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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 17, 1939

Page

11

Cedar Rapids Players open season with eerie thriller

The Cedar Rapids Community Players launched their season with A Murder Has Been Arranged at the Y M C A theater. Cast includes Fay as Charles Jasper and Mrs. Hecker as Mrs Wragg with Smercek portraying death’s dumb woman.

Cedar Rapids Fay Chauncey Fay Charles Jasper John T. Hecker Benne Alter Maurice Mullins Jasper Gordon Yarlett Jimmy North Kveta Vondracek Elizabeth Melberg Robert Gardner Cavendish Betty Jean Stephenson Eldo Mentzer George Garden Robert Puckett Robert Sanborn Charlotte King Melvin Severance Robert Creswell

Ward Week Sale Opens Wednesday

Montgomery Ward manager Marvin Pegram announced the Ward week sale begins Wednesday. He said newspaper advertising reaches many readers and helps merchants inform customers of store sales and savings. He noted 625 Montgomery Ward stores will announce the sale through newspapers.

Marvin Pegram Montgomery Ward Pegram

Correct Constipation Before Not After

An advocacy style ad urges preventing constipation by regular intake of Kellogg's All Bran cereal. It links bulk in diet to relief and recommends daily consumption with milk or baked into muffins, plus plenty of water. Kellogg's Battle Creek makes and distributes the product through grocers.

Kellogg’s Battle Creek

How Family of 5 Can Eat Well On $12 a Week

A daily menu plan for a five person family aims to provide balanced nutrition on about $12 weekly. Recipes feature macaroni with tomato and cheese, stewed prunes, eggs, bread, jelly, coffee for adults, milk for kids, braised beef heart, potatoes, spinach, coleslaw, bananas with butterscotch sauce. Day cost around $1.80.

Cole

Pepper Casserole Recipe From Old Cookbook

Pepper Casserole combines macaroni onions tomatoes and peppers with butter cheese and seasonings. The dish bakes at 400 degrees F for about 15 minutes yielding a golden top and serves 5 or 6.

Linn County Medical Society Plans Smallpox Prevention Campaign

The Linn County Medical Society announced a countywide smallpox vaccination drive titled Smallpox Prevention Days from October 20 to November 11. It will cooperate with the Iowa State Medical Society and the state health department, inviting adult and child participation and urged lay groups to join.

Linn County Medical Society Iowa State Medical Society Iowa State Department of Health Medical Society Towa Iowa State Health Department

Red Cross Expands Water Safety Program in Linn County

Linn County residents will see a larger Red Cross water safety program this year led by Dr. Donald E. Grim chair of life saving with assistants Harold Palmer John Stark Bob Switzer and Francis Pressler. The plan adds phases from personal safety to swimmer level training and rescue skills aiming to double or triple last summer’s 207 certificates issued across beginner intermediate swimmer and senior levels.

Linn County Donald E. Grim The Red Cross Dr. Grim Iowa Grim Harold Palmer John Stark Bob Switzer Francis Pressler American Red Cross

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