School Board Lets Supplies Contracts for Year
The board awarded general supply contracts to vendors including Garden City Educational Morris Sanford Baker Paper Fuller Brush and Metropolitan Supply after evaluating quality with chairman Herbert Hoadles. The coal and coke contracts were split between E EI Pinney and Central Park Fuel with total price around 403 per ton. Roof patching for four high schools went to Iowa Roofing at 120 per 100 square feet with bids from Haegg Cedar Rapids and Powell. Paulson Electric to rewire the Wilson school buzzer and clock system.
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Herbert H Hoadles
Hoadles
Crarden City Educational Company
Morris Sanford Company
Baker Paper Company
Fuller Brush Company
Baker Pauper Company
Metropolitan Supply Company
Garden City Educational Company
Elwell Glue Company
Beckley Card Company
Milton Bradley Company
Empire Paper Company
Morris Sanford Comany
Dwight Brothers Paper Company
Holden Kahler Company
Metropoltan Supply Company
Standard School Supply Company
Sani-flush
Hach Brothers
Hi Baker Company
Swift and Company
Walton A. Keller Company
E EI
Pinney Coal Company
Central Park Fuel Company
Mount Olive
Illinois
Consolidated Coal Company
Cedar Rapids
Illinsois
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Fuel Company
Racine Coke and Gas Company
Racine
Wis
Iowa Roofing Company
J. C Blodgett
Haegg Roofing Company
Cedar Rapids Roofing Company
Powell Roofing Company
Paulson Electric Company
Edgar A. Guest Poem Reflects on Changing Home Chores
The poem contrasts past domestic tasks with modern life as youth begin their own ventures. It recalls chores like rug beating, lawn care, and cleaning, noting that a stranger now presses the speaker's coat and dresses. The speaker reflects that future generations will hire gardens and mend tasks, learning pleasures in what was once routine.
Student Kills Himself After Shooting Baghdad Law College
In Baghdad, a student who failed an exam shot and wounded the college principal and a lecturer at the Baghdad law college on Tuesday before killing himself. The incident underscores tensions at the institution amid exams.
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Baghdad
Baghdad Law College
Michigan Women Lead Risky Green River Canyon Trip
Two women and four men sped down treacherous Green River rapids toward Lake Mead behind Boulder Dam. The expedition includes Elzada Colver and Lois Jotter from the University of Michigan, zoologist Eugene Atkinson, USGS agent Don Harris, photographer W. C. Gibson of San Francisco, and guide Norman D. Nevills from Mexican Hat Utah.
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Green River
Utah
Colorado River Canyon
Placid Lake Mead
Boulder Dam
Elzada Colver
Lois Jotter
University of Michigan
Eugene
Iowa football player saves man from ditch collapse
University of Iowa guard Bob Allen, 200 pounds, saved Bill Sapp, 52, when a heat return ditch caved in Iowa City. Sapp, foreman, was caught against dirt, Allen held his arms above the ground to signal diggers. Sapp suffered a dislocated shoulder and was taken to University hospital. Allen was uninjured.
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Iowa
Iowa City
Bob Allen
University of Iowa
Bill Sapp
Sapp
Allen
University Hospital
Babson Calls Revival or Revolution for America
Economist Roger W. Babson, retiring moderator of the Congregational church national council, warned that the nation must choose between a spiritual revival or a revolution. He urged a 10 point program to modernize religion including shorter weekend services and avoiding church business ventures. He said ministers should visit parishioners at times besides when money is needed.
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Reloit. Wis
Roger W. Babson
Congregational Church National Council
America
Babson
Congress
Greek Earthquake Hits Galaxidi. Buildings Collapse
An AP report from Athens says a severe earthquake struck parts of Greece on Tuesday. In Galaxidi on the Gulf of Corinth old buildings collapsed, located about 100 miles west-northwest of Athens.
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Athens
Greece
Galaxidi
Gulf of Corinth
Treasury posts eighty-cent receipts for every dollar spent
The Treasury reported an eighty percent receipts-to-expenditures ratio as the fiscal year neared its end, projecting a deficit the smallest since 1931. With two weeks left, the shortfall stood at 1.469 billion dollars, while public debt reached 36.49 billion, up 769 million so far this year.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
Spending Plan Effects Not Felt Yet In 38
President Roosevelt was told by advisers that a business upswing remains unlikely until autumn and that the 3.75 billion dollar spending and lending program will show real effects next spring. Housing construction stays strong but agricultural surpluses may push farm prices lower this summer.
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Washington (Lp
Roosevelt
United Press
Price trends show lower food costs and lagging wages
In the last three months living costs eased mainly from falling food prices. The president has pressed for an equalized price structure with little progress. Industry inventories remain high and production may rise. The new wage hour law aims to safeguard consumer buying power by preventing wage collapse.
Yank Charges Japs Fostering Opium Traffic in China
Stewart J Fuller, American on the international drug commission, accused Japan of fostering the opium trade in China to break morale. He said 170000 pounds of opium moved from Iran to Macao and was unloaded on April 3, then carried by Japanese and Portuguese troops to Shanghai. He urged the commission to seek explanations from Japan Portugal and Iran under the League covenant article 23.
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Geneva
INS
Japan
China
Stewart J. Fuller
International Drug Commission
Iran
Persia
Macao
Shanghai
Fuller
Portugal
League of Nations
Townsend Victim of New Deal Purge Debated at Convention
Los Angeles dispatch reports Rep. Ralph O. Brewster of Maine described Dr. Francis E Townsend as a victim of a New Deal purge. Brewster, a Republican, urged movement delegates at their third annual convention to stay focused on the party's aims and avoid losing direction amid the discussion.
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Los Angeles
INS
Townsend Movement
Ralph O. Brewster
Maine
Francis E. Townsend
Brewster
Convention Elects Jeffry to Lead Townsend Plan Rally
The convention named L. W. Jeffry of Chicago, vice president of the Townsend national recovery plan, as chairman and assigned a plank on old age pensions.
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L. W. Jeffry
Chicago
Townsend National Recovery Plan
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