Women to Be a Vital Factor in Campaign
Washington AP reports women emerge as decisive voters in 1936 campaigns. Florence Kahn, Dolly Gann, and Mrs. Roosevelt press for female influence, planning to push anti-child labor, peace, and better conditions via party platform planks. League groups mobilize outside, aiming to repeal patronage and secure women’s planks before November.
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Washington
Florence P. Kahn
Calif
Kahn
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Dolly Gann
London
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
San Francisco
Jean Whittemore
Porto Rico
Caroline O’day
New York
Louis Howe
League of Women Voters
National Women’s Party
National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom
Women’s Party
Dorothy Detzer
Nye
Peace League
Hattie Caraway
Ark
Edith Nourse Rogers
Mass
N. Y
Doll Or Toy For Every Child In China Ambition
Miss Emma Horning, guest of Mr. and Mrs. J K Miller, aims to give every Chinese child a doll by leveraging missionary work started six years ago in Ping Ting Shansi. Her program, financed by the Cedar Rapids Church of the Brethren, trains local women in child care, songs, and lullabies, broadening to India and Korea.
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China
Emma Hornung
J. K. Miller
Grande Avenue
Santa Claus
Peter
Ping Ting
Shansi Province
India
Korea
Miss Hornung
Miss Horning
Cedar Rapids
Thompson
Emma Horning
Peter Rabbit
Frogs
Calamus High School Commencement Exercises Detailed
Commencement will be held in the high school auditorium next Friday evening. The program includes processional, Mabel Casperson, invocation by Rev. H. G. Sheldahl, songs by boys and girls glee clubs, address titled The Tripod of Success by Rev. F. G. Cadd of Davenport, presentation of awards by Supt. Nels Olson, diplomas by Robi Reyelts, solo Irene Haesemeyer, recessional by Mabel Casperson. Senior class members listed.
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Calamus
Mabel Casperson
H. G. Sheldahl
Glee Club
F. G. Cadd
Davenport
Nels Olson
Robi Reyelts
Board of Education
Irene Haese
Courthouse Parade Remembers Shellback Initiation at Sea
Ensign James Clark of the Indianapolis, Annapolis graduate, signals to his father Judge A B Clark from Balboa Canal Zone that he crossed the equator as a shellback. The ship’s crew recounted pranks on pollywogs, including a coffin stethoscope test and Neptune’s inspection, amid lighthearted humor and local anecdotes. The piece also notes driving test mishaps and a humorous incident with a gunny sack used in fielding practice, ending with a mention of the first US mail delivery in 1863.
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James Clark
U.S. S
Indianapolis
Annapolis
A. B. Clark
Linn County District Court
Balboa
Canal Zone
King Neptune
Pollywogs
Davy Jones
Neptune
Jim
Joe Roeder
Courthouse
Bob Vesely
Bob
CCF
Roeder
Great Population Shift Recorded Across States
The census bureau reports the largest population shift since western migration, driven by drought, dust storms, floods and low mood. Between 1920 and 1930 nineteen million left farms for cities while thirteen million moved from cities to farms, a net urban migration that may reverse as crop reductions and disasters influence movement.
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Washington
Pacific Ocean
Census Bureau
U.S. Consuls in Tropics May Get Longer Leaves
Washington reports the State Department pushed a health driven drive to extend home leave for American foreign service officers stationed in hot climates. Wilbur J. Carr told a House subcommittee that posts in Africa India the Caribbean and Central America are unhealthy, and longer stays harm officers health and well being.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Foreign Service
Wilbur J. Carr
House
Carr
Bacon
N. Y
Consular
Aden
Africa
Liberia
India
Far East
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Bess Furman
Naomi Doebel
B. L. Knight
Republican
Bill Vesely
el Kahir
Shrine
Broth
Bill
Roosevelt High School
Jim Hayes
Charlie Hogan
Iowa
Charlie
Adolph J. Seifert
Linn County
U.S
Tropics
rPr
Lilly-of-the Valley
Wrisley Water Softener
Batha
Sumlakia
Hershey
Phillips
Johnson
Semesan
Ade
Kentucky
KOTEX
Glover
Allen
Angel
Prac
Los
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