Cedar Rapids Star Athletes Recall Early Relay Glory
Editor recalls Cedar Rapids track stars led by H. P. Butterfield of White Motor Co. in 1920s relays. He notes Drake record in 1921 with Kirk Yerkes and Charles Boegel, praises coach Prof. Bryant at Coe and Leo Novak training, and recalls Penn Relays exploits and overlooked two-mile dominance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. P. Butterfield
Avenue NW
White Motor Co
Washington High School
Butterfield
Drake
Kirk Yerkes
Charles Boegel
Elmer Marek
Cedar Rapids
Morgan Taylor
Sioux City
Don Hines
Coe
Iowa
Bryant
Leo Novak
Penn Re
Washington High
Butterfield on Cedar Rapids track stars and Iowa teams
H P Butterfield recalls Cedar Rapids and Roosevelt athletes, noting a five man Iowa quintet dominated by Harrison Barnes Heinie Jensen Ted Swenson Don Hines and Kirk Yerkes with all-state honors in football basketball and track. He comments on weight and school team strength two years ago and compares city divisions.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
New York
Butterfield
Harrison Barnes
Heinie Jensen
Ted Swenson
Don Hines
Kirk Yerkes
Washington
Roosevelt High
Weather Sets Back Elllis Park Archery Meet and Local Sports
Weather disrupted the Cedar Rapids Waltonian club state archery meet at Ellis Park with strong winds causing erratic arrows and low scores. Local semipro baseball and tennis also faced tough conditions while Walford-Newhall games featured Cedar Rapids players including Adolph Ahrens coaching St. Wenceslaus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellis Park
Cedar Rapids
Ellis
Walford-Newhall
Walford
George Schultz
Watford
Schultz
Iowa Valley League
Albia Mite Baby Dies After Heart Fails
Charles Peter Johnson, Albia's "mite" baby, died Sunday at Miners' hospital in Albia after his heart failed to develop adequately. Born March 30 at about 12 ounces, he reached a 70 day life fight and weighed 3 pounds 6 ounces at death. Survived by Mr and Mrs Henry Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albia
Charles Peter Johnson
Miners
R. A Smith
Henry Johnson
Sours Picked as Iowa Republican Secretary
Rep Ray Sours of Charles City chosen by Iowa state central committee to serve full time as secretary succeeding William Rathke. Des Moines Mrs Gordon Elliott named treasurer. Rathke resigns to join Omaha power firm. Sours has served four terms in the Legislature and is a farmer and insurance man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Cook
Glenwood
Elliott
Souis
Steel orders ride on bikes in 1936 revival mills surge
In 1936 a revival of bicycling spurred demand as 30 million pounds of steel were shipped to U.S. mills. The textile and construction sectors benefited as bicycle production and steel traffic surged, underscoring the link between recreation and industrial output.
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United States
Choices for Hazel and Miss Manners Donor
A reader asks Hazel to choose between Dick the gay debonair type and Paul the industrious one, noting potential happiness and doubt that neither may be right. Several letters send advice on relationships ending with a sweet husband’s courtesy and a request for more reader input.
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Haz
Paul
Hazel
Funeral services set for Iowa City youths and early health measures
Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Richard Budreau 15 drowned after overheating at Indian Lookout sandpit. Survivors include his mother two sisters and three brothers. John F Trimble 73 longtime resident died Saturday and is survived by his wife a son and a daughter. Iowa City Moose lodge to honor William A Anderson June 16 with banquet and class initiation. City physician Dr E W Paulus urges a coordinated health department and stronger sanitation laws including public eating places sterilization and stronger milk regulations. Taverns seek extended closing hours to midnight with a regional meeting planned. Chamber of Commerce city council and National Guard to discuss a combined armory and stables with July 1 deadline for housing plans.
