Dairy Dale Annexation Considered by Cedar Rapids Board
The Cedar Rapids school board debated annexing Dairy Dale to Cedar Rapids at a Monday meeting. A public hearing is planned for April 4, with the option to proceed by concurrent resolution or hold a public vote, avoiding a costly election. The Dairy Dale district shows 5 1/2 sections, taxable value about 590,897, plus funds and credits of 127,119 and a 1936 37 general fund total of 12,136.43. Expenditures in 1936 37 totaled 10,233.49 and the 1937 38 budget contemplates similar balances and tuition costs.
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Dairy Dale Independent
Cedar Rapids
J. K. von Lackum
J. ©. Blodgett
Charles Penningroth
Arthur Deamer
von Lackum
Dairy Dale
Deamer
Uts
No. 30
Dairy Dale No. 1
Dairy Dale No. 2
Edina Donohue
Minnie Crew
Jessie Hahn
Memorial Drive
Buchanan School
Jackson School
District budget and school consolidation debate heats up
The district plans to charge expenditures from January to June 1938 against its budget while outlining pupil enrollment and school site conditions. Dairy Dale No 1 is crowded and insanitary, prompting a potential consolidation with Cedar Rapids. a public hearing is set for April 4 to vote on the issue. Dr J K von Lackum urges attendance to resolve the Big Springs dispute and absorption plan.
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Dairy Dale No. 2
Deamer
McKinley
Dairy Dale No. 1
Cedar Rapids
J. K. von Lackum
Big Springs
Blue-Jay Corn Plaster Promises Quick Root Removal
An advertisement touts Blue-Jay a medicated plaster for corn treatment claiming instant pain relief and a three day root extraction. It emphasizes safety scientific backing and urges against unknown substitutes with a 25 cent price in the US and Canada.
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Canada
Bull Montana Drawn Into Neighbor Leaf Burn Dispute
Hollywood report says actor Bull Montana and neighbor Roy Boeger were raking leaves at Montana's Glendale home when a quarrel over incinerator use led to a rake threat. Police intervened as the two men reached across the fence. a truce was declared in the city prosecutor's office.
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Hollywood
Montana
Glendale
Roy Boeger
Urge Postponement Of C N W Road Shakeup Hearings
A stock holders protective committee urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to postpone further hearings in the Chicago and North Western reorganization case pending a possible consolidation with the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific. The commission had denied a similar postponement in the Milwaukee proceedings and closed hearings with briefs due by May 31.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago and North Western Railroad
North Western
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific
Milwaukee
Vandenberg Sees Gift as Birthday Cheer
Senator Arthur Vandenberg marks his fifty fourth birthday with family joy as daughter Betty, a noted pianist, performs at a musicale in his honor Tuesday night in Washington AP.
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Washington
Arthur Vandenberg
Mich
Betty
Local Man Recalls Adolf Hitler as School Classmate
Joseph Spucha, 1020 Seventeenth Street NE, recalls Hitler as a classmate at a Trautenauf German school in Austria. He says Hitler was younger and not very smart, notes the Austrian government’s German influence, and mentions their ages and class placement during their three years of attendance.
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Adolf Hitler
Joseph Spucha
Seventeenth Street
First Avenue E
Hitler
Trautenauf
Austria
Splichal
Clara Poelz
Europe
Farley Shrinks Pres Stamp Denominations In Series Shakeup
Postmaster General Farley announced a revised presidential stamp set of thirty-one designs replacing earlier 35 and 40 cent plans. Four former presidents move to lower values with McKinley on 25 cent, Roosevelt on 30, Cleveland on 21, and Harrison on 24, with new 21 and 24 cent stamps added for registered mail and return receipts.
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Washington
Farley
White House
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Roosevelt Warns Nation Faces Third Great Crisis
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt declares at a Harvard Union talk that the United States confronts a third great crisis over preserving free government. He cites the Revolutionary and Civil wars as prior crises and warns against central power concentrating too much in the executive branch. He also warns Japan may eventually control the Philippines, and that independence harms the islands.
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Cambridge
Mass
Theodore Roosevelt
Harvard Union
Philippines
Roosevelt
Japan
Marlene Dietrich Signs Lucrative Radio Contract
Hollywood gossip claims Marlene Dietrich will sign a radio deal in September for twenty eight broadcasts at a salary over five thousand dollars per week. Agent Harry Edington confirmed progress but not exact figures.
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Harrison Carroll
Hollywood
INS
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene
Harry Edington
Miss Dietrich
Edington
Trewin Reelected School Board Head in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids school board unanimously reelected Harold R. Trewin as president during the reorganizational meeting. Ernest Kosek and H H Hoadley were inducted as three year directors. Charles Penningroth presided in Trewin's absence. Voting totals were 2088 with machine read errors noted for precinct nine tenth.
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Cedar Rapids
Harold R. Trewin
Ernest Kosek
Second Street
H. H. Hoadley
A Avenue NW
Charles Penningroth
Trewin
Kosek
Hoadley
Frank Kanak
Kanak
J. K. von Lackum
J. C. Blodgett
C. T. Hicko
Ervin F. Stepanek
Tyes
Elm Park
Raider Ball Park
Pitiful In Her Attempt To Keep Youthful Charms
Miss F. is described as the town beauty who has not changed, with wild curls and ruffled frocks, while contemporaries age gracefully. The column also includes a Miss Manners advice note addressing jealousy and social strategy for a girl troubled by a crush on a boy and a possessive friend.
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Miss F
Miss Manners
Thomson Held In Baby Suffocation Case
In Riverhead New York Judge L Barron Hill committed Margarette E Thomson 25 of West Babylon for the criminal insane to Matleawan state hospital She was indicted for murder in the suffocation of her two children a 3 year old daughter and a 5 month old son Police said she confessed and psychiatrists found her mentally unsound DA Fred Mundar said the arrest followed March 7 filing
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Riverhead
N. Y
L. Barron Hill
Margarette E. Thomson
West Babylon
Matleawan State Hospital
Fred Mundar
Monkey fingerprints on file to clear alleged misdeeds
In Evanston police records Chicago dispatch reports that a monkey named Angelo had its fingerprints taken after owner Sam Canzona claimed the animal did not steal items. Canzona brought Angelo to the station and stated the monkey is well behaved while the police complied.
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Chicago
INS
Evanston
Angelo
Sam Canzona
Craemer’s Spring Styles Parade At Iowa Theater
Craemer presents spring fashions before about 2000 at the Iowa theater. Catherine Collins sang The Easter Parade as models show dresses coats suits and sleepwear in a two hour show with a June wedding scene and a bridesmaids display.
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Craemer
Iowa Theater
Catherine Collins
London
Sea Island
Toaz
Jean Fahrney
Little Ellen Stettlar
Herm Stettlar
Belle Blaine
All-Bran Advertisement Promotes Bulk for Constipation
An advice style ad urges constipation relief by eating Kellogg's All-Bran daily. It explains bulk as undigested material aiding elimination, promotes water intake, and notes All-Bran contains vitamin B and iron. The Kellogg product is made in Battle Creek and sold by grocers.
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Kellogg
Battle Creek
Acquitted Mrs Ryan of killing husband in New York
Patricia Ryan was acquitted of murder in the fatal shooting of her patrolman husband Michael J. Ryan. Emotions ran high as the verdict came after nearly six hours of jury deliberation. The 21 year old, who cried and cried for her two children, faced a dramatic courtroom moment as the verdict was delivered.
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New York
INS
Patricia Ryan
Michael J. Ryan
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