Coe College Alumnae Returnees in Washington Notes
WASHINGTON D C patient report recalls Ursula Lees Bryant of Cedar Rapids era and lists Coe college alumni in the capital. It details marriages, postings, and family ties from 1896 to present including Miss Meta Aussicker and Howard R. Watkins among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Ursula Lees
Ursula Bryant
Connecticut Avenue
Capital City
Lees
Coe College
William Bryant
France
England
Newark City
Chicago
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Bryant
Coe
Howard R. Watkins
Food and Drug Administration
Meta Aussieker
Government Printing Office
Miss Aussieker
William Snouffer
U. S. Military Academy
West Point
Miss Aussicker
Federal Bureau of Education
New York
Connecticut
C. H. Aussie
Capital
Watkins
Iowa State College
Ames
University of Ohio
Kansas State Agricultural College
Washington State College
Pullman
Grundy Center
Kentucky
George Washington University
General Accounting Office
Government
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
Jane Hromatko) DeBoskey
Frank
Rut
Hromatko
Anna Fuhrmeiser
Ruth Whisler
DeBoskey
Federal Bureau of Standards
DeBoskeys
Charles Clyde Knight
Knight
Minas
Brazil
Southern Presbyterian Evangelical
Gammon Institute
United States
Eastern High School
Fulton
Westminster School
William Woods College
Central High School
Virginia
Greene
Grundy County
Cedar Rapids named as cleanest and best governed city
The author urges readers to compare Cedar Rapids with other western cities noting traffic, drunks, gambling, police, paving, snow removal, alleys, sanitation, garbage disposal, fire departments, finances, politics, and labor. He argues Cedar Rapids stands out in the middle west now versus the past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Mississippi River
Cedar Rapids
Middle West
The Cotton Spinner Defends Itself With Sticky Threads
A curious sea creature known as the cotton spinner uses its sticky spun threads to entangle and trap predators, raising questions about its defensive adaptations and survival in its habitat.
Misses $300 After Gypsy Car Leaves
Sheriff James H. Smith reported a carload of travelers sought for taking $300 from Oldrich Truhlar of the Western area. The group, a man two women a child and a youth, stopped at his home around 3 30 pm Thursday. Fifteen twenty dollar bills were found missing from a bib pocket later that evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James H. Smith
Truhlar
First Million Miles From Zephyrs Show Speed And Safety
The Zephyr streamliners on Burlington routes have logged a million miles with 94 percent on-time performance, minimal structural defects, and nine grade crossing incidents. Operating costs were 31 cents per train mile through 1935, with patronage surpassing expectations and high speed averaging 90 to 95 mph on key segments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
St. Louis
Zephyrs
Trains and the uncertain future of passenger travel
The passage questions how passenger train evolution will unfold, noting that the extent and nature of future changes remain unclear and speculative. It frames the issue as a prophetic or forecasting challenge about transportation development.
Relief office workers meet at Linn county court house
Relief office workers from six counties attended a district conference at the Linn county courthouse on Friday afternoon. Thirty five people, including relief directors and visitors, represented Linn Johnson Cedar Poweshiek Benton and Black Hawk. Esther Immer of Davenport led a discussion on Case History Recording. The meeting was the second in a monthly series.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
Linn
Johnson
Cedar
Poweshiek
Benton
Black Hawk
Esther Immer
Davenport
Camera Urge May Have Crashed Plane
Mexico City AP reports a theory that ten European tourists aiming to photograph Popocatepetl and Ixtacihuatl led to a plane crash killing four others and themselves. The explanation was formally advanced Saturday by officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Popocatepetl
Ixtacihuatl
New York Dealer Granted New Hearing On Sunday Trial
Salvatore Citarelli Jr., a liquor dealer, was convicted by Magistrate Mogolesky of operating his store on Sunday. He appealed and the appellate division of the supreme court ordered a new hearing because Mogolesky had tried him on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Salvatore Citarelli, Jr
Mquor
Mogolesky
Citarelli
Supreme Court
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Iowa
ED Hadley
Gazette
Tipton
Europe
Western College
Toledo
Leander Clark College
Etta Fulcomer Winter
Winter
Edward Buchner
Department of Education
Johns Hopkins University
William Krohn
Colesburg
McGregor
Dakota
Western
University of Chicago
Illinois
Hadley
People’s Forum
E. E. Sovern
22Nd Street SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
David L. Williams
AGS
Higley Bldg
BY Howard W. Blakeslee
Ralph Budd
The
Civil Engineering
American Society of Civil Engineers
Zephyr
Penney’s
Penney
Ile
ECRU
Merica
Big Mac
Rey
Cenfer
F.H.A
Checker Electric Supply, Inc
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