Daniels Playground Wins Paddle Tennis
Daniels Playground dominated a citywide paddle tennis tournament with six of seven events. Bertha Schneider of Riverside defeated Betty Bowker to win the girls singles, while Roosevelt Playground excelled in horseshoes.
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Arthur Playground
Daniels Playground
Frida
Bertha Schneider
Riverside
Betty Bowker
Danels
Daniels
Roosevelt Playgrounds
Roosevelt
Barney Raines
Twelfth Street
Lyle Brown
F Avenue
Leonard Kelly
D Avenue
Charles Gillen
Tenth Street
Bill Currell
Oakland Avenue
Alvern Lanning
Fourteenth Street
Teanis
Dean Washburn
Seventh Street
Jack Cochran
Center Point Road
Ralph Colby
Donald Wachal
OaksJand Avenue
Bill Curre
Helen Smetena
Daniels Street
Await Equipment For Linn County Cannery
Linn County will begin canning relief garden produce at 421 A Avenue NE as four pressure cookers and a sealing machine arrive from the state emergency relief department. Miss Cora Jacobs says relief clients can can their garden goods for a small allotment of finished products to cover operating costs. Tomatoes beans and corn from county gardens will be canned. the project is operated as relief work.
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County Board of Supervisors
Linn County
Cora Jacobs
Pioneer Mrs J R Rogers Celebrates 99th Birthday
Mrs J R Rogers, formerly of Cedar Rapids, celebrated her 99th birthday last Sunday at the Wayne Nebraska home of her daughter Mrs J Ci Mines. She lived in Cedar Rapids for years with her daughter Mrs Margaret Clark at 1447 First Avenue and visited with sister Mrs Margaret Baylis during schooling of grandsons Howard and Donald Clark.
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J R Rogers
Wayne Neh
Cedar Rapids
J Ci Mines
Wayne
Rogers
Margaret Clark
First Avenue
Howard
Donald Clark
Margaret HO Baylis
Noted Speakers Scheduled for August Union Services
Four east side churches sponsor a August Sunday morning series at 11 o clock in St Pauls featuring Dr D W Morehouse Drake University Des Moines Dr Morehouse is an astronomer and preacher The August 12 speaker is Dr Walter H Judd medical missionary to China now at Mayo Rochester Minn The August 19 talk features Dr Winfred Ernest Garrsion editor of the Christian Century and dean at the University of Chicago The series ends August 26 with Dr Edward A Steiner chair of practical Christianity at Grinnell College The joint committee of pastors and laymen coordinates the program
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East Side
First Baptist
First Congregational
St. Paul's Methodist
First Presbyterian
St. Paul's Church
D W Morehouse
Drake University
Des Moines
Morehouse
Walter H. Judd
China
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Mann
Winfred Ernest Garrison
Christian Century
Disciples’ Divinity School
University of Chicago
Steiner
Yo Close
Edward A. Steiner
Grinnell College
R. F. Judson
Robert R. Little
A. A. Brooks
Nelson C. Dreier
W. A. Ball
Byron A. Barlow
Earl Rieke
R. C. Stevenson
Local Austrian War Veteran Seeks People’s Decision on Course
Tony Horacek a former Austrian army member born 1914 1619 Fourteenth Avenue SW urges parliament convening and a popular vote to guide Austrian policy He warns without civic choice another European war looms and condemns Mussolini blaming Italy Germany and Austria for a pact while advocating a middle course toward liberty like the United States and Switzerland.
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Europe
Tony Horacek
Fourteenth Avenue SW
Gazette
Italy
Austria
Germany
Tony
Mussolini
Horacek
Adolf Hitler
United States
Switzerland
Dollfuss
Negro Worker Survives 3-Story Jump in New Orleans
Frank Johnson, an emergency relief administration employee, leaped from a third story window on payday when questioned about his name by a federal operative. He survived with minor injuries and was treated at a hospital as coworkers watched in horror.
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New Orleans
CINS
Frank Johnson
Emergency Relief Administration
Horrorstricken
Frank
Hopeful 62 Year Old Widower Seeks West Return From Des Moines Camp
A 62 year old man admitted to the Des Moines state transient camp preserves an undaunted spirit after losing 80 000 in 1929 stock crash and seeing his wife and three children die He is a Cornell BA and MA graduate who prospected in Idaho Montana and led 300 men in Central America seeking opportunity despite reverses He hopes to return west when backed enough to pursue mining and geology work.
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Linn County
Wns
Des Moines
Cornell University
Ithaca
Chicago
Ments
Idaho
Montana
Rocky Mountain
Central America
Elderly Mrs Rogers Remains Connected to Past
Mrs Rogers, sole surviving aunt of Witham Banks, recounts family history and a letter detailing events in Wayne and grandson Donald Wo Cinik, editor of The Mid-Continent Banker in St Louis. Born July 22 1835 in West Farms NY, she and Jo Rogers settled in Wheatland in 1858 near Yankee Run, now Chicago Town and Nebraska rail line. Even in a wheelchair she stays sharp on early happenings and familiar places.
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Third Avenue
Rogers
Witham Banks
Pourth Avenue
Mm Wayne
Donald Wo Cinik
St Louis
West Farms N Y
Jo Ro Rogers
Joewna
Yankee Run
Wheatland
Chicago Town and Nebraska Railroad
North Western
City Briefs And Personals In District Court And Community
Divorce action filed by Cieneva Williams against James G Williams cites cruel treatment and marital breakdown. Local items note a hospital appendectomy recovery, a rotary picnic, a school reunion, a Harley Davidson theft report, and various police notices including intoxication fines and a car theft inquiry.
Fight Grasshoppers By Airplane Spray In Alberta
Edmonton reports use of airplanes to combat grasshoppers as a recurring west wide method. In one or two areas of Alberta, farmers have adopted aerial spraying as a regular practice to reduce hopper damage and protect crops.
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Edmonton
Alberta
INS
Wall Preban
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Springville
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Holdrege
Neb
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William E. Kepner
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Drake U
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Marie Kuchynka
Daniels Park
C. R
Valcon
W. A. Robertson
Perp. Lavs. & Loan Assn
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Fero & Gainer’s
Negro
First Avenue E
DIAL
Estoer Daren
Pref Alvan Robine Dean
Cerneil
Cegdere Moaurt
Lert Vadison
Bert Madion
Sheuloeuh
Tepar Eryang Homme
Vane Chage
A B Clark
Wilson
Poliice
John DeLay
Second Avenue
Martin Knake
Circle Drive
Dolorez Nadine Sewell
William Sewell
D Avenue NW
Mercyr Hospital
Rotary
Upper Palisades
Fort Snelling
Robert M Chapman
Fort Loneure Main
Chapman
Big Springs
Afth
Big Springs Shool
Frankan Forssthe
Nineteenth Avenue SW
Ceater
Welson
East Am Karst Avenue
Second Street
SPF
Bill, Park
Topinka Sata
Cietlang
Oan
Indiana Biaithet
Paris
Beauty and Hat Shop
Unil
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Electrolux
Standard Oil OF
Indiana
Philco Radios
Norge Refrigerators
Ford Motor CO
Frigidaire
Parker
Portland Cement Association
General Electric
Timken
Vaseline Westinghouse Refrigerators
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