Colonel Titus Will Visit Cedar Rapids Friends This Summer
Colonel and Mrs. C. P. Titus are due in Cedar Rapids with their son Junior between July 20 and 30 after traveling from California. They will spend a week visiting local friends and then continue eastward, having previously served here during Colonel Titus tenure as Coe College ROTC commandant.
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C P Titus
California
Cedar Rapids
Junior
Tituses
Titus
Coe College
Mrs Henry M Files Return From Des Moines Visit
Mrs Henry M Files and her daughter Jean of 2165 Blake Boulevard SE have returned from Des Moines after spending several days with Mrs Files' parents.
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Henry M Files
Jean
Blake Boulevard
Des Moines
Mrs. Files
Mrs Seaton Post Visits Before Minneapolis Trip
Dr Morgan J Foster returns from Lake Okoboji with family. Mrs Foster and their son stay in Holstein visiting relatives. Mrs Addison J Ramsey gives a luncheon at the Country Club for Mrs Seaton Post of New York before her departure for Minneapolis to visit Mrs Walter D. Douglas. Mrs Post has stayed with her sister Mrs George B Douglas at Bruce more for weeks.
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Morgan J Foster
Washington Avenue
Lake Okoboji
Addison J Ramsey
Crescent Street
Country Club
Seaton Post
New York City
Minneapolis
Walter D. Douglas
Post
George B Douglas
Brucemore
Picnic and meetings for Post Officers and Cedar auxiliary
Post Officer Carriers branch 3873 and Cedar auxiliary 193 N A L C plan a joint picnic at Daniels Park Saturday at 5 30 pm. The auxiliary holds its regu lar meeting at 3 30 before the picnic with reports from delegates Gertrude Michalcck Ruth Wall and Carrie Miller who attended the state convention in Manchester.
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Cedar Auxiliary
NA L.C
Daniels Park
Gertrude Michalcck
Ruth Wall
Carrie Miller
Manchester
Arthur Taylor
Walter Michabeek
Dr Wol Brown Addressed Medical Society Meeting
Dr and Mrs W E Brown returned Thursday night from Clear Lake where Dr Brown spoke on Toxemias of Pregnancy at the Austin Flint Medical Society annual meeting Wednesday. Wives of the medical union were entertained at the Lake Shore hotel with Mrs Brown as guest.
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W. E. Brown
Fourth Avenue SE
Clear Lake
Brown
Austin Flint Medical Society
Lake Shore
Miss Genevieve Berstresser Visits Cedar Rapids Friends
Miss Genevieve Berstresser of Oak Park Illinois, formerly of Cedar Rapids, traveled here with Miss Marjorie Josselyn this week and will stay a few days with Mrs H S Josselyn and her daughter at 841 Fourth Avenue SE. Miss Josselyn will remain through the summer with her mother.
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Genevieve Berstresser
Oak Park
Ill
Cedar Rapids
Marjorie Josselyn
H S. Josselyn
Fourth Avenue SE
Josselyn
Birthday Party for Allen Dunn Fifth Year Old
Twenty four children joined Allen T Dunn for his fifth birthday at his mother Mrs Allen J Dunn’s home at 1867 B avenue NE. After games on the lawn and inside, guests sat at a long circus themed table with a red and white striped tent, white cake with red candies, and tiny red and white pennants. Each child received an individual cake with a single red candle.
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Allen T Dunn
Allen J Dunn
Avenue
Trinity Methodist group honors three at Elis Park picnic
The Phi Theta Sigma class complemented three members, a bride and two brides elect, at a picnic supper in Elis Park Tuesday evening. Miss Thelma Sparks and Miss Gladys Woodward, to be married this month, and Mrs Dorothy Konigsmark Jones, a recent bride, were guests of honor. Twenty three were present.
