Mardi Gras Honored by St Elisabeths Guild Members
More than 300 women attended the fifteenth annual Mardi Gras of St Elizabeths Guild at the Crystal room in the Montrose hotel. Mrs Cook and several officers presided at tea tables after an afternoon of cards, with elaborate crystalline decorations and festive favors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Elizabeths Guild
St. John's Episcopal Church
Montrose Hotel
Robert S Cook
Lester T Jackson
Arthur Poe
Harold R. Trewin
George Otis
David Whittingham
A WW Panlthorpe
Ralph Hrome
T Albert
Mesa Srem
Clark
Asma Harz
Markham Topic Of Ced ar Rapids Woman's Club Talk
Mrs HC Ring reviewed Edwin Markham poet of democracys life at the annual guest day of the history and literature department of the Cedar Rapids Woman's club. She read poems from memory as Miss Anna Marie De Castello introduced her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HC. Ring
Edwin Markham
Democracs
Cedar Rapids Woman's Club
Anna Marie de Castello
Ring
Arthur Mott
S R Hawkins
Wayne G Basler
Esther Hronik
Godard
Schaefer
Margaret Fortsch
Carlotta
Hawkins
Jqis
J. J Terrall
Matilda Snouffer
E. I Smith
Professor Koenig on European background at Ladies Club gathering
Prof Myron L Koenig of Coe College spoke on the European background of the Italian Ethiopia crisis at the Ladies Literary Club guest day. About thirty five attendees heard the lecture at Mrs Delbert Ashbys home 2520 Country Club Parkway SE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myron L. Koenig
Coe College
Ladies Literary Club
Delbert Ashby
Country Club Parkway
James Knox
Harry M Gage
Arthur Huntington
J . K von Lackum
Ashby
Fragments Report Auction Plan for 1100-Pound Lots
A damaged notice from Mry Hooteen F Spangler of Cottage Creek Avenue in New York City references a Sunday closure and a forthcoming sale. The notice notes a period of travel while declaring 1100 pound lots to be auctioned or distributed.
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Hooteen
Spangler
Goa
Ray Anderson Talks Agriculture at Chapter DK Meeting
Ray Anderson farm editor of The Gazette spoke to 42 members of chapter DK of the PE O at the home of Mrs. W oC Henning on Second Avenue SE. His address titled The March of Time in Agriculture highlighted agriculture as a driver of civilization and optimism for the future. Guests included Mrs. Ray Anderson Mrs. CE Roberts and Miss Gertrude Shoe maker of chapter GM Miss Lois Richardson of chapter HJ and Mrs. Walter Rowles of chapter EF at Onawa.
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Ray Anderson
The
Gazette
W Oc Henning
Second Avenue
Anderson
CE. Roberts
Gertrude Shoemaker
Lois Richardson
Walter Rowles
Onawa
Charter Presented To Mt. Vernon Scout Troop
Scout Executive N Harold West from Cedar Rapids presented the 1936 charter to Troop 40 of Mount Vernon sponsored by the Pioneer club during a district court of honor in the Mount Vernon city hall Red Cross room. Scoutmaster Walter Gray leads the ten year troop with assistant Bob Soderholm. committee members include Roy Nelson and two reverends. Seventeen boys are enrolled and three new Scouts of Troop 54 Lisbon were invested as Second class advances earned five merit badges and a Star. William Foster of Troop 40 received Star Scout recognition. The Rev Nelson Careier spoke on Scouting Applied to Life.
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Harold West
Cedar Rapids
Mount Vernon
Pioneer Club
Mount Vernon- Lisbon
Red Cross Room
Mount Vernon City Hall
Walter Gray
Bob Soderholm
Roy Nelson
E. T Gough
E. C Moorehead
E Hutchins
Harold Ericson
Lisbon
Lawrence MacKay
William Foster
Nelson Careier
Cedar Rapids Area Council
Court of Honor
Gold Mining Reaches Billion Dollar Peak in 1935
A report to the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Examiners shows 1935 gold mining surpassed a billion dollars with the United States, South Africa, Russia and Canada as top producers. The Witwatersrand region in South Africa expects major expansion spending over 110 million dollars and 15000 white workers plus 135000 natives. Discovery of the Golden Queen mine at Mojave California is noted as a key domestic development. Diatomite new uses are described and John M Lovejoy of Seaboard Oil is elected Mining and Metallurgical Engineers president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical
John J Croston
Boston
United States
South Africa
Russia
Canada
Croston
Witwerstand
Australia
Golden Queen
Mojave
Calif
Comstock Lode
Nevada
California
Lompoc
Cahif
Henry Mulryan
John M Lovejoy
Seaboard Oil Company
New York City
Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Conan Doyle Diagnoses Widow's Illness From Beyond
In Crowborough Sussex the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is said to have diagnosed his wife’s illness from the spirit world. Adnan Conan Doyle son of the author relayed messages claiming the widow's condition worsened after two major operations for an emotional disorder in the past week.
