First Post Office Day Observed Nationwide on Tuesday
The article notes the first ever Post Office Day in the United States to be observed Tuesday with flag displays. It traces the postal system from colonial rivals to Franklin's leadership, highlights early post riders like Paul Revere, and contrasts 18th century mail routes with today’s vast network and air mail growth.
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Constitutional” Post Office
Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia
Congress
Constitutional Post Office
Massachusetts
Georgia
Paul Revere
Continental Congress
Franklin
George Washington
United States
Atlantic Coast
United States Post Office
Washington
Jean Blanchard
Air Service
York
San Franciscoo
Farmers National Grain Cooperative gains clearing privileges
The Farmers National Grain Cooperative fights for membership in the clearing-house of the Chicago Board of Trade, facing questions on legality and finances. The Grain Futures Commission found the denial unlawful, stating the board violated the Grain Futures Act by withholding clearing privileges.
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Co-Operative
Updike Grain Corporative Taws Indec Ng Corporation
Board of Trade
Updike Corporation
Pen Nogne
Priveges
Clearing Corporation
Farmers National
Secretary of ‘Agriculture
Grain Futures Commission
Washington
Clearing House
Commission
National Grain Stabilization Corporation
Grain Na
Mitchell
Grain Stabilization Corporation
Tennessee Income Tax Law Held Void
Tennessee's income tax law, enacted by the last general assembly, was declared unconstitutional and void by the state supreme court. Officials had estimated the measure could have raised between 2 million and 3 million dollars in revenue.
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Nashville, Tenn
Tennessee
General Assembly
State Supreme Court
Alibi Claim Emerges in Collicott Murder Case
Norman C. Luce is said to have an alibi showing he was not in Davenport when Ethel Collicott was slain eight years ago. Attorney Louis Piquett, via Associated Press, says Luce will raise the alibi at trial for first degree murder. Luce is jailed in Scott County awaiting a September trial date.
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Norman C. Luce
Davenport
Ethel Collicott
Cedar Rapids
Luce
Louis P. Piquett
Associated Press
Piquett
Scott County
Collicott
Revived Arts Program At Stone City Colony Delights Visitors
Old days songs dances and readings return to the Stone City Art colony this afternoon with a concert by the Monticello municipal band and an old time dance exhibition. A painting prize awaits the best dance act as four Cedar Rapids singers perform folk selections and dulcimer and fiddle numbers are played by Bert McCann and Richard Bond.
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Stone City Colony
Stone City
Bert McCann
Waubeek
Richard Bond
Springville
Jay Sigmund
Cedar Rapids
Francis Mere
Marjorie
Bonus Campers Begin Exodus From Capital
Washington AP reports that the bonus army in the capital is fading as about 3,500 remaining veterans are left for officials to feed. Police counted peak crowds around 11,700 with leaders of 22,000 departing on rail tickets or by boxcar with others leaving by car. Government warns remaining demonstrators to quit property by midnight Monday or face eviction.
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Washington
Army
Frank T. Hines
Veterans Affairs
Veterans Administration
Motors Transportation
Pis Atin
Fourth Man Sent To Prison For Bank Holdup At Streator
In Ottawa Illinois Judge Edgar Eldredge sentenced Frank Cingrani 37 to one year to life in prison for the $52000 holdup at Streator Union National bank. He is the fourth Streatorite accused of planning the crime with Cingrani.
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Streator
Ottawa
Ill
Edgar Eldredge
Frank Cingrani
Union National Bank
E. J. Welter
Cimgrani
C. C. Goss
City briefs and personals items and notices
Lost black cocker spaniel. Dial 5405. Linn County Taxpayers Association meeting at noon Monday, Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Nevin Nichols, son of Mrs. Clare Nichols, 1634 Grande Avenue SE, returned from six weeks at the Camp Fort Snell. Hedges company sales to home buyers last week indicate growing Cedar Rapids property interest.
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Linn County Taxpayers Association
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Nevin Nichols
Clare Nichols
Grande Avenue SE
Fort Snell
Hedges Company
Cedar Rapids Properties
Fishermen Return From Ten Day Lake Vermilion Trip
Delbert Horsley David L Pratt and Amos Smith returned Saturday from a ten day fishing trip spent at the A J Smith cottage at Lake Vermilion Minn.
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Delbert Horsley
David L. Pratt
Amos Smith
A. J. Smith
Lake Vermillion, Minn
Mrs Hise Visited by Daughter and Son-in-law
Mrs George Hise of West Liberty spent the week end at the home of her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs J W Henderson at 1424 Wildwood drive NE.
