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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1937
Page
5
A Q and A on natural attractiveness versus posed appearance. Max Beerbohm suggests walking for exercise with no goal drains the mind of problem thinking as the activity becomes mere drudgery.
A 1937 Gazette item advertises a booklet on memory rules tested by science. It offers guidance on remembering names dates lessons books and more and asks readers to apply with costs and a stamped self addressed envelope to Dr Albert E Wiegam care The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Roosevelt and other city high schools debated the motion that all electric utilities should be government owned. Mary Jane Showers and Betty Williams of Iowa City led the affirmative, while John Clemens and Carl Fjellman of Roosevelt chaired the negative. Initial voting favored the affirma tive 242 to 148 with 102 undecided. after the debate the tally shifted to 121 affirmative, 359 negative, and 41 undecided.
Urbana elder George W Wheeler, a longtime carpenter and former mayor, marked his 82nd birthday Tuesday. Born in Reedsburg Wisconsin, he moved to Iowa at age 8 and has spent six decades in Urbana. He served as mayor for eight years, now sits on the city council, and is the longest serving I O F member in the county. Wheeler has read The Gazette forty years and was married in 1879 to Lavinia Ferguson, with three daughters: Jessie Spencer Nellie White and Shirley Drilling.
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