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Crowborough
Sussex
Eng
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adnan Conan Dausle
Conan Dosle
Adnan
Arthur
XuMira
Hen lays egg with note in Manhattan
A Kansas State College poultry student reports a hen laid an egg containing a cork and note. The cork traveled the egg duct and the shell formed normally. The note was later retrieved at a party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Kan
Robert E. Phillips, Jr
Phillips
Kansas State College Poultry Husbandry
Cornell Dean Discusses Alcohol Effects On Individuals
Cornell College dean Dr Albion R King told a Canopus club luncheon that intelligent people are less affected by alcohol than slower minds. He cited absorption in about thirty minutes and four motives for drinking: stimulation sociability habit and escaping reality.
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Cornell Dean
Albion R. King
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Canopus Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Federal Revenue Office Aids Taxpayers in Cedar Rapids
Deputies in the United States collector of internal revenue office on the second floor of the federal building in Cedar Rapids stand ready to help taxpayers file federal income tax returns. Delinquent reports are due March 16 due to March 15 falling on a Sunday. IRS offices in Cedar Rapids operate 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m.
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United States Collector of Internal Revenue
Federal
Cedar Rapids
Internal Revenue
Haworth Sentenced to Fifty Nights in Salem Jail
H F Haworth relief worker for dependents pled inability to pay a $100 fine for trespass. He will serve fifty nights in the city jail, allowed to “lay out” the fine, from 6 30 p m to 6 30 a m, due to his financial condition and employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Ore
INS
H. F Haworth
Haworth
Nationally Known Home Economics Expert to Lead Iowa Theater Cooking School
Mrs. Dorothy Ayers Loudon a nationally known home economics expert and former hospital dietitian will conduct a Town Theater Cooking school in Cedar Rapids from February 25 to 28. The program runs 9 to 11 30 a.m. daily at the Iowa theater and is free to all women men may attend. Each day groceries and attendance gifts will be given to a limited number of participants.
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Iowa Theater
Cedar Rapids
Dorothy Ayers Loudon
Hospital
Town ‘Theater
Loudon
University of Wisconsin
North Dakota Agricultural College
Hospital Dietetics Council
National Dietetics Association
Home Economics Women In Business
American Home Economic Association
Kansas City Man To Be Speaker At Life Insurance Luncheon
W. T. Grant president of the Business Men's Assurance Company of Kansas City will speak at the Life Underwriters Association luncheon at the Hotel Roosevelt Wednesday noon. All life underwriters and Cedar Rapids area friends are welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
W. T. Grant
Business Men’s Assurance Company of
Life Underwriters Association
Hotel Roosevelt
All Life Underwriters and Friends of
Cedar Rapids
Vicinity
Legion To Observe Birthday March 17
The American Legion marks its seventeenth birthday on March 17 with a nationwide radio party. A dramatization of the Legion’s founding and history will be broadcast starting at 10 30 Central Standard Time and run for one hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
American Legion
The
Legion
Pickets Blockade Goodyear Plant No. 2
Pickets blockaded all entrances to Goodyear Plant No. 2 in Akron Ohio and resisted two police attempts to clear a path for incoming workers. About two hundred employees on a skeleton shift tried to enter at midnight but were kept out in the dispute over layoffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron, O
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Fear Rosehill Woman Died In Burning Home
Firemen recovered no body on Tuesday despite searches at the Rosehill residence of Mrs. Jennie Gaston an 81 year old woman presumed dead after a blaze. The home in Rosehill Indiana was destroyed by fire and investigators continued to probe the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fear Rosehill
Oskaloosa
Jennie Gaston
Rosehill
Giddy pinwheel cookies from Home Institute booklet
Recipe for giddy pinwheel cookies with butter sugar egg yolk and two chocolate layers. Includes method to roll chill and bake at 375 to 400 degrees and mentions a 40 page Home Institute booklet CAKES AND COOKIES with other desserts and an order coupon.
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Home Institute
Robert Zelck Fined in Assault Case
Robert Zelck was charged with assault and battery on John Makowecki and fined $50 plus costs by Justice W. J. Grunewald Tuesday. All but $10 and costs suspended.
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Robert Zelck
John Makowecki
W. J. Grunewald
Newsboys thank State theater manager for good Monday night
Gazette newsboys thank John Krier, manager of the State theater, for hosting them as guests Monday night. They enjoyed the film Millions in the Air and the Buck Jones western Silver Spurs at the State.
