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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 13, 1939

Page

23

Driving Under the Influence Crisis Prompts Public Warning

A strong warning highlights the dangers of mixing driving and alcohol. The piece labels drinking as the leading cause of highway crashes and fatalities and urges readers to reject the excuse of drinking before driving. It stresses the incapacity of intoxicated drivers to operate vehicles safely and underscores the need for awareness and responsibility.

Remember Drunk Driving Peril and Safe Choices

A public safety note urges drivers to abstain from alcohol when behind the wheel and not to ride with anyone who has been drinking. Authorities say drunken drivers are the greatest danger on highways and deserve no consideration as they work to remove them from the roads.

Warning to drivers on safety and legal rules

A concise reminder listing essential road safety rules including stopping at signs, obeying speed limits, not passing on hills, staying in lanes, obeying traffic signals, carrying licenses, avoiding driving under influence, dimming headlights, observing school zones, signaling, and driving slowly to prevent recklessness.

Various Businesses Advertised Along Main Street

A crowded segment lists numerous local businesses with ads and taglines. Entries include Harmony Cafeteria, Corbin Lagomarcino Grape Co, Hawkeye Motor Express, Home Specialty Store, Mary Ann’s Eat Shop, Chas Macy, Morgan Bros Bicycles, Penice & Ford, Peoples Furniture, Quaker Oats, St Clair Appliance, Schmidt Typewriter Exchange, Shover’s Oak Farms, Skelly Oil Co, Slavia Realty, Milo Simanek Plumbing, Springville Creamery, Standard Tire, Stone’s Truck Service, John B Turner & Son Morticians, United State Bank, Vincent’s Jewelry, Western Bohemian Fraternal Assn, Williams & Hunting, Yagers Upstairs Store.

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Barnes & Aaron—Phils Peale ACE Mutual Insurance Association Iowa Theater Allstate Safety Tires Sears, Roebuck and Co American Legion Hanford Armature Service CO Second Ave. SE Auto Electric Shop Seventh St. SE Beatty Mortuary Third Ave. SE Benner Tea CO Third Ave John Blaus Sons CO Bbbb and Clover Farm Quality Foods Brabbit-Taylor Music CO First Ave King Band Broulie Bros Second R. D. Brown Fifth St. SE Buehler Bros Builders Material, Inc Burkhalter Insurance Agency and L. Benedict, Incorporated Business Men’s Assurance Company Wyatt E. Maupin American Trust Ride Cedar Rapids Building & Loan Assn Cedar Rapids City Lines, Inc Cedar Rapids Co-Operative Dairy CO Cedar Rapids Gas CO Czechoslovak Society OF America C.5. A Dempsey Cleaning and Dyeing CO M. J. Busler B. P. O. Elks, Lodge No DR. Fenton Vigortone Company Vitamine Reinforced Feeds Firestone Tires & & W Tenth Street Second Ave Tenth St. SE First Trust and Savings Bank Twelfth Ave Third St Ginsberg's Ginsberg First Ave. SE THE Cedar Rapids Hallerfest, Inc Iowa Electric Light and Power CO Iowa Machine CO Iowa Manufacturing CO Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance CO Jack Kadlec Brothers Studebaker Sales and Service Maytag CO W. Peterson Cecal Ave Dial Cedar Rapids Paint Supply CO Handler Motor CO King's Crown Plaster CO Patek Paints Rotary Club Cities Service Oil CO Colonial Baking CO Jack Walsh Kubias Hardware CO First St Corbin Lagomarcino Grape CO Hawkeye Motor Express Ninth Ave A. G. Heim & Co, Investments Roosevelt Hotel Iowa Vernon L. Spohn Honeymead Products CO LA Plant-Choate Mfg. Company, Inc Limback Lumber CO Linn County Abstract Co Court House Local Drug & Lunch Company Encl B. Gatto I. B. McGladrey Coo Certified Public Accountants Nat Bank Bidg Mary Ann’s Eat Shop Chas. Macy Messinger & Sons Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association Verdi FP Lenzen American Trust Bide Midland Mortgage CO Millhiser Insurance Agency General Insurance Cedar Rapids Devines i Bank Morgan Bros. — Bicycles Breer Et Rene Gpemnce NEW Process Laundry CO C. F. Paulsen Construction CO Penice & Ford, Ltd., Inc Peter Pan Bakers Quaker Oats CO Weston D. Ralston Insurance First Avenue SE Reliance Mfg. CO Second Avenue SW General Machine Work W. T. Sands Printing CO Roosevelt Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. CO R. H. Pickford Pacific Mutual Life Insurance CO Schmidt Typewriter Exchange L. C. Smith Shover Skelly Oil CO Slavia Realty Co., Inc. Insurance Pivot Trust Dovines Bank Milo Simanek Mallory SW Springville Creamery CO Dutch” Levsen Mer Standard Tire CO March For Safety A. & Royal Masters Stone’s Truck Service CO First Street G. M Stusak & CO. Meat Market Sixteenth Avenue BW A. Pipa & Coe M. M. Thompson Insurance Aetna Life Merchants National Bank TRU John B. Turner & Son Morticiansa United State Bank Bank Vincent’s Jewelry Store Third Street SE Ss and Services Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Wagner Motor CO Third Avenue Western Z.C.B. J Williams & Hunting CO Pirst Street Yagers
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