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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 21, 1938

Page

20

Marion mural competition invites Iowa artists for post office depictions

The Treasury Department announces a $675 prize per mural for the Marion Iowa post office and White Bear Lake Minnesota branch. Submissions due February 1, 1938, to LeRoy Turner, University of Minnesota, in color on a 3 to 1 scale, 12 by 4 feet, without glass.

Iowa Marion White Bear Lake St. Paul United States Treasury Department LeRoy Turner School of Architecture University of Minnesota Minneapolis Turner Art Association Gallery Sigourney Bloomfield Hamburg Ely St. James Morris and Tipton

Nancy Jane and the Radio Wife's Endless Strife

A poem laments Nancy Jane the radio wife who endures constant conflict with her husband's relatives. For years she suffers pain and tears, survives cycles of leaving and returning, and remains with her husband amid continual bickering and hardship. The speaker notes the toll on women and questions male brutality.

Nancy Jane Nellie

Strachey Expulsion Stayed By Writ In New York

English writer and lecturer John Strachey was saved from immediate removal by a writ of habeas corpus, ordering production in court next Tuesday. He faces entry ban due to visa issues on his passport as he fights deportation.

New York Sns John Strachey England Strachey

Chicago, N W Chieftain Optimistic On Railroads

Harold S. Vanderbilt of the Chicago and North Western Railway and D E Ahrens of General Motors Cadillac division report clear recovery gains. Vanderbilt says railroads can remain solvent absent a new national slump and notes a favorable rise in recent months with signs of continued improvement.

Los Angeles Harold S. Vanderbilt Chicago and North Western Railway Company D. E. Ahrens Cadillac Motor Car General Motors Vanderbilt

Riverside Man Dies at 108 in County Hospital

Riverside Calif In son John Danato aged 108 Morongo Indian died at the county hospital on Thursday. A machine gun firing 350 shots a minute was invented during the Civil War by R J Gat ling and later adopted by nearly every civilized nation.

Riverside Calif INS John Danato R. J. Gatling

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