Roosevelt to Fill Four Diplomatic Posts
President Roosevelt plans to appoint ministers to four vacant foreign service posts in The Hague Czechoslovakia El Salvador and Liberia with decisions expected around the new year. Names from New York and Vermont are cited as candidates while Liberia awaits internal settlement and financial rehabilitation gains league approval.
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Washington
United States
Foreign Service
Roosevelt
Netherlands
Czechoslovakia
el Salvador
Liberia
State Department
Laurits
Swenson
Minnesota
New York
Hague
Francis White
Maryland
Legation
White
el Salador
George M. Graves
Vermont
Africa
League of Nations
Aiso
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Scientific view on gender roles and heredity in society
A historical piece argues science supports training women for time jobs, noting Bergen studies showing married status affects retention. It discusses environment versus heredity in leadership, citing royal lineages and hereditary traits as factors, with references to William the Silent and Charles V.
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Fred Adams Woods
William the Silent
Frederick
Henry
Louisa Ulrica
Joanna
Habits booklet offered by Dr Albert Wickam
A small 28 page booklet on habit formation and control is advertised. Dr Albert Wickam invites readers to request HABITS by sending self addressed stamped envelopes with 10 cents for postage.
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Albert Edward Wiscam
Creat
Harvard
William James
Albert Wickam
Former Local Minister W. A. Lee Authors Christmas Hymn
The Rev. William Arthur Lee of Salem New Hampshire, once pastor at Cedar Rapids First Congregational, wrote a new Christmas hymn at the request of the Boston Evening Transcript. The verse is presented as the main item.
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William Arthur Lee
Salem, N. H
First Congregational Church of
Cedar Rapids
Boston Evening Transcript
Dreaming Christmas Hymn of Jesus Birth
Poem by William Arthur Lee urges universal gladness at the birth of Jesus. It celebrates heavenly dreaming and earthly tears shaping Christ the Man of all the years. It calls all people to bow before the manger throne and present gifts to the infant Prince of Peace.
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Christ
Jesus
God
Isaye
Lord Emmanuel
Christmas Prince of
Marion couple wed at Coe College chapel on Christmas Eve
Miss Berneta Mae Standish and Robert Raymond Hyde married in a 4 15 p.m. double ring ceremony at Coe College chapel in Marion. Rev. Lloyd Morris officiated as organist Esther Dempster played. Attendants included Helen Wright and best man Jack Stroud. After a reception, the couple plans to live in Clarence after Feb 1 while the bride resumes teaching in Anamosa and the groom continues at Clarence High School.
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Berneta Mae Standish
Robert Raymond Hyde
Coe College Chapel
Lloyd Morris
Coe College
Esther Dempster
Chicago
Helen Wright
Chariton
Jack Stroud
Cedar Rapids
Miss Wright
John G. Standish
Eighteenth Street
Marion
Marion High School
University of California
Iowa State Teachers College
Anamosa
Alva Hyde
Seventh Avenue
Hyde
Clarence High School
Clarence
Marion holiday guest lists and community notes
A long list of holiday visitors and gatherings in Marion and nearby towns fills a Christmas week report. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. C W Molburg of Chicago, Dr. and Mrs. R E Lehdigh, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Applegate of Perry, and many others from Davenport, Ottumwa, Cedar Rapids, Mount Vernon, and beyond. Community groups meet, including the Women's Missionary Society, and local dinners and travels are noted. the piece closes with a remark that the average life of an airplane engine is about 2,100 hours.
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Carl Fernow
Marion
H. F. Gifford
Elizabeth Beall
Ray Beall
Cedar Rapids
Oca Price
Leslie Blocker
DeWitt
Gail Storck
Mount Vernon
Richard Burt
Ray Bodger
Nevada
Ray Valentine
William Valentine
Beverly
Mae Rowley
Howard
Walter van Fossen
Albert
Jimmy
Euarher Price
Richard
W. F. Kruger
Walter Reich
Wrightville
Arthur Glass
New York City
Florence Kruger
Moorhead, Minn
Elsie Kruger
Chicago
Ruth Kruger
Paul Kruger
R. E. Lehdigh
Walter ‘Applegate
Perry
Scott Lehdigh
Harold’ Kahler
Donnie
Davenport
Walter Paul
John Paul
Lillian Slechta
L. R. Blackledge
W. W. Vaughn
C. L. Burlingame
Betty and
Vaughn
Fort Atkinson
Wis
L. D. Johnson
Springfield, Ill
Walter Vaughn
Jack
N. Y
Just Folks by Edgar A Guest
A reflective verse pondering who besides shepherds witnessed the Bethlehem star and the divine beacon over the town. The speaker questions worldly wisdom and whether any passerby truly grasped the miraculous sign that night.
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Edgar A. Guest
An Anthem Engraved in Seams for Shepherds Hearers
Fragmentary OCR lines hint at a poem or hymn about shepherds and singers. The text asks if the anthem for the English born and shepherds remains the same, noting wealth, growth, and deafness to gentler thoughts, with stray numerals suggesting corrupted OCR.
Mississippi River Highway Feasibility Studied for St Louis
A riverfront survey will assess the feasibility of a magnificent highway along the Mississippi River. Mayor Bernard Dickmann orders the study and sees the cleanup of the river front as creating playgrounds and a major city improvement.
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ST. Louis
Mississippi River
Berenard Dickmann
Dickmann
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