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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1942
Page
5
Alber Wiggam answers reader questions on restlessness, charm, and sleep science. Alexis Smith discusses energy versus nerves, Knight Dunlap and practice as cure, charm education, pre midnight sleep benefits, and a call to invest 10 of income in War Bonds.
Six years before Columbus, Portuguese sailors under Jaz Diaz reached the southern tip of Africa calling it the Cape of Storms later renamed the Cape of Good Hope. Dutch and French settlers followed, Cape Colony grew, Britain bought it in 1806 for about $30 million, Boers and Smuts shaped the era.
Uncle Ray previews a picture leaflet Africa's People and Customs by Frank C Pape listing ten illustrations. Readers may obtain a copy by sending a stamped self addressed envelope to Uncle Ray in care of The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
In Cedar Rapids on October 5 1932 a killing frost and light snow flurries marked the season. Harold J Horan was elected president of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce. J J McConnell was named state director of vocational education. Cyrenus Cole urged nonintervention in Europe at a Lions Club talk. Greeks in Cedar Rapids feared war with Turkey. R H Fisher won a $4776 contract to build a new filter building at the city waterworks.
New Bern, N C Lucy Thompson 103 and her sister Della Parker 101 are centenarians. Lucy, born August 1839 in Africa, is nearly blind and homebound, while Della, born February 14 1841 during slavery in Pitt County, is active. Della credits good habits and Christian faith for longevity.
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