Easter card from Germany lands in Cedar Rapids by mistake
A card mailed from Hamm Germany to William Cech Cedar Rapids Iowa was delivered five days after posting. An alert Cedar Rapids clerk suspects a Chicago handler routed it here due to local Czech population. Cech, a former tailor, is pleased to receive the Easter greeting.
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Post Office Department
Germany
Willam Cech
Third Avenue
Iowa
U.S.A
Cech
Third Avenue SE
First Avenue NE
Hamm
Westfalen
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
VW Cech
Avenue NE
Josephine Batchelder Presents Students in Recitals
Miss Josephine Batchelder of 1828 Sixth Avenue SE presents her piano students in two recitals today. At 2:30 p.m. Ellaouise O'Brien Douglas White Barbara Atkinson Kathy Nye Gretchen Harker Barbara Swim Glenda White Judy Zarub Bonnie Paxton perform. At 7:30 p.m. Sharalyn Wax Richard Edwards Carol Rowe Ann Wegner Cheryl Stearns Bill Wegner Cheryl Orr Ann Gerks perform.
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Josephine Batchelder
Sixth Avenue
Ellaouise O’brien
Douglas White
Barbara Atkinson
Kathy Nye
Gretchen Harker
Barbara Swim
Glenda White
Judy Zarub
Bonnie Paxton
Sharalyn Wax
Richard Edwards
Carol Rowe
Ann Wegner
Cheryl Stearns
Bill Wegner
Cheryl Orr
Ann Gerks
Town Toastmistresses Guest Night at Montrose Hotel
The Town Toastmistress club hosts a guest dinner at 6 15 p m Tuesday in the Montrose hotel with Mary Ann Clausen Irene Pickard and several others in a program including invocation topics and editorial views two Cedar Rapids Hadassah reps attend Missouri Valley regional conference in St Joseph Mo Kappa Delta Mothers club hosts luncheon for actives at Embassy club reservations via Mrs Swanson piano recital by JoAnne Kubik at Woman's clubhouse sixth grade chorus to perform with listed participants.
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Cedar Rapids
Woman’s Day
A and P
C. R. Symphony Orchestra
C.R. Venture
Household Magazine
Julius Sorensens
Sixth Avenue
Gretchen Harshbarger
North Liberty
Household
Louis XIV
France
Versailles
American Institute For Economic Research
Montrose Hotel
Mary Ann Clausen
Geraldine LaMont
Irene Pickard
Catherine Miller
Norma Neenan
Doris Farnsworth
Velma Zakostelsky
Shirley Finger
Hadassah
Missouri Valley
Hotel Robidoux
St. Joseph
Raymond Klass
Eighteenth Street
A. Beechen
Twenty-fifth Street
Drive
Kappa Delta Mothers Club
Embassy Club
V. D. Swanson
JoAnne Kubik
Eighth Avenue SE
Johnson School
Miss Kubik
Sharon Mikulecky
Virginia Hunter
Ted Canfield
Ann Bohm
Linda Bellamy
Susan Dalton
Andrew Walleck
Sharon Dalton
Shirley Smith
Peggy Knott
Lana Kay Kovacik
Mary Weimer
Alene Vondracek
Raymond Machacek
Kathleen Mikulecky
Edward Machacek
Toni Grey
Tawahankie Camp Fire Honors Blue Bird Leaders at Christchurch
The Tawahankie group hosted a firemakers party for Blue Bird leaders and Cleveland school sponsors including Mrs Ann Miller field director and mothers. An original girls play and a Let Freedom Ring ceremonial marked the evening. Mrs For rest Ainsworth led birthday honors for the 1955 birthday project completion.
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Tawahankie
Blue Bird
Cleveland School
Ann Miller
Christchurch
United Presbyterian
Forrest Ainsworth
To Be Married In Muscatine
Miss Alice Predmore and Daniel F. Helmich plan a Muscatine wedding on June 11. Helmich, son of Mr and Mrs M Daniel Helmich, attended Bethel College in St Paul. The announcement notes Predmore residents and family details.
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Alice Predmore
Daniel F. Helmich
M. Daniel Helmich
First Avenue NW
Muscatine
Josh Predmore
Mr. Helmich
Bethel College
St. Paul
Contemporary Music At Beethoven Club Meeting
The Beethoven Club meets Thursday at 10 am at the YWCA for Musical Excursions with Contemporary Composers. Merrie Edmund is program director Frances Winterberg discussion leader. The board meets at 9 15 am. Pieces include Khachaturian Toddata Sibelius Concerto in D Minor Op 47 and Gershwin My Man's Gone Now.