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George Hise
West Liberty
J. W. Henderson
Wildwood Drive
Gaffneys Travel to Charlevoix for Month Visit
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gaffney and their son Robert depart for Charlevoix Michigan where Mrs. Gaffney and Robert will stay August with her parents Mr. and Mrs. George W. Weaver. Mr. Gaffney plans to return to Cedar Rapids on Tuesday.
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Donald Gaffney
Robert
Charlevoix, Mich
Maxwell Released From Hospital After Motorcycle Accident
Homer Maxwell assistant manager of the Hotel Montrose was released from St. Luke's hospital Saturday night and returned to his Kansas City home after injuries from a motorcycle accident involving a group of riding friends.
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Homer Maxwell
Montrose
St. Luke’s Hospital
Kansas City
Maxwell
Gahm Found Guilty of Murder in Marion
George Gahm, 54, former Johnston City banker and merchant, was found guilty of murdering his son in law Owen Stilley in Marion Illinois. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Marion, Ill
George Gahm
Johnston City
Owen Stilley
Arms Parley Adopts Slash In Principle
The Geneva arms conference adjourned until autumn with limited progress after six months. A final resolution passed 41 to 2 with eight abstentions, Germany and Russia voting no while several nations abstained. Key issues remain unsettled including French security demands and German arms equality. The Hoover plan saw favorable reference but not adoption.
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Geneva
Germany
Russia
Albania
Afghanistan
Austria
Bulgaria
China
Hungary
Turkey
Italy
LAST WAPSIE BOYS CAMP STARTS MONDAY
More than 700 boys will sing around the Wapsie campfire this summer as the final seventh period opens Monday. The 115 campers include 75 from Cedar Rapids and 40 from Washington Iowa with Elmer Burger Scott Buchan John Craft and many others listed as local participants.
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Camp Wapsie Y
Wapsie
Leslie E. Crabbs
Cedar Rapids
Washington
Iowa
Elmer Burger
Scott Buchan
John Craft
Junior Coffman
Donald Dunbar
Lee
Carl Koehn
Wes Kobylak
LaVerne Kuehl
Richard Koehne
Eugene Koehne
Ken Lindsay
John Lindsay
Hubert Miller
Max McArthur
Charles Moehler
Alveria McLaughlin
Milford Mills
Fred Miller
Lawrence Moel
Richard Mackay
Don Mackay
Lester Monroe
John McBride
Dick Nelson
Bob Novak
Richard Elliott
Hulbert Rice
Richard Wildman
Jerry Holecek
Arthur Cramer
Bill Keehne
Local Herbert Hoover Lookalike Visits Cedar Rapids
Herbert Hoover of Baltimore, a safety engineer for Maryland Casualty, staying at Hotel Roosevelt through the weekend, will visit West Branch to see the birthplace of the President. He shares no relation to the national Hoover and arrived Friday to inspect projects insured by his company and affiliated firms.
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Herbert Hoover
Roosevelt
President Hoover
Cedar Rapids
Hoover
Baltimore
Maryland Casualty Company
Coe College
Swift and Company
The
Rapids Chevrolet Company
Mitchell Smith
West Branch
Kiwanis Safety Contest Awards No Accident Certificates
Kiwanis Safety Contest issued No Accident stickers to 226 trucks in June as Al Allen reported. Thirty two firms in the program logged 262,681 miles without any accident. one fleet with ten trucks drove 12,416 miles and made 23,065 stops, while another logged nearly 50,000 miles. The contest runs twelve months, ending with certificates for drivers with no accidents.
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Kiwanis Club Safety Contest Committee
al Allen
Kiwanis
Death of Rev. William H. Tisley Veteran Presby Minister
Death notices report the demise of the Rev. William Henry Tisley retired Presbyterian minister and former Cedar Rapids resident. He died at his daughter’s home in Ottumwa and will be brought to Cedar Rapids for burial with services Monday at Oak Hill Cemetery. The Civil War veteran served as a field worker for Coe College and held Iowa pastorates in Grand Junction Leon and Wyoming. Five children are named Edith Helen Jessie Owen Lucy May Le Roy Christian and Harry E all of whom attended Coe College.