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Phi Theta Sigma
Trinity Methodist Church
Elis Park
Thelma Sparks
Gladys Woodward
Dorothy Konigsmark Jones
Mrs Raymond Woodward Hosts Shower For Gladys Woodward
Mrs Raymond Woodward entertained at a miscellaneous shower for Miss Gladys Woodward with nineteen Bunco games and five hundred. Prizes in Bunco went to Mrs Earl Oliver and Mrs P J Chapman and in five hundred to Mrs Howard Jones and Mrs Albert Jensen. The event occurred at 1212 Oakland Avenue NE with many relatives and neighbors attending.
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Raymond Woodward
Oakland Avenue
Gladys Woodward
Ueets
Bunco
Earl Oliver
P J Chapman
Howard Jones
Albert
Jensen Mies
Town Hall lecture series to feature Dr Frank and Leacock
Cedar Rapids announces its Town Hall club 1934 35 program with ten lectures headlined by Dr Glenn Frank president of the University of Wisconsin and Stephen Leacock McGill University department of political economy. Frank speaks Nov 9 on The Renewal of America. Leacock speaks Jan 17 1935 renowned humorist and author of Literary Lapses Frenzied Fiction Over the Footlights Behind the Beyond.
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Glenn Frank
Stephen Leacock
Town Hall Club
Grace Boston
Frank
University of Wisconsin
Cedar Rapids
Leacock
McGul Unversity
Montreal
Cedar Rapids Bridge Players Invited to Eastern Iowa Event
Mrs George F Beattie receives an invitation for Cedar Rapids players to the second annual Eastern Iowa contract bridge tournament at Dubuque Golf Club on July 28 and 29. Play starts Saturday 2 PM and 8 PM, with a Sunday championship for the top eighteen two-session performers. Cedar Rapids Country Club hosts the last Cedar Rapids tournament tonight at 8. Mrs Beattie leads local plans.
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George F Beattie
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque Golf Club
Iowa
A J Kleinschmidt
Dubuque
Country club hosts large family dinner and luncheon crowd
Seventy members and families attended the Cedar Rapids Country club event Thursday evening for the usual family dinner. Thirty five people, including several small groups, enjoyed luncheon there. Mr and Mrs Monroe Dt of Cal der Saskatchewan, Canada, left for home after a ten day visit with Mrs Till's mother, Mrs Isabelle Dill, and others in local homes south of the city.
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Cedar Rapids Country Club
Country Club
Monroe Dt
Calder
Saskatchewan
Canada
Mr Till
Isabelle Dill
Eighteenth Avenue
Frank Hoppe
H W. Smith
Local clubs meet at homes with sewing and treats
The Laf A Lot club gathered at Mrs Harley Simon’s home at 1546 C avenue NE on Wednesday afternoon for a sewing session followed by refreshments. The next gathering will be at Mrs Cilenn Wilson’s home, 336 Fourth avenue SW. The Malboro club hosted a family supper for members and guests at Bever Park Thursday evening. About forty five enjoyed the event as Mr and Mrs Lampman and their granddaughter Betty Mae Sidwell, with Ian Lampman of Los Angeles, returned from a visit to Chicago.
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Harley Simon
C Avenue NE
Nest
Cilenn Wilson
Fourth Avenue SW
Malboro Club
Bever Park
Mre
F Lampman
Betty Mae Sidwell
Ian Lampman
Los Angeles
Chicago
Pigeons Exhausted After 3,000 Mile Flight
An article notes pigeons completing a long 3000 mile flight appear exhausted after the journey. The report mentions bird fatigue and possible impacts on their physical condition following the extensive travel.
Wakes You Look So Fresh Young Face Powder Ad
An old advertisement touts a powder marketed to “look fresher and younger.” It claims lasting skin smoothness, reduced shine, and a youthful tint. The panel highlights a drug store promotion with a price point and brand messaging typical of period cosmetics notices.
Five Slayers Pay With Their Lives Across Several States
Five murderers died in Friday the 13th executions across Sing Sing Florence and Carson City with gas and electric chair. George Shaughnessy of Albany died in Florence Arizona while Joe Bechner executed at Carson City Nevada. Frank Canova perished in Sing Sing for the torch murder of his wife. Jose Arragon and Walter Rippy were to be hanged at San Quentin for murder.
