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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 16, 1939

Page

8

How to Beat Heat The Iowa City Summer Advice

The article advocates reverse etiquette to stay cool in heat. It urges walking instead of running, riding or sitting when possible, and favors cool drinks like lemonade while avoiding excessive carbonated beverages. Food guidance stresses fruits and vegetables, avoiding heavy proteins and starches. It shares humor about damp sheets and ten electric fans, plus a child’s playful endorsement of bathing as swimming.

Iowa William F Bill” Beck Bill John W. Berks Seventeenth Street

U S Wins Dismissal Of Franco Suit In Silver Sale Case

The United States Treasury won dismissal in a New York federal court of a Franco government of Spain suit seeking invalidation of a 15 million dollar silver sale to the U S by the former loyalist government. The action named the New York assay office superintendent as defendant and the treasury and Federal Reserve Bank acted on the motion to dismiss.

Washington INS U. Treasury New York Federal District Court Spain United States Treasury New York Federal Reserve Bank

Local Firms Sponsor Ten Week Highway Safety Campaign

A large group of 100 Cedar Rapids and Linn County business leaders and organizations sponsor a ten week highway safety campaign. Ten full page ads will run in The Gazette each Sunday presenting accident prevention stories with stark photos to shock the public into safety consciousness. The effort cites Pennsylvania’s 1938 success as a model and lists many sponsoring firms including Ace Mutual Insurance, Allstate Tires, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Maytag, Iowa Electric, Quaker Oats, Northwestern Mutual Life, and numerous local businesses and clubs.

the Gazette Pennsylvania United States Cedar Rapids Linn County Sergt Clarence Day Highway Patrol Gordon Hughes Police Department Ace Mutual Insurance Association Allstate Safety Tires American Legion Armature Service Co Auto Electric Shop Bailey Boot Shop Beatty Mortuary Benner Tea Co the John Braul Sons Co Brabbit-Taylor Music Co Broulik Bros Brush Chapel R. D. Brown, Furrier Buehler Bros Builders Material, Inc Burk Cialty Honeymead Products Co Hubbard Ice and Fuel Co Iowa Electric Light and Power Co Iowa Machine Co Iowa Manufacturing Co Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance Co Jack’s Kadlee Brothers Kilborn Photo Paper Co King’s Crown Plaster Co Rubias Hardware Co Lagomarcino Grape Co la Plant~ Choate Manufacturing Co., Inc Limback Lumber Co Linn County Abstract Co the Local Drug and Lunch Co I. B. McGladrey Co Mary Ann's Eat Shop Chas. Macy Messinger and Sons Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Assn Midland Mortgage Co Millhiser Insurance Agency Kresge Morgan Bros New Process Laundry Co The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co Paramount Pharmacy, Security

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