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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1937
Page
29
A 1960s style guide suggests categories for wedding gifts silver china glass wood linen and jewelry. It covers gift ideas for brides bridesmaids and bridegrooms from silver candlesticks and monogrammed linens to luggage and jewelry with emphasis on practical yet elegant options.
The American Youth Hostels plan a June 26 launch of two rolling hostel trains from Massachusetts and California for 9000 mile tours of Canada and the United States. Each car houses twenty hostelers with shared washrooms. meals are cooked on two stoves per car. Train length depends on demand. stops and side trips are flexible. Costs run about 99.47 dollars per traveler plus 1 dollar daily incidentals and a 15 dollar registration fee.
The A Y H directors Monroe and Isabel Smith introduce the rolling hostel linking Massachusetts loops with new routes. Last year over 9,500 hostelers stayed at Massachusetts hostels paying 25 cents nightly for basic beds and meals. Seventy five percent biked and twenty five percent walked. The Smiths first became involved after Europe travels and the 1933 German youth hostel conference. The network now lists 4,500 hostels in nineteen countries.
Mamie Houston, a Negro woman in Kannapolis, was slashed by a midnight attacker. Doctors required 105 stitches to close her wounds and expected her to recover. Separately, eighty eight Czech soap manufacturers joined to raise toilet soap prices.
In 1848 Katherine Fox in Newark New York began rapping to a mysterious entity called Mr Splitfoot. The Fox sisters sparked a national Spiritualist movement with dramatic home cases in Rochester New York and later New York City.
Dr. George W. Crile told the American College of Physicians that high blood pressure results from an imbalance between the sympathetic circulation control and adrenal and thyroid glands. He said relief may come from lowering activity in either the glands or the sympathetic system, noting 84 operations reduced hypertension but more observation is needed.
F W Peck of the University of Minnesota cautioned farmers not to overrate chemurgy as a solution for farm prosperity. He warned that enthusiasm for new uses of farm products could lead to overproduction without guaranteed markets or prices high enough to justify such crops.
Fashion notes urge two tone linen frocks Pattern 4399 in misses sizes 12 through 20 with yoke sleeves and action pleat styling. Instructions priced fifteen cents single or twenty five cents for both pattern and book. Gazette Cedar Rapids New York St Louis. Justice insight urged by Jesse W Barrett on judges power.
Veteran trader Jim Allen of Wainwright Alaska describes Arctic whale hunting from a light skin canoe. He says open water in spring leads the hunt, with dog teams guiding, native crew paddling, and harpoons delivering explosive bombs to bring whales to the surface. He notes the danger of fluke strikes and the method to recover a whale under ice.
W M Perkins, a farmer eight miles from Chapel Hill, owns a 1915 Ford truck plastered with twenty two license plates. He uses it daily to haul wood and even as a makeshift saw by belt. He dislikes hand gear shift cars after a near collision in a previous vehicle.
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