Ed Dieman the Sunday Cheer Carrier of Ill Patients
Ed Dieman, a Bluff plumber and official hospital visitor for Elks Shrine Mount Hermon Grotto and High Twelve, spends Sundays brightening sick beds. In twenty years he has visited thousands, loaned bed tables radios crutches and flowers, and funds his work with his own money. He started after recovering from illness inspired by Elks and Knights of Pythias aid to his family.
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E. L. Dieman
B Avenue NW
Elks Club
Shrine
Mount Hermon Lodge
the Grotto
High Twelve Club
Ed Dieman
Elks
Mr. Dieman
Elks and
Knights of Pythias
Bernarr Macfadden Leads 600 Mile World Fair Hike
Bernarr Macfadden and 150 hikers began from City Hall Plaza on a 600 mile route to the New York world fair. Lawson Robertson fired the starting gun at the Philadelphia event as hikers from 600 applicants set out through Dansville New York, with participants including business men engineers and homemakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernarr Macfadden
Philadelphia
City Hall Plaza
Dansville
N. Y
Lawson Robertson
University of Pennsylvania
Macfadden
Canada
Hawaii
Philippines
Sailor Clings Hours To Perilous Perch For Thetis Rescue
A young British sailor who clung to Thetis stern for hours battled the slippery steel while hammering to force an air pipe into the submerged submarine. He slid into a bobbing dinghy during a swell and climbed back to resume his task as Vigilant neared the upturned stern.
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Birkenhead
England
Vigilant
Thetis
Bert Lahr Annulment Denied Pending Mental Health Proof
White Plains New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Nolan denied Bert Lahr and Mrs Mercedes Delpino Lahreim an annulment. He asked Lahr to submit further evidence that his wife is incurably insane and indicated doctors should testify at a later hearing after March filings.
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White Plains
N. Y
Supreme Court
Gerald Nolan
Bert Lahr
Irving Lahreim
Lahr
Mercedes Delpino Lahreim
Coe to Graduate 117 in Class of 1939 at Monday Exercises
Coe College will award diplomas to 117 seniors during the annual exercises in the T. M. Sinclair Memorial chapel Monday morning. An organ recital starts at 9 a.m. followed by U. S. Senator Edward R. Burke of Omaha giving the main address on what America expects of its colleges. Burke and Prof. Mabel Lee receive honorary LL degrees. The list includes graduates from Cedar Rapids, Oelwein, Dubuque, and other Iowa cities with numerous names and towns.
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Coe College
T. M. Sinclair
Eleanor Taylor
J. F. Yothers
U. S
Edward R. Burke
Omaha
America
Senator Burke
Mabel Lee
University of Nebraska
Coe
Miss Taylor
A. S. Nickless
Tschesnokoff
Burke
Paul S. Ray
Evening Star
Tanhauser
Wagner
Kinder
Coe College to Honor Burke and Lee at Commencement
United States Senator Ed ward R. Burke of Nebraska will deliver the commencement address at Coe College tomorrow at 9 a.m. Burke will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws along with Prof. Mabel Lee, head of women’s physical education at the University of Nebraska.
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United States
Edward R. Burke
Nebraska
Coe College
America
Burke
Mabel Lee
University of Nebraska
List of Names Across Cities and States
A roster of individuals including Evelyn Pedrey of Greenville Mississippi Laura Belle Platt of Oelwein Richard Pollack of Berwyn Illinois Wayne A Rogers of Cedar Rapids Adam R Slapetis of Chicago Illinois Stanley of Springville William L Stusak Rapids Isabelle Sword of Cedar Rapid Charles H Thompson of Washington Howard M Tomlinson of Bondurant Gray Alan Wilson of Cedar Rapids Keith W Cold of Dysart.
