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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1934
Page
16
A Mayo Clinic doctor praised tears for eye health, but shoppers and workers respond with humor and skepticism. The column records varied opinions from a law office worker, a streetcar rider, a gas station attendant, and a tired shopper about crying and makeup, noting the social scene and casual interviews across downtown.
The Blairstown band under G L Lyman will perform at the Legion swimming pool in Thomas Park this afternoon presenting Goldman Band March and more with cornet soloist Howard Rieke. Local social notices list moving trips, church events, and club activities around Marion including golf, picnics, and meetings.
The marriage of Mond Gilchrist to Thomas Doarn of Janesville Wisconsin will be held August 18 at St Marys church in Janesville. The bride elect works as district welfare supervisor and Doarn also works in welfare. Ed Mitchell owner of Mitchell Tire Shop is missing to his wife and creditors. Des Moines worker Griffiths Barnes visits his family in Iowa. James Fairley and family return from visiting Mrs Dora Morgan in Hopkinton. Pleasant Valley school reunion, formerly Kearns school, planned for next Sunday in Bever.
Higbee's shoe store at Third Avenue and Second Street becomes the first in Iowa to operate an air conditioning system. The Frigidaire plant maintains a steady eighty degree temperature, with on off control. During a heat wave it removed fourteen gallons of water from humid air in eight and a half hours, then fourteen quarts in two and a half hours the next day.
In The World Of Bridge by Josephine Culbertson discusses safe play. A hands analysis from a final round team-of-four match shows two leading players in six hearts failing to use a simple safety play to avoid a trump loss. South dealer, North-South vulnerable, hand 92 5010942 1Q643.
The article recounts two bridge hands where both tables led the same heart sequence and missed a safe jack lead. It notes the safety play to avoid heart losses, the missteps of two top players, and a later example of profound but misunderstood logic in a five clubs doubled contract.
A bridge hand ends with North choosing a sure 450-point set after South reveals the diamond queen. South explains the underlead logic and North’s need to avoid a second ruff. A kibitzer jokes he would have played the queen, drawing hospital-room laughs.
Me Culbertson will be very glad to answer questions on bridge. Readers are invited to send questions to Culbertson in care of The newspaper.
A writer recalls Chic Sale’s The Specialist and his vaudeville career. The piece praises Sale as a clean, iconic performer whose character studies and set pieces from early days at the Grand Opera House in Pittsburgh are remembered with humor and respect.
A reminiscence recalls Chic Sale as a top vaudeville act and a versatile character actor. The author notes his Urbana Illinois roots his comic skill and impact on audiences while contrasting Hollywood distance and lasting memories of his stage life and family.
Local talent to perform at the Walker Homecoming with Miss Willow McKnight as piano ace. The program includes a quartet with Louie W Rosas L Gru man H E MacDonald and E T Ellison and a sextet featuring Phyllis Closson Mary Kelley Evangeline McKnight Rose Closson Gladys Heerner and Mrs Evelyn McVey. A younger girls quartet rounds out the program with Betty Leusen Betty McFarland Maxine Ross and Dale Tenney. It is reported that women make per cent of the attempts to smuggle goods through the United States customs.
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