Kid Bradley Noted as Longtime Printing Pioneer
George S. Bradley 79 year old Cedar Rapids printer with 67 years in the trade and 62 years in the International Typographical Union remains active two days weekly at The Gazette. A living charter member of local union No. 192, he started in 1870, roamed as a tramp printer before settling, with humor and loyalty, in Cedar Rapids and across the nation.
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Cedar Rapids
United States
Type Union
Bradley
George
Cedar Rapids Observer
Chicago
Twin Cities
The
Gazette
Omaha
Republican
World Herald
Pueblo
Colo
Chieftain
Denver
Rocky Mountain News
Rocky Mountain News Were Next and It Was While There That Mr. Bradley
Linotype Machine
Linotype
Roswell
New Mexico
West Coast
Ley
Modern medical methods advance while surgery stalls
A 1937 reflection urges embracing ambulant and injection treatments for hernia and other conditions as safer, cheaper, and less disruptive than radical surgery. It defends family physicians, warns against quacks, and notes that newer methods save hospital beds and lives while challenging traditional surgeons to adapt or lose patients.
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John Doe
Such and Such Co
Industrial Board
Amos ’N’ Andy
Brady
Psychic bids and card play in a bridge hand
In a bridge article a hand is analyzed where South relies on bidding deductions to judge West's cards. West leads diamond King, allowing South to construct multiple ruffs and manage trumps and hearts. The play considers four-diamond holdings and shows how West's choices affect dummy’s entries and established suits.
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South
West
Squeeze play ends in tactical duck during bridge match
South identifies a squeeze opportunity after West opens with long diamonds and king of clubs. South ducks to reduce tricks and enable a squeeze, then discards a low club on diamond king, triggering a shift in play. The article also recalls stories of rescues at sea including Moby Dick the police dog and a foxhound saved aboard a British liner with Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals acknowledgment.
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West
South
New York
South Africa
Moby Dick
Dog
George Wauchope
America
Philadelphia
Royal Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Liverpool
Captain Turton
A Grim Office Train Metaphor of Fate and Duty
The narrator mocks a busy railway conductor who ignores proper duty. He jokes that the engineer mishears friendly signals and the turntable in his neck is rusty from inactivity while a busy sign over his ears distracts him from listening for trains. If a Celestial Limited arrives, he will rush and crash into the Pearly Gates.
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Howdy
Pal
Celestial Limited
St. Peter
Pearly Gates
Tragic sea tale of a dog lost to sharks in a rescue attempt
A sea captain recalls a chow dog that leapt from a sinking ship to retrieve a ball. Sharks struck the dog as the crew tried to save him, ending in a fatal, merciful end. The incident illustrates perilous life saving by animals at sea.
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Sunnybank
Caribbean
Cuban
Dog
Program Presented By 9A Class At Roosevelt
The 9A class of Roosevelt school presented a program Friday featuring orchestra directed by W F Vesely accordion solo Irma Lee Young reading Mildred Burke song Duane Ruffin tap dance Duane Ruffin sousaphone solo Jack Parrish class song vocal solo Mary Shadid clog dance Virginia Harover Margaret Smith songs boys chorus tumbling 9A boys piano solo Ruth Bokerney Athletic awards were given at the close of the program.
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Roosevelt School
W. F. Vesely
Irma Lee Young
Girl Reserve Club
Irene Astrosky
Zdenka Dolezal
Mildred Burke
Duane Ruffin
Jack Parrish
Mary Shadid
Virginia Harover
Margaret Smith
Ruth Bokerney
Old Four Dollar Bill Aims Death to Counterfeit
An exhibition in ERN North Carolina features a 1778 four dollar bill printed by James Davis in New Bern. Rag paper piece measures three inches by two and a half inches. It bears text promising four Spanish milled dollars or equivalent and the warning Death to counterfeit along with signatures R Cogden and L Colbe.
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Ern
N. C
North Carolina
New Bern
James Davis
Frank M. Girton
Hillsborough
R. Cogden
L. Colbe
J. Davis
Bride Refuses Wedding After Telegraph News Blows ceremony
In Paris M Pepin oversees a small village marriage when the bride loudly rejects the groom mid ceremony after learning troubling telegram news about his past. She tears her veil and bouquet and leaves, while guests continue to the wedding supper.
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Paris
M. Pepin
Vignicourt-on-Marne
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Kid’ Bradley
BY Joe McCormick, JR
Met Linotype
Mr. Bradley
Albany, N. Y
Frank W. and
Doril Taber
Brad
George S. Bradley
Lasswell Photo
Personal Health Service
William Brady, M. D
Declarer
Dummy
East
Explorers Club
Havana Post
Clan McIver
Bay of Biscay
Turton
Agnr Motor CO
3Rd Ave
8Th St
Fender & Body
Sth
Ibert Payson Terhune’s Tales
Orealdogs
Roosevelt
Bride
Prn
Firestone
Richard Crooks
Gladys Swarthout
Nelson Eddy
WEAP
Ervic
Fen Et Sii
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