Hawkeye Music Festival entries pour in across eastern Iowa
Entries from Cedar Rapids Guttenberg Waukon Monticello Anamosa Morley Delhi Clarksville Springville Toledo Manchester Vinton Waterloo Birmingham Hopkinton Fairfield Harris Dumont West Union Postville Olin Stanwood Mechanicsville Wyoming Lisbon Mount Vernon Elkader Clarence flock to the Hawkeye Music festival set for Wednesday July 30 at Hill Park Cedar Rapids. The Ford Caledonian Bagpipe Band from Detroit will headline a massed band program with solos choruses baton twirlers and drum corps. Tickets in advance via the Chamber of Commerce Young Men's Bureau with grandstand 35 cents box 25 cents.
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Iowa
Hill Park
Joseph H. Kitchin
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Guttenberg
Waukon
Monticello
Anamosa
Morley
Delhi
United States
Canada
Boy Scouts
Camp Fire Girls
Noted Shakespeare Scholar George Lyman Kittredge Dies
George Lyman Kittredge 81 famed Shakespearean scholar and longtime Harvard English professor died at his Barnstable summer home after months of illness. He retired in 1936 as Gurney professor of English literature after 48 years on the Harvard faculty and was known to generations of students for his eccentricities.
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Barnstable
Mass
George Lyman Kittredge
Harvard
Kittredge
Gurney
Nurses recount 12 days adrift after torpedo attack
Four American nurses describe a harrowing 12 day voyage in a lifeboat after their Norwegian ship was torpedoed by a German submarine off Iceland. They tell of brief rescue by a United States destroyer, scarce rations, and a tense encounter with the submarine.
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Norfolk, Va
North Atlantic
Marion Blissett
Detroit
Victoria M. Pele
Auburn
N. Y
Rachel St Pierre
Boston
Lillian M. Pesnicak
Albany
Red Cross
Reykjavik
Iceland
London
The
Maasdam
United States
Atlantic
New Orleans
Greenland
76000 Japanese Homes Inundated After Pacific Typhoon
A typhoon that approached Tokio from the Pacific veered after entering Tokyo Bay and flooded 76,000 homes as it moved through Chiba and Ibaraki prefectures toward the southeast Pacific.
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Tokio
Pacific Ocean
Tokio Bay
Chiba
Ibaraki
Pacific
Roosevelt Views Norris Triumph at Kingsley Dam Dedication
President Roosevelt praised Senator Norris in a Kingsley dam dedication letter read by K Sewell Wing as an epic triumph for public ownership. The earthen dam, second largest of its kind, would help create a unified power pool serving Nebraska farms and factories through a state grid.
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Ogallala
Neb
Roosevelt
Kingsley Dam
Norris
K. Sewell Wingfield
PWA Power Division
Energy distribution aim targets seven hundred thirty one billion kWh
A plan outlines a system designed to distribute 731 million kilowatt hours of energy annually, detailing allocation methods and expected efficiency gains for regional consumers and utilities.
Bowes Discharged From Hospital After Operation
New York radio and theatrical impresario Major Edward Bowes was released Tuesday from Doctors Hospital where he had a major operation last month.
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New York
Edward Bowes
Doctors Hospital
Seaman Given Suspended Sentence In Aluminum Knuckles Case
Seaman Joseph Rental faced Judge Thomas H. Connolly after being accused of possessing aluminum knuckles to aid the aluminum-for-defense drive. He received a six month suspended sentence for the offense.
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Boston
National Defense Program
Seaman Joseph Rental
Thomas H. Connolly
Sensence
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William Breed
Young Men’s Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Young Men's Bureau
Rathskellar
Williams
Robert
Trwwilhane
Lorillard
Ana i
Ea ii
Lorillard’s
Westinghouse
Iowa Electricnt and Power Company
Imal Morris
THI
Morris Plan Company OF
Cenar Rapids
First Avenue East
Logna Si
Satios
Boon
Morris Plan
Nebraska
Bowes
Rice O'Neills
Florsheim’s
Manhattan
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