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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 28, 1934

Page

5

Parks Offer Cedar Rapids Facilities For Rest And Recreation

Ruth Kurtz reports unprecedented demand for picnic and tennis permits and park use. Ellis park spans 157 acres with four picnic divisions and facilities to handle large groups, including a river pavilion for 300, a duck pond section for 500, and capacity for 1500+ at Penick Ford picnics. The site lists eight horseshoe courts, playgrounds, three tennis courts, a golf course, and nine diamondball diamonds.

Ruth Kurtz Playground Commission City Hall Cedar Rapids Ellis Park Rose Hill Duck Pond Penick and Ford

City Parks Offer Wide Picnic Facilities Across Eighteen Parks

Riverside park and many others provide picnic tables benches stoves and gas with Kiwanis wading pools playgrounds tennis courts and ball diamonds. Permits via Mrs Kurtz grant court use and equipment, with rules on cancellations stay off wet courts and two permits per week. The system covers Bever Riverside Shaver Daniels Bever Franklin Sinclair Whitlam Rye and Stefan parks totaling 395.68 acres across eighteen parks.

Riverside Park Daniels‘ Park Shaver Park Bever'Park Bever Park Whitlam Park Kurtz Ellis Or Beyer Parks Billy Woods Ellis Park Bill Volz Ellis Boulevard NW Chandler First Avenue Thirteenth Street Riverside C Street Thirteenth Avenue Shaver J Avenue Weing Road Daniels H Avenue Oakland Road Franklin B Avenue Twenty-first Street Bever Bever Avenue Memorial Drive Huston Third Avenue Fifteenth Street Redmond Sixteenth Street Fairview Fifth Avenue Vernon Drive Anderson Greene's Square Fourth Fifth Streets Vernon and Glenway Drives van Vechten Sinclair Sixteenth Avenue Ninth Street Whitlam Fifth Street Rye Fourteenth Avenue Eleventh Street Stefan Second Street Seventeenth Avenue

Cowlicks and a boyish scarecrow head in a playful verse

A humorous note on cowlicks from Edgar A. Guest alongside a formal Iowa probate notice. The verse contrasts science and childhood hair trouble, while the legal notice appoints an administrator for Fannie Kuba of Linn County Iowa and calls for debts and claims to be settled.

State of Iowa Linn County Fannie Kuba Towa

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