Two Cedar Rapids Leaders Started as Office Boys in Packing Plant
Frank Hahn who became Cedar Rapids mayor and Harry Palmer now Wilson and Company meat packers general manager and vice president recall beginning as office boys at $4 weekly in the Sinclair Packing plant. Their early city had 20 000 people with unpaved roads and the Cedar River bridge island wilderness.
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Sinclair Packing Plant
Cedar Rapids
England
G. B. Soutter
Twelfth Street
Cedar River
McKinley
United States
Frank Hahn
Harry Palmer
Wilson and Company Meat Packers
Mr. Palmer
Masons
Iowa
Hahn
Thompson
Sinclair Company
Landon Set to Speak in Council Bluffs Next Wednesday
Alf M. Landon republican presidential hopeful for 1936 will address a Republican meeting at the Hotel Chieftain in Council Bluffs next Wednesday. He will discuss President Roosevelt s recent statement claiming all liberals as members of his party. A portion of the address will be broadcast via a Columbia broadcasting hookup.
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Council Bluffs
Alf M. Landon
Chieftain
The
Omaha World Herald
Landon
Topeka
Kan
Roosevelt
Columbia Broadcasting Company
Arnolds Park Cafe Owner Sentenced For Liquor Nuisance
Dooley Wagner, owner of the Arnolds Park cafe, was sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary by Judge George Heald for maintaining a liquor nuisance. It was his third offense. Mrs. Wagner received a 90 day suspended sentence in the state reformatory at Rockwell City.
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Spirit Lake
Dooley Wagner
Arnolds Park
George Heald
Wagner
Cedar County Pioneer Home Proposed for Shrine
Des Moines AP The Iowa state centennial commission received a suggestion from Tipton minister Rev Otis Moore to restore and convert Col Henry Hardman’s Cedar county home, built in 1837, into a shrine. Moore notes the Hardman house also housed the first Cedar county school.
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Des Moines
State Centennial Commission
Tipton
Iowa
Iowa seeks oldest standing structure in state centennial push
The article notes a plan to restore a pioneer home for public view and a commission led by Mrs. Ralph Henderson of Sioux City, aiming to show how early Iowans lived. The Iowa territorial centennial commission has begun a search for the oldest building still standing in the state.
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Iowa
Centennial Commission
Ralph Henderson
Sioux City
Iowa Territorial Centennial Commission
Indiana Democrats Deem Van Nuys Nomination Unblocked
U S Senator Sherman Minton says neither President Roosevelt nor James Farley will block Indiana Democrats backing Frederick Van Nuys for renomination at the July 12 state convention in Indianapolis. Van Nuys contemplates running as an independent if denied the nomination. Minton would support Van Nuys if the party nominates him.
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Indianapolis
U.S
Sherman Minton
Ind
Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Frederick van Nuys
Jim Farley
Minton
Indiana
van Nuys
Murder charge filed in Dubuque wife slaying case
Norbert Heying age 34 was formally charged with the murder of his wife Irma 30 in a Dubuque county district court information filed by Assistant County Attorney Edmund C. Tschudi. Heying will be arraigned Tuesday at 10 a.m. in front of Judge P J Nelson. He was arrested June 25 after wandering nineteen days with two bullet wounds. Police say he confessed killing his wife after she refused to drop divorce plans and he's held in the county jail awaiting arraignment.
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Dubuque
Norbert Heying
Irma
Edmund C. Tschudi
Tschudi
Heying
P. J. Nelson
New Vienna
Henry Heying
John W. Giellis
Giellis
Plotter Of Son's Slaying Convicted In Death Of Wife
Harvey Nelson 35 has confessed to plotting with two women to kill his 10 year old son for 900 dollar life insurance and is already convicted of manslaughter in his wife's death. He was free on a 4000 dollar appeal bond after manslaughter conviction from a 1936 Douglas Georgia trial in which doctors testified kidney poisoning as cause of Mrs. Nelson's death. Nelson allegedly beat her days before she fell ill and did not seek medical help.
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W.aycross
INS
Harvey Nelson
John S. Gibson
Nelson
Douglas
Solicitor General
Three Wives at Once Too Many ends in Prison
Los Angeles. Dan McCarthy, 30, with three wives and four children, received a two to ten year sentence after admitting to marrying three women without divorce. Judge A. A. Scott condemned him as a menace at large and noted his removal would aid his children. McCarthy first wed Gladys Barnacle in 1927, leaving two children, then married Bernice Cuneo, who has no children.
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Los Angeles
INS
Dan” McCarthy
A. A. Scott
McCarthy
Gladys Barnacle
Bernice Cuneo
Man Reconciles Past with Help of Wife in October Marriage
In October he wed Hilde garde Whittington, a stenographer. She persuaded him to surrender after learning of his previous life.
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Hildegarde Whittington
Italian booksellers barred from displaying Jewish authors
Rome report says Italian booksellers were instructed not to display or advertise books written by Italian Jews. They maysell titles only if approved by the ministry of popular culture.
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Rome
Ministry of Popular Culture
Dewey widens probe into slaying of union chief Snyder
New York District Attorney Thomas F. Dewey expanded the investigation into the 3 year old killing of William Snyder head of a Teamsters union. Morris Goldis confessed to firing the shot and named others involved in a wider racketeering and political cover up with possible charges against labor leaders and Tammany officials.
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New York
Thomas F. Dewey
William Snyder
Teamsters
Tammany
Supreme Court
Snyder
East Side
Morris Goldis
Grand Jury
Dewey
Goldis
William
Barent Ten Eyck
Ferdinand Pecora
Goldis Brothers
Pecora
Grant 280 Public Building Projects Approved
Postmaster General James A. Farley and Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. announced approval of 280 public building projects funded by 60 million dollars in the 1938 federal buildings appropriation. The move expands the 1937 three year program to a total of 70 million, with contracts expected by June 30, 1939 as land is acquired and drawings begin in site order.
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Washington
James A. Farley
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
R C to Celebrate 70th Anniversary
The Order of Railway Conductors marks seventy years since its 1868 founding in Mendota Illinois. Cedar Rapids division 58 hosts a July 24 observance with a picnic and initiation, with worldwide divisions celebrating through Oct to Columbus Ohio.
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Great Railroad Brotherhoods
Mendota
Cedar Rapids
Bever Park
O.R.C
Columbia
United States
Canada
Panama Canal Zone
Alaska
ORC
Columbus
Ladies Auxiliary
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Marjorie Wiltsey
Cozgon
Farley
Union
U. S
M. J. Wachel
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Ruth Neblung
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Railway Labor Executives’ Association
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Killian Company
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