Memories Revived By Gay Nineties Pageant
A Grace church altar guild benefit staged at Grace Sperce Avenue and Sixth Street featured a Gay Nineties pageant with 300 in attendance. Costumes and club songs revived 1890s style, with performances by Madeline Risk, Lenore Stark, Cecilia Fiala and others. Notables including Prince Karl of Denmark attended. the show opened with Edna K. Die man dancers and ended with a medley of old songs. A second night was planned, audience anticipated overflow and popcorn balls in the lobby.
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Grace Sperce
Avenue
Sixth Street
Cedar Rapids
Marie
Grace Church Altar Guild
Cecilia Fiala
Madeline Risk
Lenore Stark
Nugget Nell
Eloise Bittner
George Risk
Nick Carter
Almont Healy
Gibson Man
Gordon DeLay
Margaret van Wirth
Tom Scherrebeck
Phyllis Baldwin
Taylor Carpenter
Felix E. Beauchamp
J. F. Tufts
Jay G. Sigmund
Verle E. Porter
Marble Rock
D. Pirie Beyea
Donald Schuyler
H. L. Snowden
Austin N. Palmer
Cuthbert Smith
John Schweitzer
G. S. Thompson
Dick Stevens
Georgia Tripp
Victoria Risk
Bertie
Martha Risk
Bath-House
Alex Nofal
Jess Curtis
Ted Sealy
Louise Renner
Dan McGrew
Lou
Sweetwater
Bill Gates
Benny Miska
Walter Siphrit
J. C. Lick
Mary Louise Sigmund
J. B. Niles
W. S. Barnett
Robert Giltrap
Jack Davis
Paul Davis
Dean Tosh
Michael Risk
Floradora
Thomas Hepner
Betty Stevens
Flora Boyd
Ruth Bunce
Evelyn Enyart
C. R. Youtzy
Sherlock Holmes
Lovella Ewoldt
Anna Held
Gretchen Roy
May Irwin
St. Mary’s
Rose Paidar
Lillian Russell
Arnold M. Malmquist
R. B. Puckett
Ted R. Fish
What They Say About The Community Chest
Carl Hendrickson assails old wasteful fundraising and endorses the Community Chest as a business like plan. He cites careful budgeting by trusted business leaders to ensure funds support intended charitable institutions.
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Carl Hendrickson
Blake Boulevard
Hendrickson
Man travels to Brownsville without trousers on odd case
W H Westphal, traveling from Chicago to Brownsville with Deputy Sheriff Will Cabler, did so without trousers after his wife took his pants in Chicago. He faced an indictment for disposing of mortgaged property. Passengers snickered as cold winds and a long train ride followed.
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Brownsville
Tex
W. H. Westphal
Texas
Chicago
Will Cabler
Cabler
Westphal
St. Louis
Navigation Season On Mississippi River To Close About Nov 20
The Wake Robin, U. S. patrol boat, left McGregor for the north to remove river buoys marking the close of navigation for the season about Nov 20. The last upstream tow will depart St. Louis for the Twin Cities, and the last downstream tow will leave Minneapolis on Nov 12. Tonnage for the season was the heaviest in the history of the Federal barge line. Towboats Weeks Hurley Good and Mark Twain operated upper river. Webber joined in October. All except Mark Twain will winter in Dubuque harbor. Mark Twain tied up at Cairo, Illinois.
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Gazette
Mcgregor
U. S
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Twin Cities
Minneapolis
Federal
Weeks
Hurley
Good
Mark Twain
Webber
Dubuque Harbor
Cairo, Il
F W Baker 90 Vinton business man dies as funeral set
F W Baker aged 90 dies at home in Vinton with funeral Wednesday at 3 pm at the Presbyterian church. Rev William Caldwell to conduct service, burial in Evergreen cemetery. He opened a variety store in 1899 after moving from Kansas and held longtime Vinton business ties. Survived by widow Grace and sons Charles C Baker and Herbert E Baker, with siblings in Franklin Nebraska. Beef prices noted at Beduje in Yugoslavia.
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Vinton
Presbyterian Church
F. W. Baker
William Caldwell
Evergreen Cemetery
Baker
Poultney
Kansas
Board of Elders
Grace Baker
Charles C. Baker
Missoula
Mont
Herbert E. Baker
Cedar Rapids City Hall Notes Seize October Totals
City records show October gas use average heat content 1 042.15 BTU per cu ft. Police division receipts in superior court totaled 704.35 with 452.45 fines and 238 court fees. Civil division receipts were 15. Final balance 13 155.45 due on sewage plant Section 1 paid to Stark Building Co. Street light ordered on Twenty sixth Street SE. September fire loss 1 118.43, with 512.75 to buildings and 605.68 to contents. Contents insured. building loss 24 uninsured. Building valuation 184 925. contents 132 450. Fire Chief Kohout reported.
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Cedar Rapids
A. R. Menary
Menay
Superior Court
L. J. Storey
Stark Building Company
E. P. Kohout
Gambling Racket Blamed in Joliet Prison Slaying
State's Attorney Will McCabe says a Joliet Stateville prison gambling house in cellhouse C, taking up to 600 dollars daily, funded a flourishing racket. Convicted killer William Neill, stabbed in the prison yard after a gambling debt welshed, is blamed on Frank Piazzi of Chicago, with the knife believed used in the slaying.
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Chicago
Neill
Prison death linked to gambling debt inquiry
Edward G. Powers reported Neill was killed over a gambling debt and sought to uncover whether Piazzi ran a horse show handbook within the cellhouse. The killing occurred in the prison gymnasium where Piazzi served as an attendant, as referenced in The Gazette Want Ads.
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Piazzi
Edward G. Powers
McCabe
Neill
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Grace Church
Naomi Doebel
Edna K. Dieman
America
Vivienne Robinson
Inez Murray
Elaine Healy
Patricia Schloss
Howard Benninghoff
Lucille Risk
Pauline
Iowa City
Iowa City Chamber of Commerce
North Liberty
Lake Macbride State Park
State Highway Commission
Oelwein
Henry Harmis
Lutheran Church
Tripoli
Kneip Market
1St Ave
Dial
Roosevelt Hotel
Indiana
Lee
Farina
Lima
Palmer
van Camp
Pillsbury’s
Tittle Bros. Packing Company
J. C. Penney Co
Beduje
Jugoslavia
City Hall
Twenty-sixth Street
Bever and
Fifth Avenues
Joliet
Japan
Citron
Pillsbury
Pancak
Red River
Ohio
Idaho
SA Tali
del Monte
RED Alaska
del Monte Lac
Borden’s
van Camp’s Milk
Lhasa
Sunkist
Nash
S.c
P. W. Peterson
Mt. Vernon
Mount Vernon
Lisbon
Harriet Warner
Cornell College
Rockford
Neff
Troy Mills
Willow Rebekah
O. O. F. Hall
Odd Fellow Lodge
Leslie Rowe
Claud Hermann
William Hermann
Nelson Rowe
Charles Rowe
Emmett Shaffer
William Shaffer
Charles McPike
Winnie McCright
William Dudley
Barney Mentzer
Julia Fisher
Amon Glass
James Powell
Alice Potter
Charles Webster
Charles Cherry
Lucille Winiistorfer
Edgar
Hubert
Billy Potter
Buehler
M. M. Dvorak
Mount Vernon Ave
Lipton’s Tea
Black
Town Crier
Jack Sprat
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