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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1936
Page
9
A fragment from an article discusses Pasteur’s mistrust of certainty and urges proving wrong over right to seek truth. It notes science elevates organized society over individual rights and hints that maternal love may be shaped by environment more than biology, per psychology.
A dated feature offers a practical booklet by Dr Sadie Myers Shellow on developing personality. The piece notes readers requested the guide and invites applications with costs and stamped envelopes. It also includes a reflection on real friends versus merely pleasant acquaintances and observes people’s charitable responses to Bill and Joe’s misfortune.
Kenneth Hamor, a seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Howard Hamor of 140 Thirtieth Street Drive SE, suffered a sprained neck and bruises to his left hip and leg at 130 PM Thursday when a car driven by Orval Rose of 203 Thirty-fourth Street SE struck a sled near his home. Rose took him to a doctor’s office and later home.
Misses Adeline Miller and Gertrude Denlinger left for Pasadena to stay until spring. Mr and Mrs James Trewin depart for New York for a West Indies cruise. John E Fessler injured in a car crash in Elmhurst. Jonathan Kirk Frey enters Moody Bible Institute Chicago. Local markets listed for wheat corn oats rye barley hay straw hens eggs and livestock. dated Jan 24 1916. Cites Fletcher lecture at Trinity ME church. Dr C E Stewart returns to Cedar Rapids. The Wizard of Oz played at Greene's opera house. Miss Charlotte Williams returns to Davenport for postgrad study. L B Allen resigns to head Ottumwa division of Burlington road. Local markets updated with grain and livestock prices.
Anton Rodney now employed by WPA at 55 dollars a month asks the Illinois emergency commission for a statement of his relief debt. He received 131.18 dollars from the commission over two years and says case workers were helpful while on relief and he wishes to repay at every payday.
Taxicab driver L. B Miller of 1435 First avenue E suffered several cracked ribs at 530 p.m. Thursday when his cab collided at Second avenue and Thirteenth street SE with a car driven by Joe Alberts of 421 First avenue E. Miller received treatment at a doctor's office. Private interests maintain more than 600 beacon lights, in addition to nearly 2 000 operated by the federal airways system.
A bridge article discusses a 1962 contract with West opening the ace of spades and a diamond sequence. It analyzes South and West decisions, noting the likelihood of specific cards and the impact of discards, finesses, and trump management on the contract outcome.
Airplane carriers depend on speed to outrun adversaries, offering little armor plate as protection.
A column about Elsie facing false gossip that harms her status and reputation. Advice urges quiet resilience, ignoring hostile talk, and focusing on innocence. Readers respond with mixed messages about Kay, morality, and social pressure in a frank, era-appropriate tone.
Below zero temperatures yielded a quiet night for fire crews with two calls. An automobile fire at 5:50 p.m. destroyed a car owned by Frank Becicka of 1228 Second Street SE. A roof fire at 7 a.m. Friday affected Mrs. Addie Isabel at 1309 Fifteenth Street SE. Company No. 2 also responded Thursday afternoon to C. Harris at 903 E Avenue NW where an overheated chimney ignited second floor joists.
On the coldest day of the year Patrolman Paul Regnci walked the Wall Street beat with a thermometer attached to his shield. He said his aim was to give taxpayers a laugh and extra service during the cold snap.
Rochester report says Mrs. Dave Young delivered a seven pound boy in the rear seat of an automobile stalled in a snowdrift while en route to a hospital. Mother and child rest well. In Traer a high school junior class play, Uncle Tom's Cabin, will be repeated Tuesday night with mostly local attendance due to drifting roads.
Chicago Follies headlines the State Theater Sunday as a vaudeville revue of song, dance, and comedy led by Coro neds Rhythma with Bier Dooods Orchestra. Acts include Cal Chas Davis The Genial Gentleman of Jest Zander and X Mandria Bobby Bedford Anita Muth Frank Peg Jones Ellison Sisters The Skating Swingers Joyce Barker and more.
Newspaper brief lists several films and stars showing in local cinemas Paramount presents Tale of Two Cities with Ronald Colman and Elizabeth Allan while Ceilings Zero stars James Cagney and Pat O Brien. Rialto screens Skybound with Eddie Nugent and Lloyd Hughes and She starring Randolph Scott and Helen Gahagan. Palace features Shanghai with Loretta Young and Charles Boyer and His Family Tree with James Barton and Margaret Callahan. State shows Show Them No Mercy with Rochelle Hudson and Cesar Romero and The Last Wilderness. Olympic screens Mr Dynamite with Edmund Lowe and Jean Dixon and Red Blood of Courage with Kermit Maynard and Ann Sheridan.
A testimonial promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic for digestion fatigue and thinness. Mrs S L Hollentock of North Platte Nebraska reports improved health and stamina after use.
Skybound headlines Rialto with aerial action, crashes, gun battles, romance, and fog of border patrol drama led by Eddie Nugent alongside Lloyd Hughes and Grant Withers. The bill includes She starring Randolph Scott and Helen Gahagan, plus The Call Of The Savage jungle serial in chapter seven with Cats and the Fiddle as comedy.
John W. McGowan and William J. Dickson postal carriers live in Lincoln Heights. While returning home through deep snow Dickson became stuck, prompting McGowan to park and both men walk back to town for the night to guarantee mail service the next morning.
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