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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1940
Page
21
Mr Partridge, a well-meaning but naive man, befriends Lisbeth Campion and crosses paths with her fiancé Captain Hugh Brocard and her troublemaking circle. Lisbeth’s schemes, false telegrams, and a growing film world weave a tangle ending with a mock marriage, a vanished ring, and a cautious future.
A continued excerpt portrays letters P through T in a satirical civic poem by Edgar A. Guest. The verses mock oil profits, gas sales, peace versus air raids, rare quiet, street crime, driver caution, and tyrants ending in failure, reflecting early 20th century social commentary.
In Marsham Street the judge, her halo intact, is seen daily visiting Lisbeth for practical duties. Hamilton helps escort her between engagements and never takes her out for pleasure, a benevolent routine observed by Mr. Partridge as their oddly paired partnership unfolds with mutual discretion. To be continued tomorrow.
May warmth draws many migrants as Bird club members tally 98 species during a Sunday hike. New arrivals include little green heron American bittern sora rail woodcock spotted sandpiper and several warblers vireos thrushes and orioles.
The field trip netted 98 birds this week, up from 50 species last week. Warblers counted include black and white, blue-winged, Nashville, yellow, black-throated green, Blackburnian, ovenbird, Northern yellowthroat, Louisiana, and Grinnell's water thrushes. Other species listed were breasted grosbeak indigo bunting vesper Harris's and white crowned sparrows.
Norway hosts over twenty thousand silver fox farms and dominates European pelts output. The industry centers on breeding facilities and commercial fur trade, with Norway exporting substantial volumes to fashion markets.
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