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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1939
Page
8
By Carl Dueser a lighthearted sketch shows Tuffy the bulldog living with Mr and Mrs Hal Sheridan and daughter Constance at 117 Eighteenth Street NE. Tuffy entertains with soda water antics and comic hiccups while being fed and petted, a gentle, comical pet.
In northwest Missouri the Forest City basin fuels a fevered leasing scramble with 3,000,000 acres leased though no well is drilled. Geologists and WPA crews map structures, towns seek an oil capital label, and farmers expect lease money and royalties amid an era of impossible promises and rising optimism.
Vernon E. Lichtenstein assistant professor of English at Coe college received a PhD in English from the University of Iowa. He was the first Iowa student to study the Leigh Hunt collection. His major covered Beowulf medieval and modern English literature with a broad minor in criticism European civilization and classical theory.
Donald C. Marquis 42 of Eau Claire drew 90 days for a confidence game. He challenged Patrolman Herman Sorgi over a past meeting recalling they once faced each other in a baseball game with Marquis saying he hit three for five.
Columbus Ohio AP reports Prof John Henry Schaffner aged 72 died Friday likely of a heart attack. For over four decades at Ohio State University he was internationally noted for botanic research and writings.
In East Africa engineer Hirsh Roberts faces a leopard that invades his camp to seize canines. Mastiff Pups kills the intruder while Snap the terrier and the monkey flee. Pups sustains severe wounds but survives, guarding Roberts through the night.
Prof. A M Low, famed for aviation work, has created a putter with a shaft lamp that glows red if the club deviates from a straight line to the ball and hole. He says the device makes a golfer unable to miss when used correctly.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette touts its reach as the midwest’s brightest market with Farm income leading the nation for three years Forbes Babson reports place Cedar Rapids among the top three U S business and commerce areas. It invites advertisers to present their stories daily to more customers and increase sales in Iowa’s richest market.
Cedar Rapids Gazette reaches 84 percent of area residents through 42 000 homes daily. The paper offers access to 195 000 potential customers in Cedar Rapids and nearby families beyond the area, highlighting Gazette advertising as essential to sales in 1939.
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