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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 14, 1937

Page

6

Household Training Drive Offers Practical Maid Program

An Iowa Cedar Rapids effort partners the YWCA and Iowa State Employment Service to train unskilled girls for housework. A ten week course covers cooking, cleaning, laundry, child care, and more with class work at the YWCA and hands on practice in homes at three dollars weekly.

Cedar Rapids Y.W.C.A Dorothy Whitmore Bessie Graves Iowa State Employment Service Iowa State Employment Agency Y. Kitchen Steele Wilcox U.’s Miss Whitmore

Tenth Anniversary Of Temple Judah Observed By Members

Observances mark the tenth anniversary of Temple Judah at 1943 Washington Avenue SE with a February to March schedule including a March 11 anniversary dinner at the Roosevelt hotel. Speeches by Rabbi Solomon Goldman and Rabbi Charles Shulman highlight a program of services, concerts, and Hadassah events led by temple officers and community leaders.

Temple Judah Baron Max Schenk Washington Heights Center New York City Albert S. Goldstein Jewish Community Center Rock Island David Polish Temple Philip Leibsohn Charles Schoen William Tiep Jack Levin Sam Greenblatt A. L. Smulekoff M. J. Frankel Temple Sisterhood Henry Smulekoff John F. Miller Abe Kopel Raymond Klass Carl Ettinger Louis Rosenbaum Charles Greenberg A. N. Gelb Zigmund Salit Judah Washington Avenue SE Temple Fe Solomon Goldman Anshe Emeth Synagogue Chicago Roosevelt Hotel Joseph L. Baron Temple Emanuel Milwaukee Cedar Rapids Lincoln Jewish Youth Group B. J. Newburger Charles Shulman Abe

Manufacturers' Rep Group Formed In Cedar Rapids

The Manufacturers' Representatives association a new Cedar Rapids group for national food company reps met at Hotel Roosevelt at noon. Charter members include J H Steffens Ruggles and Rodemaker Salt Co Joseph Afflerbough Salada Tea Co Richard Bruch Kellogg Co M O Reiff General Foods and others with meetings to continue Saturdays and officers to be elected at the next gathering.

Manufacturers’ Representative Association Cedar Rapids Hotel Roosevelt Des Moines Omaha Minneapolis J. H. Steffens Ruggles and Rodemaker Salt Company Joseph Afflerbough Salada Tea Company Richard Bruch Kellogg Company M. O. Reiff General Foods Fenton Adams Libby, McNeil and Libby T. M. Lake Beech-Nut Packing Company A. J. Hovland P. Lorillard Company O. K. Richardson H. J. Heinz Company R. H. Sneckinberger M. J. B. Coffee Company E. W. McDonald Brown Williamson Tobacco Company W. D. Lyons Mid-West Advertising Company L. H. Esbensen Premier-Pabst Sales Company Joseph Hladkey, Jr Fordeg The Cedar Rapids Gazette

Chicago Pen Firm Sit-Down Ends as Workers Return

Wahl Eversharp workers abandon a Friday sit down at the Chicago plant after an agreement to negotiate wage increases around 25 percent. About 50 men and 75 young women evacuated Saturday, aiming to return Monday as talks proceed. Police had barred food and outside communications during the standoff.

Chicago Wahl- Eversharp Pen Company Daniel Lynch

Red Cross appoints new Linn county junior division chair

Mrs. N Harold West named chairman directing about 10 000 Cedar Rapids area Junior Red Cross members. Mrs. E Thorson named assistant. succession follows Miss Dorothy Mary Dvorak’s marriage. Junior Red Cross active in all elementary and several high schools with a fifty member junior council meeting monthly at the YMCA.

Linn County American Red Cross N. Harold West Twentieth Street Junior Red Cross Cedar Rapids E Thorson Second Avenue West Boy Scouts Dorothy Mary Dvorak Stanley Kiiz Black River Wis Shakespeare Club Thorson Northwestern University Hull House Chicago College Club PEO Junior Red Cross Franklin and Roosevelt McKinley Hi-Y-Ettes Y.M.C. A James Baba Roosevelt Junior High School Mildred Burke Mary Jean Palmer Franklin School Helen Shields Harrison School

Sleeping Beauty Of Oak Park Enters Sixth Year Of Coma

Oak Park Illinois Patricia Maguire a 31 year old stenographer known as the sleeping beauty entered the sixth year of a coma Saturday doctors still cannot explain the illness After a valentine mailing five years ago she never left her home The condition is linked to epidemic encephalitis lethargica or sleeping sickness in this case leaving her in a deep state of unconsciousness.

Oak Park, Ill Patricia Maguire Oak Park

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