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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1934
Page
11
The House plans a special order to consider a beer bill raising content from 2 8 to 4 percent. The measure includes Sunday sales, refrigerated off premise sales, and other changes. Committee members say they需d printed copy and time to study provisions before floor action.
Mount Vernon Gazette notes Cornell students stage Mary Tudor this Friday and Saturday in the chapel auditorium with Revd Mote of Waterloo and a cast including Myrtle Ann Mathern Hoffman and Roger Ward French Carter among others. Also reported are funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Margaret Harvey born 1858 daughter of Glasgow, survived by husband and three daughters.
An OCR fragment mentions Iowa City as a key point and contains jumbled phrases about transformations and names. The readable text is sparse and lacks clear events or recognizable entities to describe a specific incident or outcome.
Mrs B J Hoover longtime Westeyan Methodist church member died Wednesday after a short illness. Funeral services at Troy with the pastor and local pallbearers in attendance. She was born at Troy in 1880 and lived with her family in the area, leaving a surviving list of siblings and nephews. Her husband and one son preceded her in death. The obituary notes ties to the Bayley and Banes families and lists many relatives.
Justice B F Carter fined R M Work mayor of North Liberty $25 plus costs for operating a truck without a permit. An information against Work was filed by J M Wrson, a state inspector for the Iowa railroad commission.
In Keokuk a judge overruled a defense motion. Anna Meggers seeks $1000 from Dr. Kirley after a June auto collision on a highway near Charlotte. In Washington, Harry Montgomery installed as master councilor of Amos chapter DeMolay with officers named. Decorah re elects G F Baker and others to Oneota Golf Club posts. Wapello plans a new Louisa County jail with federal funding sought. an architect’s drawing arrived and an old facility is condemned as unsafe.
Special to The Cazette Anamosa Judge H C Ring of Cedar Rapids to preside at the Jones county district court term convening March 12. Ten women and thirty five men from thirteen localities named as jurors.
In Fort Madison 85 year old M T Grattan, a Decorah Civil War veteran now serving life for murder, has petitions circulating statewide by the Daughters of Union Veterans asking Governor Herring to grant pardon and send him to a soldiers home. Grattan says self defense sparked the shooting of Claude Mead over a horse race dispute. Belle Plaine Legion post holds Dad's Night Dinner with toastmaster Victor Visquain and talks by Rev Vinton Lee and Dr W A Vincent, Belle Plaine's sole Civil War veteran.
Iowa City officials announce three judges for the University of Iowa dramatic art contest March 22 23 and 24 Prof E C Mable head of the speech department confirms Sydney Spayde Yankton College South Dakota Prof A Dale Riley University of Minnesota and Prof Gertrude Johnson University of Wisconsin will judge. Eighteen casts from Iowa high schools junior colleges and community groups compete with seven championships including best original play.
Center Point voters approve a 12,000 bond for a school building addition by a large margin in a special Wednesday election. The ballot favored 245 to 54 with the government agreeing to purchase bonds at 4 percent and grant 30 percent of the construction cost, expected to be 5,000 to 6,000, plus the school board has an existing 3,500 in the building program.
Iowa City postmaster Charles A Bowman traced a Wisconsin resident’s missing teeth after the man complained he had left them for repair in Iowa City. Bowman located the dentist after a prolonged search and returned the teeth, asserting a local service precedent.
Independence high school pupils won three first places at the Buchanan county declamatory contest held Tuesday. Wendell Hamlin led in oratorical with Esther Moore second. Winston Mavis won dramatic with Joy Miller second. Dorothy Wolfe captured humor followed by Robert Quigley as runner up.
Iowa City officials announced the selection of fifteen University of Iowa engineering students for the Mecca chorus during Mecca week. Among the chosen are Jaro Soucek Irving Roberts and W F Anderson from Iowa City Emil Petranek Peter Bachkis Robert Marek and Lyle Richardson from Cedar Rapids and Robert Hawley and E J Aguilar from Davenport.
Fragmentary notes show a municipal tax dispute involving Sticed Watieups and Herring. Proceedings reference assessments and local governance, with no final ruling documented in the readable text.
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