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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1937
Page
3
A humorous column surveys baldness, noting its social stings and practical worries. It compares toupees, hairlines, and self image, while tracing how colleagues react and jokes fade to sympathy as the rise of receding hairlines becomes a shared concern.
A special showing of the first talking motion picture on heat will be shown Monday at 7 45 p m at Sokol hall. The film "Heat and its Control" traces heat from ancient times to modern insulation methods and is hosted by the National Association of Power Engineers with an address by Jacob Eige of Marshalltown.
Cedar Rapids public and parochial school children begin selling Christmas Health seals Monday to fund infant welfare clinics nutrition and child health work. Mrs. Charles T Hickok leads the public schools sale and Mrs. J H Bormann directs the parochial sale.
U S customs officers were shocked when a box from Germany to St Francis hospital opened to reveal a human skeleton. The hospital refused the skeleton as the order had been canceled, so it must be sent back across the Atlantic.
Al Lankau, a sales agent, has spent twenty one years estimating currency and coins. In a studio demo he correctly estimated totals in nickels and a stack of dollars, showing deft money sense while noting silver piles are toughest to judge.
The text describes a cash register installation man named Lankau who reads registers and the money in each drawer to estimate change. He trains operators to balance drawers against register readings, claiming close scrutiny yields large dividends.
All living graduates of the United States military academy will receive a bachelor of science degree. Certificates will be mailed to last known addresses under congressional act. Former officers may request their degrees from the academy superintendent. Collegiate degrees were not previously awarded at West Point.
The Monday forecast promises promotion prestige and personal popularity with improved finances and happy domestic social and affectional life. Those born today face a year of prospects for promotion gain and happiness in social intimate and business areas. A child born now has potential for a grand life but should curb a rash tongue.
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