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Robert H. Anderson
Oelwein
Rachel Austin
Cedar Rapid
Marion E. Bailey
Elkader
Ruth E. Beitel
Moline
Phyllis A. Bixler
Clarence Dale R. Branchflower
Mertette
Elizabeth M. Buckingham
Oak Perk
Til
Cleo C. Byers
West Branch
Audrey A. Campbell
Cedar Rapids
Ida Mae Carlson
Oc'wells
Edward B. Cleaver
Jopan
Elizabeth Ann Coe
Davenport
Darrel G. Costello
Imogene
R. Ariel Cross
Waterloo
Aureal T. Cross
Water Oo
Althea Daleske
Cedar Reunds
Arminta M. Davidson
Orion
Lloyd G. DeJong
Oronze
Dorothea F. Dolson
Er Rapids
George B. Dougan
Trai
Paul K. Dougan
Dysart
DeElda Elwood
Kathryn H
Raymond H. Hibbing
Paullina
Akiko Hino
Wahiawa
Oahu
Hawaii
Jane C. Huston
Gertrude L. Titen
Emanuel J. Jacobs
New York City
N. Y
Mary J. Johnson
Mary D. Kruse
Freeport
Miriam A. Lieberknecht
Letts
Lois E. Lockwood
Elkhart
Ind
Mary V. Pooley
Greene
Elsie Power
Jane L. Pressel
Ruth L. Preston
Charles H. Ralston
Keota
Roy A. Rickless
Monticello
John F. Ruther
Clarence
Angelo Saccaro
Seymour
Walter G. Sack
Mount Carroll
Alfred F. Fammet
Helen Simmons
Marjorie E. Smith
Shanghai
China
Ronald E. Smith
Sanborn
Clifford F. Soukup
Cicero
Rosalie E. Stanley
Robert R. Stary
Virginia G. Stevens
John C. Swearingen
Sac City
Elinor Sweitzer
Anna M. Tamarri
Highwood
Irenne M. Teets
Milledgeville
Frederick J
Kelley G. Wodtke
Merwin G. Woodward
Marjorie Deacon
Esther Knock
Holland
Martha F. Leksa
Betty Jane Levsen
Wyoming
Helen L. A
Darleen Pollock
Evelyn Pedrey
Greenville
Miss
Laura Belle Platt
Richard Pollack
Berwyn
Ill
Wayne A. Rogers
Adam R. Slapetis
Chicago
Stanley
Springville
William L. Stusak
Rapids
Isabelle Sword
Charles H. Thompson
Washington
Howard M. Tomlinson
Bondurant Gray
Alan Wilson
Keith W. Cold
Woman Charged in Short Wave Race Betting Scheme
In St Louis four people including Mrs Hazel Cheatham are jailed over an alleged system of beating horse races using short wave radio. Irving Lee, operator of several handbooks, says he lost 5000 to 6000 dollars to bets after the woman received race results by radio before he learned them by phone. Police seized two men at a hotel and chased the woman from the handbook. Also held were George W. Cheatham and Guy L. Stark of San Diego and Ellsworth T. Caverly of Anaheim. a fourth man is sought.
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ST. Louis
INS
Irving Lee
Lee
Patrick
Hazel Cheatham
George W. Cheatham
San Diego
Calif
Guy L. Stark
Ellsworth T. Caverly
Anaheim
Democracy advocate Dr. Birkhead to speak at local churches
Dr L M Birkhead founder of Friends of Democracy, once a Unitarian minister, will address a public meeting at Peoples church on Tuesday at 8 p m. The event is sponsored by Temple Judah and Peoples church lay groups and is free. He contributed material for Look Life and Stanley High articles on fascism and for the Institute for Propaganda Analysis report. The Friends of Democracy collects information on communist fascist and nazi activities and backs a national commission to bolster democracy.
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L. M. Birkhead
Kansas City
United States
Peoples Church
Temple Judah
The
Friends of Democracy, Inc
Birkhead
Look
Life
Stanley High
Saturday Evening Post
Institute For Propaganda Analysis
Justice Hughes Faces Duodenal Ulcer Illness
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes is hospitalized with a duodenal ulcer. A court official reports he cannot attend Monday sessions and will rest with diet and treatment, but there is no reason to doubt his full recovery.
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Washington
Charles Evans Hughes
Nelson A. Potter
White House
Electric Umbrella Fails in Maiden Bridge Test
The photo dry cell chute known as the electric umbrella collapsed during its first test from the Atlantic Highlands bridge. Descenter Gene Tortariello hit the water after the device inverted, sinking with no retrieval by inventor Mayer Abrams or his team.
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Atlantic Highlands
N. J
Gene Tortariello
Shrewsbury River
Mayer Abrams
Asbury Park
Tortariello
Inon Abrams
Mystery jumper defies gravity as police await permit details
A radio condenser perched on its tip and dry cell batteries were cited in the feat. The jumper swam ashore while the bridge tender called police to arrest him for lacking a permit, though officers delayed action as photographers and reporters swarmed Tortoriello and waited for the crowd to thin.
Canadian Trade Pact to Take Effect June 17
The U S State Department announced the new trade treaty with Canada will become fully effective on June 17 when documents are exchanged between Ottawa and Washington. The pact aims to govern cross border commerce and related duties.
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Washington
State Department
Canada
Ottawa
Christmas Observance Shaped by Parliaments Acts
In 1614 Parliament banned Christmas in England under an act. Charles II later revived the feast. The Scots adhered to Puritan views, sustaining differing traditions across regions.
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England
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