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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1940
Page
3
Mary Manners profiles N Rs H whose thrift and craft transform a plain house into a inviting, tasteful home with minimal spending. She learns sewing, painting, and carpentry, refinishes furniture, and gathers bright bric a brac for pennies to create charm.
Winifred Fowler and Betty Rumble of Cedar Rapids earned honorable mention for scholarship among Cornell students. Coe College debate teams traveled to Norway for a Legion meeting with the affirmative disarmament team winning. B. B. Hickenlooper won exalted ruler at the local Elks lodge. Helen McBroom of Cedar Rapids was elected president of the Freshman commission of the Iowa State College YWCA at Ames.
Mr and Mrs A A Taylor travel to New Orleans to visit Mrs Taylor's sister Mrs Van Dyck Fort. A Sunday school farewell for Miss Dale Laughlin at Miss Grace Robbie's home precedes Laughlin's move to West Virginia as a missionary. Mr and Mrs Bert L Lockwood plan a new home near Holton Michigan. E N Hamiston becomes cashier at Fayette State Bank.
In Greene's opera house the show Shadowed by 3 drew attention today. Primary election results nominate John W. Barry and Matt Miles for mayor while council candidates include Henry Bennett James H. Hughes Charles D. Huston Henry S. Kuffer George S. Lightner Ernest R. Sherman P. P. Smith and W. H. Stepanek. G W Cobb departs for a long California tour. Mrs William H Ockerman travels to Lavina Montana to join her husband.
The District Court of Linn County Iowa will hear proof for the Last Will of Bridget Woods deceased on March 18 1940 at 9 o clock A M. Dated Cedar Rapids Iowa March 6 1940. Edwin W Lundquist Clerk District Court A W Bass Attorney.
In Boston, Harvard's Hasty Pudding club defeated the professional models and rival debutantes in a post-time carnival judged by Peter Arno and others. Miss Ruth Allen led the debs in contention, accusing a packed panel, later abandoning picket plans citing cold weather.
The 1894 forest fires left deep scars across Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan. The blaze blackened 2 500 square miles of Minnesota 4 000 square miles of Wisconsin and 60 square miles in Michigan.
Washington AP Hoover says FBI wire-tapping has been few and far between and used only to develop leads. He notes a 1931 reinstatement for serious crimes like kidnapping extortion and white slavery, with no evidence use and no ties to prosecutions.
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