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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 24, 1934

Page

8

Alias clues surface in Goetz crime saga in Chicago

Police linked Fred C Goetz to multiple identities including J George Zeigier and George Sedert as part of a wide criminal web. Investigators sought the woman connected to Goetz and noted Goetz’s WWII aviator background and leadership of a western crime syndicate.

Chicago INS Fred C Goetz Lfe Sang South Shore Gosh J George Zeigier George Sedert Onus Astmahr Thecesires Om & Te Bank Bancsiry Heines Uméer Adentatv Jo George Zereler

Subsistence gardening tips from the New Deal era guide

A lengthy farm bulletin advises careful planting for subsistence gardens. It covers fertilizing methods for potatoes and onions, seed depth, row spacing, moisture, and weeded soil care, plus planting schedules, crop succession, and straight row layout for easier cultivation.

Personal Health Service Letter from a Nostrums Firm

A letter addressed to doctors from a major nostrum maker boasts about treating nervous indigestion. The executive director signs the note, while the piece mocks doctors’ intelligence. An illustrated folder shows a Suave-looking figure speaking to himself using trick photography.

Nostrum Des

Contagious Nervous Fatigue and Patented Nostrums

A reader letter analyzes claims about nervous fatigue causing digestion problems and critiques nostrums marketed to treat so called constant nervous irritation. The writer questions physiology knowledge, warns against quacks, and offers to share general information without personal data.

Nostrum

Crisco Pie Ad Promotes Digestible Frying

An advertisement extols Crisco as a digestible vegetable shortening that enables crispy fried foods and quick digestion. It urges readers to trust common sense, observe the blue and white label, and notes Crisco’s vacuum sealed can as a health protection. A Coronation Butterscotch Pie with three cake-like layers is mentioned.

Wall Rogers Remembers Nevada in Western Letter

A 1934 letter from Will praises Nevada as a rugged independent state. He recalls Governor Wall Rogers and a party including a rancher and miner. The missive evokes the West, cattle, a quirt, and the state’s stark, unadorned character.

Nevada West

Tattoo Mutilation and Corn Cure In Curious Q And A

A reader asks about tattoo removal methods beyond grafting and cost, and whether scarring can be reduced by expert tattooing. An answer notes limited approaches through skilled tattooing. Another reader praises a corn remedy using 30 grains of salicylic acid in flexible collodion applied daily for a week or more.

Little Berts

Baldwin School Board Reorganizes Names New Director

The Baldwin school board met this week to reorganize and sworn in the new director L. R. Wople. Clifford Tabor was re elected president and Charles Harding was elected treasurer.

Baldwin L. R. ‘Wople Clifford Tabor Charles Harding

School hires new staff including principal and teachers

The board announced hires for the district including Superintendent F. G. McKinley as principal Iona Wolf Jeanette Griffin Dillon H. Hale Helen Wyrick and Mary Hutchison joining the teaching faculty alongside longtime secretary Mrs. Lloyd Scott.

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