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William Henry Tisley
Cedar Rapids
Roy Hannum
Ottumwa
Oak Hill Cemetery
Sisley
Coe College
Ninth Illinois Infantry
Iowa
Grand Junction
Leon
Wyoming
Ilsley
Edith Helen
Jessie Owen
Lucy May
LeRoy Christian
Harry E
Coe
Ley
Gene Ton
Maes
Spirit Lake
Babe Falls From Window in Eight-Foot Drop
13 month old Patricia Ronenburg daughter of Rowena Ronenburg fell from a second story window at 511 Eighth Avenue SE about 5 30 p m landed on a porch below and escaped with minor bruises. She was taken to Mercy hospital for first aid then home. The child was visiting in the home of Mr and Mrs William Ronenburg and pushed the screen loose in the window.
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Patricia Ronenburg
Rowena Ronenburg
Sixth Avenue SE
Eighth Avenue SE
Mercy Hospital
William Ronenburg
Annual Celebration Of Mormon Church Begins At Palmyra
The annual celebration in Palmyra New York marking the discovery of the sacred plates by Joseph Smith opened with about 200 missionaries and church members in attendance. Elder James H Moyle presides as meetings honor Smiths early prayers in the sacred grove and the Hill Cumorah discovery.
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Mormon Church
Palmyra
N. Y
Joseph Smith
Mormon
Church and Friends
Eastern States Mission
James H. Moyle
Salt Lake City
Sacred Grove
Smith
Hill Cumorah
Brigham Young
Great Salt Lake
Anonymous letter questions Stevens suicide in Minnesota death
An anonymous letter received by two Winona newspapers questions Agnes Stevens’s death by her own hand. Officials will investigate though the coroner ruled the Goodhue County case a suicide. Stevens, 24, a University of Minnesota student from Melrose, Mass., was found shot dead in her car near Lake City after being despondent from illness and overwork.
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Winona
Wabasha
Here
Lake City
Ovenshire Shrine Leader Charles E. Ovenshire Dies
Charles E. Ovenshire aged 76 former imperial potentate of the Shrine of North America in 1917 died Friday night after a four month illness. He was active in Masonic circles and served as treasurer and general manager of the Minneapolis Knitting Works.
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Minneapolis
Charles E. Ovenshire
the Shrine of North America
Ovenshire
Minneapolis Knitting Works
Judicial Parley To Convene In Cedar Rapids Tuesday
Three men seeking the ocaeree court bench will attend the republican convention called for Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. in Cedar Rapids. The Montrose Crystal room hosts the meeting with 1,869 delegates eligible. George Claussen of Clinton serves as temporary chairman and George H. Struble Jr of Toledo as temporary secretary. Candidates Renominating Paville DeGraff and Wagner seek new terms.
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Oaeree
Cedar Rapids
Montrose 1
Crystal Room
George Claussen
Clinton
George H. Struble, Jr
Toledo
FP. F. Paville
Fort Dodge
Lawrence DeGraff
Des Moines
H. F. Wagner
Protest Against Move of Rock Island Accounting Offices
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce protestsRock Island and Pacific Railway accounting offices move from Cedar Rapids to Des Moines. If approved sixteen Cedar Rapids employees would relocate, including six homeowners. Protest notes ownership of Cedar Rapids building and questions possible savings and impact on Cedar Rapids shipping.
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Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
E. N. Brown
New York
Rock Island Road
Held For Stealing Pork Chops At Packing Plant
Timothy Evans, 25, of 412 Seventh Avenue SE, was held at Sinclair Packing Company plant after officers nabbed him around 5 30 p m Saturday on a larceny warrant. Night watchmen Walter Brennan and A Jurgenson swore out the information before Justice G S Lightner. Evans was lodged in the city jail.
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Sinclair Packing Company
Timothy Evans
Seventh Avenue SE
Evans
Walter Brennan
A. Jurgenson
G. S. Lightner
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Idole Wane
Wellington
APT
Piath
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Irs
Jie
Chicago Grain Pit
Undike Company
Commissioner's Office
Ridgewood
Bolton
Allen Seiffert
Moline
King With
Grace French Evans
Colony
Billy Stroud
Anamosa
Virginia Dodds
Barbara Blaise
Betty Be
Dorothy Duncan
Dixones
Franklin Peddie
Dave Allen
Miriam Rosenbaum
Jane Lothian
Marion
Geraldine Cook
Mechanicsville
Helen Stahler
Monticello
Beatrice LaBarge
Bernita Barnes
Charlevoix
State Department
Wapsie Boys
W. H. Ilsley
Babe
Kryptok
H. G. Fussell
Okinow
Second Avenue
Minnesota
C. P
Supreme Court
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Baby Beauty
Kline
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