Iowa U Fine Arts Center Dedicated in Iowa City
The University of Iowa dedicates a 230000 fine arts building as part of a three day arts conference. Noted playwright Martin Flavin critiques modern theater and lauds federal theater while university officials and artists outline the project’s impact and the new theater debuting at 6 p.m. with the premiere of Two Hundred Were Chosen by Ellsworth P. Conkle.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Martin Flavin
New York
Flavin
Leslie Howard
Walter Houston
Alfred Lunt
George S. Kaufman
Federal
Legitimate
Broadway Theater
Federal Theaters
Federal Theater
Sinclair Lewis
Senate
Old Capitol
Eugene A. Gilmore
University
John Shapley
University of Chicago
Allardyce Nicoll
Yale University
Leon Kroll
Arthur Shepherd
Western Reserve University
Paul Manship
President Gilmore
Walter A. Jessup
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Frederick P. Keppel
The
Carnegie Corporation
George T. Baker
Iowa State Board of Education
Schoentgen
Ellsworth P. Conkle
Edward C. Mabie
Funeral Services For Johann Johnson In St Olaf
Funeral services were held in the Norway church for Johann Benjamin Johnson born April 18 1889 on a Wagner township farm. Surviving are three brothers and five sisters.
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ST. Olaf
Norway Church
Johann Benjamin Johnson
S. J. Strandford
Johnson
Wagner Township
Blaine, Olvin
Rudy
Fayette
Elmer Ronquist
Joe Larson
Fairmont
Minn
Helen Larson
Nashwank
Hubert Olson
Decorah
Will Gehring
Elkader
Durant proposes national advisory council in US reform plan
Will Durant told about 7,500 teachers at the Iowa State Teachers Association convention that the United States faces a moral political and economic crisis. He proposed a national advisory council elected by the people from laborers professionals farmers and others to study investigate and report to Congress without legislative power.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Teachers Association
Agnes Samuelson
Will Durant
United States
Durant
Congress
Marengo Names Engineers for Sewage Plant Survey
Marengo city council designates Young and Stanley of Muscatine as engineers to survey the sewage disposal project for a PWA grant. The move is tied to state board of health requirements and signals a costly outlay and distance to Iowa City for water use, with an estimated $35,000 impact and 85 miles by river.
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Marengo
Marengo City
Young and
Stanley
Muscatine
PWA
Iowa City
Iowa River
State Board of Health
William Sheppard 69 Found Dead at Home
William Sheppard aged 69, owner of two farms near Ryan, was found dead in bed Saturday at 10 am. Heart failure is the believed cause. A lifelong resident east of Ryan he leaves five sons and four daughters. He belonged to Golden Congregational Church. Funeral services had not been arranged by noon Saturday.
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Ryan
William Sheppard
Henry Lampa wins eastern Iowa corn husking title
Henry Lampa of near Mechanicsville captured the eastern Iowa corn husking championship at the Harry Euck farm two miles east of Marion. The Gazette and Linn County Farm Bureau sponsored the event.
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Henry Lampa
Mechanicsville
Iowa
Harry Euck
Marion
The
Gazette
Linn County Farm Bureau
Harry Stieger
Third Avenue
F. D. Fillmore
Florida
George G. Bennett
St. Louis
Local Briefs from Cedar Rapids and Davenport
"This is the Life" drew attendees at Greene's opera house. Frank J. Stodola of Cedar Rapids died in a car crash en route to Davenport. Mrs. Will Wagner returned from the Pacific coast. E. R. Moore was elected lieutenant governor. James A. Good named congressman from the Fifth district. John Wunderlich, secretary of the commercial club, spoke to Grant vocational school students.
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Greene’s
Opera House
Frank J. Stodola
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Will Wagner
Pacific Coast
E. R. Moore
James A. Good
John Wunderlich
Commercial Club
Grant Vocational School
Human Hearts and Civic Moves Highlight Local Notices
Mr and Mrs C B Forbes travel to McPherson Kansas to visit Forbes mother A E Pierson departs for Sacramento California to take a job with a carriage company W F Fitzgerald named mayor by the Marion city council to fill the vacancy created by C H Mar resignation
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Greene’s
Opera House
C. B. Forbes
McPherson
Kan
Iowa educator urges stronger democracy through school reform
Miss Agnes Samuelson, Iowa state superintendent, addressed 8,000 teachers praising democracy as a way of life. She urged more state funding, stricter teaching qualifications, and expanded teacher pension programs, noting Iowa's low state-revenue share and limited pension coverage compared with other states.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Agnes Samuelson
National Education Association
Meredith Publishing declares $25,000 bonus for 660 staff
E. T. Meredith Publishing, once led by a renowned Iowa Democrat and now run by his widow who opposed Roosevelt, announced a bonus of 25000 dollars for its 660 employees on Saturday.
