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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1932
Page
6
The Cedar Rapids Gazette announces its publication details and pricing options including yearly, semiannual, quarterly, and monthly rates. Advertising contact information for Chicago New York offices is listed along with notes on wire service affiliations and republication rights.
Senator Bingham, an anti-prohibition stalwart, argues the President has no veto over repeal and that victory lies in Congress. He asserts that voters should not link presidential races to the Eighteenth Amendment and warns Republicans against pretending the President is indifferent to liquor policy.
Washington sees thousands of bonus army members stay put as they await action while some use offered funds to back recruitment. The Lane plan proposes settler farms with irrigation projects and community ties, permitting small down payments and long-term installments to rehabilitate veterans.
The New York World Telegram reports Mayor James J. Walker plans to fight Gov Roosevelt’s attempt to oust him over actions from his first term. The letter mocks the probe, defends past era wealth, and jokes about politics and the Olympic timing.
The piece presents quotes from Gar Wood praising speed on water over air travel, Frank B. Kellogg criticizing financial excess and urging recovery, and Roy W. Robertson expressing resolve of the Ornia Bonus Army, reflecting postwar priorities and tensions.
The piece argues reviving the Lane plan to help veterans by placing them on abandoned eastern farms within fifty miles of Washington. It notes limited support for reclamation projects, shrinking farm availability since 1918, and that success would hinge on veterans' farming knowledge.
The piece argues that panics stem from loss of public confidence and bank failures. It proposes legal reforms to curb depositors' exposure, ban lending depositors’ funds to speculators, forbid bank officers from borrowing bank money, and require robust public trust without government guarantees. It treats banking reform as essential to avoid future booms and busts.
A lively, meandering vignette catalogs a touring minstrel Billy Van with gifts for friars, crowd-pleasing entertainers like Lew Dockstader and Honey Boy Evans, Radio’s white haired boy Charles Francis Coe, and a galaxy of contemporaries. It notes Elks membership, public figures, theater folks, and whimsical observations from a bustling urban scene.
A collage recalls Jake Wolf of the Casino era with Lillian Russell tangents, notes on George F. Baker, and a quip about Beecher manuscripts. A West Thirty-ninth restaurant invites credit refusals, while Paris Venice bars tout personalized miniatures. John Robert Gregg, inventor of Gregg shorthand, stands out as a wealthy world-touring publisher with a gardenia boutonniere.
From Holland, Leon Gordon notes Williams' strip features an octogenarian and his wife by the fire. After a long silence he declares that if anything happens to either, he would spend the rest of his life in Paris.
A brief poetic piece by Edgar A. Guest from 1932 reflecting common folk sentiments and simple everyday hopes. The poem presents a gentle, neighborly tone with a focus on ordinary life and the value of kindness.
A mother frets while her three year old son faces danger near the hospital. She worries about care details like dressing him for Sunday, sugar in bread, keeping him clean, and whether nurses watch over him. Doctors urge rest, yet she imagines daily routines and safety steps she would oversee.
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