and Mrs. J. H. Lloyd. Funeral arrangements to be announced. friends may call at the Moon chapel. Also notes the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gatens of Watkins died at a local hospital at 3 a.m. Thursday. body at Monahan funeral home pending arrangements.
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Roy B. Johnson
Thirty Fifth Street
G. E. Johnson
Cedar Rapids
George B
U. S. S. Portland
Janet
City
Walter Hanson
J. H. Lloyd
Mitchell, S. D
Moon Chapel
Two Boys Dive in Suits Made By Own Hands
In Jefferson Ohio Robert Topper and Norman Orford built a 100 pound boiler-top diving helmet with air adjustment, glass face and telephones. With two auto pumps and a lifeline they explore Lake Erie bottom as a three-person shallow-water unit operates.
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Jefferson
Robert Topper
Norman Orford
Lake Erie
Loan From Student Borrowed Five Dollars Repaid After 60 Years
Gerald J. Shields, Buffalo assistant corporation counsel, received a $5 postal order with a note claiming his father borrowed the money from James Howe when he was a University of Ottawa student. The elder Shields died 21 years ago. the loan was made 60 years ago.
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Buffalo
Gerald J. Shields
University of Ottawa
James Howe
Shields
Yale Gallery Receives Bronze Orpheus Figure
Yale Gallery of Fine Arts received a bronze study of Orpheus from Carl Milles. The piece, central to a fountain in Stockholm, has been shown at the Brooklyn Institute and won a 1930 Philadelphia Art Alliance prize. France’s population figures are also noted in the text.
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New Haven
Orpheus
Cerberus
Hades
City Briefs and Personals Record Notes
Ambar Grotto and Knights of Pythias bands plan a joint rehearsal at K P hall at 8 p m Friday. City council ordered payment of 2655 19 to Amos Melberg for second estimate work on the Hawthorne drive viaduct. Mrs Guy Ross reported milk bottles stolen from her porch on three consecutive mornings. Leo Farrell of Fairfax was fined 25 dollars plus costs for intoxication. Clinton Smith of Linn Junction was fined 10 dollars plus costs on the same charge.
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Ambar Grotto
Knights of Pythias
K. P. Hall
Amos Melberg
Hawthorne Drive
Guy Ross
Second Avenue
Leo Farrell
Fairfax
Clinton Smith
Linn Junction
Local man held on larceny in daytime Sears case
Harry Murphy, 55, of 917 A venue NW, was held by police Thursday afternoon for filing a true information charging larceny from a building after allegedly taking merchandise from the Sears Roebuck store. An arraignment was set for late Thursday or Friday forenoon.
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Harry Murphy
917 Avenue
Murphy
Sears Roebuck and Company
George Frye
H Street
Frye
G. K. Thompson
Protester challenges school board oiling on Nineteenth Ave
F D Cach told the city council Thursday that oiling Nineteenth Avenue SW from Bowling to Mallory was improper due to irregularities in the board of education’s action. The council said the project is finished and no corrective action can be taken at this time.
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F. D. Cach
Board of Education
Nineteenth Avenue
Bowling Street
Mallory Street
Petition for storm sewer on Sixth Avenue SE proposed
William Tehel filed Thursday petitions with the city council asking construction of a storm sewer main along Sixth Avenue SE from Fifth Street to 400.
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William Tehel Thursday
Sixth Avenue
Fifth Street
City Considers Drainage Plan for New Building
Tehel explains drainage from a roof will be diverted to under the sidewalk, damaging the walk. The proposed building would cover the 80 by 81 foot lot, leaving no space to dispose of runoff. Council takes the matter under advisement.
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Sixth Avenue SE
Tehel
Westrom Family Returns From West Tour and LA Convention
Mr and Mrs A C Westrom and family of 1923 Grande avenue SE completed a cross country trip through twelve states and Catalina island. In Los Angeles Mr Westrom attended the Great Western insurance convention held at George Martins mountain home, the Southern California company representative.
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A. C. Westrom
Grande Avenue SE
Catalina Island
Los Angeles
R O T C Rifle Team picks Bernard L Smith for national corps
Bernard L. Smith son of Mr and Mrs Warren S Smith of 1700 Maple Drive NW was named a member of the Seventh corps area R O T C rifle team.
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Bernard L. Smith
Warren S. Smith
Maple Drive
Seventh Corps
ROTC Cadets From Seven States Form Team
A group of thirteen ROTC students from Nebraska Iowa Minnesota Missouri Arkansas South Dakota and North Dakota forms a team to compete in a military drill or related program.
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Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
Arkansas
South Dakota
North Dakota
Harvard Exhibits Old German Art at Germanic Museum
Cambridge Massachusetts a major show of German old masters from 1450 to 1550 features about forty paintings sculptures and metal works across the Tercentenary celebration at Harvard Universitys Germanic Museum highlighted by a 1455 Koerbecke religious panel The Presentation in the Temple and the Hainauer Reliquary miniature church are notable pieces loaned by John M Schiff of New York.
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Cambridge
Mass
Ins
United States
Germanic Museum
Harvard University
Johann Koerbecke
John M. Schiff
New York
Farm Employee Held for Theft of Calf
Jack Holmes, 22, of Atlanta, Ga., employed on Boyd Kaylor's Cedar Rapids farm, was arrested on larceny charges after a cream truck left with a load but a calf vanished. An anonymous tip led deputies to the truck in a cream load still present while the calf was found sold at Wilson and Company packing yard.
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Jack Holmes
Atlanta
Cedar Rapids
Boyd Kaylor
Larry Condon
Condon
Holmes
Kaylor
Wilson and Company
Lack of funds imperils memorial whaling ship in New Bedford
Land-locked ship Charles W Morgan, a famed New Bedford whaling vessel preserved at Col. E. H. R. Green's estate in South Dartmouth, faces danger as upkeep costs of about $10,000 per year go unfunded after Green's death. A corporation formed ten years ago listed Green as president and treasurer, but no continuing funding plan exists.
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New Bedford
Mass
INS
Charles W. Morgan
E. H. R. Green
South Dartmouth
Green
Colonel Green
Trade Share of American Marine Carriers 1935 vs 1910
The text notes that in 1935 American ships carried 36.2 percent of the American marine trade, a significant improvement from 8.7 percent in 1910. The figures illustrate a long term growth in domestic shipping participation.
Boone Buys Manson Coal Yard in Southeast Des Moines
Thomas P. Boone buys the Manson Coal Company yards at 405 Fifth Avenue SE, a long running yard once operated by the late Senator William G. Haskell. Boone will operate it as Thos Boone Fuels handling a regular line of eastern and western coal. He has represented a major eastern Iowa coal mining company for fifteen years.
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Thomas P. Boone
Twenty-eighth Street Drive
Manson Coal Company
Fifth Avenue
William G. Haskell
Boone
Thos. Boone
Iowa
Commerce study estimates per person food and beef intake
The Commerce Department estimates a 56 year lifespan consumes about 106 400 pounds of food with total beef intake around 3 41 pounds per person over that period.
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U. S. Department of Commerce
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Watkins
Monahan Funeral Home
Associated Press
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Charlie Riley
Cleveland
Jesse Owens
Speed
Berlin
Yale Gallery
France
Pettitions
Omar
Omar Wonder
State Fair
Ena
Omar Mills
Omaha Nebraska
Wenn
Wonder Omar Ioe
Slis
Japan
Arly
Ohio
Carpenter & Johnson
Jersey
Harvard
South
Frankel
Frankel’s
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