Big Casting News For The McKinley Case Drama
Universal service reports Twentieth Century casting for The McKinley Case with Darryl Zanuck guiding, Joseph Calleia as the villain and Franchot Tone as the sleuth, John Cromwell set to direct. Additional notes include Connie Bennett as a possible producer and Tillie Losch tested for Lotus in The Good Earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Darryl
Zanuck
Twentieth Century
McKinley
Joseph Calleia
Franchot Tone
John Cromwell
Rma
Lotus
Tillie Losch
Irving Thalbere
Miss Losch
American Soldier Puzzle Clue List Bears Military Terms
A categorized word puzzle item list includes references to military ranks and actions such as He command ed the U.S. A. forces in the War and His army title. It mixes clues for various definitions from land rights to cloaks and shields.
Nancy Pages Poor Packing Ruins Nancy S Teatime Plans
Nancy Page hoped for a tea party with heirloom china from England but improper packing left most items shattered when the customs box finally opened. The journalist notes how the packer used tight compression and misplaced protection, ruining fragile porcelain and ending Nancy’s anticipated gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter
Nancy
England
Customs Office
Packer
Personal Health Service by William Brady MD
A humorous health column discusses midlife degeneration and common ailments like apoplexy kidney disease and heart failure. It promotes a mock Bread and Milk Club for healthy living, offering milk bread and wheat and a bouncer to deter discussions of health problems, with light satire on medical culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Personal Health Service
William Brady, MD
Bright
B and M Club
Temperance Club Puts Convenience First in Moral Diet
The article mocks a temperance club offering lenient rules to curb hogs among the middle aged. It lists indulgences such as fast eating refined carbs drinks desserts and aims to make temperance painless with flexible meals and substitutions while humorously closing with a funeral remark.
Does Bulgarian yoghurt aid digestion or prevent autointoxication
The text states that buttermilk ordinary sour milk acidophilus fermented milk and Bulgarian fermented milk are wholesome and beneficial to digestion if liked but no sour or fermented milks cure anything. A blood test cannot diagnose cancer and is dismissed as quackery. A maternity booklet is offered for a fee.
Man who never learned the names of trees or skies
A poem contrasts a man who lived seventy years for profit and routine with a distant awareness of nature. He knew mechanics and urban life but not elm or pine trees, birds, or planetary names, leaving questions about spring and autumn orchards unaddressed.
McGregor Mendon Township Picnic At County Fairground
The McGregor Mendon Township community club with Farmersburg Township support hosts its annual picnic at National fairgrounds Tuesday. A basket lunch precedes a program by Rev Wenninger and Orphans' Home children from Waverly. Contests and prizes for twins, oldest man and woman, largest family, and oldest car. Baseball Farmersburg vs Mendon and a boxing match on the schedule. Judging by Edwin Kramer Seward Henkes Riley Moody and Reuben Rayment. Art Curr to announce events and awards.
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McGregor
Mendon Township
McGregor-Marquette
Farmersburg Township
National
Wenninger
Waverly
Farmersburg
Edwin Kramer
Seward Henkes
Riley Moody
Reuben Rayment
Art Curr
Lady Lee and Dale Love Blossoms at Locust Hill
Dr. Farwell governs Locust Hill as Lady Lee Brady confides her night ride with Dale Brady to him. Dale declares love, planning to finish his geology studies while Lee admits she needed him. Pink warns against revealing the affair to the pastor as the tale continues.
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Jonathan Farwell
Old White Church
Locust Hill
Dale
Pink Mulsrew
Lee Brady
Farwell
Lee
Evelyn Marblestone
Brady
Watch and Ward
Daddy
Lady Lee
Doctor Farwell
Pink
Miss. Brady
Trenton
Lenora
Mulgrew
Dominie
Mayor urges cedar rapids rodeo hats for frontier park event
Mayor W G Loftus issues a proclamation urging Cedar Rapids residents to buy and wear rodeo hats to advertise the Second Annual Rodeo and Roundup at Frontier Park scheduled for August 3 to 7. Workmen began tearing down the Merchants National Bank tower on Second Avenue at Third Street. Mr and Mrs F A Rothweiler and Mr and Mrs Burt Kent with their son Lloyd trip to northern Minnesota and the Canadian lakes for three weeks.
