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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1941
Page
12
Seersucker fashion takes center stage as the golf dress emerges as a wrinkle free option. The design emphasizes ease of wear with smart tailoring and a light, breathable fabric suitable for sporty occasions.
A Tama county republican women's convention met in Traer Congregational church drawing over 100 attendees. W Earl Hall of Mason City spoke about his South America tour. New county officers elected include Ella Taylor president Nellie Vana vice president and George Ross secretary treasurer.
Funeral services for Wilhelmine Louise Miller were held in Bennett and Davenport. She was born June 17, 1878 northeast of Bennett and lived in Bennett most of her life. Burial was in Van Horne cemetery. Oelwein reports the death of Mrs. Antonette Vesh aged 35, with funeral at Sacred Heart church and burial in Woodlawn cemetery. Anamosa notes H. H. Soper's will naming daughter Bessie Boyer as executrix and distributing land and property to various heirs.
Eight Johnson county men depart Iowa City for a year of training under the selective service act. Funeral services held for James F. Ryan 63 at St Patrick s church in Iowa City. Prof George W Stewart of Iowa City named president of the American Physical Society. Nine local residents elected to the Iowa State Historical Society board of curators. Funeral services planned for Mrs Susanna Flannery 80 of Oxford. County Line tavern operators waived to grand jury on liquor nuisance and gambling charges.
Fort Matilda Pennsylvania reports Lucian G. Dale swerved to avoid 14 year old Eugene Orwick on a bicycle causing his car to strike a barn. A shingle flew off and fractured the youth's rib in the incident noted by AP.
Pattern 4747 offered for misses and women in sizes 12 through 40. Size 16 requires 344 yards of 35 inch fabric plus 1 yard contrast. Send 15 cents to Pattern Department Cedar Rapids Gazette 243 West 17th Street New York NY. For 10 cents more receive Pattern Book with season's fashion pictures for matron miss and tot.
The United States seeks the cooperation of American republics to bar ousted German and Italian consular officials and propagandists from moving to any other American country. German officials must leave by July 10 and Italians by July 15, with prior permission and British safe conduct aiding enforcement.
President Roosevelt urged Americans to rededicate themselves to liberty on July 4, comparing the current crisis to 1776. He praised civilian defense leading the nation in a grand Fourth of July rededication to the inalienable rights declared in the Declaration of Independence.
Newark conference hears critics say Americans lack pep and must take daily vitamin tablets to boost energy for defense. Dr Victor G Heiser and Dr J J Wittmer warn working men and women poor eating habits require supplementation to raise productivity.
Steel companies annually purchase more than 110 000 inked ribbons for typewriters adding machines and other business machines in their offices reflecting ongoing clerical needs and office equipment usage.
Milton Rector a 27 year old Chicago cab driver admitted speeding 42 miles an hour in traffic court. Judge George L Quilici discharged him saying you are one in a million praising his honesty. The judge insisted there is no precedent set by Rector's case.
The Newhall Park day sponsored by the park commission will feature a children under 16 parade open to all and repeated at 6 30 pm The school band under the direction of the continues noted in the article.
Howard Ellson headlines two shows at 2 30 and 7 30 pm with an amateur contest offering cash prizes. Pie and doughnut eating, nail driving contests, and a band by former Newhall brass players directed by Albert Stuart cap the day with a bowery dance. Albert Stien Chester Tuttle and Ted Kennedy lead.
Lloyd Lantz 25 of Iowa City and Jewel Volkman 20 of North Liberty face charges in the assault and robbery of Lew Turecek, a North Liberty farmer, who lost about $90 after his light pickup was forced off the road. Sheriff McComas arrested them Tuesday. the billfold was recovered near the North Liberty cemetery.
Eleven men are sent to Fort Des Moines for final air corps physicals before joining in Jefferson Barracks Missouri for preliminary training. Names include Armstrong Heimendahl Smith Slowey Rogness Winther Fall Lingle Krahling Brown and Krumm with Robert Krumm already stationed at Olmstead Field, Pa.
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