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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1939
Page
7
The notice records OWA interests with publication details and pricing figures including 6 months 3.25 and 3 months 1.75. It appears as a metadata fragment from The Cedar Rapids Gazette with port office filing notes and a series of monetary amounts.
A Baltimore Sun analysis notes rising federal grants blur lines among federal state and local governments. It cites 1938 state revenues with 20 percent from federal funds and 266 million from social programs, 218 million for highway grants, plus other federal allocations shaping local programs and state plans.
A survey of trade reports shows strong farm prospects in the middle west, robust retail and auto activity, and rising power use. Industrial output including steel, copper and ore shipments is near multi year highs while railroad passenger traffic and airline travel hit records. Yet labor unity and international tensions remain threats to employment though overall earnings and dividends rise with healthier inventories. Council Bluffs and Cleveland editorials note Ickes praises oysters and jokes about his silence.
A Washington father recalls a life and death moment as his young daughter mourns a toad run over in the street. He consoles her with a gentle explanation that life continues even after loss. The memory lingers as a moral about endurance and the small sacredness of life.
A compilation of remarks from politicians, military leaders, clergy and writers. Includes Senator O'Mahoney on anti trust reform, Florence city official on drunkenness fines, Rev Dr Karl Reiland on child philosophy, Representative Graham Barden on wage hours, Chiang Kai-shek, Admiral Yarnell, Gov Loren Dickinson, Irene Castle, and H G Wells.
A mournful reflection on sudden loss contrasts with a father’s stoic lesson about mortality. The narrative, citing a garden search and a toad, frames eternal cycles of life and the pendulum of time as the universe’s balance between beauty and truth.
Notes from a New Yorker column highlights the reward increase for fugitive Lepke from $5,000 to $25,000 amid news that 900 city workers face termination due to budget limits. The piece mocks unemployment in Europe, comments on fascist propoganda, and weaves in Hollywood labor disputes, Goebbels, and Dewey politics.
Salt Lake City AP report on the 1930 murder of Dorothy Dexter Moormeister. Her physician husband Dr. Frank Moormeister and Utah officers pursued a single suspect amid a dormant, unresolved investigation. Jewelry valued at $15,000 vanished. no decisive motive or culprit emerged.
The First district Republicans nominated T. J. Lewis for supervisor on the sixth ballot at a noisy August 8 meeting. Democrats organized Aug 7 selecting Senator John M. Terry as chairman George Redmond secretary and Joseph Kozlovsky treasurer. A large Aug 8 crowd rode in from Cedar wedae and nearby points amid weather threats.
An old miser clings to stored wealth promising comfort in old age. Death comes calling as years pass and he begs for time to spend his gold. Death denies the wish, ending his pursuit of riches before he can enjoy any of it.
The article extols personal health service F MILK and its staple foods butter and cheese as nearly perfect foods. It claims plain wheat, not refined products, is the next best all‑around natural food for man, noting similarities in composition to milk in essential nutrients.
The article discusses how wheat differs from milk protein and highlights plain wheat as a rich source of vitamin B complex and carbohydrates. It argues for using whole grain forms, warns about refined flour, and mentions wheat germ and bran as key nutritional components.
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