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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1937
Page
5
A speaker rails against shallow values, mocking those obsessed with wealth and status while praising inner worth and kindness. The text contrasts Miss Manners style advice with a personal dilemma about love, commitment, and readiness to marry.
A Kellogg advertisement features Mrs Dorise King of Oxford praising All-Bran for relief from constipation after trying other remedies. The copy explains All-Bran’s bulk absorbing water, forming a soft mass, and its vitamin B and iron benefits. It suggests serving with milk or fruit and notes Kellogg makes and guarantees the product in Battle Creek.
A reader asks how to handle teasing and assumptions that two friends are in love. Miss Manners advises maintaining the friendly relationship and not proving others right or wrong. She suggests waiting for the shy friend to speak up rather than signaling more than friendship.
Leo Vaverka fractured both wrists when a scaffold on a house under construction on Meadowbrook Drive near Twenty-fifth Street collapsed. A 132-person special train departed for Yellowstone Park arranged by the Chamber of Commerce. Laurence S. Ramsey travels to Chicago for a Gregg secretarial course. Local market quotes list wheat 1.30 1.40, oats 46 48, corn 83 86, rye 60 65, barley 65 70, hay.
The tablet lists farm prices for corn oats hens eggs hogs steers and lambs with June 18 1917 and June 18 1907 dates. It also reports residents traveling to El Paso Waterbury New York City and Dalhart Texas and notes a college course in French offered to Iowa brigade staff. It mentions laws prohibiting possession of wild birds.
Early in December Harry Johnson of Cedar Rapids Baseball Association mailed powers of attorney to players in Los Angeles. After two attempts some were returned, and recently the original papers arrived back in a government envelope water damaged and bleached. The envelope bore a Los Angeles mailing date December 14 1936 and a blue stamp noting air mail interruption near Salt Lake City on December 15 1936. A separate pseudonym reference to Gabrielle Riquetti de Mirabeau appears as a nonessential sidenote.
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