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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1934
Page
5
Premier Tsaldaris announced Samuel Insull Jr will be permitted to remain in Greece until his health improves. The 74 year old former utilities operator, wanted in the United States, faced extradition after being ordered to leave Greece January 31.
The World Day of Prayer service sponsored locally by the City Missionary Union will be held at St. Pauls Methodist Church at 2 p.m. Friday. The theme is Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
Sub divisions of this theme led by Mrs I L Baumgartner Mrs George Witwer Miss Louise Strange and Mrs Royal Holbrook with Mrs F B Baldwin, Mrs Luther Fuhrmeister and Miss Ruth Webster handling music. The program committee includes Mrs R F Judson Mrs J E Ives Mrs F B Baldwin Mrs A Kepler and Mrs Lowell S Orth.
Local items report a 19 month old girl, Marilyn Ann Brown, critically ill with pneumonia at home. Community notices include master painters meeting, I O O F session, and a Colesburg play act performance. Drunkenness fines, petty thefts, a trailer theft, and reduced jail terms are noted. University of Iowa ROTC promotions include John Worley, Godfrey Horacek, and James Jadrnicck.
An old ad promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Ol Capsules as a diuretic and stimulant for kidney and bladder troubles. It claims the product from Haarlem in Holland flushes waste and acids, reducing nighttime bathroom visits, backache, moist palms, puffy eyes, and scanty, burning passages.
Second lieutenants of engineering have been named and Harold O Jirsa and Andrew B Steele appointed cadet captains in the medical unit. Mr and Mrs W J Daniels left for Durango Colo after Mrs Daniels father Lee L Parr died. Walter Jewell was struck by a car in front of 1215 First Ave E but walked away uninjured. Firefighters responded to a chimney fire on Bever Ave SE and multiple grass and roof fires across Cedar Rapids during the day and into the afternoon of the period described.
W F Volz writes to the Gazette defending ice spearing of soft fish, arguing abuses exist in all sports and urging the Iowa fish and game commission to permit spearing through the ice and punish violators to the limit. He notes 15 years of advocacy without personal participation in spearing.
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