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W. G. Loftus
Cedar Rapids
Frontier Park
Merchants National Bank
Second Avenue
Third Street
F. A. Rothweiler
Burt Kent
Lloyd
Minnesota
Canadian Lakes
Notable speakers at rural letter carriers meeting
W. J. Brown of Washington D C led today's Rural Letter Carriers convention session. William Jennings Bryan stayed overnight in the city but avoided reporters on politics or the Mexican situation with President Wilson, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry Ford also present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Brown
Washington, D. C
Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
William Jennings Bryan
Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Ford
Cedar Rapids Invitation for Naeace Tractor Exhibit Visit
The invitation to visit Cedar Rapids was announced today by Joe McCormick head of the publicity committee for the Naeace Tractor exhibit to be held there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Joe McCormick
Five Sweeting Girls Drown in Cedar River Near Here
Hazel Sweeting and four relatives aged 12 to 14 drowned while wading in the Cedar River three miles north. Ruth Coyle 11 and Cora Coyle 10, plus Clara Usher 14, were also among the victims’ companions. rescue efforts failed. Tom Kelly was lightly injured in an ice house accident the same day. Linn County Masonic and Eastern Star Picnic association schedules its annual session for August 8 with Dr. C B Whelpley and Joseph E Morcombe in charge of arrangements.
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Hazel Sweeting
Josephine Sweeting
Gladys Sweeting
Lucille Sweeting
Ruth Coyle
Cora Coyle
Clara Usher
Cedar River
Here
Sweeting
Tom Kelly
Linn County
Masonic and Eastern Star Picnic Association
C. B. Whelpley
Joseph E. Morcombe
Movie Listings at Local Theaters
At the theaters Paramount W features W C Fields and Rochelle Hudson in Poppy. Iowa shows Two Against the World with Humphrey Bogart and Beverly Roberts and Tickets to Paradise with Roger Pryor and Wendy Barrie. State presents Border Flight with Frances Farmer and John Howard and Half Angel with Frances Dee and Brian Donlevy. Palace screens Al Jolson in The Singing Kid and Edward Everett Horton in Her Masters Voice. Rialto offers Jack Holt in Dangerous Waters and John Wayne in Lonely Trail.
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Paramount
W. C. Fields
Rochelle Hudson
Iowa
Humphrey Bogart
Beverly Roberts
Paradise
Roger Pryor
Wendy Barrie
Frances Farmer
John Howard
Frances Dee
Brian Donlevy
Palace
al Jolson
Edward Everett Horton
Rialto
Jack Holt
John Wayne
Funeral held for Beverly Jean Jewell at Sorensen chapel
Beverly Jean Jewell two died after sudden illness at Wateroo hospital Friday. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Jewell of Independence and granddaughter of Mrs. Hamilton Booth of Walker and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jewell of Independence. Burial followed at Walker cemetery with solos by Evangeline McKnight and Doris Leusen. Rev. John McKee presided.
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Walker
Sorensen Chapel
Beverly Jean Jewell
John Jewell
Independence
Hamilton Booth
Wateroo
Richard
Charles Jewell
John McKee
Christian Church of
Brandon
Evangeline McKnight
Doris Leusen
Walker Cemetery
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Constance Bennett
20Th Century- Fox
Gaumont- British
Isidor Ostrer
Gaumont
Bennett
Connie
A. C. Blumenthal Money
Paulette Goddard
Boby
South Seas
Charlie Chaplin
Paulette
United Artists
Conrad Nagel
Quickie
Ben Schulberg
Joan Bennett
Joan—Crawford
Metro
Franchot
Cary Grant
Mary Brian
Terry Hunt
Elaine Shepherd
Harry Richmond
Europe
Lawrence Tibbett
Peter Bennett
Roscoe Earns
Ignatic
Frances Dee Chas
Butterworth
ANGEL
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U.S. A
Nancy Page
China
Florence la Ganke
Bread and Milk Club
Guy
Ce Tela Singer Theater
Peter B. Coe Iy
The
Express
Hugh Williams
Godfrew Tearle
Hal LE Roy
A.C.S
Edgar A Guest
Heart’s Heritage
Adolph Zukor
Herbert Hlarshall
Roy Gertrude Michael
Lionel Atwill
Rod Larocque Coew
Booth Tarkington
Frederick L. Maytag
Maytag Company
Maytag
Cedar Rapids Maytag Company
Oseisse
Ceserasn's
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