Richard Bonelli Sings Here in Verdi Opera April 26
Coe College music department sponsors a grand opera in Cedar Rapids Iowa with Richard Bonelli star in Il Trovatore on April 26. Cast includes John Pane Gasser Sonia Sharnova and Barbara Darlys with local chorus and orchestra. Festival Opera Company of Chicago backing.
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Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Richard Bonelli
Paul S. Ray
Doc
Ray
Coe
Festival Opera Company of Chicago
Clarence Cramer
Shrine Temple
Aida
Faust
Bonelli
Metropolitan Opera Company
John Pane-Gasser
Sonia Sharnova
Barbara Darlys
Chicago Stars
Pane-Gasser
Miss Sharnova
Miss Darlys
Europe
Joseph Kitchin
Cramer
Washington notes on government overreach and reform urges
Iowa perspectives from Thurston Gwynne and Biermann on reducing government size and banning new tax exempt bonds. They push limiting branches, civil service reforms, and shifting duties to states and locals. Biermann backs a constitutional amendment to stop new tax exempt bonds. Senator Gillette dined at the White House amid the discussion.
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Thurston
Gwynne
Roosevelt
Congress
Decorah
Washington
Cribbage Hand Error Noted In Iowa City Report
Pat Young points out a correction to a Thursday state page story about Henry Allanson of Washington DC who supposedly had a perfect cribbage hand in Iowa City. The hand described yields twenty eight points. a true perfect hand requires three fives and a jack with the fourth five matching the cut suit to reach twenty nine.
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Pat Young
Iowa City
Henry Allanson
Washington, D. C
Alanson
Young
Iowa sheriffs offices highest county cost in audit
State Auditor C W Storms reported county operations for the year ending Jan 1 1936 show Iowa sheriffs offices costing $825 081 48, the highest among county departments. Total county costs reached $5 358 054 with treasurers and other offices following in expense.
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DES Moines
C. W. Storms
Iowa
Taming a Silver Fox a Rare Feat for Iowa Breeder
Ora W. Lawrence, a local attorney and famed silver fox breeder near the west Iowa City limits, tamed two foxes in a decade. His farm houses a tame female and a cross fox, both nurtured by cats when young. Lawrence keeps about 100 foxes across two farms and relies on his Irish setter Mike to help recover escaped foxes.
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Ora W. Lawrence
Iowa
Lawrence
West
E Avenue NW
Mike
Earl Potter
Highway 30
Dwight Hawk
Auto Fatalities in Linn County Rise in 1936 Report
Coroner Dr B L Knight reports 110 deaths in Linn County in 1936 with fifteen auto fatalities. Six died outside Cedar Rapids and nine within city limits. The master sheet lists names dates and places. deaths include murders drownings heat and poison deaths electrocutions and train and streetcar fatalities. Two coroners deputies assisted and four inquests were held.
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Linn
B. L.knight
Cedar Rapids
Knight
R. E. Munden
J. J. Terrall
Veteran Cedar Rapids Printer Reminisces At Disabled Veterans Home
A Cedar Rapids veteran printer, Dave Magee, leaves Friday for Colorado Springs to live at the International Typographical Union home. The 76 year old lifelong union member reflects on five decades in printing, trading memories with fellow retirees, recalling early days at Marion and Cedar Rapids papers and the evolution from hand set type to modern methods.
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Cedar Rapids
Colorado Springs
International Typographical Union
Dave Magee
Mr. Magee
Typographical Union No
George S. Bradley
Gazette
Magee
Type Union
George
Marion
Republican
Cap” Rathbun
Marion Register
Register Office
Telegraph Company
Knights of Labor
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