Modiste Dresses Dolls for Poor Children's Stockings
Mrs. W. W. Roy organized a doll sewing project for charity, dressed twenty five dolls using donated laces satins and velvets with help from neighbors and Crusader's circle. Dolls feature lingerie frocks bolero outfits and rompers, with velvet housecoats and organdy garments.
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Santa
W. W. Roy
Sixteenth Street
Santa Claus
Crusader’s Circle of the
King’s Daughters
Roy
Crusader’s Circle
Hungry Child Arms
Mrs. Roy
Frame echoes in masters group portrait memories
A reflective reminiscence describes a grand diploma framed in oak hanging in the parlor beside enlargements of graduations. It recalls family pride, the gallerylike parlor, and questions who will inherit portraits of loved ones and where they may end up in the future.
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United States
John
Christ
Pompeii
Round the World Flight Challenge Highlighted
In a discussion on global air travel the impossibility of circumnavigating the globe exactly along the equator or a single degree of longitude is noted, underscoring the theoretical difficulties of a true round the world flight.
Haunting Portrait Sparks Confession in Household
A weary mistress reflects on a purchase by George, admitting uncertainty about why he bought the picture. She admits it haunts her and captures a tense domestic moment from a 1938 source.
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George
Scouting Course To Close With Dinner
The Cedar Rapids area council University of Scouting training courses end with a dinner Tuesday at 6 30 p m in Roosevelt high school cafeteria replacing the First Congregational church venue Certificates will be awarded by course instructors Totem poles leathercraft and other handcraft work will be shown and course representatives will speak The principal speaker is Rev Father Wenicke training chairman of the Wapsi pinicon area council at Cedar Falls
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Cedar Rapids Area
Grade Dept at I. C. To Present Christmas Program
Immaculate Conception school will present a Christmas program by the grade department on Wednesday evening December 21. The program features songs and scenes from kindergarten to eighth grade including A Little Child at the Christmas Crib Bye-to-land Santa Claus Express Mother Goose's Christmas Party AirMail Christmas Around the World and Gates and Doors.
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Immaculate Conception School
Hart seeks return of funds paid for claimed son
Hollywood star William S. Hart, 68, sues to recover about 12 000 dollars from a trust he laid for a supposed child of Miss Eliza beth MacCaulley a Boston teacher who claimed Hart was the father. Hart says the son did not exist and the trust should revert to him. The Security First National Bank of Los Angeles is named in the suit.
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Hollywood
William S. Hart
Elizabeth MacCaulley
Boston
Hart
Superior
Miss MacCaulley
Rupert Leigh
MacCaulley
First National Bank of Los Angeles
Traffic Death In 1824 Slab Marks Tragic Event
In Warwick Massachusetts a weathered slate slab by Moore Pond marks a 1824 death. A carved inscription notes that on November 12, 1824 three year old James B. Leonard was thrown from a cart and crushed beneath a wheel. The poem on the stone ends with a plea for readers to note the tale.
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Warwick
Mass
Moore Pond
James B. Leonard
Lamps Prize in Cedar Rapids Christmas Lighting Contest
Five prizes displayed by the Cedar Rapids playground commission and Iowa Electric Light and Power reward exterior home displays. Winners judged on artistic effect originality Christmas spirit and ingenuity with a Dec 24 deadline.
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The
Playground Commission
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Light Company
City
Cedar Rapids
Office of the Playground Commission
Edgewood Sunday School Presents Yale Program
Edgewood No 1 school hosts a Christmas program Thursday at 8 p m led by superintendent Tilson Petro. The event features tableaux and performances by junior and senior classes with recitations solos and choir numbers including Silent Night O Little Town of Bethlehem and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.
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Edgewood
Edgewood No
Tilson Petro
Virginia Pratt
C. Ainsworth
Letha Hopker
Jesus
Jimmy Newland
Flowers
Arlen Pratt
Cornet
Hark the Herald Ancels Sina
Robert Madeson
Aetendine
Violet UE
Ruby Pratt
Lois Tatt
Doris Marie Petro
Patty Wiley
Bethlehem
Richard Probasia
Robert Davis
Richard Rowrag
Johnett
Betty Harris
Holy City
Donald Pratt
David Pratt
Mr Adams
Springville Woman Wins First Prize In Santa Contest
Mrs. Donald W. Goodlove of Springville took first prize in a Santa item contest winning 10 dollars. Second prize went to Mrs. QO Strine of Anamosa, third to Miss Dorothy Bowser of Cedar Rapids area, and fourth to Mrs. Ike Schneider of Manchester. Prizes of one dollar were awarded to nine more entrants including Mrs. J C Kucera and Mrs. H E Trimple among others.
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Donald W. Goodlove
Route 1
Springville
QO. H. Strine
South Ford Street
Anamosa
Dorothy Bowser
C Avenue NE
Ike Schneider
Manchester
J. C. Kucera
Camburn Court
H. E. Trimple
Marion
Albin Jakoubek
Third Street
O. R. Ulch
Elberon
D. D. Harrington
Higley Avenue
Milk of all mammals produces butter
A concise note states that the milk from all mammals yields butter through processing. The statement implies a universal property of mammalian milk and its use in dairy production.
Children’s Home Children To Attend Dokies Christmas Party
Fifty two youngsters from the Children’s Home will join Ardekan temple No 234 for the seventeenth annual Christmas party. They depart at 7 15 p m for a loop district tour to view decorations, then proceed to the E P hall for an entertainment program and Santa Claus gifts from a 14 foot tree. The Dokies then host a dance for members and friends with no admission charge starting about 9 15 p.m.
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Ardekan Temple No
Dramatic Order
Knights of Khorassan
Loop
E. P. Hall
Santa Claus
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Naomi Doebel
Modista
Masters
I. C
Montgomery Ward & CO
Second Street
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Toledo
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Overland
Willys-Overland
Great New Overland Millsap Motor Company
Second Avenue SE
W. T. Sands
IXTRA
DIAL
Edgewood Sunday School
Yale
Children’s
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Jong
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Telite Tobac
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