Charles A Laurance Celebrates 68 Years as Cedar Rapids Printer
Charles A Laurance marks 68 years since starting as a printer's devil at the Weekly Times. He recalls $1.50 weekly wages, early hand presses, and the shift from manual to linotype printing. A founder of a Cedar Rapids firm bearing his name, he remains active as president of Laurance Press after 18 years at the Times and decades shaping local theater programs.
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Charles A. Laurance
Weekly Times
Cedar Rapids
Laurance
Charlie Laurance
Times Office
Ayers Brothers
Lyman W. Ayers
W. H. Ayers
Maine
F. McClelland
Cedar Rapids Typographical Union No
Times
Second Avenue
Newman's Store
American House
Commercial
Eagle Streets
First Street
Taylor
E. Babcock
Foster
Gordon Platen
Charles Laurance
Blair Building
Blair Block
Merchants National Bank
Masonic Library
Judge C. S. Cutting
Chicago
James A. Plumb
Cutting
the Times
Linn County Signal
Thomas G. Newman
Tom Giberson
The
W. B. Carr
Laurance and Carr
Privilege Loss Sparks House of Commons Debate
The British House of Commons voices criticism as the foreign secretary sits in the Lords. Critics argue ministers should answer in Commons, while Chamberlain defends Halifax’s selection to pursue a European settlement and avoid daily questioning.
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London
Associated Press
House of Commons
United States Congress
M. P
Commons
Lord Swinton
Anthony Eden
Italy
Neville Chamberlain
House of Lords
Viscount Halifax Halifax
Eden
Lord Halifax
Adolf Hitler
Clement Attlee
Labor
Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Spring Fever by Fred C. Henson
A short poem on spring fatigue and the reluctance to work. The speaker notes a calendar urging lawn work while an idle urge to rest dominates. The verses contrast budding gardens and returning birds with a lingering urge to lounge and snooze.
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Fred C. Henson
Fragmentary Theater Names Recalled From Office Volumes
A casual page turning reveals names and productions from four to five decades ago, stored in an office and reflecting stage history.
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Umes
St Wenceslaus School Evening Program List
The St Wenceslaus grade school annual program hosts performances at 7 30 tonight in the school featuring a Centennial hymn by the chorus Kiddies carnival kindergarten through sixth grade acts School days tap dance and dances by seventh graders You Tell Ere plagiet a fifth and sixth grade boys Bohemian folk dance fifth and sixth grade girls Playmates action song third and fourth grades History of Our School Danger at the Door a one act play Cast includes Marion Norma Gedlak Frances Dorothy Bowick Johnny Charles Zobl Bob Joseph Stourac Bil Frank Kreijci Grace Mary Barton
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St. Wenceslaus
Bishop Loras
Albin Navratil
Helen Jandi
History of Our School
Robert Houser
Old Clarke
Marion
Norma Gedlak
Frances
Dorothy Bowick
Johnny
Charles Zobl
Bob
Joseph Stourac
Bil
Frank Kreijci
Grace
Mary Barton
Unfullfilled Dreams in Cedar Rapids Night Classes
NFULFILLED DREAMS are realized in the Cedar Rapids public school night classes. Amateurs learn, hobbyists indulge their whims, and master craftsmen improve their skill. After 25 years Fred L. Cirek, a skilled cabinet-maker,now learns fine hand work on a lathe at McKinley high school shop. Father and son team George and Chester Goldsberry work beside each other in the McKinley shop constructing a Duncan Phyte table. Community meetings and club notices follow for local Bohemian and Czech groups at the C. S. P. S. hall with scheduled sessions in late March and early April.
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Cedar Rapids
Fred L. Cirek
First Avenue
McKinley High School
George Goldsberry
Second Street
Chester Goldsberry
Fourteenth Avenue
McKinley
Carl Dueser
Names list shows residents in community notice
A fragment lists individuals including Ann Dolores Polansky Lois Patricia Kopecky Lucille Frances Fiala Dick Frank Simek Joe Louis Viasek Julia Betty Bousek Mike Richard Fetska in a local notice context, indicating a group roster or attendee roster for a neighborhood event or organization.
