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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1939
Page
6
A leading oil figure pushes crude price cuts, triggering 145000 wells shutdown and halting 51 percent of U.S. output. Governors in five states move to enforce a $1 per barrel target, while consumers face temporary relief at the pump amid calls for regulated stability to avoid shocks.
Milwaukee Journal notes Senator Burke predicts a 1940 realignment with conservatives from both parties under President Roosevelt. It questions feasibility, unity of the proposed radical bloc, and whether a personality driven coalition can endure beyond an election.
An essay blends natural science with social satire. It extols sunlight and chlorophyll as life’s source and lauds worms for soil fertility and plant growth. It contrasts nature’s order with political folly and lampoons consumerism, lawyering, and prejudice in mid-century America.
Claude Joseph Bradley, 53, a cement salesman from Brooklyn, learned in May at Rochester Minnesota he has cancer and has only weeks or months left. He plans to spend his final days unpretentious yet gay, hosting friends and guiding others with a bold do or die attitude while continuing to take cement orders by telephone.
Walter Winchell relays busy week of confirmations and scandals at New York clubs. He mentions Rochelle Hudson Hal Thompson rumors, Janet Gaynor Adrian marriage notes, and various show business feuds, plus police inquiries into Lepke and Stork Club ownership.
State of Iowa Linn County announces the appointment of Anna Rejsa as administrator of the estate of Jerry Smreek, deceased. Creditors and claimants are asked to file or pay promptly at the Linn County District Court office, with attorney F. P. Kubicek assisting.
A speculative piece argues on science and society with Q A on gender and education. It discusses mass tests of Social Intelligence and notes women as better mixers and earlier maturers. It cites revolution psychology and references Everett Dean Martin’s data on revolutions.
Dr T F McNamara and the Medical Press advocate a full first sitting cure for hemorrhoids, arguing against piecemeal care. They claim 98 to 100 percent of cases improve when treated comprehensively, noting changes in patients' appearance and temper after relief.
Readers discuss menopause and vitamin guidance. An advice column notes worry about menopause and promotes a monograph request. It contrasts Cowgill’s minimum intake with higher therapeutic doses and hints at drinking, breathing, and hay fever remedies.
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