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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1937
Page
3
In Hamlet a country club dance exposes romantic tensions. Cobby, a restless mill heir, and Jean share a wary attraction while his rivalries with family, ex fiancée Irene, and club politics unfold. The night ends with a tease for tomorrow’s chapter.
A columnist warns against dog licking in homes noting dogs lick faces and hands, often after rummaging garbage or biting sores. Suggests training and a bitter-solution cure. recommends washing skin with quinine or salicin to deter licking and asserts most dogs can be trained to stop.
At the theaters the Iowa showing features Errol Flynn Joan Bardell and Hugh Herbert in The Perfect Specimen with Wheeler and Woolsey in High Flyers Paramount presents Tyrone Power and Loretta Young in Second Honeymoon New State shows Its Love I’m After with Bette Davis Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland plus Charlie Chan on Broadway with Warner Oland and Joan Marsh Palace screens The Devil is a Sis sy with Freddie Bartholomew History Is Made At Night starring Jean Arthur and Charles Boyer Rialto features Jack Oakie and Ann Sothern in Super Sleuth and Charles Starrett in Two Fisted Sheriff Strand bills 2334 Hours Leave and Ride a Cowboy nier
Linn county ranked among the highest in the state in new CCC enrollments during October with seventeen youths assigned to camps. Largest enrollments in Iowa were eighteen each from Polk, Pottawattamie and Woodbury counties, according to figures received by Benjamin Tait, county relief administrator.
A fragment from a 1937 piece blends scientific views on gender differences in disgust with advice on personal power and a brief health note. It cites L. M. Terman and Catherine Cox Miles, remarks on success factors, and highlights ultraviolet light and vitamin D needs for indoor winter living.
Excessively dried indoor air in heated homes harms skin mucous membranes and respiratory conditions. Evaporating water daily helps, especially for chronic bronchitis and sinus troubles. avoid unreliable gadgets. Maintain humidity around healthier levels with proper air conditioning or moisture addition.
A collection of health Q A items discusses a patient's nerve pain and mobility issues linked to a truck driver and family names, followed by guidance to buy wheat germ from mills or health stores and to ensure four ounces daily. Advice on glasses for children and a note that grape skins and seeds help prevent appendicitis contrasts with common fears.
Mrs P J Ernst returns from Milwaukee after Europe tour. Mrs Carrie Stansby King, widow of David King, dies in Daytona Fla while wintering. Henry Barton injured by car at Thirteenth Ave and First Street W. Mrs James F Keevers attends parents forty eighth wedding anniversary in Oak Park Ill. Cedar Rapids detachment visits Deming N M to see Cedar Rapids boys at Camp. Rev F B Murch installed as pastor of First United Presbyterian by Cedar Rapids presbytery. Frank Ressa 12 burns at country school near Fairfax when kerosene fireball ignites. he rolls in grass to smother flames. Delta Gamma Rho named at Coe College.
Fred Groecltz Jr accepts assistant teller job at Commercial Savings bank. Mrs Nettie Runkle called to Toledo due to her father's serious illness. Mrs J Hamilton Preston a Cedar Rapids notable dies suddenly at home. Harry Groat departs for Janesville to manage a Woolworth store. John W Barry and Charles D Huston will speak on the commission plan at Sixth ward meeting.
A husband learns the importance of transparency with his wife to solve money problems. An anecdotal uncle bears a lavish wife until hard times force a blunt talk about expenses and nickels. The wife recalls buying an expensive dress after the husband’s joke about watching the nickels.
A reader letters page urges girls to tone down giggling on dates and to offer serious conversation while defending boys who value thoughtful talk over necking. Another reader replies, praising girls who keep ideals while enjoying life.
A letter writer explains her boyfriend left town for a job, returned after it failed, and has since avoided her without contacting her. She asks for etiquette guidance on how to handle his silence and what steps she should take next.
The writer urges patience with a friend who avoided contact after a failed venture. She emphasizes they have stayed close since last spring, asking to appear cheerful, not press for the job, and show unwavering friendship to ease his reluctance.
Hollywood critics praise The Perfect Specimen starring Errol Flynn Joan Blondell and Beverly Roberts. The comic romance follows a perfection bound heir pursued by Grandma Wicks and the G men while Flynn and Blondell provide lively banter and action.
A local newspaper note praises Woolsey and his team in a lighthearted column, quoting a newspaper man who says even the stars doubt their own greatness. The writer signs off with warm affection.
Tyrone Power and Loretta Young star as two divorcees rekindling love in a Florida winter resort tale. Lyle Talbot is the second husband. Power fights for affection, ending in jail. Newcomer Marjorie Weaver appears with Stuart Erwin. Claire Trevor and J Edward Bromberg in supporting roles. Also features a Carnival in Paris short and a color fish cartoon.
A poem recounts Edgar A Guest observing a girl who admires a fancy wax doll but prefers a rag doll named Susan for daily comfort. The child’s choice contrasts love and pride as neighbors notice the simple rag doll’s enduring value.
President Roosevelt sent Vivian A. Merediths nomination to the senate for the Norway Iowa postmaster position on Friday. Meredith is named to head the local post office and oversee mail service in the town.
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