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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1934
Page
22
Center Point reports the school addition finished and ready for opening on Tuesday. The project was a Public Works Administration venture providing local jobs since May.
In Wickenburg Arizona a rattlesnake exhibit died after a hunger strike as a local merchant tried to lure it with an improvised meal. He fed a pack rat to the snake, but the pack rat survived while the rattler died the next morning.
Denver reporters note the state public utilities commission led by E E Wheeler has implemented a farm relief program reaching 4000 rural Colorado homes with desk type telephones for easier use and comfort.
The update makes four party line subscribers optional, ending the old requirement that only one two or three party users could remain seated while gossiping. Previously four party line users stood at wall phones to talk, an inconvenient arrangement now rectified.
A London woman fined ten dollars for a motoring offense sent the money to the court clerk with a playful note reading in part Two pounds herewith with love and good wishes From yours Baby Pat Public Enemy No 1 The item ends with a quip about spending wisely The story also mentions a library in Berlin with a Bible printed on palm leaves.
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