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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1937
Page
2
A survey of infrared photography explains how infrared rays reveal heat signatures through paper and skin, read letters through envelopes, expose subsurface blood vessels, and show stars beyond visible scopes. It covers equipment, film freshness, and early uses in film, crime forensics, art discovery, and astronomy.
A column notes weather influences on Want Ads in the classifieds, mentioning fuel ads and the sea impact on sales. It highlights cheap items such as calves and rifles listed in Want Ads and encourages readers to dial a phone number to place ads.
Leonard built a career spanning transit work topography and journalism before becoming historian for the Union Pacific system in 1918. He gathered forgotten documents and interviews to chronicle the transcontinental railroad from construction through completion, linking the era’s pioneers across lines and roads.
Mrs Barbara Frees, born December 7 1841 in Albish Germany, observes her ninety sixth birthday Tuesday at her daughter Mrs J L Bireline’s home in Iowa City. She emigrated to America in 1867 with husband John Frees, lived in Erie and Oxford before settling in Iowa. She has nineteen grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren, is a lifelong Democrat, and a Catholic.
Patrons at the Little Theater, Coe College, will see the mystery drama Double Door by Elizabeth McFadden in the chapel basement on Thursday and Friday nights. Director Kent Andrews leads twelve actors with a large student crew handling props sets and costumes. The play centers on a power struggle in a New York family and ends in near murder.
In New York a surrogate court dismissed all claims by Marjorie Herbst Browning to the Edward W. Browning estate, valued at about 10 million dollars. Marjorie, adopted at age three by the first Mrs. Browning, was not named in the will and her parents testified they sought a better home for her.
The Interstate Commerce Commission postponed indefinitely a Dec 10 Chicago hearing on Representative Arthur W. Mitchells discrimination claim against Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway He charged he was forced to change cars aboard a Rock Island train from Chicago to Hot Springs Arkansas due to his race The delay follows Mitchells Sept 2 complaint.
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