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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1939
Page
41
A fragmented passage surveys a quirky historical claim about Arnold Bennett and Benedict Arnold, noting a young researcher who reinterprets history as a twist. It mentions a veteran, a alleged Union traitor, and a quirky aside about alpaca grass as an agricultural wrinkle.
Coe college military band director Stanley Vesely announced a Wednesday 8 15 p m concert in Coe chapel featuring Bach Dukas Tschaikowsky Pryor Weber and Bruch selections The event serves as a preface to a spring tour starting March 29 covering a dozen Iowa and Illinois towns plus a Palm Sunday Chicago concert Soloists include Prof Joseph Kitchin violin and Joseph Bejcek trombone Lightweight program outline lists Sacred Head Now Wounded and other pieces with on tour notes.
Budapest dispatch reports Hungarian troops have finished occupation of Carpatho Ukraine. The general staff lists 37 officers and soldiers killed and 117 wounded during the operation. Admiral Nicholas Horthy, regent, is visiting the occupied region.
Neighbors nickname the fourplex House of Twins at 1503 Second Avenue SE home to two and a half sets of twins. Pictured six siblings include Isabel Doty Jane Frazier Louise Doty Anne Frazier James Mullin and Thomas Mullin. The Doty girls age 27 work downtown while the Frazier twins 19 attend Coe College. Moon Mullin 33 is a police patrolman.
A column catalogs student gaffes from an Iowa Cedar Rapids themed exam, noting misdefinitions of heredity, gravity, hard water, skeletons, and geography curiosities, with colorful quips about cows, oxen, silk, and slang. It spoofs classroom classics and youth missteps.
A Kansas classroom dialogue reveals blunt student remarks on first aid tourniquets anatomy and algebraic symbols. The exchange touches on King Alfred and modern life with biting humor and a hint of censorship concerns.
The C S A Central committee voted to financially support one local boy to attend Hawkeye Boys State at Camp Dodge this summer. The program, sponsored by the American Legion, aims to teach Iowa youths government through simulated city county and state offices. Also reports note postponements and meetings for local clubs and dramatic groups amid regional events.
Mrs. Frank Koutny of Ely Johnson Co says Natex relieved her daily headaches linked to a long post surgery constipation. She reports weeks without a headache after a month of use and credits Natex with improved digestion and back comfort. A Natex representative at Podzimek's Pharmacy explains the product's merits and availability.
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