Behold the 1939 Sweet Girl Graduate Profiles
Cedar Rapids high schools survey the senior class as reporters quiz female grads about weight hobbies and future plans. The feature names Eleanor Peters June DeNio Florence Healy Dorothy Miller Phyllis Wiley and Bessie Livingood with details on appearance, interests, and marriage timelines.
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Cedar Rapids
Eleanor Peters
H. R. Peters
Seventeenth Street
June DeNio
E. W. DeNio
Fairview Drive
Florence Healy
Almont Healy
Forest Drive
Dorothy Miller
Robert J. Miller
B Avenue NE
Phyllis Wiley
J. M. Wiley
Fifteenth Street NW
Bessie Livingood
Howard A. Livingood
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Tragic Accompaniment To Commencement Song
In Pittsburgh Oliver High School graduates will sing their class song at commencement but the music writer Leonard Tonti 17 died of a heart attack just after Edward Weseley 18 who helped compose it killed himself due to ill health.
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Pittsburgh
Oliver High School
Leonard Tonti
Edward Weseley
Unionists Attack Beer Garden Patrons After Fellow Member Ousted
In Detroit fourteen union men with UAW armbands and flying squad caps beat and kicked about 40 patrons at a beer garden after Lloyd Cash, a union member, was evicted for asking for more liquor. One guard fired a pistol as others used table legs clubs and chains. Cash was jailed while intoxicated. four injured received first aid.
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Detroit
INS
United Auto Workers Union
Lloyd Cash
CIO Briggs Manufacturing Company
Cash
William M. Sabata
300000 Youths In Britain Register Under Draft Plan
London reports indicate over 300000 young men aged 20 to 21 registered under a new military training act. First batch of about 50000 to be called up in July after medical checks. About 200000 likely to be drafted. remainder deemed unfit. Conscientious objectors face tribunals with four possible outcomes including civil work, non combat duties, or full military training.
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London
INS
Britain
American delegates brace for new wheat conference talks
Washington dispatch says U S delegates to the international wheat conference received fresh instructions Saturday to restart negotiations on how to apportion world export markets.
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Washington
Gage To Deliver Coe Baccalaureate Sermon Today
Dr. Harry M. Gage will preach on 1939 Inventory at Coe College in T. M. Sinclair Memorial chapel today at 11. The service features the Coe brass choir and choirs with organist Eleanor Taylor, selections from Bach Praetorius and Day, and a class hymn.
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T. M. Sinclair
Coe College
Harry M. Gage
Matthew
Luke
Eleanor Taylor
St. Anne de Beaupre
Russell
Children of the Heavenly King
Pleyel
Praetorius
Bach
Dresden
H. M. Gage
Immaculate Conception and St. Patrick's Honor 34 Graduates
Immaculate Conception high school graduates 34 students at 9 30 mass with Rt Rev Msgr John M Molloy delivering the address. St Patrick's also marks 34 graduates at 8 15 pm with Msgr J C Wieneke speaking. Additional notes cover St Wenceslaus high school eight graduates and their speaker Rev John Ryan at St Matthew's.
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Immaculate Conception High School
Immaculate Conception Church
John M. Molloy
St. Patrick’s
J. C. Wieneke
Holy Ghost Church
Dubuque
I. C
Jeanne Brabbit
Mary K. Byrne
Jack Carney
Faye Convey
Mary Creighton
Betty Curry
Junella dePoy
Dorothy Doyle
Raymond Driscoll
Mary Elgas
Mary Erlacher
Robert Erlacher
William Elwood
Marcella Gibbons
Dale Hasley
Robert Heaverlo
Thomas Hilton
Pauline Huston
Jack Kenney
Kenneth Krumbholtz
Frank Lana
Mary Ann McGowan
Earl Minninger
Glenn Morgan
Gene Mullin
Anna K. Nowacheck
Josephine Palumbo
Mary Phelps
Richard Pfiffner
June Rock
Lester Usher
Mildred Weix
Marguerite Ward
Jack Weldon
St. Wenceslaus High School
Genevieve Balik
Aldrich Drahos
Wendl Fiala
la Verne Fleagle
Samir Kazimour
John Krejci
Leonard Novak
Rita Mae Pisarik
John Ryan
St. Matthew’s Church
Troy weights trace to French trading hub Troyes
The Troy weight system derives its name from Troyes France a historic trading center. It reflects medieval commerce practices and established weight standards used in precious metals and coinage.
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Troyes
France
3300 Applications Filed For Renewal Of Driver's Licenses
Up to Saturday noon about 3,300 people filed renewal applications for 1939 41 driver's licenses in Sheriff Jim Smith's office. Applicants show their old license or a duplicate receipt for 25 cents if the original was lost. the renewal fee is 50 cents. Renewal applications are accepted through July 3. those failing to file must take the full exam, while those with a valid license need no exam. Highway patrols say exam applicants must not drive to the test station. a licensed operator must drive them there.
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Jim Smith
Sheriff's Office
Slayer Arraigned in Hatchet Slaying Case
Edo ward Abel, 45, confessed to the hatchet killing of Mrs. Clive Le Roy, 76, and was arraigned in municipal court on a first degree murder charge. A hearing was scheduled for June 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukesha
Wis
Edoward Abel
Scott Lowry
Clive le Roy
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Wilson
Roosevelt
Franklin
McKinley
Ternational
International Harvester CO
Second Avenue
Marjorie Taylor
Miss Taylor
National Authority
Killian Company
Gage
Coe
Msgr. Molloy
Immaculate Conception
Mary Louise Blum
George F. Brems
Mary Burns
William F. Callan
Walter F. Crowley
Jeanette DeMarah
Donald Fitzpatrick
Louise Flaherty
Dolores Gillen
William M. Green
Eugene Greb
James Griffin
Clarence Hess
Fannie Holmes
Mary E. Hurych
Mary M. Smig
John J. Jacobs
Donald E. Jensen
Kathryn A. Lane
Betty Mae
Killian
Dixie Queen
Aluminum
Galion Waeewaey
Group of Spring Shoes
MEDIX
Hollywood
Big Brother
Batiste
Golden Dawn
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