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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1934
Page
19
Chicago marks the end of the Century of Progress exposition with 363,737 visitors ending the show at 1:30 a.m. The 325 acre grounds were stripped for shipment to museums as 25,000 workers faced unemployment while crowds roared at the final farewell.
A Dr Farbay explains that pigeons and other birds produce bile in the liver, horses lack a gall bladder, addressing a common belief about gall absence. The text shifts to a wartime blackout scene with aerial bombs over a lagoon and a Halloween revelry at a fair ending in chaos.
Sheriff Daryl Mathers was awarded a Purple Heart for World War I service. He was wounded July 15, 1918 as a corporal in Company K 168th Infantry, and the medal was sent by the Secretary of War.
Miss Kathryn Clark married Oren Romine on June 9, 1934 in Quincy Illinois with Rev L C Mauck officiating. Attendants were Warren and Mrs Davis of Keota. Both graduates of Keota High School. Kathryn taught in the county for two years. The Romines plan to reside at the Art Romine home until next March.
Fred Williams 17 of Barnes City was arrested Wednesday for stealing corn from the Farmers' Co-operative company. He admitted entering the place several times and taking a total of light bushels, per officers.
Iowa City features Grant Wood, University of Iowa professor, offering informal art criticism in a free clinic starting November 17. The session invites aspiring artists from Iowa and neighboring states to submit paintings for discussion without enrollment or charge. Each work will be displayed on an easel for live critique by Wood.
Outgrowth of the Stone City art colony an art clinic will take place in the operating room of the old hospital building. The oval center will feature paintings with tiered seating around it. The first clinic opens Nov 17 followed by meetings on Dec 1 and Dec 15 and then twice monthly through June.
Center Point announces the marriage of Anna Mae Kidd daughter of Mr and Mrs A V Kidd Center Point and Irwin O Connor son of T E O Connor Central City solemnized June 14 1934 in Galena Ill Mrs O Connors active in Center Point high school and church activities Mr O Connor works with his father at Central City union notes the couple’s families and local ties.
Police report a night of vandalism with sixteen boys taken to headquarters but released, numerous windows broken, a 30 dollar pane at 1942 Washington Ave SE, and chaos across Vernon Heights and southwest districts. Three carloads of youths fled before capture amid curbside debris and damaged arcs and lights.
Miss Alice Betts dean of women at Cornell college will speak at the annual meeting of high school and college deans in Des Moines on Friday. She will lead a discussion titled 1934 Problems in the Education of Women. Other Cornell faculty members including Dr. H. J. ... plan to attend the state teachers convention.
Burgstahler president Dr T R McConnell dean Miss Abbie Probasco assistant Walter Gray secretary of admissions Dr Mark Hutchinson Latin professor and Mrs Luella V Ninde home economics instructor attend the convention with alumni to hold a banquet Friday evening in Youngker s tea room
Martinsburg observed the seventy fifth anniversary of the Presbyterian church this Sunday. Speakers included Rev. H. O. Bethel from Hartford Dwight Krumholtz of Cedar Rapids Rev. F Holler of Brooklyn and Rev J C B Peck from Blairs Town. A large local turnout attended from nearby towns.
During the week of July 28 1 345 lumber mills produced 166 783 000 feet of lumber and shipped 144 341 000 feet while orders totaled 203 553 000 feet in the United States.
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