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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1937
Page
2
The piece recounts bellhops routines at hotels and the tips game. It follows a bellboy’s viewpoint from greeting guests to guiding them to rooms and handling varying tipping cultures. The narrative of stiff guests and high tips highlights the role’s daily grind and amusements.
A hotel bellboy talks about duties and etiquette in the trade. He describes tipping practices, responsibilities, and the path from bellboy to manager, noting weekly earnings from tips often range 30 to 40 dollars and that larger hotels offer better pay and advancement chances.
The column discusses labor union discrimination, WPA checks, and private employment mainly for ages 25 to 44. It notes Arthurdale West Virginia resettlement projects with a shirt factory and vacuum cleaner plant, aided by Gerard Swope and RFC staff. It also mentions Joseph Kennedy and Will W Alexander connected to staff actions and a few civil suits filed nationwide.
Patent infringement suits against three hatcheries were dismissed after years pending in the United States district court. The cases, involving Hatcheries named in the suits, were unresolved for over three years on the docket.
The Linn County Treasurer announces refunds of 1937 old age pension tax payments start Monday. Applicants must present official receipts from private employers or prior tax payments. Checks totaling $8418 are prepared for eligible claimants. refunds issued at windows 7 and 8 in the treasurer’s office.
The Iowa theater will screen motion pictures of the Hindenburg disaster showing landing operations, explosion and aftermath beginning this afternoon and continuing through the week, announced by theater manager A H Talbot. The report notes Atlantic and Pacific coastline lengths of 1888 and 1366 miles.
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