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United Press
Nevada
California
Arizona
New York
Sing Sing
Far West
Anna .Antonio
Albany
Florence
George Shaughnessy
N. Y
Shaughness
Joe Bechner
Carson City
Frank Canova
Nps
San Quentin
Jose Arragon
Walter Rippy
Roppy
Arragon
Nine Added To Roster Of Veteran Campers At Waubeek
Nine more warriors joined the veteran campers at Scout Camp Waubeek after the third Indian day ceremony. New inductees include Glenn Radcliffe Sun rise James Lehman Dark Antler Victor Gill Spotted Horse Harold Andrews Whirlwind Carl Meskimen Laughing Stars Henry Burnham Silent Power Albert McDonough Lone Wolf Gilbert Feicreisen Big Hawk Donald Radcliffe Little Horn. Warrior Sunrise was named chief and Warrior Silent Power medicine man for the week. Ten second year campers passed the good will test and twenty five earned an honor camper rating for the first half of the week. Final ratings will be announced Saturday evening.
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Scout
Papoose Heary Burnham
Harry Lutz
Troop
Cedar Rapids
Dallas man kills ex wife and roommate then shoots self
H B Harris, 37, Dallas department store buyer, forced his way into his divorced wife Ermine Harris and her roommate Pat Kidd apartments Friday. He shot both women in the chest and then turned the pistol on himself. Harris remained in critical condition at a local hospital as three Harris children, witnesses to the事件, observed the tragedy.
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Harrs
Dallas
Buser
Ermine Harris
Pat Kidd
Harrises
Hitler Names His 'People's Court' To Try Treason Cases
Berlin dispatch reports Chancellor Hitler announcing a new special tribunal called the People’s Court to try treason and other political crimes. Twenty one jurists and officers will serve on the court alongside government prosecutors to counter alleged escapes in ordinary courts due to legal technicalities.
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Hitler
People’s Court
Berlin
People's Court
Loomans
Davenport Life Insurance bids opened Monday after court receiver appointed
Open bids for reinsurance of Davenport Life Insurance business will be opened Monday July 16. State Insurance Commissioner E W Clark says bids must be submitted by July 14 midnight and include full death payments and return of earnings and savings to policyholders. Receiver Chik announced April 7 that five or six bids are expected.
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Chik
Scate County
What’s In Fashion Men Vacation Wardrobes 1934
A compact guide outlines a summer vacation wardrobe emphasizing comfort and color. Panama hats stay light and breezy, white linen or tropical weight white suits offer coolness and versatile pairing with sports coats and slacks, and a range of blue and white shirts, foulard ties, and white socks complete a practical ensemble.
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Panama
Amos Parrish
Government reports massive losses from foreign liquor smuggling
Washington reports state that millions in tariff revenue vanish weekly due to foreign liquor smuggling. Officials cite duty evasion of five dollars per gallon, with estimates of up to five million dollars monthly in losses and ten thousand cases landed weekly on the South Carolina coast. Coast Guard assets and funding are discussed as efforts intensify against smugglers.
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Washington
South Carolina
Coast Guard
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Gulf Seaboard
Huge Damage From Japanese Flood Reported
AP dispatch from Tokyo notes about seventy deaths and 20 million yen in damage, roughly six million dollars, in western prefectures Ishikawa Toyama Niigata. Rain has ceased and floods abated though many are missing and drowning totals may rise as remote villages report limited access.
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TOKIO
API
Ishikawa
Toyama
Niigata
Plan Reorganization Aims to Rebuild Insull Empire
A proposed plan for reorganizing the Middle West Utilities company describes it as the first constructive step toward rehabbing the collapsed Insull empire. The submission was made to Federal Judge Wilkerson on Friday in Chicago.
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Chicago
Middle West
Anies Company
Insull
Wilkerson
Mrs Roosevelt Vanishes From Public Eye in California Hills
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt eludes public sight in rugged California mountains or western Nevada. She was seen in a Sacramento coffee shop eating peaches and cream with Miss Lorena Hickok, departing via alley to a hotel as journalists trailed their car. The First Lady refused to reveal her destination amid divorce filings by her daughter-in-law in Nevada.
