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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1939
Page
7
Reno, Nevada markets itself as a haven for rapid marriages and divorces. The piece notes Nevada’s easy laws, proximity to California eloping trips, and neon wedding ring shops as a draw for Eastern divorcees and wealthy cocksure miners alike.
Blanche Barrow sister in law of Clyde Barrow will be released Saturday under the seven twelfths good time rule. She served a 10 year sentence for assault with intent to kill from a 1933 Platte county gunfight and will go to Garber Oklahoma after release.
A sprawling listing shows WL radio programming in blocks from 6:00 to 5:50 with station calls WMT WGN WSUI WHO KFJB WOC WOOC WOI and others. It details music talk news sports drama and variety shows including Captain Midnight Lone Ranger Mecca Ball Palace of Events Death Valley Days and Amos n Andy along with civic programs and weather updates.
A jumbled list of radio show times and program titles from multiple stations like WMT WHO KFJB WOI WGN WSUI and WOC. Entries mention hosts such as Joe Fisher and events including Morning Parade Farm News Musical Clock and Newscasts with various bands and melodies.
Dr. John R. Brinkley testified his gross income fell from about 1 1 million in 1937 to 810000 in 1938 after an article by Morris Fishbein. He stated he performed about 5000 goat gland surgeries before abandoning animal gland treatments in 1933 and is the first defense witness in a 250000 libel suit against Fishbein.
The Ontario legislature unanimously pledged full support to Great Britain and urged the Dominion government to take decisive action in response to the unfolding wartime crisis. The motion stressed unity with allies and a unified Canadian effort during the emergency.
A tense European crisis prompts the legislature to demand a federal response. The action urges the government to conscript wealth and manpower in the event of a war emergency.
Chicago report says Fifi D Orsay the French stage and film actress secured an uncontested divorce from Maurice Earl Hill after her mother in law testified on her behalf. D Orsay, 26, cited cruelty. Hill 28, once a University of Wisconsin student voted handsome in his class. The couple wed December 6 1933. Hill reportedly deserted in November 1937.
In Dayville Connecticut Byron Barrowclough who owns seventeen houses bought a second hand chemical truck for his own protection. He offered to teach others how to operate the apparatus and there is talk of forming a volunteer fire company.
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania the six month strike by the daily newspaper workers ended when the American Newspaper Guild and publishers signed a one year contract. Publication was not expected to resume before Monday.
Harold J. Kriebs a 37 year old bank cashier was moved from Arkansas to Des Moines Iowa to face charges of absconding with eighty three thousand dollars from the First National Bank of DeWitt Iowa Federal grand jurors in Davenport Iowa are to weigh embezzlement charges on April 4 Kriebs held on fifty thousand dollar bond since January and federal agents say forty one thousand two hundred dollars were recovered among his belongings as evidence.
Men who perform tree banding trimming and topping place ads under classification 10 in the Want Ad section.
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