Plans for Cedar Rapids airfield use discussed
The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce aviation committee met at the Roosevelt Tuesday noon to discuss municipal airfield use plans for 1936.
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Cedar Rapids
Aviation Committee
The
Postponement of Dysart Club speech by Cedar Rapids speaker
The Dysart Commercial club program with William Whipples of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce speakers bureau was postponed due to drifted highways. Officials explained that travel conditions would have kept many from attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Whipple
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Roadhouse Operator John Cox arraigned on assault charge
John Cox operator of a roadhouse near the west city limits pleaded not guilty to an assault and battery charge filed by Lloyd Speak. He requested a hearing and it was set for Saturday. The alleged assault occurred outside the roadhouse Cox runs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. S. Reed
John Cox
Lloyd Speak
Cox
Lost Man Found After Month Absence in Brockton
Dennis Kelliher disappeared after withdrawing 2600 from a Brockton bank and a nearby home search. Relatives ran ads and a newspaper story appeared before Kellaher returned to the police station, claiming he had been staying near the station.
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Brockton
Mass
INS
Dennis Kelliher
Kellaher
Mrs Thomas Wilson 72 Manchester resident dies after illness
Mrs Thomas Wilson 72 lifelong Delaware county resident and widow of former Manchester city manager died at home after a several years illness. Funeral 2:30 Wednesday at family home. Rev W A Montgomery and Rev James McInnis officiate. Survived by four children and several relatives. member of Presbyterian church American Legion Auxiliary and Jones Mill Grange.
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Manchester
Thomas Wilson
Delaware County
W. A. Montgomery
Cedar Rapids
James McInnis
Agnes Davidson
Thomas Davidson
Colesburg
Wilson
James Wilson
Archie le Clerc
John McKeag
Ruth Wilson
Albert Tutton
James
Leslie Clendennen
Oneida
Canada Butter Production Rises in First Nine Months 1935
Canada produced 194 704 000 pounds of creamery butter in the first nine months of 1935, up from 191 356 000 pounds in the same period of 1934.
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Canada
Cedar Rapids Public Schools Close for Week to Save Fuel
Cedar Rapids announces closure of public schools for the rest of the week to conserve coal amid local shortages. Weather and poor attendance cited. night classes canceled. Cedar Rapids Coal Dealers head Charles M. Barnes notes shipments have eased the shortage and commends railroad cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Supt. Arthur Co. Deamer
Charles M. Barnes
Cedar Rapids Coal Dealers Association
Barnes
Sears Plans $9 Million Newspaper Ad Campaign in 1936
General R. E. Wood announced Sears Roebuck will spend 9 million dollars on newspaper advertising for 1936. The campaign will reach 851 newspapers across 44 states, following extensive experiments with various selling media since Sears stores opened 11 years ago. Advertising manager G. W. Cunningham said newspapers are the most effective medium for promoting retail sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
R. E. Wood
Sears, Roebuck & Co
G. W. Cunningham
Cunningham
Benson Files Candidacy For Minnesota Governor
Senator El mer A. Benson from Florida Minn. announced his bid for Minnesota governor on the Farmer Labor ticket. He was appointed to the U S Senate by Governor Olson to replace the late Senator Thomas D. Schall.
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Washington
ULP
Elmer A. Benson
Minn
Minnesota
Farmer-Labor
Senate
Olson
Thomas D. Schall
Fire destroys Michigan Feed and Grain Co plant in Detroit
In eight below zero weather twenty five fire departments fought a spectacular blaze at the Michigan Feed and Grain Co plant. Officials estimate the loss at 100000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Michigan Feed and Grain Co
One Honest War Claim by Butler in Massachusetts Speech
General Smedley D. Butler tells the Middlesex County bar association that the Concord defense of homes was the only honest war in American history, arguing most wars are rackets. He cites farmers retreating behind walls and trees to defend their homes as the sole exception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
INS
America
Smedley D. Butler
Middlesex County Bar Association
Concord
Mass
Discontent And Sickness Change Gay Young Bride
A longtime letter reflects on a married woman whose health and spirit have declined, while a loyal husband remains supportive. The missive critiques discontent, and a later reader praises clean living and warns against risky social behavior.
Prevent Cold Season With Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine
Colds rising in parts of the season prompt a preventive approach. Stay out of crowds, dress warmly, and use Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine daily to ward off illness and shorten infections. The product, marketed for over forty years, emphasizes protection and easy dosing.
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Grove
LBQ
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Agnes
Mies Walker
Setus
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Harry Holub
Frank Holub
Federal Revenue Office
Dorothy Loudon
Goodyear
Cegar Rapids Gazette Home Institute
W. 19Th Bt
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Dysart
Sears, Roebuck Co
Sen. Benson
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Congress
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Mary Manners
Miss Manners
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