Al Capone May Face Charge In Massacre
Alphonse Capone could be moved from Alcatraz to answer for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929. Federal officials seek links via Byron Bolton’s confession and name six killers including Murray Humphreys Fred Burke Claude Maddox Gus Winkler and Fred Goetz.
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Chicago
Mns
Alphonse Capone
Alcatraz Island
St. Valentine’s Day
International News Service
Byron Bolton
Department of Justice
Bolton
Capone
George “Bugs
Moran
Clark Street
Murray Humphreys
Fred
Burke
Claude Maddox
Gus Winkler
Fred Goetz
Humphreys
Leaverworth
Kaw
Marquette, Mich
Winkler
Goetz
Maddox
John
John Conroy
New York
Quartet Holds Pleas in Two Safe Cracking Cases
Four of five suspects pled not guilty in district court before Judge Ring to breaking and entering for a Jan. 10 Wilson and Company safe theft totaling 1054 dollars and a Jan. 18 Ogden Lumber office break in. Featherstonenaugh Murphy and Mrs Johnson also denied burglar tool charges found in Johnsons car on Jan. 19. Featherstonehaugh faced an assault with intent to rob count related to the same incident. Henderson was not arraigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Ring
Phillip Featherstonenaugh
Lester Bennett
Ollie Johnson
Richard Murphy
Wilson and Company
Featherstonenaugh
Murphy
Johnson
Kidneys Must Clean Out Acids
An old advertisement promotes Cystex as a guaranteed prescription to purify kidneys and bladder by removing acids and wastes. It claims relief from get ting up nights nervousness leg pains backache and dizziness within hours and promises a one week return or money back. The ad asserts a price of 9c a day.
Nick Zervakis Cafe Involves Early December Incident
A move cited Nick Zervakis near his cafe at 1403 Third Street SE in early December. R S Milner represented the defendants in the matter.
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Nick Zervakis
Zervakis
Third Street SE
R. S. Milner
City Briefs and Personals Highlight Local News
Dr. Garth Morgan with address 1748 Avenue NE and serious illness reported improving. Fowler Electric gets two week extension to Feb 1 to finish section E of the sewage plant. Benjamin W. Robinson of Iowa State Employment Service to discuss unemployment at High Twelve club Friday noon at Hotel Roosevelt. Gordon Fennell of Three Minute Cereals to leave Feb 2 for a five week Hawaii trip. sailing Feb 9 from San Francisco with Mrs. Fennell. Want ads list many winners this week. check to see if your name appears.
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Fowler Electric Company
Benjamin W. Robinson
Iowa State Employment Service
High Twelve Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Gordon Fennell
Three Minute Cereals Company
Hawaiian Islands
Local Worker Treated After Locomotive Slip
T. E. Lundiken, 58, of 1314 B Avenue NE, employed in Rock Island shops, was treated at St. Luke's hospital for a dislocated left shoulder after slipping from a locomotive front end. Cosy Collins, long-time Cedar Rapids Kresge’s manager, is transferred to Jackson Michigan. L. H. Youmans of Parkersburg, West Virginia to succeed him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. E. Lundiken
B Avenue
Rock Island
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cosy Collins
Cosy E. Collins
Kresge's
Dollar
Cedar Rapids
Jackson, Mich
Disappearance of Typewriter and Heater Reported
Waterloo man H. B. Adkins asks police to probe the missing portable typewriter robbed from the Roosevelt hotel lobby on Wednesday night. George O'Brien reports two men visited his store Tuesday and a hot water heater was taken after they left. witnesses describe one man six feet tall with a discolored eye and a second of medium build.
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H. B. Adkins
Waterloo
Roosevelt Hotel
George O’brien
First Street
O’brien
Tells Life Underwriters How To Take Advantage Of Improving Conditions
Earle W. Brailey of Cleveland spoke to Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters at the Hotel Montrose on plans to boost sales in 1935. He outlined a formula using applications and closing interviews and stressed prospecting as two thirds of a salesman’s success. He described interviewing techniques and urged providing a valuable idea to influential centers. He noted December business improvements as a sign of optimism and security, and recalled John Philip Sousa receiving a bass horn at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago.
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Cedar Rapids
Brailey
Scottish Society Dinner Marks Burns Birthday
More than 100 guests are expected for the Cedar Rapids Scottish Society dinner and program at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Roosevelt hotel celebrating the 176th anniversary of Robert Burns. Rev. J Renwick McCullough will speak on Burns life, with specials by Mrs Helen Menary Cyrus Metcalf and R L Ballantyne and George Thomson in Highlander costume.
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Cedar Rapids
Jean Gunn
Agnes Safely
John Buchan
Robert Leith
Contested Rapids township judge appeal delayed to Jan 30
Hearing on Justice Henry A. Stearns appeal from dismissal of his contest of the Rapids township justice of the peace election was continued due to counsel illness. Certificates of election were issued Jan 2 to Justice A. S. Reed and W. J. Grunewald. Stearns, appointed last March, retained office pending adjudication after posting an $1800 supersedeas bond.