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Beedal
Iowa City
Richard Budreau
Budreau
Indian Lookout
Sarah Budreau
Rose
Florence
LaVerne
Russell
Paul
John F. Trimble
Minnie
Leo Trimble
Blanch Foracker
Oasis
Moose Lodge
William A. Anderson
The
Loyal Order of Moose
Anderson
Iowa
E. W. Paulus
Paulus
Iowa City Council
County Board of Supervisors
Iowa City Chamber of Commerce
National Guard
Iowa City National Guard
State Armory Board
Sigourney Coach Accepts Delta High School Post
Sigourney assistant coach Wilbert Page has accepted a Delta high school coaching position for the coming year. Page served as an assistant at Sigourney last year and will move to Delta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigourney
Delta
Gazette
Wilbert
Bill” Page
Sigourney School
Delta High School
Blames Allergy Not Habit For Alcoholism, New Claim
New York report states after 25 years of study Dr. W D Silkworth of Towns hospital declares habitual drinkers are suffering from an allergy to alcohol rather than a habit or weakness. He says alcoholism is not a mere habit and drunkenness and alcoholism are not synonymous in his treatment approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
INS
W. D. Silkworth
Charles B. Towns Hospital
Silkworth
Iowa News in Brief reflects local events in Lowden area
About 500 people attended the Lutheran picnic in Scheepey's grove southwest of Lowden. Events included morning worship by Rev. Julius Koch and a Trinity Lutheran school program, with many contests and relays. Separate items note an accident in Buckingham injuring William Simonsen and marriages and gatherings in Decorah and Bertram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowden
Scheepey's Grove
Here
Julius Koch
Bennett
Trinity Lutheran School
Aaron Hein
William Kohnert
Helen Hein
Evelyn Stock
Emil
Walter Seebeck
Herbert Wenndt
Martin Kruckenberg
Edward Schloemer
Charles Whited
Gertrude Stolte
Esther Twachtmann
Esther Kirstein
Elizabeth Horstmann
Viola Seebeck
Viola
Emil Seebeck
Hilbert Stolte
Edgar Scheeper
Bertha Hoffmeier
Herbert Wiebe
Aaron
Henry Ruprecht
Dorothy
Reuben Deke
Raymond Kroemer
Henry Horstmann
Herbert Werndt
Fred Belitz
Gertrude Stolt
Edwin Stoke
Buckingham
William Simonsen
Voorhies Farmer
Simonsen
Allen Memorial Hospital
Waterloo
Dairy Cattle Congress
Decorah
Martin Hultman
August Hultman
Julia V. Cox
Axel Gunderson
Osage
Oswald Sandbach
Victor Gunderson
Helen Hultman
Hultman
Mitchell County
Shirley Temple Struck by Wire at Fox Studio
Shirley Temple suffered a black eye after tripping on an electric wire at Twentieth Century Fox on Saturday. The child star was cut above her left eye but makeup work patched the damage and she finished her day’s work for the cameras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Shirley Temple
Twentieth Century~Fox Studio
Shirley
Stalin to wed for third time this autumn
London dispatch reports Soviet leader Joseph Stalin will marry in the autumn for a third time. The bride is identified as Trena Sebiova, 43, head of a department in the ministry of heavy industry, per The Daily Express from Warsaw.
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London
INS
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Daily Express
Warsaw
Trena Sebiova
Ministry of Heavy Industry
Treasury Raises Interest on Notes in Mid-June Sale
The Treasury sold 800 million dollars in two note issues with higher rates than three years ago. One series of 400 million bears 1 3/8 percent maturing September 1939, the other 400 million at 1 3/4 percent maturing March 1942. Officials note rates are low against 34 1/2 percent peaks in depression days. The move lifts the national debt to about 36.275 billion including a 500 million reimbursement to the veterans life insurance fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Former Iowan Heads Mother Church of Christian Science
Judge Clifford P. Smith of Newton Iowa, formerly Mason City, was elected president at the annual meeting of the Mother Church First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston. Officers reported 59 new churches and societies, total 2781, and a 66 percent rise in Eddy writings with growing public support for religious freedom.
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Boston
Clifford P. Smith
Newton
Mason City
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
Smith
Iowa District Court
Mother Church
Townsend Accuses Factions of Ousting Him
Dr. Francis E. Townsend charged twelve former officials with conspiring to oust him as leader of the aged pension movement. He revealed that contributions to the plan total about 2,000,000 dollars per year and said mail receipts and meeting collections show financial strain after resignations.
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Chicago
INS
Francis E. Townsend
Townsend
California
Townsend National
Roosevelt
Brothers Reunited Here After 31 Years Visit
M C Walker of Abbotsford British Columbia arrived to visit his brother George H Walker and Mrs Walker at 1617 Park Avenue SE. A sister Mrs Alice Minard of Pomona California will arrive Tuesday from Grinnell where she is attending commencement at Grinnell College. Walker left Grinnell 31 years ago, traveled west to Montana then Tacoma Washington before moving to Canada to enter the grocery business.
