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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1936
Page
3
Police in Newark say they shut down a birth control club where 800 women paid $2 a month for membership cards and monthly examinations. Dr George Harley promoted illegal operations, with eight done daily at about 75 dollars each. he and nurse Anna Green faced charges and bail.
The article cites Dr. Carter Goodrich discussing population movements in Michigan counties during the 1920s and after 1929. It notes richer lands losing fewer people to cities in good times and poorer lands losing more, with reversals during hard times. An aside mentions a French anthropologist P. Graham creating a camera to photograph the two halves of the face separately.
Dr Henry C Link presents a memory improvement booklet with rules for a good memory proven by science. It explains remembering names dates lessons books and more and is offered as a service to readers with a request for 10 cents to apply toward costs and stamped self addressed return.
The article argues the left facial half mirrors social traits while the right reflects inner life, a claim the writer finds unwarranted by current evidence. It also includes a Q and A about tipping habits and wages, citing a New York beauty expert and ending with a Calmar wedding note for Miss Mary Schneberger and John Nolte at St. Aloysius.
Ward Week, a semi annual nation wide event of Montgomery Ward stores, opens Wednesday and runs through the next week. Local manager M J Ellis announces a new department for women's sporting apparel supplementing the enlarged women’s fashion department.
Cecil Hillsman and Ralph Pine of Columbus Junction and Mark Estle of Letts escaped with minor injuries when Estle’s car was struck by a train at a Muscatine crossing about 4 30 a m Sunday. Estle, said to be driving fast, tried to steer toward the train but could not avert the collision. Pine required stitches for a chin wound at Hershey hospital, while Hillsman and Estle suffered only bruises.
A speaker recalls a round where the caddie used abandoned clubs to post a seventy three. The narrator, who threw a mid-iron in anger, acknowledges the fault lay with them and reflects on pride in another’s skill. The poem contrasts improvised equipment with the players pride.
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