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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1932
Page
4
OCR unreadable item lists small figures and a location near Oneal Detar Avenue. Includes monetary values 5.00 3.00 1.65 0.60 4.30 9.50 and a line RAPIDS AND MARION- 1.10.
The piece analyzes an anticipated Democratic convention battle centered on Roosevelt versus a field of rivals. It notes votes, the two thirds rule, potential rule changes, and the risk of party discord, with reflections on leadership and public sentiment. It closes with a lighter note about a boy describing new motorcycles.
The Iowa supreme court declares the salary grab act clearly unconstitutional. It voids prior payments under the act up to 1931, affecting about 68,000 dollars in claims from the Forty-fourth assembly, with uncertainty over recovery from the Forty-third assembly members who benefited.
The Iowa Supreme Court rejects a challenge to a salary raise law, citing the state constitution’s ban on lawmakers increasing their own pay. It states lay opinion opposes self serving raises and argues a ruling upholding the law would imply a faulty constitution.
A Sloan Iowa merchant and his wife canceled 75000 in debts owed by customers, drawing praise as a bold act of economic readjustment and sparking cautious warnings about sudden forgiveness from local creditors and readers. The piece playfully suggests debtors would need notice and notes some debtors earned only a few cents.
A 1906 Shaw quote about becoming a useless old ass is cited to frame today’s talk on the prospects for prosperity. The speaker suggests a contemporary man’s opinion on recovery may carry weight given Shaw’s past remark.
Kansas visitors will have a rare chance to eat buffalo meat at a July Fourth rodeo as the wheat market disruption has limited meat supplies. The piece notes political figures tying prohibition to broader issues and jests about Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt’s convention-era nickname.
John R Moore criticizes education as often marketed for profit by promoters, arguing the system should serve learning over earnings and urging reforms to curb profit motives in education.
The comment questions whether a new bank check tax is a device to shield rubber industry interests from substitutes. It frames the tax as a potentially protective measure rather than a neutral revenue tool.
Histories show Republicans rarely renominated defeated presidential or vice presidential contenders. Examples include Taft in 1916 and Hughes in 1920, while Blaine was urged in 1887 88 until he refused. Democratic renominations followed different lines with Cleveland and Harrison narratives noted amid electoral shifts.
A dense list of crossword style clues with numbers and mixed references including chemistry, astronomy, and politics. It features terms like a peach pulp part, Holm oak, race horse, and deity, along with multiple entries connected to Hoover era law enforcement and U. S. regions.
A reflective letter discusses enlightened self interest and fault lines of selfish behavior. It contrasts a Forrest girl with an eye wrap and a wife who hoards gifts, argues generosity and fairness drive lasting affection, and ends with a gritty aside on prisoners and headlines.
The text mocks public appetite for untruths and questions the authority of science. It contrasts heathen conversion, charity, and a sheepskin with the idea of limits to knowledge. It ends by invoking Mr. Einstein and observed public gullibility.
A scattered and satirical meditation on finance politics crime and culture. The piece touches on bankers lending limits social leaders future generations girl leaders of crime and the role of taxation in crime profits. It also references diggers skeletons primitive crooners and international politics with a casual resistant tone.
A reminiscence of rail travel prestige and theater culture in New York through a narrator's memories of landings on fast trains, box offices, and exclusive service. The piece recalls James J. Hill E H Harriman and the Goulds, clerks, tailors, hotel staff, and the changing tone of the city era.
A fragmented 1932 reminiscence voice mocks hard sellers and bank coldness. It imagines shopping at Dunhill Tiffanys and comic scenes with clerks in linen dusters. Edits reference Miss Edith Maudsley and a string of marriage-like notices toward the end.
A Senate Joint Resolution proposes amending Article III Section 12 of the Iowa Constitution to strike and replace the vacancy filling process in both houses. The measure outlines that the General Assembly shall by general law provide procedures for filling vacancies as it sees fit.
A fragment from Tit-Bits captures a playful exchange about train platforms. An old lady asks which platform for a London train while a young man dodges with roles of left and right, turning it into a lighthearted quip.
Mr and Mrs E E Whitey Clemons leave for a hiking trip to Los Angeles where they will settle. Joe Zimmer Milwaukee railroad foreman injured when speeder hit by fast train two and a half miles east of Atkins yesterday afternoon. Martha Elizabeth Hubbard Cedar Rapids pioneer resident for seventy four years dies at home early today.
William Brady M D argues that ignorance of physiology harms education. He blames state and local policies for corrupt textbook patronage and outside influence on high school health and football programs. He condemns football as a moral detriment and urges unhampered medical education in schools.
Stanley Hadrava six year old son of Mr and Mrs Wendl Hadrava died today after drowning in the Cedar River in the city's south part. Helen Hayes returns from New York City after a year of music study. Lew W Anderson of this city elected president of the Iowa Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents. Cedar Rapids residents Lew Benedict and C G Greene named delegates and on legislative committee respectively. W Ruml Jr leaves for Culver Ind to attend the Culver Summer Military School. Miss Zulina Severa, Smith College graduate, returns home with her brother for commencement program.
A Clark from the Pacific coast tour reports canal notes and a summary of today’s marriage notices. The item lists several couples, with names and locations implied in terse, early 20th century record style.
A garbled passage discusses respiratory infections and spray transmission, mentions Sinead, a large drug store president, preservatives, and unspecified letters. The text references Raynaud's, a photographer, and Cedar Rapids Gazette context, but offers no cohesive report or verifiable facts.
By virtue of a special execution from the District court of Linn County Iowa dated May 27 1932 National Life Insurance Co and S Shaw hold a judgment for nine thousand eighty three dollars and costs of one hundred fifty two dollars and thirty three cents. The property is described as a note and is to be sold at public auction to satisfy the claim. The sale is set for 10 15 a m on the specified day in a given township and range.
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