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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1936
Page
5
Pittsburgh mayor Cornelius D. Scully launches a campaign using patrol wagons and telegrams to recruit violators to traffic court. The effort boosts court volume and public awareness while officials report a wave of traffic jams easing as fines are collected.
Hugh Liffel sues a telegraph company in Urbana alleging negligence for failing to deliver a race tip in time to place a $50 bet. He says the horse won and paid $13.20 on a $2 ticket and seeks $287.50 in damages.
Radio listings detail daily prime time and daytime programs across NBC and CBS networks, naming shows, performers, and station chains such as WEAF WJZ WABC WBBM KMOX WOC WCCO. Entries include Fibber McGee and Molly, Horace Heidt, and Glenn soprano performances with multiple local stations listed.
A listing of radio programs across NBC CBS and local stations with times from 7:00 to 9:36 including Morning devotions Blues Birds Cheerios Streamliners Breakfast Club and various NBC CBS WABC WJZ WEAF WBBM KMOX and WCCO slots featuring hosts and segments.
Capt. Mike Dolan of the Seattle Whaling Co speaks in New Orleans about his ships and years at sea. He describes whaling voyages, harpooner prowess, and survival tales including a Frenchman allegedly swallowed by a whale.
The piece argues President Gomez faces impeachment as Colonel Batista tightens control in Cuba. A puppet congress and army staffed schools would shape youth to a Mussolini Stalin style regime, while Spain’s civil war tests Russian vs German Italian ideas amid international alarm.
A series of property deeds record transfers in Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns. Henry S Ely and others convey parcels to Zoe Perley with covenants and unpaid mortgage balance. multiple transfers involve Hoffmans, von Lackums, Trost, Edaburns, Kilburns, Sramek, Piep er, Myers, Buser, Shunk, Nissen, Kohout, Hansen, and Cousins among others. Each deed notes nominal consideration of $1 and deeds of trust or covenants of record.
The account recalls a sailor saved from a whale, his memory of being drawn into the creature’s throat and the ensuing heat and darkness. After rescue his skin turned milky, blamed on digestive fluids, and observers noted his fearful condition. Dolan adds his own notes on whale biology and behavior.
New England shipped three cases of hatching eggs from Tamworth New Hampshire to Southdown Hatcheries in Uckfield Sussex England. The eggs are carried aboard the Queen Mary to improve English poultry strains. Eggs will become day old chicks and may be sent to English farms for broiler development or raised here.
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