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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 11, 1945

Page

19

Katharine Spangler Smither to Chester Barth in New York

Katharine Spangler Smither and Chester Albert Barth wed on March 4 at Christ church in New York City. Dr Ralph W Sockman officiated. The couple will reside in New York after April 1, with Barth employed as vice president and director of Muzak corporation.

Katharine Spangler Smither Chester Barth May Florence Frick Los Angeles Cedar Rapids Chester Albert Barth Albert J. Barth Fifth Avenue SE Christchurch New York City Ralph W. Sockman David E. Spangler P. C. Frick Ballinese Sherry-Netherlands

Book review of Black Boy by Richard Wright

A HarperCollins 2.50 study notes Wright's memoir Black Boy. The review highlights Wright's resilient boyhood amid Southern racism, his pursuit of learning, and the harsh social order that shaped his early life from Natchez to Beale Street, Memphis. It notes his unflinching, factual narrative and the complex view of race in America.

Richard Wright Harper FR Tebled Wright South Richard Natchez Jackson Miss Arkansas Beale Street Memphis America

Wright and the humanity of the self in Black Boy

Elizabeth North Hoyt reflects on Richard Wright’s sense of human dignity and the struggle to let people confront each other without fear or shame noting the lasting impact of Black Boy on autobiographies. Also, Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae plan a Thursday luncheon at Mrs. Horace G. Hedges home with Mrs. Wallace S. Hamilton hosting and Red Cross sewing during the season.

Wright Richard Wright South Elizabeth North Hoyt Kappa Kappa Gamma Horace G. Hedges Seventeenth Street Wallace S. Hamilton Red Cross

Book list of biographies novels and poetry with prices

A cropped catalog style list shows numerous titles across biography fiction poetry and children books with authors and publisher notes. Prices range from about 1.50 to 58.00 reflecting a mixed library sale or catalog listing.

Viking Book of Poetry Kahil Gilbran Peter Pauper Press Poe

Cedar Rapids Hi-Y Council to Discuss Tourney Plans

Cedar Rapids Hi-Y council meets Thursday at 7 30 p.m. at the YMCA to discuss a Hi-Y basketball tournament after high school postseason play and a Hi-Y assembly in Cedar Rapids next fall. Bill Pfeffer of Roosevelt serves as council president and Eastern Iowa assembly general chairman. Bob Sedlacek of McKinley is entertainment chairman for the meeting.

Cedar Rapids Hi- Y Council Y.M.C Bill Pfeffer Roosevelt Iowa Hi-Y Assembly Pfeffer Bob Sedlacek McKinley

Cedar Rapids WEE Gazette March 11 1945 item

Local newspaper brief from Cedar Rapids dated Sunday March 11 1945. Readable items cover community notices, small events, and public announcements typical of mid century local papers. No single dominant news story identified within the fragment.

THE Cedar Rapids Weee Gazette Sun

Mr and Mrs Mokrejs to celebrate fiftieth anniversary

Mr and Mrs W B Mokrejs of 802 B Avenue NE Cedar Rapids celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. He was born 1867 in Cedar Rapids and worked 62 years for Iowa Manufacturing. Their family includes five children and relatives in New York City and Yonkers. Mrs Mokrejs, born Anna Lila, immigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1885.

W. B. Mokrejs Mokrejs Anna Lila America Czechoslovakia Cedar Rapids Vardy Bever Park Iowa Manufacturing Company The Foresters John Mokrejs Ben Mokrejs China Lamp Company New York City Harry Mokrejs Army Robert Mokrejs Jan Hus House D. H. Lavacek Yonkers

Mrs Hillhouse Hosts Monday Shakespeare Club Meeting

The Monday Shakespeare club will meet at 2 15 pm with Mrs Clyde C Hillhouse of 508 Third Avenue SW. The lesson begins at scene 5 act III King Richard the Third. Mrs Bower Hosts Theta Alumnae Meeting

Shakespeare Club Grant F. Anderson Hillcrest Drive Clyde C. Hillhouse Third Avenue Richard the Third

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Chester A. Barth Mr. Barth Adelaide Smith Herbert Ray Binghamton, NY Ruth L. Barth Jay Gould Edward Hudson Willis Booth John Fisher A. M. Davis G. M Conry Col Henry Blair Comdr John Cooper Boon Talk Chicago Sinclair Lewis Theodore Dreiser Mencken Killian Company Woman’s Club F. E. Corey Kathleen Winsor American Home Department Eleanor Houts Oliver Wilson King Margaret Stewart Emma Felter W R. Foor Japan R. S. Toogood Iceland Mmes C. C. Hillhouse C. W. Packwood Philanthropic Department Schick Hospital Dramatic Art Department Florence Lacy A. E. Heinrich Betty Jean Kirkman Gladys Spratt Lucile Johnson Barbara Nassif Kay Espeset BE. M. Soboda Robert Espeset E. W. Krickard William Goon Fred Meyers Ridgewood Terrace SE George Bryant Mrs. Choppendale T. H Robsjohn Mrs. Anderson Mrs. Noye Maynard Hoye Monica Kennedy Iowa Electric Light and Power Company Mines Frances Young Elmer Neff Walter Krohn Germaines Christianson Rita O’connell E. Ctanley Jones Paul Morris Franklin Hall Christ Wilh Nam Adams Brown Lewis L. Dunnington John Davis Stuart Chase Bunier Welles William B. Zif William A. Bishop United States World” Court Donna Frank Flem Willard Fleisher Lin Yutang Brazil Alice Rogers Hager Carl Glick Mediterranean Attilio Garth Russia Edmund Stevens Red China Harrison Forman Jefferson Claude Bower Anna Siam Margaret Landona Darrel Garwoo Ltd George Helen Papashvily Yankee Olympus Catherine Drinker Brown Edna Ferber Cantile Samuel Shellabarser Cannery Row John Steinbeck Athens Gienway Cate John Gunther Erlé Baume Shelley Smith Mydans Edgar Allan Poe Random House Shakespeare Temple Washington Irving van Wyck Brooks Grimes Pantheon Old New England George Francis Marlowe Kate O'Brien Peter “Pauper Life In Putty Knife Factory W. Allen Smith Jana Stop Me Bennett Act’ Comic Dictionary Hob Hope Naiph Stein Seve William Berta Elmer Hader Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Rachel Field Marjorie Raw- Fe Reeehan Tabbit Hiwrouere Lavon Pooduck Island Alfred Noyes Burgess Bird Thorton Burgess Sanford Richard Fuller A. L. Fuller Eighteenth Street SE First Army Fuller Lt. Fuller Camp Butner N. C Will M. Darwin Sandy USO Sandy Bower THETA L. V. Bower Blake Boulevard Kappa Alpha Theta Htabed’s Epardom LISO
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