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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1936
Page
6
Senate air safety committee recommends expanding autogiro use for national defense air safety and shuttle service. The report cites direct control enabling takeoffs from a standstill, potential taxi use, and calls for encouragement and support for developers and purchasers.
Governor Landon delivers a straightforward acceptance speech emphasizing worker rights to join unions, opposition to centralized presidential power, and a pledge to curb private monopolies rather than expand New Deal programs. Alice Longworth notes the rhetoric as earnest and unembellished.
The report outlines using autogiros as air taxis and calls for engineers in the Bureau of Air Commerce to support development and regulate operations nationwide. It notes 196 air terminals forming part of the U S transportation system and cites landing hazards with cities nine miles or more from centers, as take-off and landing remain ongoing concerns.
The group urges strong support for safer air travel and introduces a threefold classification of air vehicles: airplanes, dirigibles, and autogiros. It argues that autogiros have advanced to deserve their own category and could transport passengers from terminals to nearby stations when longer runways are unavailable.
The Department of Interior reports 1935 vocational education enrollment at 1 248 million persons, up 128 thousand from 1934. Of these 411 thousand are farmers and workers, 281 thousand are employed youths in part time classes, and 555 thousand are youths in full time agricultural, trade and industrial courses.
L A Andrew trustee of State Bank of Central City transfers property to L S Hamilton D F Barrows and F G O Meara trustees of State Bank of Central City Iowa. conveys lot 5 ex east 16 feet lot 6 and all of blocks 19 and 20 Central City Land and Improvement Co Add Central City for one dollar and valuable consideration. 327.
University of Utah archaeologist Prof. John P. Gillin reports uncovering Pueblo built adobe based dwellings in Nine Mile Canyon Utah, about 1000 years old. The sites include rock lined fires and lookout houses on pinnacles suggesting Pueblo withdrawal under nomadic pressure.
Archaeologists uncover a marble bar among Ostia Antica ruins near Rome. The bar stands full height with shelves for amphoras and cavities for ice and a boiler, plus a Hygeia statue nearby, suggesting ancient patrons raised beverages two millennia ago.
In Binghamton New York Jade from a Sultan s palace Pompeii and the Pyramids and a piece of the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamen decorate a five foot floor lamp owned by Mrs H A McCann She built the lamp in six months from trinkets including a nut shell brooch from northern Europe a stone from the palace of Victor Emmanuel I and a piece of green jade from a Sultan s palace in Constantinople The frame is wood in two sections with many odds and ends studded around it
The Aberdeen experiments show millet puffed to eight times its size using a breakfast food maker. Dr N E Hansen of South Dakota State College calls it a tasty cereal equal to puffed wheat in flavor and retains its tangy note. Millet, a dry weather crop, could grow well in South Dakota.
In Kiev Soviet archaeologists seek to identify a woman found buried with Jaroslav the Sage. The sarcophagus in St Sophia Cathedral, brought from Byzantium in the seventh century, had been robbed between 1054 and the present year, with Novgorod named as the likely site of his wife's burial.
Army aviation experts used castor oil in flares to illuminate Muroc Lake bombardment range during night maneuvers. An observation plane released flares of aluminum powder barium nitrate and castor oil to produce two minutes of daylight while bombs fell.
The page catalogs a full day of syndicated broadcasts and live performances. It lists performers such as Fibber McGee and Molly, Horace Heidrick, Margaret Speaks, Richard Himber, Wayne King, Jimmy Lunceford, Benny Goodman, and Lon Sissle among others. Stations include WEAF, WJZ, WABC, WBBM, KMOX, WCCO, WLW, and more with varied time slots from morning through late evening.
Relief for rheumatism neuralgia lumbago neuritis and muscle pain promised by Narita Nurito with a money back guarantee if the first three doses fail. Contains no opiates or narcotics and is sold by druggists.
A local ad lists multiple furniture groups including mahogany and walnut dining suites, bedroom suites, and tables. Grand Rapids make appears on several pieces with extensive reductions, pricing shown for chests, desks, and lamps.
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