Relief load declines as Linn County relief aids ease
May relief activity in Linn County fell as seasonskewed factors reduced caseload. The May WPA and unemployment aid total reached 1 114 with 599 families and 46 singles receiving jobless aid in May. Direct county help included 441 families and 202 singles plus 98 aided under WPA supplemental. Total May expenditures amounted to 24180 89 with food 9838 58 medical 3580 50 work relief 2496 80 rent 2726 20 and salaries 1130.
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Linn County
Mildred Hunt
Board of Supervisors
Summer Publication Issued By Children’s Department Of Library
The city library publishes Readers Rocket as its first summer edition. Issued Mondays during vacation, it will appear biweekly and feature book reviews poems stories news and simple drawings. Sponsors are Miss Marcella Klein and Miss Elizabeth Hodson. Staff members include John Halverson Carl Reeder Betty Bouldin Phyllis Hliadek Margery Young Robert Stabenfeldt Roberta Bukacek Melvin McClain Theresa Semerad Dorothy Graham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children’s Department
The
Public Library
Rocket
Marcella Klein
Elizabeth Hodson
John Halverson
Carl Reeder
Betty Bouldin
Phyllis Hliadek
Margery Young
Robert Stabenfeldt
Roberta Bukacek
Melvin McClain
Theresa Semerad
Dorothy Graham
Cedar Rapids Chosen For 1940 Song Festival
Cedar Rapids will host the 1940 song festival of the Central Illinois and Iowa Saenger bund, a singing organization, to be held next June after Cedar Rapids was selected at the meeting.
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Cedar Rapids
Central Illinois and
Iowa
1939 Muscatine Sioux City Singers Meeting Report
Sun day at Muscatine drew 400 men and 60 women in a regional singing gathering. H E Petersen of Cedar Rapids was reelected president with Joseph Machinek of Dubuque as first vice president and Henry Glass as secretary. Davenport and Peoria hosted invited singers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Davenport
Peoria
H. E. Petersen
Cedar Rapids
F. Degen
Rock Island
Jacob Rutz
Henry Glass
Dubuque
Joseph Machinek
John Lattner
Charles Misar
Joseph Stark
Walter Leucht
Cedar Rapids Baseball Corporation Incorporation Filed
The Cedar Rapids Baseball Corporation was incorporated by George E. Huckins with L. L. Randall recording, capital stock set at $15,000. Other items note Mrs. Harry Goldman and two children heading to New York for summer, Judge F. L. Anderson traveling to Ann Arbor for a law reunion, Lyndall Ives returning from Billings to her teaching post, and Etta Parks departing to Chicago for kindergarten studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Baseball Corporation
County Recorder
L. L. Randall
George E. Huckins
Harry Goldman
New York City
F. L. Anderson
Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
Lyndall Ives
Billings
Mont
Bass to Speak at Iowa Bar Association Convention in Sioux City
A. W. Bass, the sole local attorney, will address the senior division of the Iowa Bar Association at its Sioux City convention, speaking on property law and probate and examining whether a life estate with a power of disposition creates a life estate or absolute title. Harvey M. Coats will address the junior division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Bass
Iowa Bar Association
Sioux City
Bass
Bailey Webber
Ottumwa
Harvey M. Coats
The
Bar Association
Honorary degree awarded at Cornell commencement
The commencement at Cornell College conferred the Doctor of Divinity on Rev. J. P. Van Horn of Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids worker Lloyd Plummer suffered serious injuries from a fall from a pole behind Trinity Methodist church. Sir John Foster Fraser, famed author and journalist, attended a luncheon hosted by Keith Vawter at Hotel Montrose. Herbert Crampton opened Cedar Rapids branch of Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners. Lulu Miller departed for an extended trip to Seattle and western points. Rev. Samuel Conybeare returned from Oasis after delivering the Woodmen memorial address. Governor Carroll appointed R. M. Garrison state oil inspector in Cedar Rapids.
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Mencement
Cornell College
J. P. van Horn
Cedar Rapids
Lloyd Plummer
Iowa Railway and Light Company
Trinity Methodist Church
Sir John Foster Fraser
London
England
Keith Vawter
Montrose
Herbert Crampton
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners
First
Federation
Building Trades Council of
Lulu Miller
Seattle
Samuel Conybeare
Central Park Presbyterian Church
Oasis
R. M. Garrison
Carroll
Exploring the Mind by Albert Edward Wiggam
The author discusses using science to guide moral questions and claims persistent mental training can greatly increase alertness in any brain. He shares his own experience of improving a dull brain to become a useful problem solving instrument, addressing Mrs. K W. inquiries.
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K. W
Einstein
Views on beauty and propaganda in early 20th century dialogue
The dialogue rejects painful fashion for men as ruinous to looks and endorses comfortable, well fitting clothing and grooming. It defines propaganda as harmful when promoting revolutionary causes, while labeling education as acceptable for democracy. It argues propaganda for communism fascism Townsendism and similar ideologies is bad.
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Children’s Department of Library
Kingdom of
Hari Fite Diol
Olivia Ptianial
Alae
Haakon
B. L. Wick
John M. Grimm
T M. Ingersoll
al G. Keyes
Craven Shuttleworth
Chari
Etta Parks
Chicago
University of Chicago
Albert Edward Wiggam
Valder
Paris
America
Guitare
Martin's
Peet
Plymouth
Detroit
Plymouth Division
Chrysler Corporation
Michigan
Major Bowes
Columbia Network
Crese Rg
Martin
Indies
Bien Jolie Voile
Miss Simplicity
Bemberg
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