Lysistrata chosen for first community workshop play
The Little Theater workshop will stage Lysistrata as its season opener in Montrose Terrace room on Sunday Nov 5. A cast of about fifty five rehearses as Albert McCleery defends the show as gay and frank not obscene, with private performance for season ticket holders.
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Little
Theater Workshop
Montrose Terrace
Aristophanes
sEverybody
Tri-City
Philadelphia
New York
Chicago
Albert McCleery
Community Players
Lysistrata
Acropolis
Little Theater Workshop
Gammer Gurton
Needle
Douglas Kirk
Ruth Barth
Franklin Battin
George Gorman
Robert S. Cook
Ted Sealy
McCleery
City Briefs And Personals Highlight Local Mixups
Adeline Bowers of Cedar Rapids Distributing is not the Adeline Bowers arrested in the Victory lunch room raid. Clayton R. Smith of Ogden Lumber sustained chest injuries when his truck crashed at 10.25 am Monday.
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Adeline Bowers
Cedar Rapids Distributing Company
Ninth Street
Victory
Clayton R. Smith
Thirty Fourth Street
Ogden Lumber Company
Plank crashes through windshield injures driver at coal sheds
A plank extended from a coal shed building and struck a man in the chest, crashing through the windshield of his truck. The injured man, identified as Smith, was taken to St. Luke's hospital where x rays showed no fractured ribs.
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Smith
St. Luke’s Hospital
Big Springs Troop 14 Wins Fire Prevention Display
Boy Scout Troop 14 of Big Springs won first place in the Fire Prevention Week display at 223 Third Street SE last week. The troop is led by scout master Delbert Thom.
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Big Springs
Third Street
Delbert Thom
Court House News: Personal Injury Actions Proceed
In Marion, Judge H C Ring presides Monday as J C Miller sues S J Jordan and J M Jordan for 7500 alleging brain concussion and knee injury from a June 16 1932 crash at Seventh Ave and Twelfth St. Miller, a railroad brakeman, testifies with several witnesses named. The session also covers Verenda Stingley’s 10777 20 personal injury suit against Mildred and William Crawford and A M Walters, alleging pelvic fracture from a collision at Fifth Ave and Sixteenth St with trial set.
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H. C. Ring
District Court
J. C. Miller
Marion
S. J. Jordan
J. M. Jordan
Miller
Seventh Avenue
Twelfth Street
John Vernon
George Newlin
Robert Sloan
W. E. Wilber
Roger Burroughs
A. B. Clark
Verenda Stingley
Mildred Crawford
William Crawford
A. M. Walters
Nellie Walters
Fifth Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Walters
Gets 5 Year Sentence For Receiving Goods Stolen From Creswell
Clifford Dinnell, 40, of 347 Thirty first street SE, was sentenced to an indeterminate five year term at Fort Madison state penitentiary by Judge H. C. Ring on a charge of receiving stolen goods. Police had recovered some Creswell pharmacy merchandise from his home after a Sept. 22 break in.
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Clifford Dinnell
Thirtyfirst
Fort Madison State Penitentiary
H. C. Ring
Creswell
First Avenue E
Dinnell
Donald Mann
Louis Kvach
A. B. Clark
Koach
Iowa Unemployed Costs Hit Over Half a Million in September
Iowa spent 542466.50 to care for 36516 unemployed families in September. H E Mulock, chairman of the state emergency relief committee, said the number aided declined from August while costs rose due to higher food prices and fuel needs. About 258316.91 funded work relief and 255788.18 direct relief, with the rest for transients and administration. The note adds a separate line about photography advances in darkness.
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Des Moines
Iowa
H. E. Mulock
State Emergency Relief Committee
Mulock
Wills admitted in district court and local legal notes
Wills of George A Lane and Mary Simek admitted to probate with listed primary heirs and executors. A Whippet coupe abandoned on Third avenue W road is reported, owner Theodore Pettit. Divorce suit filed by Mary Bickerton against Edward E Bickerton seeks alimony. Rose Koch seeks judgment against Merchants National Bank for unauthorized debit. Benton county Rebekah assembly delegates announced for Council Bluffs meeting with local officials named.
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George A. Lane
Mary Simek
George A Lane
Chfford W. Lane
Anna Hart
Bobbie Hart
George C. Gorman
Sophie Dunek
Joseph Simek
Anna Brazda
Elizabeth Simek
Iowa State Savings Bank
Jay Davis
Joseph A. Petrus
Third Avenue
Theodore Pettit
Mary Bickerton
Edward E. Bickerton
Nashua
Rose Koch
Merchants National Bank of
Cedar Rapids
Vinton
Amanda Rossway
Belle Plaine
Marie Banse
Garrison
Benton County
Rebekah Assembly
Council Bluffs
L. S. Hite
Many New Linn Relief Cases Reported by County Officials
Miss Cora Jacobs told Rotary club at Hotel Roosevelt that Linn county has 66 relief applicants this month, 51 new to county aid. In September 1,208 families needed relief for unemployment and 1,043 for other disabilities. Twelve investigators will work this month, with rent vouchers and food vouchers now being delivered to homes.
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Linn County
Cora Jacobs
Rotary Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Miss Jacobs
Rotarians
Relief Rules Limit Grocery Vouchers Under New Plan
Under the revised poor relief program three quarters of relief comes from federal and state funds. Average family relief about 18 dollars monthly with rent capped at 10 dollars. A couple may receive 2.40 weekly for groceries plus 0.50 per child weekly, milk for small children and special diets for invalids. Gas and light allowances are capped, coal allowances limited to one half ton in Oct and Nov. Families may name preferred grocer and coal dealer but must use items on official lists and county contracts.
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Miss Jacobs
Peabody widow joins revival crowd of 8000
Jessie B Costello, acquitted last August of her husband’s murder by poison, appeared with Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton’s followers in a Sunday night revival before about 8000 people, described as joining the fold.
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Boston
INS
Jessie B. Costello
Peabody
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton
Jessie
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