Local druggists adopt trade code in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids retailers in the drug trade approve a code setting minimum wages and working hours for pharmacists drug clerks and other staff. The code limits prices excluding ost and overhead and provides for employee collective bargaining rights. The plan will be submitted to state and national associations for approval before wider adoption.
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Cedar Rapids
Iithe National Association of Retail ‘Edruggists
Drug Institute Por America
Washington, D. C
Trade Practices Action Targets Drug Industry
A St. Louis based survey by the United States department of commerce finds average overhead at 27 percent for drug stores. The act on trade practices bans unethical advertising and bait offers, and calls for sale of medicines only through legitimate outlets. Cedar Rapids workers face 12 hour days. proposed scale envisions six 10 hour days and one 6 hour day.
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Barge
Cedar Rapids
Fire Chief Bans Smokehouses After Backyard Blaze
In Stockton California Fire Chief DC Mirpay bans smokehouses after a Chinese butcher built a smokehouse on his rear property. He used sawdust and bacon to smoke meat, sparked a grass fire, and the chief extinguished it along with the smokehouse. The incident leads to the ban.
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Stockton
Calif
Cnet DC
Mirpay
Fair play in bridge bids sparks question from Boston club
A column discusses whether North South players may overbid to exploit weak East West opponents in Eastern Duplicate games using the Mitchell Movement. It cites a Boston Deschapelles Club deal where overbidding occurred and explains a recommended line with North-South vulnerable and a three hearts bid to invite a four bid if a strong two heart hand exists.
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Milton Unger
Boston
Ersc
Unger
New Deschapelles
Jerry Farrar
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South
East
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North
World’s Most Expensive Fish Arrive at Shedd Aquarium
The John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago received 120 fish types totaling about 1000 fish from the South Seas and Australia. They were shipped in special aeration and cooling tanks with water treatment, transported in a dedicated tank car for overland delivery.
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Ill
John G. Shedd
South Seas
Australia
United States
Fiji Islands
Theaters Show Premieres With Fay Wray and Bing Crosby
Iowa theaters present Below the Sea featuring Fay Wray and Ralph Bellamy. Paramount offers College Humor starring Bing Crosby Richard Arlen Mary Carlisle and Jack Oakie. State screens Best of Enemies with Buddy Rogers Marion Nixon Greta Nissen. Rialto shows John Wayne Telegraph Trail with Lionel Atwill Sheila Terry in The Sphinx.
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Iowa
Fay Wray
Ralph Bellamy
Paramount
Bing Crosby
Richard Arlen
Mary Carlisle
Jack Oakie
State
Buddy Rogers
Marion Nixon
Greta Nissen
Threats of Divorce Suit Fly Between Hutton and Angelus Officials
Los Angeles report says David Hutton Jr claims mental cruelty and alienation of affection by Angelus Temple leaders after filing for divorce from evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton. He shows cables claiming a trans Atlantic battle of wits and a push to different jurisdictions. McPherson Hutton sails toward Baltimore to pursue divorce in her name.
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INS
Aimee Semple McPherson - Hutton
David Hutton, Jr
Angelus Temple
Hutton
Peat Aimee
Tye
City of Havre
America
Paris
Aimee McPherson- Hutton
Four Square Gospel
California
David Hutton
Youth swims Niagara rapids daring feat by 17 year old
William Kondrat, 17, of Chatham New Jersey, swam the Niagara River rapids with Arthur Hecht of New York City. He was arrested by police on a vagrancy charge after the swim. Kondrat said he wanted to touch Canadian soil.
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N. Y
William Kondrat
Chatham
N J
Niagara River
Arthur Hecht
New York City
Kondrat
Second Wife Sues Billy Sunday in Noted Divorce Case
In San Francisco, a sensational 1930 divorce action sees Billy Sunday sued by his second wife Mrs George Sunday. The plaintiff alleges cruelty and claims she discovered a hired dancer in Sunday's apartment. The case follows a prior marriage and a tumultuous personal history centered on the evangelist.
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Ban Francisco
CINB
George M. . Bunday
Billy
Bunday
Sunday
George Sunday
Airplanes collide during Hong Kong drills crash in flames
During army maneuvers in Hong Kong on Tuesday two airplanes collided and crashed in flames. Two pilots were killed in the accident.
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Hong Kong
Below the Sea at the Iowa Today
The Iowa theater opens a three day run of Below the Sea a Jo Swerling tale about a hunt for gold entombed in a sunken submarine. Fay Wray and Ralph Bellamy star in a film famed for underwater scenery vivid color sequences and thrilling action.
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Iowa Theater
Jo Swerling
Fay Wray
Ralph’ Bellamy
Miss Wray
Graham McNamee
Argentine courts issue arrest for Luis Angel Firpo
Buenos Aires courts ordered the arrest and imprisonment of Luis Angel Firpo, nicknamed Wild Bull of the Pampas, on real estate fraud charges. The order is not yet carried out due to his disappearance.
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Buenos Aires
INS
Luis Angel
Firpo
Pampas
Nels
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