This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1940
Page
3
A feature on gang jargon explains terms used by thieves and ex cons. It covers words for police and prisons, narcotics language, and how slang infiltrates everyday life including terms like bindle garage and ex.
Olive and Jeffrey discuss a surprise wedding gift a Parville family deed to a country place. He fears taxes on an empty house while Olive questions shifting loyalties between spouse and in laws. She urges frankness about their future and living arrangements.
In a Parville style vignette Jeff and Olive discuss travel plans and a possible letter to his father about a house while resolving to face family friction and end of an era. The piece closes with public notices of Sokolice Renata Tyrsova’s fortieth anniversary card party and Cedar Rapids ZCBJ lodge events with films and installations.
A dense OCR listing daily time blocks across WMT WGN WCCO WHO KFJB KO stations. It enumerates shows from early morning through late night with hosts, orchestras, and program names across cities like Cedar Rapids Ames Chicago Des Moines and Minneapolis.
Czech Alliance invites Vlasta Vrazova a journalist born in the United States but raised in Europe to Cedar Rapids on February 11. She is expected to discuss Czechoslovakia and its affairs.
The C S A group will install officers of the local and three out of town lodges at 8 this evening in the C S P S hall by the official staff. Following the ceremonies a social event will follow.
The Cadets of St George will meet Tuesday evening in St Wenceslaus hall for installation of officers and other business.
The regular meeting of Mlado Ce ch Lodge Z C B J will be held January 18.
English publicist T. L. Horabin told a Launceston audience that Neville Chamberlain must resign to strengthen Britain's war cabinet. He criticized Chamberlain and Sir Horace Wilson and warned that the current leadership risks failing the war effort.
Alfred C. Brittain, Missouri state agricultural statistician, warns that dry fall conditions will curb the upcoming spring strawberry harvest, impacting growers and markets statewide.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.