Four Gunmen Hold Up Sears Store for 5000
Four gunmen robbed a Sears store early Friday, taking about 5000 in cash and checks. Police described two gunmen, one about 5 feet 5 inches tall and intoxicated, the other around 5 feet 11 inches, well built in a tweed topcoat. A citywide hunt for the getaway car and suspects followed as clerks were urged to identify customers who paid with checks after 2 pm.
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Cedar Rapids
Owen
Gazette
John Smith
Fafth Avenue
Ana E
Cnteerth
Fear
Descur
Teo
Urs Scheffer
W Wallace
Winche
Woodel
Tme
Gems
Man Loses Eye In Palo Sawmill Accident
Ben Wisehart 39 of Center Point suffered a severe eye injury at his Palo sawmill when a flying log chain fragment struck him at 4 pm Friday. He was rushed to St Luke's hospital where the surgeon removed the eye.
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Ben Wisehart
Center Point
Palo
Wisehart
St. Luke's Hospital
Lowell Says NRA Sanctions Film Monopoly
Dr Lawrence Lowell former Harvard president declares the motion picture code allows a monopolistic film system. He cites block booking and blind buying as practices controlled by five large producers and says the code authority lacks real power to curb them. He notes his declination to serve on the code authority and criticizes its governance.
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Dr. Lowell
NRA
Boston
Lawrence Lowell
Harvard
Washington
Lowell
Back Bay
Sol A. Rosenblatt
Desperadoes Slain In Chicago Killed 2 Police
Three desperadoes are shot dead in Chicago after a fierce raid led by Captain John Steve. The victims Louis Katze witz Sammy Ginsbers and Charles Tattleebaum were linked to the Dillinger gang and July 22 killings of Police Shopek Ostivic. Two women and two men questioned as possible acquaintances. Katzewitz Ginsberg Tattlebaum had prior prison terms.
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Ceicago
Louis Katzewitz
Sammy Ginsbers
Charles Tattleebaum
Katzewitz
Tattlebaum
John Shopek
Elmer Ostivic
John Steve
John Dillinger
Indiana
Dillinger
Pontiac, Ill
Ginsberg
Michigan
Jackson
1200 Homes To Receive Christmas Baskets Sunday
About 1 000 to 1 200 baskets will be given in Cedar Rapids Sunday afternoon. A central clearing house at the YMCA coordinated 57 organizations to avoid duplication. Groups include business mens luncheon clubs Masonic and Eastern Star Woman's club BPW PTA Catholic and Protestant churches and the American Legion and auxiliaries.
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Cedar Rapids
Y M.C.A
Masonic
Eastern Star Orders
Woman's Club
P.T A's
American Legion
Elks
Roosevelt Probes Thomas Gold Plan and Silver Debate
The article outlines a Roosevelt proposal to back coin exchange with gold certificates, doubling currency value via gold price shifts, and funding from gold certificates. It notes silver remonetization debates with Senator Thomas and Senator Wheeler, stressing demands for broader silver use and fixed-ratio proposals.
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Roosevelt
Thomas
Congress
Borah Jrep
Idaho
Wheeler
Dem
Montana
Oriental
Whisky tax set at $2 a gallon in liquor bill
House Ways and Means Committee nears completion of a liquor tax bill proposing $2 per gallon on whisky gin brandy and other spirits $5 per barrel on beer and lighter taxes on wines. The measure would raise an estimated $500 billion annually and drops state revenue sharing and import trade provisions to speed passage.
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Washington
House Ways and Means
Treasury
Explaining Roosevelt Silver Plan for Coinage
Treasury experts detail the process from ore to dollars in the silver coinage plan. A miner delivers ore to Philadelphia Denver or San Francisco for assay, with 500 ounces of silver minted into dollars and the rest returned as bullion.
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Exchanse Cole
Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Philadelphia
Denver
San Francisco
Tre
United States
Wm E Suits Former Cedar Rapids Resident Dies
William E Suits a former Cedar Rapids resident and Quaker Oats vice president in charge of the Chicago feed department died of heart disease after two years illness. Born April 16 1869 in Red Oak Iowa he moved to Cedar Rapids as a child and later joined Quaker Oats serving as salesman before leading the feed division. He is survived by his widow two daughters Helen McKee and Maron Suits of Chicago and brother Arthur Suits of Cedar Rapids. Funeral services were held Tuesday with burial at Kennilworth Cemetery.
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William E. Suits
Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
Chicago
Mr. Suits
Red Oak
Ephriam
Deborah Suits
Washington High School
Mass Abbie S. Abbott
Gazette
Suits
Republican
Quaker Qats
West
Helen McKee
Maron Suits
Chicaco
Arthur Suits
Kennilworth
Father sues Marion Pool over son’s pool death
Carleton Haven, administrator of his son Carleton Jack Haven, filed a $10,000 damage suit in district court against Marion Post 298 Inc. The boy, unable to swim, was left in the shallow end at the Legion pool while others moved to deeper water and later was found dead in the deep end. Lemon juice claims noted as nicotine stain remover.
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Marion
Carleton Haven
Marion Post, No. 298, Inc
Legion Pool
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