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Ann
Dolores Polansky
Lois
Patricia Kopecky
Lucille
Frances Fiala
Frank Simek
Joe
Louis Viasek
Julia
Betty Bousek
Mike
Richard Fetska
Z C B J district meeting launches May membership drive
At the open meeting on Wednesday sponsored by the Z. C. B. J. district committee more than 500 attended from five local lodges. The gathering prepared a membership campaign with a big class expected in May. Speakers included F. M. Barta M. L. Hromadka John Rompotl Charles Cacek Dr. T. F. Suchomel of Cedar Rapids and Mrs. Rose Prescott of Denver.
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Z. C. B. J. District Committee
F. M. Barta
M. L. Hromadka
John Rompotl
Charles Cacek
T. F. Suchomel
Cedar Rapids
Rose Prescott
Denver
Local C. S. A. Lodges Prepare Initiation Ceremony
About fifty new members are expected to be initiated into four local C. S. A. lodges Prokop Velky Junior American Czechs Progressive and Karla Masaryk at a ceremonial to be held in the C.
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Prokop Velky
Progressive
Karla Masaryk
Gulf Stream of the Air and Rain Forecast for Spring
The piece describes a planetary air current called the Gulf stream of the air spanning from Africa across the Atlantic to North America and its impact on rainfall. It warns that recent droughts shifted this stream east, forecasts spring and summer rains, and cites a meteorologist Pref. Selby Maxwell with a call to request the forecast.
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North America
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
South America
Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
United States
New England
Atlantic Coast
Mississippi Valley
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic Seaboard
Kammer
Selby Maxwell
Maxwell
Texas
Amarillo
Illinois
Lower
Michigan
St. Lawrence Valley
Ohio Valley
Iowa Dance To Open April Seventh Free To All
A dance will be held on Thursday April 7 following the initiatory work by the official staff of Iowa. The event is free to the public and open to all attendees.
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S. P. S. Hall
Iowa
Easter Party Set for 250 Juvenile CSA Lodge Members
The annual Easter party for 250 juvenile members of the local C S A lodges is scheduled for Sunday April 10 with invitations extended to the children. Activities begin at 2 p.m. The Bohemian Reading Society will hold its regular meeting in the same session.
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Prokop Vesky Lodge
Bohemian Reading Society
Real estate transfers list in Cedar Rapids area
A sequence of 1938 Nimrod real estate transfers records Jakub Burian and wife to William Vozenilek. Henry S. Ely and Co. to E G and Nellie Mae Dudek. John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co. to David K. Spurgeon. Harry Stinger and wife to Edward Staskal. Grande Avenue Land Co. to Frances Koutny. Elizabeth Meeks et al to Russell Meeks for life. Ivah M. Kraft to Perp Laws and Loan Assn. Edwin Commons to Celia D. Moore. Lucile Krebs Mellen to Roland E. Mellen. Banner Howard and wife to James K. Fulton. James K. Fulton and wife to Roy E. Newman. Henry J. Helms and wife to J. C. Wooleyhan. Includes joint tenants, life estates, and property in Cedar Rapids and Benton County with nominal consideration and tax and easement conditions noted.
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Jakub Burian
William Vozenilek
Cedar Rapids
Henry S. Ely and Co
E. G
Nellie Mae Dudek
Wallot
Eastland
Manor Add
Manor Add. C. R
John Hancock Mutual Life Ins
David K. Spurgeon
W.d. Nw
Benton Co
Harry Stinger
Edward Staskal
Grande Avenue Land Co
Frances Koutny
Belmont Park
Add
Ivah M. Kraft
Edwin Commons
Celia D. Moore
Wd. Pt
Lucile Krebs Mellen
Roland E. Mellen
Brown
Banner Howard
Wffe Medum A
Caroline Howard
Buch
E. C. Hampton
James K. Fulton
Roy E. Newman
Henry J. Helms
J. C. Wooleyhan
Vernon Heights
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Thompson
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Charlie" Laurance
Os Rae
South Side News
Bohemian School
Oh Alliance
C. S. A. Central Committee
C. S. P. S. Hall
Bohemian Dramatic Association
Z. C. B. J. Dramatic Circle
Z. C. B. J. Hall
Bohemian National Cemetery Association
Hall
Sixteenth Avenue Commercial Club
Czech School Board
Ustredni Matice Skolska
Z. C. B. J. Meeting
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