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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1940
Page
7
A historical menu plan targets a five person family two adults and three children with meals for about 12 dollars weekly. It includes cottage cheese lime salad pineapple gelatine rice con carne cole slaw fruit desserts and a custard with meringue. The text notes balanced nutrition and affordable ingredients while listing specific recipes and portions.
Uncle Wiggily and Baby Bunty hide from rustling noises in tall grass and bramble. They discuss a game while danger looms, then dash for cover as a chase resumes, signaling more peril before a promised next installment.
Eugene Sampica 37 of 222 Third avenue SW pled guilty to assault and battery against Mrs Elmey Listebarger 128 Second avenue SW and was fined 50 dollars and costs by Justice H R Churchill. Sampica a truck driver pays half the fine immediately with the remaining 25 dollars suspended as ordered. The incident occurred at Elmer's tavern 128 First street NE after Listebarger tried to eject Sampica and an unidentified man following a quarrel. Patrolmen Ed Stearns and Howard Walsh arrested Sampica on drunkenness and disturbing the peace. Listebarger later obtained a warrant for assault and battery.
U S ambassador to France William C Bullitt arrived in Barcelona and prepared to head to Madrid for several days. He will stay in touch with Washington and may return to the United States or France. He believed Maurice Gamelin and Edouard Daladier remained in France, after seeing them recently. He noted over 800 Americans still in France likely to stay.
Tokyo reports Japan will soon dispatch Shuichi Sako, ex ambassador to Poland, to the Netherlands East Indies to conduct diplomatic negotiations. Previously represented only by a consul general, officials say ambassadorial status is now warranted due to the growing importance of relations.
Petaluma California a 23 year old ranch hand America Bragga took two wealthy employers Miss Olympia Garzoli and Mrs Louise Carminetti hostage in a dramatic midday incident Bragga wounded himself after the crime and Carminetti died with Garzoli gravely hurt in a roadside ditch Both women were found in serious to critical condition after the attack and pursuit by police.
Alf M. Landon, 1936 GOP candidate, sent Wendell Willkie a letter saying he had caught the imagination of the people. The note arrived as Willkie vacationed and planned talks with leaders including Landon, Hoover, Governor Stassen, and Rep Martin.
Landon, new chairman of the Republican National Committee, cites a traveling salesman he has relied on for 12 years. The salesman reported 118 interviews in Missouri's Democratic section with 82 percent favorable to you.
Every year researchers discover thousands of new insects and assign formal names. Taxonomists race to describe morphology, genetics, and ecology to stabilize nomenclature before parallel studies create confusion.
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