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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1934
Page
13
New York approves a half million dollar nine month campaign to boost fluid milk and cream use via a state milk publicity bureau. Governor Lehman notes limits yet supports a careful experiment, stressing potential benefits for farmers amid milk surplus and the role of cooperative farm advertising.
A long perceptive cartoonish riff on rainmaking schemes and government ideas to end drought. The piece lampoons ideas like airplanes circling clouds and radio waves removing rain, and ends by hinting at a homegrown morale remedy amid heat and humidity.
A spoiled heir, Bill Jones, abandons wealth to test the world with bare hands. He endures hunger, danger, and bruises, finding rough living a thrilling game until a final telegram from his secretary reveals his fortune is gone. The piece blends satirical vignettes on society, economics, and human behavior with dated political stances and quips from 1934.
A humorous note claims washing a car can induce rain within a day, citing the Maquoketa street department’s road grime on a defunct vehicle as proof. The writer invites government interest and offers the car for sale with a minimum bid of two units, joking about its meteorological and transport potential.
City council halts passage of a beer parlor ordinance to allow clearer language. City Solicitor Johnson says new rules would require adequate lighting, toilets, and unobstructed interior views, with enforcement by his department. The paper urges plain wording to prevent future legal doubts and court cases.
A column recalls Grover Whalen as New York City's premier host during Mayor La Guardia's era, detailing his precise entertaining style at private and official functions. It notes other famed hosts like Jim Brady and Kathleen Norris, references fading 34th Street commerce, and quirky anecdotes about public figures and social life.
A fragment hints at a 1934 style roundup story involving a school of shores. The text reads as a compact, newsy note with period voice, suggesting a brief item about a local event or group. Further readable details are not present in the fragment.
A poem laments brutal heat and drought plaguing towns and farms. It depicts parched fields, withering crops, exhausted mothers and crying babies as communities plead for cooling rain from the sky. The speaker asks the rain to return and temper the sun’s harsh punishment.
Sally realizes her assumption of indifference was off base as her husband shows deep dedication to his work and love today mirrors their early years. The couple reconciles, highlighting a woman's need for reassurance of beauty and affection.
On June 11, 1934, George Quass was appointed and qualified as Administrator of the Mary Quass estate in Linn County Iowa. Creditors are asked to present debts for payment and all claims must be filed with the Linn County District Court Clerk. Fred W. Hann is the attorney for the administrator.
A famed physician posthumously gains fame for a stomach remedy the Udga Treatment. Advertised as curing ulcers acid stomach heartburn and bloating, the prescription allegedly saved 54169 letters of gratitude over six years. Free samples offered by Udga and a seven day trial box with a money back guarantee by May Drug Company.
In the Gazette entries from June 26 1924 Miss Laura Irene Racer and Alvin A Jeffries wed in the First Christian church. J D Broadgate and wife plan a month at Lake Okoboji. Dr A L Murray to speak at a Wildlife conference in Iowa City. L K Cowley dies from road accident injuries. W G Haskell named Linn county counsel for Lincoln Highway. Miss Etta Bardwell heads to Kansas City and Europe.
June 26 1904 W L Harrison formerly master mechanic for the Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf railroad is appointed master mechanic of the local Rock Island shops succeeding George W Taylor About 200 local Odd Fellows and friends took a railroad excursion to Spirit Lake Knights of Columbus council 909 instituted here with about 500 members in attendance Officers named Very Rev T F Gunn chaplain Frank J Hindelang grand knight Charles E Byrnes deputy grand knight William T Murray chancellor Francis N Seabrooke recorder John A Limback financial secretary J F McDonnell treasurer M L Healy lecturer Rev T J Sullivan advocate Thomas J Halpin warden William E Rich inside guard Frank K Schultz outer guard
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