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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1934
Page
19
The report claims farmers face repeated pocket picking when selling produce, highlighting a claim by James P Whiteside yarmier. The excerpt notes allegations of coercive sales practices affecting rural traders.
The tax reform plan faces opposition as urban districts warn of high burdens while rural lawmakers push to base relief on property values. City and rural senators clash over who pays new income and sales taxes and how revenue is allocated amid worries of unequal relief.
The article recalls Ralph Puatzer resigning from an NRA division administrator post after criticism of his impartiality. He argues opposition to his appointment would taint his neutrality in any future dealings with the association and its members, noting his decision spares embarrassment to editors and readers.
A Progressive era tone notes slow progress under new leadership in New Orleans. Walmsley’s Washington visit and threats toward the Kingfish suggest public dissatisfaction with a bombastic demagogue and the city’s civic reforms.
The article discusses the importance of New Orleans mayors as leaders and stepping stones to national politics. It argues that the city’s choice affects both local residents and the national view, urging a statesmanlike figure who can rise without echoing Huey Long.
A week ago, former secretary Coden L. Mills criticized the New Deal as not matching voters expectations and implied Republicans would oppose Roosevelt. The remarks touch the 1937 White House dynamics and fuel talk of political shifts amid old wartime sentiments.
A sunlit essay contrasts American travelers' romantic views of Majorca natives with harsher judgments of fellow Americans at home. It argues that people accept others abroad but mock them among their own, urging acceptance and restraint in our judgments of friends and strangers. The piece promotes tolerance and warns against provincial attitudes. It lightly critiques Tammany Hall, Sol Bloom, and pork-barrel politics, finishing with a wry note on social pretensions and a closing moral about personal perception.
A fragmented New York scene recalls a Broadway dance venue where a hunchbacked dancer inspires mixed awe and pity. The narrator muses on sight and art, cites Montaigne, and references Tangled thoughts about beauty, gaze, and celebrity alongside brief mentions of Margaret Whiteman and Elinor Glyn.
A montage recalls theater nights with George Jean Nathan and Lillian Gish, Nathan’s rigid, statue-like mien drawing attention while critics differed. The piece moves through cafe intrigues, city nights, and a glimpse of Laurence Tibbetts’s new East End Avenue home with operatic echoes.
A cluttered puzzle page asks who the fictitious character in the picture is and links to clues across horizontal and vertical entries. The grid includes terms like river names, animals, colors, and historic terms, with varying language errors and scattered misprints.
Items from the Gazette recall events such as Rev Fred M Blick invited to fill a First United Presbyterian pulpit in Washington Iowa and a memorial lamp blessed at Grace church. The piece notes tributes to former President Wilson and local political moves, plus community happenings across the area.
The poem recalls nighttime town scenes from a car window as the speaker reflects on small familiar homes. He contrasts grand mansions with modest houses, cherishing simple memories of childhood, neighbors, and a path from cellar to roof that he once knew well.
Washington rumors float that Claude Swanson may retire from the navy secretary post, with talk of other cabinet shifts under the new deal. The piece notes Swanson health, ambitions, and possible Virginia home return amid broader chatter about Morgenthau, Woodin appointees, Ristine, and Capitol Hill tensions.
Claude Callan reports on a strained relationship between Dave and his preacher after Dave loses his fortune. Dave feels the preacher pays less attention to him, while the preacher may believe his soul needs less watching.
A 1933 review argues Koch's postulates frame disease causation but notes the common cold defies a clear definition. The piece criticizes public scientific certainty, saying no true entity called the common cold exists and many doctors drift with uncertain diagnoses.
A reader questions quacks and personal health myths while a columnist defends reputable physicians by name and explains chocolate calories for active youths. Dr Brady offers to answer health letters by mail, noting space limits. A Fort Worth boy, Clinton White, has suffered thirty eight bone fractures in eight years.
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