Christmas Lighting Contest Brightens Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids playground commission launched the annual Christmas lighting contest in 1928. Private homes compete in one group with five judges touring between December 23 and January 3. Displays must glow 7 to 10 pm, with prizes awarded to the top scorers calculated from artistic effect originality conformity to spirit and ingenuity. Contestants should register at the playground office, phone 8121, to map viewing routes.
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Cedar Rapids
All America
Light Company
Thought Card Game Turns Sour After $400 Vanishes
An Eagle Grove farmer told officers a card game with three strangers started as friendly but he lost $400 and now suspects he was fleeced. He asked police to search for the men.
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Eagle Grove
Music Teachers Meet in Iowa City February
The University of Iowa hosts its sixth annual conference for music teachers and supervisors in Iowa City on February 11 12 and 13 A combined concert by all Iowa bands orchestras and choirs will feature guest conductors of national renown with players drawn from top Iowa high schools The university chamber symphony orchestra and symphonic choir will perform contest pieces for the 1937 festival This event includes a master class forum on vocal and instrumental music and sessions on materials and conducting.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
All- Iowa
Iowa
University
Motorist Kills Wolf for Bounty in Jasper County
Wade Cross drove down a wolf on the highway near Newton collecting a $5 bounty. At the Jasper county courthouse Cross explained he ran the animal over with his car and likened its behavior to a rabbit, sparking a county official’s question.
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Decorah
O. A. Schall
San Diego
Calif
Newton
Wade Cross
Jasper County
Cross
Bargain Home Furnishings in Want Ads
Readable items include new and slightly used home furnishings offered at bargain prices under classification 29 in the Want Ads. The ad emphasizes affordable selections and practical options for shoppers seeking value.
Judge Rejects Begging Off On Fifteen Minute Parking
Five motorists cited for overtime in fifteen minute zones were excused in police court by Judge Thomas B. Powell who warned that this would be the last leniency for such excuses. The Gazette previously listed nineteen quarter hour spots around the loop with yellow no parking strips and 15 minute stamps. Chief of Police Robert Vlach confirmed the grace period covers fifteen minutes day or night.
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Thomas B. Powell
Robert Vlach
Gazette
Postville Junior High Names Finalists in Decem ber Oratorical Drama Humorous Contests
Thirteen pupils were chosen from two preliminary declamatory contests to advance to finals in December. Finalists include in oratorical Alan Boucher Stanley Carroll Joseph Marston Robert Kneeland. in drama Louise Thompson Donald Davenport Margaret Huebner Marian Casten. in humorous Stanley Hale Francis Kneeland Marilyn Thomson LaMont Gericke Pearl Schultz.
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Postville
Alan Boucher
Stanley Carroll
Joseph Marston
Robert Kneeland
Louise Thompson
Donald Davenport
Margaret Huebner
Marian Casten
Stanley Hale
Francis Kneeland
Marilyn Thomson
LaMont Gericke
Pearl Schultz
Entomologists Seek 5 Million Yearly Pest Fund
Omaha AP report: delegates from twelve states plus Canada and Argentina approve a resolution urging a permanent 5 million dollar federal fund to combat grasshoppers chinch bugs and other crop pests. The measure seeks annual replenishment with administration by the secretary of agriculture or a congress designated agency to coordinate state allocations.
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Omaha
Canada
Argentina
Congress
Myron Swenk
University of Nebraska
Secretary of Agriculture of the
United States
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Olga Morosova
Anna Adrianova
Col. de Basil
Pavlova
Toumanova
Paris
David Lichine
Boston
Harvard University
Yurek Shabelevsky
Leonide Massine
Diaghileff Ballet
Kubias Hardware Co
First Street
DIAL
SEARS
Sears Toys
Santa Claus
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Third Ave
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HKG
Manning-Bowman
Piet
Nesco
General Electric
Speeking
Bowman
Chris
Elena
OWA Electric Light and Power Company
Manening-Bowman
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