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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1932
Page
5
A dense montage of classified ads seeks help and shoppers. Listings include a live-in companion for an elderly woman with nursing experience, a girl seeking work with room and board, a housekeeper with refined skills, and various sales pitches for Christmas gifts and electronics from local merchants.
Unclaimed diamonds offered in various sizes and styles at low prices from $10 to $25. Local ads list multiple shops with bicycles, wagons, sleds, and toy items, plus a portable typewriter sale and a closing out sale on musical goods.
For sale or exchange several rehpossesed homes and small bungalows. Offers include a six room colonial with fireplace breakfast nook and double garage at 5250 dollars, a two story cement stucco home with hot water heat and large porch, a seven room all modern home near Cog College priced 2250, and a 61 small bungalow for a larger property. Dial numbers provided.
California voters repealed the Volstead era Wright act by more than two to one. Gov. James Rolph Jr prepared to sign pardons freeing about 150 Wright act violators in California jails with swift dispatch to sheriffs for immediate prisoner release. Attorney General Webb had ruled the 1921 act only suspended local liquor laws, which would revive when repeal takes effect. Several cities weigh repealing local enforcement while others plan new measures.
The Irish Republican Army condemned President Eamonn De Valera's government in a mass meeting in Dublin. The move followed arrests and sentencing of members convicted of damaging a brewery, with An Phoblacht calling for the judge's dismissal and immediate reprisals.
Hollywood veteran actor Tom Mix announced on Monday he will take a belated European honeymoon with his wife Mabel Hubbell Ward after retiring on Christmas Day. He may accept a circus offer and will absent himself from the screen for at least two years.
Four persons including two young children were burned to death when a house in Glouster Ohio was destroyed by a fire of unknown origin Monday. Victims were Rolland Matthews 23 his wife 23 Gerald Matthews 3 and Junior Matthews 3.
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