Doghouses and City Life from Hawg Waller Letter
Elmer Twattle relates a humorous, rambling letter about doghouses and newspaper life in Hawg Waller Missouri dated January 21 1938. He mocks newsroom culture and recounts encounters with a mayor a police officer a bus driver and a drunk pedestrian while proposing a feature on dogs and human humbleness.
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Elmer Twattle
Hans Waller
Gazette
Tait Cummins
Gazette City Hall
Bizness
Erl Cofflin
Leo Lukas
Fred Hansen
Wanda Muntz
P. S
Hawg Waller Feller
Cedar Rapids
Lighting expert to talk to Crandie Display club about selling
James M. Ketch of Cleveland will speak on Three-Second Selling at a Crandie Display club meeting next Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Crystal ballroom Montrose hotel. The open gathering covers new lighting methods to arrest pedestrian interest and highlight merchandise in show windows.
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James M. Ketch
Cleveland
Crandie Display Club
Crystal
Montrose Hotel
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Ketch
Nela Park
General Electric Company
Japs Mark Foe Of Warmaker To Die
A wartime anecdote reports a civilian-clothed Japanese naval officer seizing an unexploded shell from a mill and driving away, illustrating Japanese resolve. It also notes a lineage claim about Benjamin Franklin’s portrait ending up in the White House via Major Andre and Grey to Roosevelt.
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Warmaker
Nippon
Benjamin Franklin
White House
Franklin
Major Andre
General Grey
Grey
England
Earl Grey
Theodore Roosevelt
Borrowing From Peter to Pay Paul in 1937 Recession
In a June 5 1933 repudiation stance the writer attacks U S debt policy. He argues the 1937 downturn signals a deeper crisis and claims unearned tribute to money changers totals 2 240 000 000 since 1935. He urges stopping bond issuance and adopting full legal tender currency.
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the Gazette
Peter
Paul
United States
Treasury Department
Congress
Land Warrant Granted by Pierce Linked to Veteran’s Family
An old land warrant issued by President Franklin Pierce to Mexican War veteran W. K. Maxwell is now owned by Rev. J. G. Eaton of Eagle Grove. Maxwell received 160 acres near Leon, Decatur County, which his family farmed and built a church on. The warrant honored his meritorious service in Captain Bethell’s Sixteenth Infantry. Rev. Eaton, retired Baptist minister, winters at 1210 Third Avenue SE.
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Franklin Pierce
J. G. Eaton
Eagle Grove
Third Avenue SE
A. R. Eaton
Nagle-Eaton Lumber Company
Gertrude Bond
St. Luke's Hospital
W. K. Maxwell
Leon
Decatur County
Mr. Maxwell
Maxwell
Bethell
United States Infantry
Mr. Eaton
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Haws Waller
Hawg Waller
Missouri
Webster
Peppl
van Ekten Park
Mayer
Yurself
Alredy
Hunh
Pal
Arabian Plains
People’s Forum
President Pierce
Medical Dental Business Bureau
Phowe
Marsh
Mallows
Lady Esther Cream
Woodbury
Kidd
Smith Bros. Cough
F. & F. Cough
Schoenfeld
Lissit
Furmas
Drus
Gillette
RAZOR
Palmers
Oeer
Jergen
Neashey Cocoa
May's
Gulferer
May
Frederic Dayan
New York City
Damran
Boyle
Detroit
Paris
Stan Sue
Booter
Mmre
Rd. Lajeuncese
Femoua Worees
J. Gesteira
Boston
Renee
Colgate Dental
L. C. Kaiser
Optician
Optometrist
Cedar Rapids City Lines, Inc
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