Cedar Rapids Camera Club to Open Photography Salon
Cedar Rapids sponsors a photography salon from February 27 to March 7 at the Killian store picture department. Entry deadline is February 20 with forms at studios and Morris Sanford's or by self addressed request to Merrill Smith. The salon encourages amateurs by allowing others to finish and mount entries, stressing photography as craft and art for those hesitant to exhibit.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Camera Club
Killian Store
Morris Sanford
Merrill Smith
Third Avenue SE
Camera Club
Man Buried by House After Repair Mishap
George Remsey crawled under his Fort Worth home to repair a water pipe when a support gave way and toppled one side, pinning him to the ground. Neighbors freed him from the unusual accident.
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Fort Worth, Tex
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George Remsey
Remsey
Wheelchair Enables Disabled Cedar Rapids Newsboy’s Tenure
A Cedar Rapids woman anonymously helped Robert Snodgrass, long crippled and living near Cedar Lake, by securing a hand crank wheelchair about eleven years ago. He then began a newspaper delivery career at Third Avenue SE and at First Avenue and Second Street E, relying on the chair to move and earn for himself.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Lake
Robert Snodgrass
B Avenue
Third Avenue
Third Street SE
First Avenue
Second Street E
Snodgrass
Old Chair Wears Out and a Town Helps Snodgrass
A local man Snodgrass, who has worked outdoors daily and improved his health, received a new chair after an unidentified woman organized a fundraiser. Donations from post office workers, Canopus, Lions and Rotary clubs, The Gazette, GM chapter of P. E., and individuals covered about two thirds of costs. The new chair arrived last week and he thanked friends for their support.
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Snodgrass
Post Office
Canopus, Lions and Rotary
The
Gazette Company
P. E
Dr Kremers to Speak at Coe Vesper Service
Dr Harry Kremers former professor of Bible and dean of men at Coe College will deliver the vesper address in the college chapel this afternoon at four Study to be Quiet will be his subject. The a capella choir directed by Prof Paul S Ray will sing Happy and Bless Are They from St Paul by Mendelssohn and Miss Margaret McFadden will solo He That Dwelleth in the Secret Place by MacDermid Max Dahler professor of piano will provide the organ prelude and postlude.
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Harry Kremers
Coe College
College
A Capella
St. Paul
Mendelssohn
Paul S. Ray
Margaret McFadden
MacDermid
Max Dahler
Man Held Here Passed Bogus Check In Manchester
Chief of Detectives Earl Stanley received word that Earl Akers of Cedar Rapids, 46, who asked time to plead on forgery, had passed a worthless $30 check in Manchester. He bought a suit and $8 change with the check. Akers was arrested here for a check he gave August Happel of 210 Second Avenue SW, signed by Guy Martin of Alburnett, who denied writing it.
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Earl Stanley
Earl Akers
Cedar Rapids
H. C. Ring
Manchester
Stanley
Akers
August Happel
Second Avenue
Guy Martin
Alburnett
Martin
Happel
Outstanding band to play at Danceland January 29
A new dance band sensation led by Shep Fields will perform at Danceland on January 29 from nine to one. The act, featuring Charles Chester and Sid Green, is touring after a stint at the Palmer House Empire Room and Veloz and Yolanda’s engagements. Tickets are on sale at Lyman's, Danceland, and Racine's No. 3 in Iowa City.
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Danceland
Shep Fields
Empire Room
Palmer House
Chicago
Veloz
Yolanda
Coconut Grove
Los Angeles
Fields
Cedar Rapids
New York
Charles Chester
Sid Green
Lyman
Racine
Iowa City
Baby Lost Birthright Seeks Separation in New York Case
Katherine Thraves Maxwell, who long hoped to give birth in Virginia, swore in court that her husband forced her to flee Virginia for Manhattan. She asked Supreme Court Justice Philip J. McCook to grant a separation from George L. Maxwell, a New York Stock Exchange member.
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New York
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Katherine Thraves Maxwell
Virginia
Manhattan
Supreme Court
Philip J. McCook
George L. Maxwell
New York Stock Exchange
Dance A Waltz With Nearly 101 Year Old Man
John Bell, a smiling nearly 101 year old Negro in Ninth Avenue SE, shares his philosophy of dancing to stay young. He recalls a 1871 stabbing tale, muses on aging, politics, and his pet cat Kitten as music from a nearby accordion drifts upstairs. He longs to work again and reflects on riverboat days and a life full of memory.
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John Bell
Ninth Avenue SE
South Side
Abe Lincoln
Mississippi River
Jennie Dean
Golden Eagle
Gray Eagle
Spread Eagle
Diamond Jo Line
Florence White
New Books at Public Library Offer Eight Titles
Public library adds several new works including Modern Buried Treasure Hunters by H T Wilkins exploring global gold legends, Africa Dances by Geoffrey Gorer on West African cultures, Saga of the Bounty edited by Irvin Anthony with original diaries, Cape Cod Yesterdays by Joseph C Lincoln, Love Poems by W H Davies, King Jasper by E A Robinson a narrative poem, Eugene ONeill a Poet s Quest by R D Skinner, and Paul Cezanne by Gerstile Mack a full life of the painter with illustrations.
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H. T. Wilkins
Cocos Island
Africa
South Seas
Asia
Australia
Geoffrey Gorer
Benga
West Africa
Irvin Anthony
Bounty
Bligh
Fryer
Christian Morrison
Heywood
Alexander Smith
The
Cape Cod
Joseph C. Lincoln
W. H. Davies
King Jasper
E. A. Robinson
Jasper
Zoe
Eugene O’neill
R. D. Skinner
O’neill
O'Neill
Paul Cezanne
Gerstile Mack
Cezanne
Paris
Eight New Teeth At 94 Shine For Bohemians
Barbara Ze man, a 94 year old farm hand at Weisagruen near Radnitz, is living proof of Bohemian hardy stock after growing eight new teeth that are intact and firm.
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Prague
INS
Barbara Zeman
Weisagruen
Radnitz
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Kind Benefactor
Kedar
Soe
Tait Cummins
Gnazette
Dr. Kremers
Coe Vesper Service
Naomi Doebel
Public
Camp Good Health
Public Health Nursing Bureau
Tyes
Iowa Electric Light Company
Belden Hill’s
Lyman Cigar Store
Cedar Rapids Gazette and
the Young Men’s Bureau of
Chamber of Commerce
Optometrist
Dr. Doherty
Star Jewelry
2Nd St. SE
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