Dean Of Cedar Rapids Ticket Agents Long Service Record
George A. Crabb, Cedar Rapids railroad ticket agent for 37 years with Milwaukee and Illinois Central lines, has traveled to 45 states plus Mexico and Canada. He began in Sigourney and Hazelwood before Cedar Rapids in 1901, and values friendly travelers, noting a smile often resolves tense moments at the window.
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Cedar Rapids
Jerry Newcomer
Ean
George A. Crabb
Milwaukee
Illinois Central Railroads
Travelers
Mr. Crabb
Mexico
Canada
Crabb
United States
Florida
Carolinas
Sigourney
Hazelville
Ottumwa
Thompson
Cader Rapids
Optimist members to be big brothers to underprivileged boys
The Optimist club will explain a Big Brother plan for 27 underprivileged boys aged 11 to 14 at a Montrose hotel meeting on Monday noon. E H Christensen chairs the boys work committee with Dr Paul French Dr John T Hecker and Vernon Barta assisting. Each member will sponsor a boy by inviting him home guiding him to activities and sharing privileges. Anjunior Optimist club will be formed later patterned after the senior club with an adviser from the older group.
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Montrose Hotel
E. H. Christensen
Paul French
John T. Hecker
Vernon Barta
Why I Keep A Garden In The Cedar Rapids Club
Dr. Eugene Carmichael shared highlights from his paper Why I Keep A Garden at a Cedar Rapids Woman's club meeting. He discussed plant intelligence, curiosity about natural phenomena, and personal garden experiments from iris soil preferences to elm roots stealing dahlia nutrients, ending with his gardening philosophy and self-improvement goals.
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Eugene Carmichael
Cedar Rapids
Carmichael
Six boys battle skunks in rural mischief incident
Six boys near South Bethel in Tipton county encountered seven skunks while coasting and killed six after the animals fed on a dead rabbit. They displayed the pelts in a shack and hung clothes and sleds on a hickory limb before returning home amid family shock.
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Tipton
South Bethel
Here
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Plant Intelligence
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Iowa
Music House
West Side
Spinet
Martin
Andrew
Better Meat Markets
96Th Ave
Optometrist
MIVIS
Slim
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