Legionaires Prepare Cedar Rapids Fourth of July Celebration
More than 100 Legionaires from Han ford post will work at Frontier Park to set up grand stand bleachers for Cedar Rapids largest Fourth of July event. Parking and grand stand will be free with drinking water on site. A dance pavilion and carnival rides including ferris wheel and loop‑the‑loop are planned.
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Hanford Post
American Legion
Cedar Rapids
Frontier Park
B. D. Silliman
Legion
Stelcik Captures First and Second in Cedar Rapids Camera Club Contest
Vincent Stelcik wins both first and second in the Cedar Rapids Camera club June contest. The first prize still life of peonies will hang in Merchants Bank window for a week starting Saturday, with his second place photo of children by a stream shown there two weeks later after the exhibit opens.
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Cedar Rapids Camera Club
Vincent Stelcik
Iowa Electric Light and Power
Merchants Bank
Police report shows 2008 arrests last fiscal year
Chief Robert J. Vlach told the city council the police department logged 2008 arrests in the year ending April 1. Of these 370 were for state law violations and 1536 for city ordinance violations. Ninety four were held for investigation and six runaways were picked up. Two arrests involved federal charges.
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Robert J. Vlach
Spider on Display at High Amana Banana Stand
A large tarantula was removed from a banana bunch at the High Amana store Saturday. The spider remained alive and was placed on display.
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High Amana
Local Singers To Take Part In Saengerfest At Moline
Cedar Rapids Saengerbund members join 400 singers from Iowa and Illinois for the fifteenth Midwest Saengerfest in Moline Illinois. The event features a cappella groups, a 25 piece orchestra, solo numbers, and addresses by A Leiser and Mayor Henry Arp.
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Moline
Cedar Rapids Saengerbund, German Singing Society
Iowa
Illinois
Moline Concordia Germania Turner Society
Ill
Cedar Rapids
John Deere Junior High School
Augustana College
Moline Turner
Ernst Otto
America
Henry Arp
A. Leiser
Dubuque
Saengerbund
Germania Women’s Chorus of
Peoria
Iil
Walter Leucht
Turner Park
North Liberty Voter Is A 95 Year Old Republican
Isaac Meyers, 95, veteran of the Civil War and longtime Republican, voted in the local primary unassisted, marking his ballot without glasses. He lives with his son in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Lentz.
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North Liberty
Isaac Meyers
L. L. Lentz
White's Suggestion Triggers National Discussion on Welfare Agency
William Allen White of Emporia Kansas urged the Republican Party to back a move giving either states or the federal government power to act as an agency of human welfare. The idea drew mixed reactions from political figures including John D M Hamilton Alf Landon campaign staff Norman Thomas Society nominee and Harold Ickes who doubted success due to liberal defections.
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Washington
William Allen White
Emporia
Kan
Republican Party
Supreme Court
John D. M. Hamilton
Alf M. Landon
White
Kansas
Norman Thomas
Thomas
Illinois Man Who Used Child's Beach Ticket Repays City
A Cedar Rapids beach official received a postcard from V Mattfeld of River Forest Illinois admitting he used a child’s ticket last summer at Ellis Park Beach. He offered to pay 5 cents if owed. The city, praising his honesty, waved the fee and invited him to return to the swimming facilities.
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Illinois
Ed Stefan
Ellis Park Beach
Cedar Rapids
Mattfeld
Augusta Street
River Forest
Ill
Stefan
Appoint Liquor Store Managers for Toledo and Manila
The Iowa liquor control commission announced two new store managers. Frank Womacka will manage the Toledo store opening soon, and Ray Carey will lead the Manila store succeeding J. J. Perridon who resigned.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Frank Womacka
Toledo
Ray Carey
Manilla
J. J. Perridon
Duce Ponders Mobilization Of 8 Million Men
Rome reports a potential mobilization of more than 8 million Italian troops before the League of Nations meets on the Ethiopian question. Officials say it would be political warning to economic enemies and aimed at pressuring an Anglo Italian rapprochement if diplomacy fails. Trains northbound, barracks ordered, tents produced, with Mussolini seeking reason and honor. Luce takes a short vacation to Rocca delle Carminate before a talk with Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg.
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Rome
League of Nations
Geneva
Britain
Italy
Mussolini
Ethiopia
League Assembly
Luce
Rocca Delle Carminate
Forli
Kurt Schuschnigg
Austria
Retail Credit Group To Have Picnic Monday
The Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association will hold its annual picnic at the lower Palisades on Monday at 5 p.m. A picnic dinner will be served by Bill Dutrt at 6 30 p.m in the new Community house. Reservations are requested by calling 1171.
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Cedar Rapids
Little Light Bearers Hold Church Party
WEST BRANCH the annual party for the Little Light Bearers was held in the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon directed by cradle roll chairman Mrs L E Moore assisted by Mrs L J Leech Mrs Joseph Frauenholz and Mrs Paul Moor head Clara Mae Larson and Dorothy Secrist assisted with games
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West Branch
Methodist Church
L. E. Moore
L. J. Leech
Joseph Frauenholz
Paul Moorhead
Clara Mae Larson
Dorothy Secrist
City to have daily streamliner service
Daily streamlined passenger trains will run from Chicago to Denver via Cedar Rapids starting June 18 over the North Western and Union Pacific. The two City of Denver trains cover 1,048 miles in 16 hours, with 82 sleeping berths and outside-windows berths, claiming top speeds between 85 and 100 mph on the route.
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Cedar Rapids
Denver
North Western
Union Pacific
Chicago
City of Denver
Portland
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Passengers Rescued From Stranded Fort Amherst
Coast guardsmen rescued twenty six passengers from the leaking British steamer Fort Amherst in fog bound Vineyard harbor early Thursday. The passengers were landed at Woods Hole after eight in the morning. Alaska, purchased from Russia for seven million two hundred ninety thousand dollars, has yielded six hundred million dollars in minerals since 1889.
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Woods Hole
Mass
Coast
Fort Amherst
Vineyard Harbor
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Legionaires
Camera Club
Claude Callan
Iowa Theatre Building
Magnesia
Liggett’s
Absorbine JR
Carter
Forhan
LUX
Scholl
KODAK
iTc
Duce
Retail Credit Group
Alaska
United States
Russia
Hanes
Newman
Newman’s
Sale
Armstrong
Nec
Bibhe
Bec
Newmans
P. H. Hanes Knitting Co
Winston-Salem, N. C
Samsonbak
Welch-Cook-Beals CO
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