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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1935
Page
19
A neighbor describes a married couple hit by unemployment and discouragement as they struggle through a bleak year. Readers urge caution with a troubled mother of three and suggest offering to care for the children to ease worry, even if it strains relations with the mother and her own mother.
Sunday premiere at the Iowa Theater features two A-1 productions headed by Herbert Marshall and Jean Arthur in If You Could Only Cook with Leo Carrillo and Lionel Stander. The lineup also includes Harold Bell Wright novel The Calling of Dan Matthews with Richard Arlen and Charlotte Wynters.
A column presents two letters about teen dating and family interference. One reader seeks guidance on preventing a jealous sister from taking her fiancé, while another asks why a 14-year-old should not date seriously. The responses emphasize trust, maturity, and delaying serious dating until older.
The Rialto presents Danger Ahead as Friday and Saturday headliner with Lawrence Grey and Sheila Manners starring in a melodramatic tale based on Peter Bo Kesne’s One Fight Apache. A gang dealing in silk goods opposes a reporter detective and others as Buck Jones stars in Throw Batik and a western comedy Cat and Eddie completes the program.
At the theaters Paramount features Shirley Temple and John Boles in The Littlest Rebel. Iowa shows Katharine Hepburn in Sylvia Scarlet and Ralph Bellamy in The Healer. State offers Music is Magic with Alice Faye and Ray Walker and Moonlight on the Prairie with Dick Foran. Rialto presents Danger Ahead with Lawrence Grey and Sheila Manners and Throw Back with Buck Jones. Palace screens The Mark of the Vampire with Lionel Barrymore and Shadow Ranch with Buck Jones. Olympic offers Will Rogers in Doubting Thomas and Marie Galante with Spencer Tracy and Ketti Gallian.
In New York a Baptist minister and head of the international nudist conference says cold winters do not deter nudists. He notes camps rising to eighty three nationwide and predicts growth to become nudists in less than ten years as members pose in snow and ski.
New York AT and T reports 360 overseas and round the world conversations on Christmas Day. The prior record was 284 calls in 1933, while the day before Christmas 148 calls were completed.
Brief items from December 27 1925 note P H Lockwood burned feeding a shorted auto engine, Hubbard Ice Co preparing for harvest, ice thirteen inches above the dam. Local markets show wheat, corn, oats, and livestock prices. Notables include Miss Clara Derby Cedar Bar dealer and longtime banker James Bever resigning Citizens National Bank. Maquoketa wedding Miss LaVerne Schmidt and James Andersen wed. couple to live near Maquoketa.
Fred B. Cruickshank vice president of the Iowa Association of Southern California says the group will hold its twenty-fifth annual banquet in Los Angeles. Former President Herbert Hoover will be principal speaker with introduction by Frank F. Merriam and Jake Hoover. Cruickshank, a Pasadena letter carrier, formerly worked in Cedar Rapids.
New York AP reports Samuel T Bledsoe president of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe says 1935 traffic both freight and passenger rose from the prior year and expects continued strength into 1936. He cites crop prospects and notes a $3.5 million increase for 1936 improvements. Also Tipton resident Mrs Ed S Stoffler dies of cerebral hemorrhage in her waiting room. survived by husband and son Dr C E Sifflet.
In Linn County Iowa the District Court will hear on December 27 1935 at 9 o clock AM the purported Last Will and Testament of Harry F Pasriste deceased for proof and admission to probate. Cedar Rapids IA December 19 1935. Edwin W Lundquist Clerk District Court.
A 1935 note explains powdered glass is not poisonous but can injure the digestive tract. It cites a man swallowing broken light bulbs without sickness or death, and warns mechanical damage is the main risk.
Starting Saturday the State presents a mixed program of music romance and suspense. The film Sweet Surrender stars Frank Parker and Tamara with hit songs such as Sweet Surrender and The Day You Were Born. Kind Lady stars Aline MacMahon Basil Rathbone with Mary Carlisle and Donald Meek in a mystery thriller pairing with romance.
A wealthy solitary woman invites a suave con artist into her life and becomes the focus of his dangerous fascination. The story follows her uneasy seduction into his world and the chilling fallout of a growing fixation.
The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroad reported a November operating net of 1,404,962 dollars, more than triple last year and within 18 percent of 1929 November figures, marking the largest November income in six years.
Jacobi of Belle Plaine married Louise Beck daughter of Mr and Mrs Orie Beck of Chelsea in a high noon ceremony at the bride’s parents home. Rev Irving Arnold officiated with Daisy Jacobi and Charles Beck as attendants. A wedding dinner for 37 followed and the couple will reside on a farm southeast of Belle Plaine.
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