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Beethoven Club
YWCA
Merrie Edmund
Frances Winterberg
Khachaturian
Klara Robbins
Carpenter
Isabelle Morris
Sibelius
Virginia Geesaman
Marietta
Dead City
Korngold
Leona Hobson
Holland Tunnel
de- Cevee
Ruth Carlson
Dorothy Kirkman
Man
Porgy and
Bess
Gershwin
Marjorie King
Thomson
Beulah Hawley
King’s Daughters May Breakfast and Meetings Note
King’s Daughters and Sons union to host a May breakfast at Westminster Presbyterian church Thursday at 9 a.m. Reservations are led by Mrs. L A Lower. Meditations by Mrs. Emil Rasmussen and nominating report by Mrs. Elmer Hedin. Martha circle luncheon Tuesday with Mrs. William Klepach. Mizpah circle Monday at Trinity Methodist with hostesses. Birthday gathering for Don Brady at his home this afternoon. piano recital by Mrs. Harold L Moore at 3 with local students and families.
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Linn County
Martha Circle
Tuesiday
William Klepach
Twenty-ninth Street
Don Brady
Fourth Avenue SE
Frank Burke
van Horne
Tom Craven
Waterloo
A. G. Haberkorn
Sherrill
Kathryn Brady
Nancy Breidert and Don Diouhy Wed at St Pauls Church
Nancy Jane Breidert and Donald V. Diouhy were married Friday evening at 7 30 in a ceremony at St Pauls Methodist church parlors. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs W E Breidert, and the groom, son of Mrs Helen Diouhy, will reside in Cedar Rapids where both work.
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Nancy Jane Breidert
Donald V. Diouhy
Hughes Dill
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
W. E. Breidert
Twenty-fourth Street Drive
Diouhy
Helen Diouhy
Solon
John Jacobsen
The
Pride
Leo Diouhy
South Carolina
Florida
Cedar Rapids
Calendar of events listing weekly campus activities
Interfraternity council sing at 8 p.m. in Coe auditorium. Baseball Quincy versus Cedar Rapids at 2 p.m. Memorial ball park. Wednesday Chamber of Commerce dinner meeting 6 15 p.m. Civic bureau sponsor. Ladies night with Mary Hutchinson Thumbnail Theater Thursday Cornell May music festival Thursday to Saturday Mt. Vernon. Friday Cee film My Little Chickadee Mae West W C Fields 8 p.m. Cee Little theater. Saturday Junior Chamber teen Road e o Municipal airport.
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Interfraternity Council
Coe Auditorium
Quincy
Cedar Rapids
Memorial Ball Park
Chamber of Commerce
The
Civic Bureau
Mary Hutchinson
Cornell May
Mt. Vernon
My Little
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Party of One by Clifton Fadiman reviewed by Elizabeth Hoyt
Elizabeth Hoyt lauds Clifton Fadiman in a thoughtful review of Party of One. The volume compiles his New Yorker essays and profiles revealing his restless curiosity and brisk humor.
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Clifton Fadiman
the World Publishing Company $5
Mr. Fadiman
The
New Yorker
Fadiman
Elizabeth N. Hoyt
Echoes of the Red Man by Irvin M Peithmann
Archaeology historian Irvin M Peithmann offers a Southern Illinois University edited compendium tracing over 10 000 years of prehistoric Indian life in southern Illinois. The work compiles culture traditions language transport and occupations for home or library reference with reviews noted on page 4 column 3.
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Southern Illinois University
Irvin M. Peithmann
Southern Illinois
Peithmann
Women Voters League Units Meet This Week
The League of Women Voters plans unit meetings this week to discuss city planning platting zoning sanitary conditions viaducts and parks. Unit I meets Monday at 8 p.m. with Miss Jane Slavata 114 Eighteenth street NE. Unit II meets Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Coe college Hickok hall with Miss Signi Falk hostess. Unit IV meets Tuesday at 1 30 p.m. at Mrs. Lewis Hutchings 524 Forest drive SE. Unit V meets Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Mrs. Harold Griess 2626 J street SW.
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League of Women Voters
Jane Slavata
Eighteenth Street
Hickok
Coe College
Signi Falk
Lewis Hutchings
Forest Drive
Harold Griess
J Street
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Charley Guy
Lubbock, Texas
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Moscow
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Guy Gillette
Elmcrest Club
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Lena C. Glidden
Dawley Street
Rock Island Railroad
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Grand Rapids
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Lena Glidden
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CHI Omega
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J. H. Gray
George DeGroat
C. C. Strang
H. H. McLeland
O. W. Amador
W. C. Peck
Lyle DeMoss
Bert Teeters
Roosevelt
Zona Guy‘ott
Helen Zila
Marilyn Humphry
Opal Dee Porter
Jean Harris
Norma Swartzendruber
Germaine Hausladen
Kaye Fulrath
Beta Lambda Chater
Bet Lambda
Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority
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Johnson Avenue NW
Page Hamilton
Zona Domer
King's Daughters
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L. R. Buffington
MR. Brady
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Twenty-sixth Street
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Kip Fadiman
Cven
Vergent
Gertrude Stein
Judy Garland
Women Voters League
Ardendorf
RA Shop
Mother
Newport Greenhouse
Sixth Street
Wilson Avenue
Cherry-Burrell
Wilson Ave
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