This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 7 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1939
Page
11
Advice column note on a student Mary Manners warns a girl away from social distractions and toward balanced study. The missive urges a middle path between fun and industry to preserve future career plans.
A Winter storm paralyzed Cedar Rapids with skidding autos and stalled street and rail traffic. The item lists a meal plan including tea for adults milk for children beef and vegetable pie and butterscotch custard with a detailed recipe. The entry notes costs and servings for the day.
A column outlines a frugal weekly menu for a family of five two adults and three young children. It lists breakfast and dinner ideas such as hot oatmeal with raisins soft cooked eggs toast corn chowder and muffins with simple ingredients and household staples to ensure balanced calories protein minerals and vitamins while keeping costs low. It notes candies as temptation and offers practical meal planning tips for economical nutrition.
Mrs C C Hayes broke her left arm after a slip at 2265 Meadowbrook Drive. Howard and Mrs Cherry spent Thanksgiving with their son at Culver Military Academy Indiana. Dr and Mrs W Ruml holidayed in Cambridge with Mr and Mrs W K Jordan. Frances Ruml is Mrs Jordan. Deamer family to Rochester Indiana to visit Mrs Deamer’s parents Mr and Mrs Jack Heimbaugh. J F Fisher heads to St Petersburg Florida for winter. Sergeant Charles McKernan resigns after 31 years and moves to Los Angeles. George O Brine wounded foot by misfired rifle. Slush and rain cover the scene.
The American Crushed Stone company was organized by L A Kling, E W Young and A E Horak with Horak to run the Garrison plant. First Lutheran church property on South Second street sold for a new building after acquiring a Third avenue lot. At St Paul’s M E church 118 converts from the Billy Sunday revival were received. Mr and Mrs B H Witwer Sr were mentioned in the notice.
They returned from Omaha where they visited their daughter, Mrs Jessie Adams.
Notice records the appointment of Mary Dixon as executrix of the estate of Joseph L. Drakos and J Warren McClintock as administrator of the estate of John Stoddie both in Linn County Iowa. Indebtedness and claims must be settled or filed with the Linn County District Court promptly. Attorneys listed: Hickenlooper Mitvalsky and Thos L Woods.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.