Censors and Showbiz Snippets Spark Silly Showplace Talk
Walter Winchell hails censors while poking fun at their grip on screen morals. Damon Runyon’s take on New York as crowds watch fights and ushered drunks surfaces in the Daily Mirror city room on location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Hellinger
Daily Mirror
Mirror
Chellebrities
Jim Bruce
Argentina
Ethel Barrymore
Pat O’brien
Phil Regan
Reuben
Connie Haines
Gene Tierney
Coluumist
Claude Thornhill
Fran Warren
Jennifer Jones
D. O. Selznick
St. Regis
Community civic leader profiles and local meeting notes
Jay Hesser, South Side Civic club president, is highlighted for sponsoring events and memorial efforts with the Sixteenth Avenue Commercial club. The report covers his background, church work, hobbies, and civic affiliations plus local lodge meetings and a $85,000 stadium bond referendum backed by the Sixteenth Avenue Commercial club.
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South Side
Jay Hesser
Otte
Sixteenth Avenue Commercial Club
Hesser
Central City
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Worsham School of Mortuary Science
Clay City
Neb
Navy
Kansas City
Blue Lodge
The
Shrine
American Legion
Knights of Pythias
Odd Fellows
Eastern Star
First Christian Church
Federal Council of Churches
Canada
Se 2 Sentee Ae
Jerry Hanus
Alaskan Visitors at Wagner Home
Mr and Mrs Clarence Goodman and their 10 year old son Jimmy travel from Glennallen Alaska to visit J A Wagner at 1229 First Avenue SE in nine days in a 1935 Ford. They left civil service leave for July and August in Iowa and report bleak winter temperatures.
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Clarence Goodman
Jimmy
The
Gazette
Steve Canyon
Daily Record
Alaska
Ting Man
J. A. Wagner
First Avenue
Williams
Glennallen
Anchorage
Cedar Rapids
Toke Junction
Edmon Altoona
Edmonton
United States
Corway
Mont
Goodman
Iled
Goodmans
Iowa
Alcan
Wagner
U S Marriage Rate Sets Record
New York report shows the 1946 American marriage rate at 16.4 per 1 000, the highest in U S history. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company released figures noting Hungary reached 20.4 per 1 000 after World War II.
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New York
America
United States
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Hungary
Woman Returns Welfare Grant After Seventeen Years
In Holyoke Massachusetts a woman who accepted 99 from the public welfare department in 1930 has returned the funds after seventeen years. The case highlights lingering questions about overpayments and public aid administration.
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Holyoke, Mass
Public Welfare Department
Nasty Spring Brings Ideal Gas Year Through Degree Days
The piece explains degree-days as a measure of mean daily temperatures and their impact on heating needs. It notes Cedar Rapids records with 82 degree-days in 1936 and 5 917 in 1941 42, discusses thermal year Sept to June, and cites 6 666 degree-days as near-ideal for the gas company's calculations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Remington
Nory
Cedar Rapids
Degree days cut gas bills for homes through heat loss
The degree day method estimates annual gas costs by balancing heat needed to warm a house with heat lost through walls and windows. It notes the gas company holds floor plans and can calculate losses such as 0.10 BTU per hour per square foot for plaster walls, illustrating long term costs.
Townsend Bids Labor Join Third Party Move
Dr. Francis E Townsend urged organized labor to join his third party at a national convention. He accused both Democrats and Republicans of kicks to labor and argued the labor vote has grown disillusioned with the two major parties and seeks mutual support with Townsend clubs.
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Washington
Francis E. Townsend
Townsend Clubs
Townak
Flood Waters Fail To Close Camp Wapsie Y
High water on the Wolf River area flooded portions near Camp Wapsie Y. Cedar Rapids YMCA camp near Central City reports all activities on schedule. Seventy boys attended opening session. over 500 expected for six weeks. A W Salisbury is program director.
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Watcon River
Camp Wapsie “Y
Cedar Rapids
Y.M.C.A
Central City
Thew
A. W. Salisbury
Fragmented Card of Thanks and Missing Items Notice
A damaged clippings page shows a card of thanks and scattered finds including a found watch and a box of items. It lists contact clues and locations such as Paramount Theater and various businesses and addresses. The garbled text references rewards and lost articles with phone or dial numbers, plus personal notices and shop ads.
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Mablie Rane
Ceo ‘Gorg
Paramount Theater
Rewa
Police Hiring Rise Among Negro Officers Across Nation
A Chicago dispatch reports growing numbers of Black police hires nationwide, citing shifts across regions from the International Mason-Dixon line to beyond the Rockies.
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Chicago
Rockies
Vine gar as a by-product of early wine and beer making
Prior to the 17th century, vine gar was prepared as a by-product to wine and beer production, reflecting early practices in viticulture and fermentation. This note shows how ancillary plant materials supported beverage cultures before modern industrial methods emerged.
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Walter Winchell
Mephistopheles
You
Max Weinberg
Damon Runyon
Newa
Japan
Johnny Desmond
RCA
Jimmy Atkins
Jack Berch
NBC
Patti Clayton
Art Kahn
the Nevele
Beatrice
3 Suns
Noel Lee
Iceland
Randy Scott
Wm. S. Harting
Columbia
Columbia's “the Gunfighters”. . . Jimmy Lunceford
Mark Dawson
Robert Shackleton
Sheraton Ane
See
Sium
Stork
Confucius
South Side News
Z.c.bj
Supreme Office
Pomenka Vlasti Lodge
A. Volz
Bever Park
C.S.A
Karla Masaryk
C.S.P.A
Alcan Motor Highway
Clar
Glennse
W. T. Sands
Second Street
Roosevelt Hotel
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Pocahontas Fur Starr
Liberty Par-Stoker Fuel
Kenwood
Hladey
DIAL
Fourth Ave
Folger's Coffee
Mee
I-Ib
Jar
Libby
Balpidl
Swerl
Hladey's Grocery
Fourth Avenue SE
U.S
Gas Co
O.K
Rere
Tnt
Townsend
Labor
Camp Wapsie-Y
Lynott J
Ous Nelensete
Lynott
Actoun
Amiel Dog
Bend New Les
Norvey
Bull
Arthur Kouba
Geter Point
Claxton College Pharmacy
Insberg
Eastside
Penceys
Kansas
Borsa Motor, Inc
St. SE
Smuiekof
Jack
6Th Ave
J. Ng
Tcnal Bank Ride
Sly Sarin
Joseon
Searles
Searles Eatlt
Letally Owned and Operated
Buehler
Super Meat Market
FIRST
Bacon
Ftelsiel
Ofa
Folger’s
Heinz
Monarch Pure
Crassapple
Sunshine Market
Fifteenth St
Blue Sea
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