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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 16, 1939

Page

24

Mountain Climbing Fossil Hunters Take Off Monday In Coe Caravan

Coe college charity expedition on a four to six week geology field trip departs with twenty students and faculty heading through Wyoming to thirteen national parks and forests. Prof Leonard R. Wilson leads the group toward Grand Teton Craters of the Moon Yellowstone and Fossil with a mobile base camp enabling four thousand five hundred mile travel at about one cent per mile. The team, split evenly by gender, will hunt fossils study glacier movements and climb the Grand Teton while camps include paid meals and self sufficiency in equipment and food.

Grand Teton Coe College Twentty Leonard R. Wilson Red Wyoming America Cedar Rapids Professor Wilson Dean Mary Bell Irving Churchill Ernest Mickel Robert Kosanke Park Ridge Herbert Allman Dixon Ill Phyllis Oetjen Hinsdale Dora Jane Hamblin Bedford Douglas Klemme Belmond Agnes Johnson Austin Mary Rabe Evanston Helen Mary Knox Milledgeville

Diverse Civic Industrial Picnic Program Planned at Ellis Park

Cedar Rapids industrial employees will gather for the third annual Civic Industrial league picnic at Ellis park on Sunday August 6. A 11 am golf tournament kicks off a full afternoon and evening program with a drum and bugle corps demo puppet shows races band concert and an outdoor swimming exhibition plus a big evening show headlined by Wilfred J. Lattner and his troopers aimed at surpassing last year’s crowd.

Cedar Rapids Civic Industrial League Ellis Park Ellsworth Fife Della Cornish Wilson and Company Ariel Cross R. J. MacNamara Penick and Ford Penick and Ford Quaker Oats Company la Plant Choate Company Nichols, Jr John Myers Speeder Manufacturing Company Ernest Hanks City Water Works William Pulda la Plant Choate Bruce Bucknell Bucknell Midwest William Barnett John Stark University of Town Cedar Rapids Engineering Company Wilfred J. Lattner Riverside Sinclair Jackson Buchanan Daniels Bever Arthur Kenwood Whitlam

Dorothy Ludington Whitney Marries Raymond Massey in Quiet New York Ceremony

Socially prominent Dorothy Ludington Whitney announced her marriage to stage star Raymond Massey who has played Abe Lincoln in Illinois. They wed quietly last Monday in New York.

New York Dorothy Ludington Whitney Raymond Massey Abe Lincoln

Octopuses Popular as Food and Canned Lobster Substitutes

Octopuses are widely consumed in many countries and occasionally marketed as canned lobster substitutes, reflecting a trend in flexible seafood labeling and culinary use.

Third Operation Yet First Smiles For This Boy

A brief report notes a boy undergoing a third operation yet smiling. The piece then lists city playground activities and events across multiple parks, including movie nights at Whitlam park, sports and youth programs, bicycle parades, fish trips, and various planned community activities through the week. The common housefly lifespan is cited as 62 days.

Gazette Donnie Risk James E. Risk Park Avenue SE Donnie St. Luke's Hospital Johnson School

City playgrounds plan track and field meet at Roosevelt

The fifth week of the summer playground season opens with a city wide track and field meet at Roosevelt playground on Wednesday at 2 pm. Events include girls volleyball throws, dashes and relays for junior to senior classifications and boys running events plus shuttle relays. Participants must wear rubber tennis shoes. Local officials assisted by

Roosevelt Playground

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