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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1940
Page
3
Mrs. Rundquist feeds and shelters Elmer a featherless fledgling who fledged from a dovecot. The bird flies with pigeons but returns home for meals and baths, needing human care to stay clean and warm.
Cedar Rapids chamber bureau members and guests will ride a special train to Iowa City for the state high school basketball tournament at 5 30 p m Thursday. The excursion follows prior success and includes transportation meal and admission.
A reserved seat plan for a Young Men's Bureau group excursion to the Iowa Field House includes special cars departing the Penick and Ford plant at 5 30 pm with parking available. Lunch is served en route at 5 45 pm and the group will join 13 000 other fans at 6 30 pm. Return begins 10 30 pm with one to three cars reserved for stays.Reservations through the Chamber of Commerce.
Fourteen Iowa colleges will participate in the Iowa Intercollegiate Forensic Association tournament at the Montrose hotel Thursday through Saturday. Events include men's and women's debate and oratory, after dinner speaking, extampore and poetry reading with five rounds of debate and three rounds of oratory and extempore. Cedar Rapids hosts for the third straight year as Prof Cunera Van Emmerik of Central College presides and Morningside’s Prof M B Miller, secretary, helps organize.
Amory H. Waite Jr. radio operator and electrician on the Admiral Byrd polar expedition will speak to McKinley high school at 1 40 p m Monday. He will describe how fifty six men wintered on an ice floe in the Antarctic, how they stayed warm and healthy, and the rescue of the ice party in the four month polar night.
Elmer M. Seevell of Marion announces his candidacy for reelection as Linn county second district supervisor on the Republican ticket. He was appointed to the seat Aug. 4, 1936 to fill a Busby vacancy and later elected to finish the term and a full term ending Jan. 2, 1941.
A joint meeting of the Cedar Rapids Dental society and the University district dental society will be held Monday at the Lafayette cafe. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. on a short program observing.
Dr. A. R. Butterfield presents moving pictures on maxilla and mandible injection technique. Dr. E. L. Moravec shows slides of pre- and post operative fracture accidents in exodontia.
The note claims Andrew Jackson was the posthumous son of another Andrew Jackson who immigrated from Northern Ireland to America.
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