May Local Business Report Shows Gains
The industrial bureau of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce reports May gains over April in car loadings, bank clearings, connected telephones, KWH electric current, employment, and new car sales. Compared with May 1938, outbound car loadings, bank clearings, connected telephones, electric consumption, employment, gas consumption, new car and truck sales, and post office receipts rose. inbound car loadings and real estate transfers declined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Industrial Bureau of the
Cedar Rapids
Understanding Heart and Advice on Love
A columnist reflects on the virtue of an understanding heart and urges tolerance. In a reader note, a teenage girl asks about a drifting romance and the answer encourages dating others to appear desirable and to wait before deciding.
Requests for fresher prose from young town writers
A young 18 year old asks Miss Manners to feature more lively writing. The letter laments prosaic style and pleads for local young intellectuals with vivid imagination and strong logic to contribute to the column.
Notice of Sale of Mary Baker 40 Property
Public notice that real estate described as Mary Baker 40 will be sold by M. J. Hartz referee at the Courthouse in Iowa City Iowa at 9:00 AM on June 16 1939. Bids should be placed by the scheduled time. Auction conducted by the referee M. J. Hartz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Baker
M. J. Hartz
Iowa City
Iowa
Appointments Open To Reserve Officers
Reserve officers under 30 with education qualify may apply for regular army appointments in infantry cavalry field artillery coast artillery and signal corps. A competitive exam will fill nearly 29 vacancies with final between Aug 22 and Sept 2. Apply by June 20 with a recent photograph to Maj. Colin S. Myers Cedar Rapids Post Office building.
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Infantry
Cavalry
Field Artillery
Coast Artillery and Signal Corps
Regular Army
Colin S. Myers
Cedar Rapids
Butterfly Tongue Described As A Watch Spring When Inactive
A naturalist notes the butterfly tongue coils tightly like a watch spring when not extended, illustrating an elegant mechanism of the insect's feeding organ. The observer highlights the adaptive design that enables quick deployment during nectar collection.
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Frigidaire
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America
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L. E
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Hotel Warrior
Sioux City
Ernest Macy
Hotel
Norfolk Norfolk
Neb
Ed L. Wilbur
Lincoln Lincoln, Neb
Russell G. Lewis
Rome
Lewis Shawhan
Need Tinton
R. L. Anderson
Men
Evans Columbus, Neb
Karl Heamann
Mie
Martin Sioux City
R. EB
Bob
HESE
Eppley Hotels Company
Eppley Hotels .Company
Howard Williams
Homer C. Carrier
Seelbach
Louisville, Ky
KL. Areese
Lloyd P
Umpas
Fontenelie Omahi
Duke Reifschneider
Trouble Shooter Headquarters
Homer Maxwell
Mgr
Ontrose Otel
Cedar Rats
D. E
Don
Sioux Falls
Carets Tina
David Bernabe
Onet Hotel Fonle
Newman’s
Fashion Center of
Vanity Fair
Axminsters
Newman
Infants’ Shop
Wagner Aluminum Sale
Wagner
Mary Miles
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