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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1939
Page
3
This piece presents answers from a scientific viewpoint on morality and social life. It notes that modern husbands face complex, longer days and wives juggle more duties. It cites observations on youth, driver tests, and how handicaps like deafness or blindness can spur achievement, finishing with a question about what hands reveal about character.
Coe College Dean Geiger told students in chapel that living well is as vital as grades. He stressed that academic perfection without learning the intangible methods of living leads to failure. His remarks followed interviews with 379 students last year.
Warners begins a rapid production on a Disraeli story told in three stages from youth to statesman with a young diplomat focus. Michael Hogan wrote the script and potential stars include Brian Aherne Laurence Vivace or Leslie Howard as the lead.
Simone Simon heads for New York to lead in a film while Mary Brian and Wilma Cox join a Hal Roach era cast. MGM shifts focus from The Women to The Earl of Chicago with an all male lineup as Bob Montgomery shoots Busman’s Honeymoon in London. Andrea Leeds declines opposite Gary Cooper in The Outlaw to marry Oct 25 and takes leave to decide on her future.
The Lynch Transfer and Storage company of Cedar Rapids applied to the interstate commerce commission and the Iowa commerce commission for authorization to operate as a broker for purposes of arranging freight movements. The filing orders details and potential regulatory approvals.
The hearing convened in the federal building with Mike P. Conway of Atlantic, a senior Iowa commission member presiding. Hawkeye Freight Lines appeared as intervenors. A decision will be issued at a later date.
Loomis Brothers were awarded the low bid of 8075 dollars by the city council to build a brick one story fire department garage and auto workshop on the east bank of the Cedar River behind Station No. 1 at Fifth Avenue and First Street SE. Bids ranged up to 8985 dollars. The 70 by 45 foot cement floored facility will relieve space constraints and provide storage for the fire inspector and safety commissioner cars. Silkworms are noted to outgrow their skins four times during rapid growth.
D W Bates of Albia, a Democrat, serves as Iowa’s superintendent of banking and heads a department overseeing 539 state banks 154 small loan companies 3 trust companies and 1 private bank. He appoints receivers to closed banks directs examiners and chairs the state banking board with four other appointees. The board's four-year terms align with the superintendent’s ending June 1941.
At Iowa theaters Edith Fellows stars in The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. Tailspin Tommy with John Trent appears. Paramount features The Real Glory with Gary Cooper David Niven Andrea Leeds. State shows Miracles for Sale with Robert Young Florence Rice and Unexpected Father with Baby Sandy Shirley Ross Dennis O Keefe. Palace presents Shirley Temple in The Little Princess within the Law with Ruth Hussey Tom Neal. Strand headlines Tyrone Power Henry Fonda in Jesse James and Betty Grable in Campus Confessions. Rialto shows Tailspin Tommy Stunt Pilot with John Trent and Three Mesquiteers in Three Texas Steers.
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