Cedar Rapids Friends Exchange Quake Letters From California
Descriptions of the Los Angeles Long Beach earthquakes flow in from Cedar Rapids residents. Letters recount shaking streets, collapsing buildings, and near misses, naming relatives in Los Angeles and Long Beach and noting nonfatal injuries and damaged utilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
California
Ernest Simon
Sixth Street
L. R. Simon
A. C. Walker
P. J. Doyles
Los Angeles
Cora Allen
Simon
Olive E. Perkins
Iva Cox
Cox
G. B. McClellan
Fifth Street
Winton
Good Garden Land Needed To Aid Jobless Families
Cedar Rapids area land owners within ten to fifteen miles who can donate gardening space for the unemployed are urged to notify the relief garden committee at city hall. The board of supervisors the overseer of the poor and the playground commission work together with county seed supplies to place unemployed in garden work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Board of Supervisors
Overseer
Playground Commission
Receiver satisfaction of contract on 14 acres in Worcester road area
W. E. Jenkins, receiver of Farmers National Bank in Vinton, assigns 14 acres more or less of land on Worcester road to Lester H. Spicer. This fulfills a contract reduced to 2000 dollars, for which the grantee must execute a note and mortgage by March 9, 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Jenkins
Farmers National Bank
Vinton
Lester H. Spicer
Worcester Road
Bal Sd
St Patrick's dance nights and city updates
Mrs. H. E. Oberhaus recovering from surgery at St Luke's. St Patrick's Day events include a Moose hall dance and a Shriner ladies night at the Shrine temple. A theft report cites tools and gear from a car near Third Street A venue NE. Police seek Marion Piper, 15, missing from Ottumwa heading toward Cedar Rapids with described attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shrine Temple
Clark Stelphfing
Third Street
Avenue NE
Ottumwa
Marion Piper
Cedar Rapids
Coe Professors Attend Iowa Economics Sociology Meetings
Coe College instructors join the Iowa Association of Economists and Sociologists along with the Iowa Political Science Association and the Iowa Historical group for their annual convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coe College
Iowa Association of Economists and Sociologists
Iowa Political Science Association
Iowa Historical
Bird club field trip to Swan Lake region amid favorable weather
The Cedar Rapids Bird club plans a field trip Sunday morning at 6 30 from the Coc college campus to the Swan lake region, weather permitting. The association to be held at Iowa State College in Ames on March 24 and 25 will feature L E Garwood Charles T Hickok and C W Macy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State College
Ames
L. E. Garwood
Charles T. Hickok
C. W. Macy
Cedar Rapids
Bird Club
Coc College
Swan Lake
Grass fires answer four alarms Thursday afternoon
Firemen responded to four alarms for grass fires Thursday afternoon. The blazes were near Twentieth Street and Mount Vernon Avenue SE, Washington Avenue and Twentieth Street SE, Twelfth Avenue and Nineteenth Street SE, and along the Old Marion Road near the Kenmore golf course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twentieth Street
Mount Vernon Avenue
Washington Avenue
Twelfth Avenue
Nineteenth Street
Old Marion Road
Kenmore Golf Course
Patient Undergoes Major Operation in Ottumwa Hospital
E. C. Helfenstine of 1801 Fourth avenue SE has been in Polyclinic hospital at Ottumwa for over a week and underwent a major operation Wednesday morning. A second operation is planned today if his condition remains satisfactory. Mrs Helfenstine is with him in Ottumwa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Lampman
Eighth Avenue
W. H. Courtney
Merle Plummer
A. E. Schulte
Ninth Street
E. L. DeHart
Monrovia
Calif
E. C. Helfenstine
Fourth Avenue SE
Ottumwa
Two Cedar Rapids Men Join Barnett Orchestra in New York
Stuart Anderson and Nathan Van Cleave, former Cedar Rapids residents, joined Charles Barnett's fifteen piece orchestra now playing in the Paramount Hotel grill in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnett
New York
Stuart Anderson
Nathan van Cleave
Cedar Rapids
Charles Barnett
Paramount
Hotel News and Music Ties on National Radio
A New York City hotel is highlighted in a feature heard on national radio networks. Noted musician Van Cleave from Al Katz orchestra performs trumpet and arranges for the ensemble. Anderson showcases the saxophone, linking to school days at Coe College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Mr. van Cleave
al Katz Orchestra
Mr. Anderson
Coe College
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. H. York
Grande Avenue
John Marietta
Long Beach
E. A. Spraker
Park Avenue SE
Frank B. Stouffer
Monarch
Duster
3Rd Ave
Atlas Beer
Butler
Sunkist
Japan
Fernbrook
Ieee
Sack
Omar
Folger’s Coffee
American Legion Auxiliary
Jim
Dot
Ideal Bakery
Third Avenue SE
Jess
General Foods
8. E. Oberhaus
Avenue NW
St. Luke’s Hospital
St. Patrick's Dance
Moose Hall
Matt .Pashakornis
Joseph
Calvatura Castagna
Rimp Co
Dohnalek
Vaclav Kudrna
Joseph and
Mary Metelak
Stetson
Virginia
Perret
Heinz
Heinz Ketchup
Whitehouse Eoap
Kellogg’s
Creamery
First Avenue
van Camp
Lic
Peinz
Keren Wart
the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Texas
Idaho
Middle Western Division
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