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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 10, 1942

Page

5

Choose Your Sunglasses With Care II Sun Glasses

Advice on selecting sun glasses covers lens quality neutral ground polished lenses avoiding pressed glass to prevent distortion eye fatigue and headaches. Notes color tints green blue and yellow options with eye color and environment guidance and cautions about exposure and prescription lenses. Also includes Miss Manners Q&A about a girl and her boyfriend, advising patience for relationship recovery.

Tropics Miss Manners

Advice From Mary Manners

Mary says a ten year age gap can still lead to a happy marriage if love is genuine and both partners align in values. She emphasizes respect and maturity over schooling or ancestry, noting many couples with larger gaps have found success and happiness in marriage.

Roy Miss Manners

New Mechanical Ears Promise Custom Hearing Aids

Atlantic City AP reports at the American Medical Association meeting that mechanical ears, a new medical art, would let doctors prescribe hearing aids like glasses. Six ear types, from the last two years, use tiny vacuum tubes and alloys to filter needed sounds. A US Public Health Service study splits over 10 million hard of hearing into six classes, with men mainly deaf to mid and high tones and women affected across ranges. Each class further divides into three amplification levels.

Atlantic City American Medical Association United States Public Health Service

Colorful Stitchery Pattern 377 From Cedar Rapids Gazette

Pattern 377 offers a transfer design with four 1x112 inch motifs and four flexl1Q motifs. Includes illustrations of stitches and color schemes. Send 10 cents plus 1 cent mailing to The Cedar Rapids Gazette needlecraft department 82 Eighth Avenue New York. Include pattern number name and address.

Cedar Rapids Gazette Needlecraft Department Eighth Avenue New York

George White Files Bankruptcy Petition

George White, producer of George White's Scandals, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in Los Angeles. He lists liabilities over 100000 dollars with several creditors noted as amount due unknown.

Los Angeles George White

Mrs Wallace Named Wool Clip Conservation Chair in Linn

Mrs John H Wallace of 1800 Ridgewood Terrace SE has been named chairman of wool clip conservation for Linn county Red Cross. A collection of trouser cuffs from Cedar Rapids shops and outlets will supply material for uniforms. Cuffs from 19.5 million pairs of trousers yield over 300,000 suits. nine cuffs equal one pair of army trousers, 12 for an army coat, 21 for a uniform. Wool scraps and leftovers may be donated. all will be reprocessed for uniforms. Mrs Wallace will sort the wool.

John H Wallace Ridgewood Terrace Linn County Red Cross Cedar Rapids

WAAC to recruit officer candidates for air warning service

Washington reports the war department will begin recruiting officer candidates for the aircraft warning service of the WAAC on Thursday. Sixty-five volunteers trained by the army signal corps will be selected by the first fighter command and enrolled in the WAAC officer candidate school at Fort Des Moines Iowa. General recruiting closed June 4 to avoid interrupting the volunteer plane spotting service.

Movie Screen Fire Ends Passion Scene in Salt Lake City

Joel McCrea and Ellen Drew shared a close embrace on screen as the film led to a fire when a short circuited electrical switch ignited the theater screen. Firefighters arrived from nearby and extinguished the blaze while patrons exited orderly.

Salt Lake City Joel McCrea Ellen

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Mary MacFadyen Don Jong Mary Momners Chi-Namel Paint Store Third Avenue SE Lang Wheeler Wallace Linn Waac Air Warning Service Mrs. R Lamb Oggis All Oie Kellogg 5 Jin Killian’s Lynbrook Windermere Sterling Killian Company Cedar Rapids IA State cOcoop
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