Subscription rates and delivery options page
List of Iowa and surrounding states subscription prices by mail and carrier in Cedar Rapids and Marion. Rates include 1 year 6 months and weekly seven issues, with foreign and out of state options plus advertising reps and wire service credits.
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Iowa
Minois
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wisconsini
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Sressecaseens
Quotable line about rooting out evil from Thoreau
A Thoreau quotation asserts that many fight symptoms while a single strike at the root resolves the problem. The message emphasizes addressing underlying causes rather than superficial symptoms.
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Thoreau
Iowa Gazette Calls Out Graft in Independence Day Reflection
The Woodbury County Grand Jury exposure casts a harsh light on state corruption and racketeering touching Sioux City. The Gazette urges Iowans to demand lawful conduct from officials and to see corruption brought to justice, stressing that good government starts at home.
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Woodbury County Grand Jury
Iowa
Sioux City
The Fourth of July and the Father’s Firework Duty
An aging father faces a comical risk as he must handle the fireworks for his son on Independence Day. The piece wraps with the cheeky note that the real Father’s Day begins on July 5, after the dangerous rite.
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Little Junior
Junior
Daddy
Railway abandonment sparks Iowa grain price debate
A Grain and Feed Review editorial relayed by a Chicago rail office criticizes the Wynot to Coeburn Nebraska line cut near Sioux City. It cites rail rate hikes from three to ten cents per bushel and coal costs rising from twenty cents to two dollars a ton, plus farm value declines and housing distress as farmers lose proximity to rail service.
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Traffic Department
Chicago and North Western Railway System
Grain and Feed Review of
Minneapolis
Iowa
Wynot
Coeburn
Neb
Sioux City
Abandoned Railline Costs Taxpayers Across Iowa Nebraska
A review argues the Sioux City Wynot rail abandonment shifted $28,000 yearly in taxes to remaining taxpayers and warns rural towns risk declines unless merchants push for revival. It suggests promoters failed to alert the public before tracks were torn up and urges railroads to intensify outreach to retain traffic.
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Omaha
Sioux City-Wynot
Minneapolis
Iowa
Nebraska
Reflections on Fear and Courage From a 1935 Commentary
A 1935 column expands on human fear and resolve through humor about dentists and everyday trials. It contrasts bravado with dread, notes attitudes toward money, fame, and public life, and ends with a wry comment on irony and social norms.
Tallulah Bankhead Returns to Broadway Glamour
Newport Day by Day chronicles Tallulah Bankhead’s theatrical revival as she escapes a Camille era decline. Once treated as near death, she returns with renewed vitality, becoming the public’s focal point for sensational press stories and Broadway publicity.
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New York
Tallulah Bankhead
Broadway
Talk Back to Tallulah and The Big Tear Jerker
Readable fragments evoke a 1930s New York scene with Tallulah as sharp witted. Notes on The Big Tear Jerker involving the Lindbergh kidnap mystery and social satire in The Bowery. Mentions Dad Furman Myra Kelly and reference to modern hotel plans The Robert Louis Stevenson and Will Cuppy.
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TERAN
Weyerhaeuser
Cooper Square
Bowery
Myra Kelly
East Side
Forbes Robertson
Rebecca West
Washington
H. L Mencken
Carolyn Wells
Clemence Dane
Samoan Islands
Robert Louis Stevenson
Will Cuppy
Paris Ritz
Roy Howard
Exploring Mind and Memory in Love and Time
A Q and A on memory effort versus forgetting by Dr Knight Dunlap and time estimation accuracy from Professor Edgar James Swift. The discussion shifts to romance in marriage, contrasting romance with enduring married love as interlocking personalities and joint enterprise.
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Knight Dunlap
Leslie Howard
First U.S. Cotton Export to Europe Shipped from Charleston
The record notes that the first bale of cotton exported from the United States to Europe was shipped from Charleston, South Carolina, in 1784, marking a pivotal moment in trade history.
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United States
Europe
Charleston
S. C
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Allen-Klapp-Frazier CO
Michigan Ave
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America
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George Clark
Jackson
Newport
Camille
Mr. Lonsdale
Miss Parker
Tallulah
Probate
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Marx
Lenin
Doles
Louis John Bartelo
Madison Square Bender
the Big Shoe Store
Wseue
Edgar James Swift
Washington University
St. Louis
Adi
Second Street
Hollywood
Coats
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