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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1934
Page
3
Frances Flobinson-Duff guides readers to self awareness and cultivated kindness in the first instalment of The Way to Charm. She argues that charm comes from correcting flaws, mastering manners, and forgiving others to attract friendship and love.
The passage suggests charm grows with age and experience, shaping self consciousness and life choices. It asserts that older individuals gain tolerance and generosity, quoting Mark Twain on charm, and ends by introducing the topic of Poise and Posture.
Terror Aboard will headline a Rialto program on Wednesday and Thursday featuring John Halliday and a cast as the advertisement notes. The event promises a combination program with a suspenseful lineup and strong performances.
The program features a love and murder tale aboard a tropical yacht with stars Lie Ruggles Neil Hamilton Shirley Grey Verree Teasdale and Jack La Rue. The second number is The Three Musketeers with John Wayne Ruth Hall Jack Mulhall Raymond Hatton Francis X Bushman and Creighton Chaney. A comedy Out Of Guns Burns and Allen and a cartoon complete the lineup.
A curious note describes wild skunks capable of balancing on their forefeet in surprising poses. The observation highlights unusual animal behavior without broader context.
The Iowa theater hosts Jack Fine's World's Fair Midget Village Follies for three days Tuesday February 6 to Thursday February 8. The original Century of Progress show features fifty performers led by Stella Royal 28 inches tall with a miniature Mae West, plus a 50 member cast, large props, and a midget orchestra. Warren William stars in the feature Bedside with Jean Muir Kathryn Sergava and Allen Jenkins showing alongside.
Theaters list top films and stars in Iowa and across majors showing titles such as Hips Hips Hooray at AT THE THEATERS and Counsellor at Law at PARAMOUNT. Notable casts include Ruth Etting Joan Barrymore Otto Kruger Warren William Clive Brook Vivienne Osborne Warner Oland Heather Angel Gary Cooper Fay Wray Charles Ruggles Shirley Grey Ann Harding Leslie Howard and more.
Wallace cites five year profits of milk distributors in St. Louis Boston Chicago and Philadelphia to attack dairy earnings. He notes four city licenses expected to curb prices via production control and marketing agreements while producers push for enforcement.
Central City Creamery reports a 70 000 pound increase in butter output in 1933 over 1932, totaling 316 958 pounds at an average price of 21 44 cents. Butter fat payments reached 57 326 82 dollars at 22 37 cents per pound. The creamery opened in 1931 with 26 patrons and now serves 350. Earl Batchelder was re elected president with H R Ramsay E R Finson and others returning to office. Dinner for 300 patrons at Federated church followed the meeting with speakers from Cherry Burrell Cedar Rapids and Garnaville and music from local performers.
Linn county motorists crowded the County Treasurer's office at the courthouse all day Wednesday to obtain 1934 license plates. The day’s receipts totaled 26462.04 for 1526 passenger plates and 266 truck licenses, with 1440 licenses issued on Tuesday and a cumulative total of 13910 passenger car licenses and 1611 truck licenses. Deputies from Sheriff Joseph A. Petrus' office guarded the scene.
Miles Plotz operator of a drug store on First avenue and Tenth street E was charged with failing to comply with a state trade name statute after a warrant served by county and city officials. A hearing was set for Monday at 10 a.m. Platz posted a $100 bond.
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the Northern Pacific Railway to borrow 1,220,000 dollars from the Public Works Administration to purchase ten new passenger locomotives. Equipment trust certificates will be issued to secure the loan.
City briefs note a bungalow cooking school Thursday night and a fresh shipment of Jones sausage from Hladky's. The Progressive club plans a meeting with Mrs. Getty Blair on Eighth Street SW Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. Fred Webster, 23, of Fruitland Heights SW, was fined 100 dollars and costs for intoxication and disturbing his family peace. police arrested him at home after his wife alleged beating.
Albert McCleery will direct and perform in the Community Players production of This One Man at the Paramount theater. He plays Marvin the ailing younger brother, aiding Saul the leading man in a drama with dramatic lighting, thirteen scenes, and a prison cell set. Reserved seats only for the Thursday night performance.
Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore star in Carolina opening Friday at the Paramount. The drama centers on a northern girl who moves south to work a tobacco plantation and mend a decayed southern family, amid romance and pushback. The critic hails it as a standout season picture.
A new film features Otto Kruger as a brilliant lawyer centerpiece with Una Merkel Ben Lyon Isabel Jewell Roscoe Karns Irene Hervey C Henry Gordon and Irene Franklin in the cast. The State theater presents the picture on Wednesday and Thursday with a strong courtroom drama promise.
In Galesburg Illinois railroad engineer Jesse L. Davis aged 48 killed Mrs. Faye Marthe, 36, and wounded another woman before two suicide attempts failed. Davis remained alive and in critical condition.
A Q and A explores how science weighs moral choices and social rights. It discusses happiness of genius wives, fame as a core motive, and why optimistic fortune predictions are more popular, with a humorous aside about a drugstore weighing machine verdicts.
Readers are invited to request a 28 page booklet by Dr Albert Wiggam on forming and controlling good habits. The pamphlet notes principles from William James and Harvard, with one cent price and return envelope for request. Include 10 cents to cover costs.
A fragment reflects on praise from a beggar or lowly figure toward a machine and the human urge to believe in something better. The speaker acknowledges the praise as perhaps insincere yet seeks comfort in the idea that there may be substance behind it.
Oklahoma City United Press reports Dr. G N Bilby state health director proposes sterilizing dangerous criminals. He cites outlaws like Pretty Boy Floyd Clyde Barrow and Machine Gun Kelly as potential candidates claiming such operations would deter crime more than the electric chair.
The Pennsylvania railroad will launch a 77000000 public works effort next week, providing one year of work for about 25 000 railroad workers and 3500 plants across 35 states. Gen W W Atterbury cited weak consumption in clothing and food and urged heavy industry to match the stimulus to revive the economy.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stone, former Central City residents, escaped a deadly monoxide gas incident in their car on a highway near Otley Tuesday evening. Their son Artie Stone reported the event. The Bleue automobile was found by the roadside with Mrs. Stone unconscious outside, limbs frozen, and Mr. Stone unconscious inside but revived to name both after hospital transport.
Hollister California four year old Billy Dunlop swallowed a nickel on Tuesday and coughed up a nickel and a penny when his father William Dunlop shook him by the heels. The parent expressed relief and concern about more coins inside.
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