Fire Destroys Roof in Large House at 124 Tenth Street
A attic blaze at 124 Tenth Street NE destroyed the roof and upper portions of a large house owned by Sam Lind. Firemen fought the flames from 3:25 a.m. for over two hours after an alert from a Milwaukee switchman. Lind said he lit a basement fire at midnight with papers and magazines. investigators suspect chimney sparks. The interior suffered water damage and extensive repairs are needed. Insurance covers the loss. A gasoline lamp explosion at 1519 Seventeenth Avenue SE caused minor burns to A Zach.
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Tenth Street
Milwaukee
Sam Lind
E. P. Kohout
Kohout
A. Zach
Seventeenth Avenue SE
The Lawyer's Point of View on Credit Phases
The speaker outlined legal phases of law relating to credit and stated that final judgment of credit comes from character. He praised Cedar Rapids method as outstanding and noted a credit sketch by F W Bush George Hearn F O Mekota and W H Grizel.
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Cedar Rapids
F W. Bush
George Hearn
F. O Mekota
W. H Grizel
Man Arrested In Mason City Also Wanted Here
John S Roger, 59, listed as Cedar Rapids, arrested Tuesday in Mason City on a Feb 9 warrant for passing a fraudulent $10 check. He had been a Salvation Army kitchen cook since Feb 10. Known in Cedar Rapids as Childs, he previously lived at the Victoria hotel leaving in 1931 and is wanted here on a March 28 warrant for hotel fraud. information filed by the Victoria hotel.
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John S Roger
Cedar Rapids
Mason City
Waterloo
Rogers
Associated Press
Roger
Salvation Army
Childs
John Roger
Victoria
G. S Lightner
Victoria Hotel
Red Cross Seeks Roll Call Reports From Enrollment Workers
Local Red Cross office requests enrollment workers to send final returns to enrollment chairman Rev. C. F. Edwards promptly. Only 7 of 33 precincts have fully reported. total enrollment to date stands at 1,100.
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National Red Cross
C. F. Edwards
10-20-30 Years Ago in the Gazette Highlights
Excerpts note a Cedar Rapids wedding of Miss Gladys Elizabeth Gaines and George E Kindle at First Baptist Church. Local and national figures pass through town for events, with references to sports figures, college talks in Chicago, and transport accidents.
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Gladys Elizabeth Gaines
Cedar Rapids
George E. Kindle
Iowa City
First Baptist Church
Clarke R. Parker
Clyde Bosley
Salonika
Bosley
Mary Kouba
H KI. Gage
Coe College
Coe
National Association of Colleges and Universities
Chicago
Charles Cherney
New York
California
Cherney
Prowler Strikes Six Sites Steals Only Two Dollars
Police traced an amateur burglar who broke glass to enter six stores and steal $2 in pennies from Fred Platz grocery. Other targets included Servall grocery Drapela grocery People’s Fuel Hatch Brookman Lumber Standard filling Skelly station. No description released.
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Servall
Eighth Avenue
Fred Platz
Ninth Street
Drapela
People’s Fuel Company
Fourth Street
Hatch and Brookman Lumber Company
Standard
Second Avenue
Skelly
First Street
Missing 16 year old Dean Cain reported by mother
Mrs Cain of 02 Bhaver road ME notified police at midnight that her son Dean Cain, 16, has been missing since Tuesday morning. He left for school but did not attend, taking his bicycle. He is about five feet five inches, light complexion, wearing a leather coat blue corduroy trousers high top boots and no cap. He may have headed toward his grandmother's home in Owen Wisconsin.
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Cain
Bhaver Road
Dean
Systematic Handling Of Retail Credit Praised In Cedar Rapids
Local attorney BD Silliman praised the systematic manner of handling retail credit in the city. He spoke Tuesday evening before the Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association during a dinner at the Montrose hotel Carn room.
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BD Silliman
Cedar Rapids Retail Credit Association
Montrose Hotel
Iowa budget urged for deeper cuts in total spend
A legislative committee urged cutting the state budget by at least two million dollars, arguing the full expense should shrink from the last legislature’s 4 465 000 appropriation. The report notes several departments show rising expenditures and requests for the next biennium, including the board of assessment and review, board of conservation, and district court judges.
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Board of Assessment and Review
Board of Conservation
State Board of Education Expenditures and Asking
The board received about 7,100,000 for the year ending June 30, 1932 but spent 10,499,000. The excess came from hospital fees, student tuition and other departmental earnings. The budget notes cuts since two years ago and urges county tax committees to discuss potential savings with representatives.
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Board of Education
Department of Agriculture
Budget Director's Office
Governor's Office
State Printing Board
University Iowa
Budget Economy Report Highlights Department Cooperation
A health department and the Farmers' Institute join the executive council in calling for budgeting reforms. The report notes many agencies stuck to the prior two year allowance, hoping for legislated cuts while officials resisted economies. An honor roll lists the departments advancing the effort.
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Health Department
Farmers’ Institute
Executive Council
Couple Face Infants Murder Charges On Farm
Angusville Manitoba police say Nichola Yacab and Fred Stavishyn are charged with five counts of murder in the deaths of infants whose bodies were buried on Yacab’s farm. Authorities believe an anonymous letter prompted the investigation and that Yacab authored it.
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Angusville
Man
Nichola Yacab
Fred Stavishyn
Yacab
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Stavishyn
Stark Opens Fish Market With Expanded Seafood Line
Joe Stark a Cedar Rapids meat dealer at 122 First Street NE for 22 years opens a fish market with more than twenty varieties of fresh smoked frozen and spiced fish and other seafood. He installed a sharp freezing refrigerator eight by eleven feet and has stock over 2000 pounds. The remodel includes a special counter and reflects a $2000 investment. Stark began in the meat trade 37 years ago making him a pioneer in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Stark
First Street NE
Mr. Stark
Cedar Rapids
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Red Cross
May Robson
Greene's Opera House
Toay
Florence Shields
Roland McParland
E. Winslow Brown
Charles Blahnik
Sokol Gymnasium
James W. Good
Washington, D. G
Will S. Prickett
Gazette News
North Western Miller
Minneapolis
E. J.C Beater
Owatonna
O H McCarty
Rock Island Railroad
F Walters
Prowler
Jacqueline
Connie
Martin’s
Iowa
State Board OF Education
Third Ave
Third St. Steve
Allison Hotel Buildin
Third St
Dr. West
Squibb’s
Phillip
Richard Hudnut
Takums Piver
Hudnut
Magnesia
Arin Mats
Caldwell
Ogee
Stein’s Cold Creams
Creme
Camay
Models & Kotex
Rey TR Rae
Colgate’s Powder
Wrisley
Miles
Colgate
Mennen
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