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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1956
Page
8
Cedar Rapids residents keep Christmas visiting as guests stay through New Year and many travel to family homes. Local families report relatives from Greenville Mississippi Schenectady New York Evanston Illinois Milwaukee Wisconsin Memphis Tennessee Oak Park Illinois and more spending time at addresses on SE NE and NW avenues.
Memorandum notes closet space ideas for men including garment bags and folded apparel. Mentions New York Herald Transar Inc and advises storing summer items like shirts and underwear neatly.
Mrs Jackson travels from Cedar Rapids to Thurnbury area for a Peoria wedding. The bridegroom is son of Mrs Kenneth Hawthorne of Peoria and the late Mr Hawthorne, with Hawthorne family ties to Cedar Rapids.
John Schenken will be hosted at the YMCA for a birthday party observing his thirteenth birthday. Twenty six guests are invited with supper to follow and Christmas decorations planned. The host is Mr and Mrs Huge F Schenken of 1R16 Park Avenue SE.
An ad promotes buying frozen boneless meat without waste. The feature touts savourite cuts and fat free packaging as a new way to shop for meat, inviting readers to read about it in January issue of Better Homes & Gardens.
Center Point Iowa bride Joy De Row Butterfield of Santa Rosa California wed LaVerne Knight of Springville on December 8 at the First Methodist Church in Carson City Nevada. The couple planned to return to Cedar Rapids January 8 as guests attended the East West game and Rose Bowl events.
Rimes celebrate a wedding anniversary with a dinner for 15 guests at the home of their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs C L Palensky 1033 G Ave NW Bruceels were the Rimes’ son and daughter from Oskaloosa. They served crushed pineapple folded into vanilla ice cream then frozen for a company dessert.
The New York Dress Institute faces questions as the best-dressed women contest announces its rules and voter pool. Diana Stokes notes ballots are counted with audited secrecy, including editors, designers, VIPs, and global fashion observers.
Rome hosts a warm farewell to Clare Boothe Luce the first American woman ambassador to a major capital. She ends a 16 year Rome assignment after four years as ambassador and departs with her husband for New York for a state department debriefing. James D. Zellerbach will replace her.
Miss Dorothy M Cunningham daughter of Mr and Mrs W T Cunningham of 1718 Maple Drive NW wed Joseph B Hennessy of Iowa City at St Patrick’s church in a lace gown with a chapel train. Attendants wore red velvet gowns, one hundred guests attended a Roosevelt Hotel reception, couple to Town City after Jan 10.
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