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Des Moines
INS
E. T. Meredith
Iowa
Roosevelt
May tag representatives convene at Franklin hotel
Strawberry Point hosts a convention of May tag representatives at the Franklin hotel with seventy three attendees. G J Gill oversees the program after a banquet and welcomes by Mayor N F Harwood. Toast master B E Dunham of Cedar Rapids introduces talks by A B Murray Fredrick Maytag Jr and others from multiple cities.
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Strawberry Point
Franklin Furniture Company
Maytag
Franklin Hotel
G. J. Gill
N. F. Harwood
B. E. Dunham
Cedar Rapids
A. B. Murray
Fredrick Maytag, Jr
Newton
B. W. Newberry
Frank Brean
Des Moines
Dysart Hosts Cedar Rapids Methodist Conference
The Dysart Methodist church will host more than fifty Methodist ministers for the Cedar Rapids district conference. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with multiple speakers. The Ladies Aid Society will serve lunch at noon.
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Dysart
Cold Wave Fails To Reach Iowa as Skies Clear
DES MOINES IOWA A barrier of warm air kept a cold wave out of Iowa. Rising temperatures and clearing skies were forecast for Sunday. Temperatures fell to 18 in Sioux City after a fizzled storm, 13 degrees above earlier expectations. Night low temperatures were forecast to drop further Saturday.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Federal Weather Bureau
Sioux City
Weather Temperature Readings by Region
Temperatures reach 10 degrees in the northwest 15 in the northeast 20 in the southwest and 25 in the southeast as maps show regional variation across the area.
Student Dies After Ames Laboratory Explosion
Marion Skinner of Safford Arizona a graduate student died at Iowa State College Hospital Friday from injuries suffered in a veterinary medicine lab explosion the day before Funeral arrangements were not yet made Friday as word from his father was not located His widow survives him and other relatives were listed.
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Ames
Marion Skinner
Safford
Ariz
Iowa State College Hospital
Labor unions ally with education says Cornell professor
Dr. Samuel J. McLaughlin head of Cornell's education department writes in Clearing House that organized labor, especially the American Federation of Labor, has pressed progressive features in American education. He cites federation opposition to biased social studies, capitalist control of higher education, and undemocratic public schooling as key issues. He notes AFL discussions at conventions show a technical focus and that workers' education will shape future labor policy.
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Samuel J. McLaughlin
Cornell
Clearing House
Workers’ Education and
Labor Action
American Federation of Labor
McLaughlin
American Federation of Teachers
National Labor Body
Funeral services for Samuel D. Miller in Iowa City
Funeral services will be held here Sunday for Samuel D. Miller 67 a Johnson county farmer who died in a local hospital here Friday. Besides his wife Miller is survived by a daughter four sons a brother and two grandchildren.
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Billie Gilkey
Billie Luckey
Iris Cutkomp
Dorothy Weber
Eugene Myers
Lloyd Cecil
J. C. Richie
J. R. Johnston
Kenneth Woodruff
Donald Morgan
G. N. Duncan
R. J. Gilkey
Lewis Pugh
Frances Crammond
Wilma Gabriel
Mesdames J. D. Darrow
Charles Billings
S. J. Lewis
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Upper Mississippi
Keystone Turner Hall
Clinton
Davenport
Des Moines
Keystone Turner Societies
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Samuel D. Miller
Mercy Hospital
Raymond Miller
Oxford
Ilion T. Jones
Presbyterian Church
Riverside
Wes Reiner
Richmond
Joseph
Ann Matren Reiner
Emma Worrell
Merritt
Olive
Lucile
Washington, D. C
Anton Reiner
Alfred Reiner
Alberta
Canada
Earlville
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Albert Stolzenburg
Emilie Strokschein
Karl and
Friedericke Strokschein
Deutschkrone
West Prussia
Germany
Delaware County
W. A. Adix
Fairview Cemetery
Iowa City
Johnson County
Miller
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