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M. C. Walker
Abbotsford
B. C
George H. Walker
Walker
Park Avenue
Alice Minard
Pomona
Calif
Grinnell
Grinnell College
Montana
Tacoma
Wash
Canada
Marriage Licenses for Carroll Boggie Irene Schatz and More
Carroll Dana Boggie of Hawk Eye and Irene Lola Schatz of West Union receive a marriage license. Lawrence F Workman of Cedar Rapids and Melva I Smith of Marion also obtain a license in the same notice.
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Carroll Dana Boggie
Hawkeye
Irene Lola Schatz
West Union
Lawrence F Workman
Cedar Rapids
Melva I. Smith
Marion
10 20 30 Years Ago in the Gazette highlights
The item lists multiple local notices including Hal Shannon’s shoulder injury from a horse, Leo Novak visiting Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Novak and others heading to Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair traveling to Mount Holyoke, Dr. John A. Marquis being courted for a church post, a mass meeting at Sinclair chapel, and various residents traveling or returning from Boston, Glen Ellyn, and Chicago.
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Hal Shannon
Palo
Leo Novak
West Point
Mount Holyoke
Janda Heads to New York for Bohemia Visit
Vaclav Janda left today for New York City where he will sail for Bohemia to visit his parents, whom he has not seen for years. The Students Fund of Coe College has been organized by a committee named by President Smith to aid needy juniors and seniors. Trustees include C. W. Bingham, J. J. McConnell, J. Percival Hugget, John S. Brooksmit, and W. R. Boyd. J. M. Tallman departed last night for a stay in Vancouver. Seventy five students received diplomas at Washington High School graduation at Greene's Opera House, with Miss Emma Fordyce delivering the physics and chemistry address.
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Vaclav Janda
New York City
Bohemia
Coe College
Smth
Coe
C. W. Bingham
J. J. McConnell
J. Percival Hugget
John S. Broeksmit
W. R. Boyd
J. M. Tallman
Vancouver
Washington High School
Greene's Opera House
Emma Fordyce
Fatally Hurt in Crash in Faribault Minn
Albert Richert aged 18 of Cannon City died from injuries in a Sunday automobile crash in Faribault Minnesota. Two other people were treated at a hospital for minor injuries.
Iowa Artists to Be Represented in New York Show
Iowa twelve artists selected from the All Iowa Art Exhibit will join the national showcase at the American Fine Arts Society galleries in New York from June 16 to July 1. Works listed include Edith Bell John G and Hill Farms by Marvin Cone among others, with Mrs. Louis Pelzer promoting the exhibit after funding hurdles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
American Fine Arts Society
New
All Iowa
Edith Bell
Iowa City
John G
Marvin Cone
Cedar Rapids
Jarold Talbot
Clifton Adams
Lohrville
Torego
Two Men And 60 Horses Die In Omaha Track Fire
In Omaha at Ak-Sar-Ben race plant a Sunday blaze killed two men and about sixty horses from the Reynolds racing stable. Ed Kelly 25 and W T Lochlear 60 perished in the barn ruins as firefighters believe they died trying to save horses. Loss estimated at 220 000 to 230 000 dollars.
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Omaha, Neb
Ak-Sar-Ben
Ed Kelly
Minnesota
W. T. Lochlear
Reynolds Racing Stable
Fort Worth
Tex
A. E. Reynolds
Lochlear
San Sabo
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St. Germain
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Rep. Sours
Mary Manners
Miss Manners
B. B
Madge
Iowa City News
Iowa News
Bertram
J. L. Papes
Brotherhood of the Methodist Church
Ladies Aid Society
George Kramer
Stalin
Mother Church of Christian Science
CARP
Lane
John A. Marquis
Home Mission Board
Presbyterian Church
Friends of
Sinclair Chapel
E. R. Moore
John T. Hamilton
A. M. Jayne
A. H. Sargent
C. B. Robbins
Jennie Y Berry
David E. Voris
W. G. Haskell
Harold Trewin
Glen Ellyn
Goodwyn Orr
Wheelock Kindergarten Training School
Iowa Daily Fress Bureau
Mt. Baker
Jack Davis
Seattle
Makers
Ain
Goodrich
B. F. Goodrich Company
Tnd
Goodrich Safety
Silvertown
DIAL
Goodrich Chievenenratores
W. J. Patty
2D Av. SE
Omaha
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