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Henry A. Stearns
District Court
Rapids Township
John T. Moffit
Stearns
John D. Stewart
A. S. Reed
W. J. Grunewald
Births Reported From Local Families This Week
Multiple births recorded at Mercy and St. Luke's hospitals. Jan 22 a son to Mr and Mrs John Snetzler of 400 Third Ave SW. Jan 24 a daughter to Mr and Mrs Russell Tompkins of 810 Fifth Ave SE. Jan 22 a daughter Sharlene Louise to Mr and Mrs Bert McGuire of 1648 Thirty-fourth St NE. Jan 23 a son to Mr and Mrs W H Towner of 116 Twenty-third St SE.
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John Snetzler
Third Avenue
Mercy Hospital
Russell Tompkins
Fifth Avenue
Bert McGuire
Thirty-fourth_ street
Sharlene Louise
W. H. Towner
Twenty-third Street
St. Luke's Hospital
Vitamin Concentrate Tablets for Winter Health Fight
Are you run-down this winter and prone to illness? McKeesson’s Vitamin Concentrate Tablets deliver vitamin A from cod liver oil with vitamin D and minerals calcium and phosphorus. Each tablet provides the vitamins in one teaspoonful of cod liver oil. Sold at drug stores for $1 per bottle of 100 tablets. Begin today to protect health with this vitamin concentrate.
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McKesson
Park Inspector Discusses CCC Camp Work With Ames Council
George Morgan of the National Park Service met with the Ames city council and park officials to review a proposed CCC camp location. He outlined permitted park work, noted no city costs for materials or labor aside from heavy machinery, and suggested Van Vechten park as a potential site.
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George Morgan
National Park Service
Ames
Civilian Conservation Corps
William Wood
William Volz
F. E. Young
Tom Bassett
Harry S. Johnson
Don Hines
Morgan
CCC
National Park
Ed Stefan
van Vechten Park
Two Nabbed At Watertown For Theft Of Car
Two youths were arrested in Watertown South Dakota in connection with the theft of a new coupe owned by H B Christy a Cedar Rapids salesman. The car was taken Monday in Manchester after Christy parked near a store. Winston Brown 19 Janesville Wisconsin and Selmer Berg 20 Nashua Montana were seized Tuesday evening.
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Watertown
S. D
H. B. Christy
Cedar Rapids
Manchester
Christy
Winston Brown
Janesville
Wis
Selmer Berg
Nashua
Mont
Lions Club Hear YMCA Work With Underprivileged Boy
Four speakers from the Lions Club heard about YMCA efforts for underprivileged youths at a moon luncheon at the Y M C A. Miss Marjorie Walters described free memberships for boys, while Gaylord Secora Beverly Taylor Basil Waddington and Miss Wayne Allen shared youth leadership, training, and activities. The fundraiser Worlds All Right, scheduled Feb 7 and 8 at Memorial Coliseum, has 400 actors, with rehearsals daily at the Hotel Roosevelt.
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Lions Club
Marjorie Walters
Harrison School
Gaylord Secora
Beverly Taylor
Association
Basil Waddington
Wayne Allen
Memorial Colsum
Irwin Attends Health Board Organization Meeting
Dr. C. E. Irwin Linn county coroner and new state health board member returned from Des Moines where the health board met in Dr. Walter L. Bierring’s offices. Dr. E. M. Myers of Boone was elected president. The board outlined a program aiding public health work in Iowa with speakers Dr. F. J. Swift epidemiology chief Dr. Carl F. Jordan and Dr. Joseph H. Kinnaman among others.
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C. E. Irwin
New Linn County
State Board of Health
Des Moines
Board of Health
Walter L. Bierring
E. M. Myers
Boone
Iowa
State Department of Health
F. J. Swift. Bierring
Carl F. Jordan
Joseph H. Kinnaman
Health education and A. H. Wiete ers director of sanitary engi
Readable fragments mention health education and A H Wiete ers as director of sanitary engineering in a public works context.
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A. H. Wieteers
Olive Tablets Offer Gentle Constipation Relief
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets provide quick relief from chronic constipation without calomel. The physician founder notes the tablets are a safe vegetable laxative, sugar coated and olive colored. They are taken one or two tablets to restore normal bowel activity and curb bad breath from constipation. Prices 15c 30c 60c.
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Rc. Edwards
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AL Capone
Garth Morgan
1748 Avenue NE
Life Underwriters
John Philip Sousa
the Peoples Savings Bank
the Bank
Scottish Society
Court House News
Peter Karras
Karras
Linn County
Carrie Weierheuser
M. and M. Hotel Company
Montrose Hotel
Chester L. Kennedy
H. Leola Emerson
Howard M. Jordan
Marion
Irene Julia Butler
Kenneth Strang
Mary Christensen
Frank Harrison Andrews
Coggon
Pauline Byers
Central City
Edward Stupka
Genevieve Schwartz
Henry Wicher
Evelyn Benesh
Harry E. Hilton, Jr
Essie Matyk
M. ¥. Stickley
Delilah de Nial
Washington
Edward V. Beeman
Ainsworth
Gulfport
Miss
Harold Putnam
Clyde Herring
Beeman
Sesa
Council
Europe
Y.M.C.A
The
Hotel Rosevelt
Dr. Irwin
Health Board
West
Butler
TEK
ST. SE
Aden
Arance
Sarai Naead Kegry
Grove
Bob Sempray
Woodbury
VICKS
Vatro-Nol Sréfi
HILL
Mead’s
Jayne’s
J & J Baby
Hygeia
Gillette
DR. West
King’s Discovery
Vick’s
Waterbury
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