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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1937
Page
7
M Tel Wardi of Tel Aviv urges an American Palestine Chamber of Commerce to promote US Near East trade. He notes Near East markets are just opening, US citizens can aid growth, and US manufacturers could gain reliable agents to push quality American goods against European distributors. Cedar Rapids sells Quaker Oats and 3 Minute Oat Flakes.
Willie Willis M. Tel-Wardi reports large Palestine demand for American hosiery dresses and novel ties. Tel-Wardi notes Tel Aviv radios and a preference for European broadcasts with a rising Palestine symphony orchestra led by Huberman and Toscanini. He plans to handle American printing presses in the Near East while predicting olive oil soap and canned citrus as export limits.
Judge George C. Scott at Sioux City held the northern district of Iowa has no jurisdiction in Penick and Ford Ltd suit seeking 574 658 refunds of AAA processing taxes. The government argued such claims belong in the Court of Claims in Washington. The ruling follows a recent Arniston Manufacturing Co decision. Attorney Owen N Elliott said the suit was filed there as a precaution.
After disposing of the class B beer permits Thursday afternoon the city council issued 150 hotel beer permits to the Magnus Montrose and Roosevelt hotels. The 100 club and lodge beer permits went to the Elks lodge Sokols Cedar Rapids Country club Central hotel and Delavan hotel.
Menu items include Chilled Fruit Salad Broiled Veal Chops Raisin Sauce Buttered Potatons Mashed Squash Currant Jelly Cherry Sherbet Caramel Cake Supper Mens Cream Cheese Sandwiches Iced Tea Berries Coffee Raisin Sauce. Partially legible instructions describe melting butter mixing flour then simmering ten minutes and a Caramel Cake recipe with butter sugar vanilla salt and baking powder.
This excerpt describes folding beaten whites into batter, baking in two pans for 25 minutes at 375 degrees, cooling, and applying a caramel frosting. The frosting combines dark brown sugar, granulated sugar, butter, milk, vanilla, and optional nuts, heated to a soft ball, then cooled and whipped until creamy before spreading on the cake.
Camp Wapsie Y will celebrate the Fourth of July on July 5 with campers allowed to use their own fireworks along the river banks. In the evening the staff will present a display considered one of the finest in the area.
The show starts at 8 30 p m with parents invited to bring friends and spend the day at camp. Campers may obtain their fireworks at the camp store after arriving at camp.
Aviator Jimmy Mattern, after tests on his new $100,000 monoplane, says all is ready for the proposed nonstop flight from Oakland, California to Moscow. He reported the craft passed preliminary tests and outlined plans for the long-distance journey.
The Texan nicknamed after his home state says he is tickled pink by the plane's performance and intends to depart Oakland in August with midair refueling over Alaska. The notes discuss coal tar byproducts and a long list of grocery items and prices from a Watson store listing weekly specials and delivery details.
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