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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1942
Page
7
A public notice promotes Dr A E Wiegam's booklet How to Be an Emotional Grown-Up offering fifty self test questions for 10 cents plus return envelope. It also includes a humorous Q and A section on reading speed and marriage, promoting lighthearted guidance and humor in daily life.
In a Boston home, Amos Alcott struggles as a teacher and lecturer with meager earnings and a cramped life for his wife and four daughters Anna Louisa Elizabeth Abby. Despite poverty the family finds warmth in love and friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson who visits and inspires Louisa May Alcott.
Ten illustrations by Frank C. Pape appear in the picture leaflet Africa's People and Customs. To obtain a copy, send a stamped self addressed envelope to Uncle Ray in care of this newspaper.
A reader asks if white dressed women fare better with men. An unnamed college study found women in white received more marriage offers than those wearing bright colors.
A 1932 Cedar Rapids column reports Hoover leading Roosevelt by 975 votes in a straw poll plus others with Henry Field over Louis Murphy by 643 and Dan Turner over Clyde Herring by 1 200. It notes a 6 35 per thousand tax cut, a Cedar Craft plant fire, nine arrests for wine seizures, plans for Sokols frolic and a humor magazine, and a 1913 Sibin ski committee including Filip Vondra cek Hajek Hrbek Janda Slapnicka. A Fourth Avenue home yielded a first class hop joint with opium paraphernalia and related devices.
Notice is given that on October 21 1942 at 9 p m a document appearing to be the Last Will and Testament of John M Pinutz late of Linn County Iowa deceased will be heard in the District Court at the Cedar Rapids Iowa Court House for proof and admission to probate Arthur Axmear Clerk and Dev Sailor Attorney are named to administer the matter
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