How To Tell Your Friends From The Apes And Other How To Books
A humorous survey of public library How To books from Louis Brewer noting titles such as How To Tell Your Friends From The Apes How To Build 20 Boats How To Weld 29 Metals and How To Be A Newspaper Man The piece highlights quirky entries and the public curiosity about practical guides in print with playful commentary on etiquette retirement and leisure.
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Louis Brewer
Florida
Ecard
Cuppy
Man seeks free plastic surgery to win back wife
Harry White Muller, 30, asked Circuit Judge Leonard C. Reid in Chicago to help locate a plastic surgeon who could make him look younger and more attractive. A Brooklyn physician offered to perform the operation free in the interest of domestic happiness, but the physician’s name wasn’t disclosed.
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Chicago
Harry Whitemuller
Leonard C. Reid
Reid
Brooklyn, N. Y
Plant Supt at Wilson's Retires
J. T. McMillan of 401 Liberty Drive SE will retire as plant superintendent of Wilson and Company Cedar Rapids plant on March 29. Walter M. Whitford, staff superintendent at the Omaha plant for 10 years, will succeed him. McMillan joined the Cedar Rapids plant in 1937.
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J. T. McMillan
Liberty Drive
Wilson and Company
Walter M. Whitford
Omaha
McMillan
Cedar Rapids
Community Leader McMillan Dies in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids, a longtime meat packing industry figure died at his home in St. Paul. He leaves two married daughters and a son working as a doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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St. Paul
McMillan
Cedar Rapids
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Irish-music ritualist dies a week before 50th tryst
Alvah O. Schaeffer, 80, longtime church cornetist who kept the St. Patrick’s Day midnight rendezvous at Neversink mountain cemetery with the grave of Tom Hannahoe, the so called mayor of Irish Town. He began in 1898 and played Lass O Galway until 1923 then others filled in. An estimated 10,000 people witnessed the 1942 tryst.
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Reading
Alvah O. Schaeffer
St. Patrick’s
Neversink Mountain
Schaeffer
Tom Hannahoe
Irishtown
Lass O’galway
Hannahoe
Galway
Ireland
Editor Arrested in Roxas Attempt Noose Near Platform
A co principal in the planned assassination of President Manuel Roxas is nabbed after a hand grenade exploded near the platform from which Roxas was about to speak. Seven injured officials and witnesses named Guillen as the attacker, with Hernandez denying involvement and claiming Guillen sought a confession to escape mob violence.
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Manuel Roxas
Roxas
Guillen
Theilippine Republic
Lamberto Javalera
Hernandez
Denmark's Global Role Highlighted in World Ranking
Denmark, a country with under four million residents, ranks as the world’s fourth most important nation in a recent comparative assessment, reflecting its influence in diplomacy economy and culture.
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Denmark
Notice of Will Proof in District Court
A notice announces a hearing on March 10 1947 at 9 pm in Ced Rapids Iowa to prove the will of a county resident. Arthur Axmear Clerk and Otto Sehluter Attorney are named in the district court proceedings for admission of the will.
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Ced Rapics
Ate Rapids
Iowa
Arthur Axmear
Glerk
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Emily Post
Miss Post
Wilson's
Nab
Javalera
Newman
Newman's
Simmon
Red Cross
Eee
Axminster
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