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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1944
Page
6
An elderly patient may become mentally confused after major surgery. Use simple soothing remedies and sympathetic humor, such as repositioning the bed and dim to ease delusions until a doctor can assess. Do not argue with delusions, ensure safety, and monitor for self harm.
Mr and Mrs Charles W Taylor of 220 Seventh Avenue SW marked their thirtieth wedding anniversary with a home dinner Tuesday. An anniversary cake decorated the table as part of the celebration.
The Midwestern Red Cross asks locals to buy items for 125 Christmas boxes for sailors. Boxes cost up to $1 and should contain six items such as pad and pencil, cigars, soap, and a pocketbook novel. Boxes must ship by December 1 with Mrs. Kosek coordinating.
More than 80 people attended a Cedar Rapids Radio council dinner at the Roosevelt hotel. Frances Farmer Wilder and Dorothy Lewis spoke on radio’s postwar role, serials, and the Radio Theater project at the YMCA opening.
The column advises shoppers to act early for Christmas buys due to wartime item shortages. It notes limited sizes especially for pajamas and Turkish towels, suggests mailing parcels early, and warns against home stain removal. It also discusses experiments with waxed soles to extend shoe life and DIY waterproofing at shoe repair shops.
Mrs R A Streeter told Linn County Republican women on Tuesday that socialism centers power in a single figure with a party group controlling utilities and industry. She argued that any such government, whether called communism fascism Nazism or social democracy, aims to regiment the people. Mrs Armstrong gave the thought for the day and Mills presided. Miss Nott led the program.
In Houston Margaret Ann Standish received an all nylon wedding gown made from a parachute sent by her young man serving in the New Guinea Australia area. She does not know who used the parachute or how it arrived in the United States.
Pattern 4700 offers a jumper and blouse with fabric yardage for sizes 6 through 14. Send 20 cents for pattern 4700 to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept. in Chicago Illinois 80 and note size name address and style number. Add 15 cents for the Anne Adams Fall and Winter Pattern Book with a free hat and muff-bag pattern.
The Hatch and Brookman company stock was sold to Knapp and company of Cedar Rapids for investment. R. W. Brookman will remain as receiver and manager until creditors are paid, with an expected closing of receivership by December 31. L. O. Hatch continues as president. Knapp plans a reorganization after receivership ends.
Belonging to the J. H. Brookmann estate a new partnership is formed between Russell F. Knapp and Henry Gundling under the name Knapp and Company.
An advertisement claims Carter's Little Liver Pills increase digestive juice flow to help indigestion. It promises relief within about 30 minutes and urges buying at drugstores for 10 and 25 cents.
A display of antique and modern books from religion fiction poetry and history is offered at Sanford's Old Book Room. The catalog lists prices and titles including World Beautiful in Books and Love of Books and Reading with numerous works from Whittier Longfellow and Howells.
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