Brain Trust Of Cedar Rapids Post Office Interprets Foreign Rules
In Cedar Rapids the foreign and COD department dubbed the “brain trust” analyzes complex postal rules for sending items abroad. Clerks explain limits on capers to Russia, old clothes to Greece, and medicines requiring registration, with tales of surcharges, transit fees, and confiscations.
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Fliza Wickor
Afghanistan
Polyresa
Brain Trust
Cedar Rapids
Russia
Ripley
United States Postal Guide
Greece
United States
Canada
Caroline Islands
Finland
Poland
France
Joseph E Coenen
T O McFall
Ambrose Muller
C R Ingram
Aegean Islands
San Vicente
Central America
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Chicago
McFall
Pentek and
Ford
Three Minute Cereals Company
Fall
Great Britain
C. O. D. Mai
Brain
T. O McFall
Joseph E. Coenen
Brazil
Montleur
Mr. McFall
Uncle Sam
Abyssinia
Portugal
Venezuelan
Dog Loyalist and a Tragic Illinois Death Sentence
Russell McWilliams, seventeen, grilled for murder after a trolley hold up on August 29, 1931, and the devoted collie Man-Dog waited on the cottage porch in Rockford. Despite public sympathy and legal delays aided by Darrow and others, Governor Horner commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment in Joliet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell McWilliams
Russell
McWilliams
Og Russell
Rockford
al Russell
Man- Dog
Man-Dog
We, Bell
Joliet
Arthur Fisher
Clarence Darrow
Corps of Legal Defenders
Horner
Illinois
Prison term seals fate of faithful dog and owner
A governor imposes a ninety nine year sentence, meaning parole is impossible for Russell for thirty three years. Man-Dog waits on the porch, hoping for a reunion that will never come as time drags on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penvenes
Russell
Man-Dog
Calse
Iowa names Anna Stewart state juvenile agent
Des Moines AP reports Mrs Anna Stewart of Indianola was appointed by the board of control of state institutions as state juvenile agent. She succeeds Mrs W E Maulsby of Des Moines who resigned effective July 15. Stewart will oversee nineteen southwest Iowa counties.
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Des Moines
Anna Stewart
Indianola
Board of Control of State
W. E. Maulsby
Iowa
Radio Program Schedule Montage Across Networks
A dense listing of Sunday and evening radio offerings across NBC CBS and ABC stations. It catalogs performers such as Imperial Hawaiians, symphonies, choirs, and orchestras with station chains and times. The piece reads as a schedule snapshot of broadcast programming existing across multiple markets.
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NBC
WEAF
CBS
WABC
WEAP
Alex Semmler
WMT
WCCO
String Quartet
WJZ
Ols—Hall and Gruen
Mormon Choir
Richard Manwell
Radio City Symphony
WJZ Chain
Chicago
U. Roundtable
Weaf Chain. Ensemble
WHO
Ann Lest
Mars Small
Sunday Forum
Compinaky
WBBM
South Sea Islanders
Gene Arnold
Rele Murray
E. Ram Asins
Bolmiere
Will Rogers on Politics and 1934 Campaign Care
The column blends remarks on McAdoo Johnson Creel Upton Sinclair and local candidates with humor about the political scene. It discusses retroactive benefits ideas a mix of Democrat Republican and Socialist figures and ends with a tongue in cheek warning about the looming election and the idea of the nation being on the Brink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAdoo
Paris
Hiram Johnson
Senate
Johnson
Maby
Roosevelt
Oklahoma
George Marland
Marland
George
California
George Creel
Strategic Reversal Secures Four Hearts Victory in Bridge
In a four heart contract West North East South reach four hearts after a cautious auction. East avoids a heart finesse, instead sacrificing two trump tricks to prevent the declarer from running clubs. The defense then executes a precise sequence, drawing trumps and ultimately winning the majority of tricks to fulfill the contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ney
Quinn
American Legion
Merriam
Four Hearts South
Diamond Queen East
Dimmy
Queen of Hearts
North
East
South
Culbertson Bridge Questions Sought at Cedar Rapids Gazette
Mrs Culbertson invites questions on bridge and asks readers to send stamped self addressed envelopes to Josephine Culbertson in care of The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gazette
Josephine Culbertson
Monday July 16 forecast hints at intrigue and occult leanings
The reading warns of perplexing omens and subtle developments on Monday July 16 with possible conspiracies or secrecy to unfold. It notes advantageous contacts with power figures, mental or spiritual questions arising, and a notable nativity Mary Baker Eddy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science
Receiver's Sale of Cedar Rapids Sash and Door Property
Court ordered sale of the Cedar Rapids Sash and Door Company assets including plant, grounds, railway side-track, machinery, lumber stock, and mill-work. Bids may cover all or part, located on C Avenue West between Sixth and Seventh Streets. Proposals subject to court approval. open for public inspection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CEDAR _RAPIDS SASH AND DOOR COMPANY
Dietrict Court
C Avenue
Sixth
Seventh Streets
James Gc. Loomis
Cedar Rapids Sash and Door Company
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