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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1936
Page
5
Mary Manners advises Lucia to refocus from romantic fixation to giving service to others. The guidance champions selfless hobbies, reading, and helping the needy to ease worries. Letters from Baer II and Kay reflect social pressures on girls and the value of staying true to one's ideals.
Dr Charles W Lowman treats paralysis with water immersion in a warm pool to reduce pain increase joint motion and relax muscles. The method, now adopted for chronic arthritis, relies on buoyancy and heat to lessen muscle spasm improve circulation and aid rehabilitation under medical supervision.
In the Linn County Iowa District Court probate proceeding for John M Harcourt deceased Ruth Rydberg administratrix seeks court approval to privately sell described real estate for not less than appraised value to cover debts administration costs and inheritance taxes Hearing set for March 3 1936 at 9:00 AM at the Cedar Rapids courthouse The notice lists numerous property descriptions and mortgages and names parties interested including heirs at law and various individuals and addresses.
A fragment from a 1936 column discusses breaking a six year old son of bed-wetting. It suggests sending a stamped envelope for instructions and reflects on old days where acts were easier to hide. The text is informal and includes miscellaneous reader questions.
Supt Arthur Deamer two supervisors and seven principals plan to attend the National Education Association department of superintendence convention in St Louis from February 22 to 27. Art and primary grades supervisors Edwin Bruns and Grace Shields join principals Frances Prescott M S Hallman Fred J Kluss Jennie Post Marjorie Walters Belle Campbell Jenna Strahan and Tyler. Deamer will also join the N E A rules committee meeting in St Louis, to which he was recently appointed.
Miss Bernice Ladd returned after judging the Jefferson county declamatory contest at Pleasant Plain. Other items note Dr. John W. Ruskin spoke to the Izaak Walton league, a fall caused Mrs. Winterbottom to sever a wrist artery, and local civic moves.
H A Woodcock departed for Guthrie Oklahoma today. In Cedar Rapids a four year old girl, Alice Irving, became critically ill after swallowing twelve morphine pills. The Rock Island plans to replace the Cedar Rapids Transfer building destroyed by fire last month with a storage house estimated at about forty thousand dollars.
West Union The Historical and Literary society, oldest men’s study club in Iowa, held its fifty sixth annual banquet Monday evening. Table decorations commemorated the birthday of Franklin, nut cups being models of...
The event featured talks by L A Steger W J Rogers and T M Nielsen on Franklin as scientist business man and diplomat. The H A L quartet provided music and L G Meyer presided. Meteors are described as flashing through the air at over a hundred miles per second.
The Olympic theater will show two features starting Thursday for three days. The Black Room stars Boris Karloff Robert Allen Katherine DeMille and John Buckler, followed by Code of the Mounted with Kermit Maynard Lillian Miles Robert Warwick and Wheeler Oakman. The lineup includes the thirteenth chapter of Red Rider two cartoons and news.
Iowa listings include Jackie Coogan and Betty Grable in Hollywood Secrets and The Leavenworth Case on screen. Paramount presents Magnificent Obsession with Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor and Rose of the Rancho with Gladys Swarthout and John Boles. Palace features My Marriage with Claire Trevor and Kent Taylor and King of the Damned with Conrad Veidt and Noah Beery. Rialto runs Folies Bergere starring Maurice Chevalier and Ann Sothern, Hot Off the Press with Jack LaRue and Virginia Pine, plus Fighting Marines. Olympic offers The Black Room with Boris Karloff and Code of the Mounted with Kermit Maynard.
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