Millburn Triplets Turn Twenty Amid Cedar Rapids Fame
Lawrence, Lewis, and Lynn Millburn celebrate their twentieth birthday. The Cedar Rapids triplets, sons of Mrs. Mary Millburn, have long been known as the city’s only three of a kind in public schools. Each works now, Lawrence selling ads, Lewis a printer, and Lynn a driver and shipping clerk.
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Lawrence
Lewis
Lynn Millburn
Cedar Rapids
Mary Millburn
D Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Lynn
Second Avenue SW
Martin urges GOP to save U.S. middle class at Maine field day
Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. called on Americans to back Republican efforts to safeguard the middle class from what he described as threats from New Deal policies and internationalism. He cited unemployment, low farm prices, shrinking farm export markets, and competition from cheaper foreign goods as urgent concerns. The event honored Hannibal Hamlin, Maine native and Lincoln era vice president.
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Dexter
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Mass
America
Maine
National
Hannibal Hamlin
Martin
Abraham Lincoln
Hamlin
Lincoln
Fort Wayne Twins Convention Draws Big Crowd
Fort Wayne hosts the International Twins association gathering with about 1000 twins expected through Sunday. Saturday events include a downtown parade a kiddies party a dinner and a dance. Sunday features contests prizes for most identical pairs and farthest distance. invites have come from St Louis New York Detroit Pittsburgh San Francisco Elkhart and Fort Wayne.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
International Twins Association
St. Louis
New York
Detroit
Pittsburgh
San Francisco
Elkhart
Executor's Sale Auction of Personal Property in Swisher Iowa
Public auction under Johnson County Iowa District Court order to sell an array of household furniture appliances farm items and personal property at the Frank Sebetka home on the Rock Road Swisher on Wednesday August 31 1939 at 2 00 PM terms to be announced at sale executor Frank W Sebetka in Swisher Iowa with Swisher Trust and Savings Bank as clerk and attorney Fred H Kubicek Cedar Rapids Iowa listed.
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Frank Sebetka
Swisher
Johnson County
Iowa
Rock Road
District Court
Frank W
Oxford
A J
Neitderhisar
Tiffin
Auemeer
Swisher Trust and Savings Bank
Fred H. Kubicek
Higley Bldg
Cedar Rapids
City playgrounds report shows large season attendance
A nine week season across fourteen playgrounds drew 177 664 total visits with two grounds remaining open weather permitting. The Elks and Whitlam park playgrounds led activity while four softball leagues and various table games filled the program featuring arts crafts dramatics and music.
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Elks
G Avenue
Sixth Street
Whitlam Park
B Avenue
Fifth Street
Lincoln
Riverside
Elks Playground
L. J. Smith
Sues For Divorce But Living In Same House
Hollywood report states actress Maryon Curtis sues George Givot for divorce while living in the same Hollywood mansion worth 90 000 dollars. Curtis seeks 320 dollars monthly temporary alimony as she and Givot maintain separate rooms in the house.
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Hollywood
Sns
Maryon Curtis
George Givot
Miss Curtis
Rival Shop Pressure Behind Slow Repairs, Pappas Claims
In Chicago James Pappas testified his shoe repair and hat cleaning business enjoyed brisk trade yet lagged as customers vanished. He alleged a rival across the street sent in orders to stall him, asking the court to punish the competitor while the judge kept the case open.
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Chicago
James Pappas
Too Late For Any Appeasement Says Churchill
Philadelphia dispatch quotes Winston Churchill told the Evening Bulletin that it is too late for appeasement and that Poland may be attacked soon. He warned the Reich’s lies will be exposed and predicted harsher actions ahead.
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Winston Churchill
Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin
Poland
Bulletin
Churchill
Reich
Plot by Nazi Hotheads Aims to Trigger War
London Evening Standard reports Nazi extremists planned to frame an incident between German and Polish forces to provoke a European crisis. The Warsaw government reportedly acted to curb the provocation and details were shared with Poland.
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London
INS
London Evening Standard
Warsaw
Police Chief's New Car Stolen Sparks City Hunt
In Los Angeles AP report Police Chief Charles Dice of Santa Monica finds his new police car missing from a parking lot. Officials launch a wide scale search as Dice returns home in an old LA cruiser.
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Los Angeles
Charles Dice
Santa Monica
Rock Island Names General Freight Agent
CHICAGO AP The Rock Island lines announced that Joseph A. Demeke city freight agent in San Francisco has been transferred to Chicago as general freight agent effective Sept 1 He will succeed W J Ford who moves to the St Louis agency
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Rock Island Lines
Joseph A. Demeke
San Francisco
W. J. Ford
St. Louis
Lady Oxford Returns to 10 Downing Street Note
Margot Asquith, wife of the 1914 prime minister, revisited her former residence at 10 Downing Street on Saturday recalling the dawn hours of World War I.
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London
Oxford
Asquith
Margot Asquith
Downing Street
German Paper Urges Poland Surrender to Avoid Disaster
The Frankfurt Zeitung warned that only Poland's total capitulation could avert a wider international calamity, in a late Saturday night edition.
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Berlin
INS
Poland
Frankfurter Zeitung
Niemoeller in Concentration for 2nd Year
Berlin reports Rev. Martin Niemoeller, leader of the confessional Lutheran synod, has completed two years in Oranienburg Sachsenhausen. He remains confined in solitary quarters with regular medical checkups, censored letters, and monthly visits by his wife, while his church group prays for his release. He debates Protestant Catholic differences in prison and longs for dialogue with others.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Associated Press
Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen
Martin Niemoeller
Lutheran Church
Niemoeller
Wupperthal
Westphalia
Niemoellers
Roosevelt not seeking third term says Murray in Minneapolis
Senator James E. Murray of Montana said he believes President Roosevelt does not favor a third term in 1940 despite strong sentiment for renomination. Murray, in Minneapolis for a study of international water problems, cited no direct word from Roosevelt but based his view on observations at the national capital.
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Minneapolis
James E. Murray
Mont
Roosevelt
Traffic Bureau guides Cedar Rapids freight routing
Harry F. Sundberg of Cedar Rapids and his traffic bureau advise 200 firms on optimal routes for about 85 000 carloads a year. The article details a seven-line transfer path for timothy seed from Cedar Rapids to Shippensburg and notes the bureau’s extensive tariff files and maps guiding inbound and outbound shipments.
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Here
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N. Y
Harry F. Sundberg
Shippensburg
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Connellsville
Timothy Seed
Gary
Bureau
Sundberg
Harold L. Adams
North Western
Rock Island
Milwaukee
Illinois Central
Crandie
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Northern
America
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