Inauguration Day Traditions From Jefferson To Roosevelt
Washington marks a national holiday as inauguration ceremonies unfold with gun salutes and parades. The piece traces past presidencies from Jefferson to Wilson, notes security shifts by the secret service, and highlights crowd growth, Negro participation, costs, and notable anecdotes including Lincoln’s kissing ceremony and telegraph news.
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Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Capitol
Alexandria
Jefferson
Jackson
Gadsby’s Hotel
Taft
G David Houston
Armstrong High School
Roosevelt
Harvard
Telegraph
Polk
Mercer Reelected Director at Hills Bank and Trust
Iowa City report notes Rep. Leroy S. Mercer wins re election as Hills Bank and Trust director. Other directors re elected include William H. Droll Roy Lackender Ivan H. Mass William J. Pechman J. E. Pechman and C. P. Degenhart. J F Pechman named president Mercer vice president and Droll cashier.
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Iowa City
Leroy S. Mercer
the Hills Bank and Trust Company
William H. Droll
Roy Lackender
Ivan H. Mass
William J. Pechman
J. E. Pechman
C. P. Degenhart
J. F. Pechman
Mercer
Droll
Linn County Supervisors Ratify Voting Machine Purchase
The Linn county board ratified a 9 order for ten Automatic Voting Machine Corporation machines, bought Dec 19 without a prior resolution. Delivery is set for June 1 with five annual payments totaling about 10 584 including interest, under a plan to replace 80 1926 and 1928 leased machines.
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Linn County Board of Supervisors
Automatic Voting Machine Corporation
Jamestown
N. Y
Fred Stirm
Alburnett
Gazette
Robert M. Vesely
Vesely
Stirm
G. A. Senninger
Marion
Senninger
Board of Supervisors
Linn Board Extends 1937 Assessors Schedules
Linn county supervisors after consultation with an assessors committee extended 1937 working days by fifteen percent increasing total days from 1739 to 2000. Assessors will be paid four dollars per day and the boost raises compensation by 1044 dollars.
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Linn Board
Linn County
George A. Holsinger
Marion Township
Frank C. Butcher
Buffalo Township
Ross Clark
Franklin Township
Assessors Prepare for Larger Revaluation Work
The board acts to reach thirty four assessors in nine teen townships and fifteen cities and towns outside Cedar Rapids. A consultative committee was appointed last week at the county assessors annual meeting. Tax enrollers urged more work citing the 1937 quadrennial revaluation, new policy listing forty acre farm parcels separately, and road area adjustments. Old age pension tax enrollment was noted as expanding duties.
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Cedar Rapids
One-House Minnesota Assembly Proposal Introduced
A bill seeks a constitutional amendment to make Minnesota’s legislature a single house replacing the house and senate. If approved the change would take effect in 1941 with details to be set by the 1939 legislature.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota
House
Senate
Oelwein Businessman and War Veteran Mike Amere Dies
Mike Amere, 45, a case proprietor and World War II veteran, died suddenly Tuesday in Oelwein. Believed heart failure caused the death. He came to Oelwein from Waterloo where he was well known in business.
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Oelwein
Mike Amere
Case
Amere
Waterloo
William Cisna Pioneer Iowa Resident Dies
William Cisna aged 86 died Sunday at his son William's home near Urbana Iowa after a stroke and years of illness. Born August 20 1850 in Burlington he later lived in Rowley Brandon Vin ton and Vinton. He married Alice Clever in 1873 and seven children survive with funeral services held by Rev James Dellahooke in Rowley cemetery.
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Urbana
William Cisna
William
Mr Cisna
Burlington
Illinois
Rowley
Brandon
Vinton
Independence
Alice Clever
Carmen
Ill
A. E. Polk
Cora Montgomery
Frank
Waterloo
Salem
Wis
Will
Clara Dodge
Wellsboro
Will Kurrle
James Dellahooke
Rowley Cemetery
Radio Programs Schedule Shows Dense NBC CBS Lineup
Wednesday evening to late night radio grid lists NBC CBS WABC WJZ WEAF WEAF WBBM KMOX WCCO WOC. Programs include Mannhatters orch Uncle Ezra Ferris, Four Showmen, Ruth Lyon, Patti Chapin songs, Nino Martini, Your Hit Parade, Desert Song, Burns and Allen, Fred Allen, Bing Crosby, Town Meeting, Major Bowes, Rochester Phil, and more across networks.
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Manhatters Orch
NBC
WJZ Chain
Uncle Ezra
WEAF
Popeye
Sailor
WABC
WBBM
KMOX
WOC
WCCO
Weap Chain
Mario Cozzi
Gogo de Lys
CBS
WGST
Ruth Lyon
WMAQ
Men's Family
Nene King Orch
Ethel Barrymore
Burns and Allen
Patti Chapin
Hal Goodman
Weaf Chain
Bert Block Orch
WJZ
Glen Gray
Ae McGrew Orch
Emil Coleman
Roger Pryor
Leo
Ken
Breakfast Club
Rogers St. Johns
Tim Healy
Pacherer’s Children
Wabc Ox
Mrs. Wiees of
Cheries Harrison
Tenor
Youne’s
WIZ Chain
Wae
Sassafras
Ain
Ie Malone
Genevarnoia, and the Cadets
National Farm and Home Hour
Mareuerite Padula
Jack Berch
Don Harding
Vaughn de Leath
NBC Music Guild
General Federation of Women's Clubs
WEAP
Myrt and
Marge
Jorge Negrete
Ma Perkins
the O'Neills
NBC Light Opera Company
Columbia Concert Hall
Metropolitan Opera Guild
WJZ _ chain
Pattie Chapin
Don Dennis
Renfrew of the Mounted
Ames ‘N’ Andy
Easy Aces
the Voice of Experience
Northwestern University Bookshelf
Leal
Traubell
Martha and
Hal
Alexander Woollcott
Town Crier
Roy Campbell
Bing Crosby
One Gibbons
WCC
Russ Morgan Orch
Oor Pryor Orch
Carl Ravel Orch
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Robert S. Allen
Pennsylvania Avenue
John Quincy Adams
John Adams
Carusi
Andrew Jackson
Woodrow Wilson
Secret Service
Capitol Plaza
van Buren
Baltimore
Government Printing Office
Mathew M. Neely
Neely
Jack Garner
Morse
David Lynn
Lincoln
Maceda Soares
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
District of Columbia Fund
Frank J. Hogan
Hogan
Andrew W. Mellon
Jenny
Wbbm - Wcco - Kant
FBI
The
Minnesota Assembly
Iowa
Vicki Va
Tro-Nol Double Quantit
Armstrong
Detter
Uiansonatie Steen
M. E. Carter
Young Men’s Clothing Dept
A. J. Ramsey
Mgr. Men’s Clothing Dept
Our Credit Department
Armstrong Clothing Co
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