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Roseville
Calif
Franklin D Roosevelt
California
Nevada
Sacramento
Roosevelt
Lorena Hickok
West
Curtis Dall
Was He Mad But He Couldn't Bite
Pascal Smith, 35, Wabash conductor, told Judge Gorman in Chicago that four years of quarrels with his wife Gertrude left him furious. He complained about clothes theft and missing an upper plate. The judge ordered him to pay $10 a week, even if he must live on soup.
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Chicago
Pascal Smith
Smith
Gibson E. Gorman
Gertrude
Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Jinx
ITS LIFE TO HIM. JOSEPH A BALDWIN OF ALBION, MICHIGAN, WINSLOW FRIDAY THE 13TH AS A LIST OF LIFE EVENTS: 1917 COMMISSION AS SECOND LIEUTENANT, 1918 MARRIAGE AT ITHACA, 1919 FIRST CHILD BORN, 1930 JOINED PHI ALPHA DELTA, 1931 ADMITTED TO PRACTICE BEFORE SUPREME COURT DC, 1932 ADMITTED TO US COURT OF CUSTS AND PATENT APPEALS, 1934 FILED NOMINATION PETITIONS FOR STATE SENATOR NINTH DISTRICT. WIFE'S FAMILY COUNTS 13. BALDWIN FORMER DOORKeeper IN THE U S SENATE AND GEORGE WASHINGTON GRADUATE.
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Lansing
Mich
Joseph A. Baldwin
Albion
Ithaca
Phi Alpha Delta
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
United State Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Ninth District
Baldwin
U. S. Senate
George Washington
Paratrooper Defies Superstition With Cat Aloft
Private Ralph Watson of Kelly Field Texas planned a Friday the 13th parachute jump with a cat named Rattlebones as an omen. Army air chief Maj Gen Benjamin D. Foulois ordered the cat grounded to avoid bad luck. Watson’s jump proceeded without the feline companion.
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Washington
INS
Ralph Watson
Kelly Field
Tex
Rattlebones
Benjamin D. Founlois
Army Air Chief
War Department
Watson
Ralph
Fire trucks collide while answering false alarm injuring two
In Chicago two fire trucks responding to a prank false alarm collided. Two firemen were injured and hospitalized. The incident occurred on a Friday the thirteenth, with investigators unsure of any direct link to the prank or superstitions surrounding the date.
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Chicago
Jerry Hovey Celebrates Third Birthday After Recovery
In St Paul Jerry Hovey aged three marked his birthday on a Friday the thirteenth with a party and thanks for a full recovery from surgery to remove a watermelon seed inhaled last year. He invited Theresa Biel who turned thirteen that day.
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ST Paul
Jerry Hovey
Jerry
Theresa Biel
Corn loans may be extended to Oct 19
Iowa farmers with good risk corn loans may extend to October 15 with interest if they wish, per an official Washington announcement. Loans not yet called remain payable after August 1, with calls dependent on crib checks. Sealed corn deliveries should wait until requested after August 1.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Washington, D. C
State Department, of Agriculture
William S. Bradley
Commodity Credit Corporation
Iowa Banded Duck Killed Far North Saskatchewan
DES MOINES AP Allan Green of Oakville banded a wild duck and sent the band to the federal biological survey in the name of Governor Herring. A photo shows the fowl killed 190 miles north of Prince Albert in Saskatchewan. Green has banded ducks for years, and none of his birds had reached that far north before.
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Des Moines
Allan Green
Oakville
Governor Herring
Federal Biological Survey
Green
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Husband Of Jean Harlow's Estranged Husband Recovers
Hal Rosson film cameraman and Jean Harlow's former husband revealed after a bout with infantile paralysis that full recovery is expected. He described first shoulder pains and rapid weakness, then weeks of rest and aquatic therapy to rebuild strength. Ida Lupino is undergoing similar treatment with optimism of no lasting disability.
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Hollywood
Hal_ Rosson
Jean Harlow
Rosson
Ida Lupino
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