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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1941
Page
3
Dr Mary MacFadyen launches a skin care course emphasizing home routines for skin health. The first lesson stresses ultra cleanliness to remove dead cells and grime, noting improvement may appear in two weeks with consistent care and detailing the skin’s structure and cleansing needs. Tomorrow: How to wash your face.
A collection of wartime notes by W. W. Chaplin outlining U S rearmament ideas. Blood typing on soldiers enables quick transfusions at forward dressing stations. Each service member to wear a blood type tag to guide donors. Also highlights defense innovations like a 110-foot tool that replaces 39 machines in engine head work. Includes new military slang and a small glossary of terms for Army life.
Pattern 4918 is available in children's sizes 2 4 6 8 and 10. Size 6 short sleeve frock and calot uses 2% yards 35 inch fabric and 3% yards braid. Long sleeve frock and calot use 154 yards 54 inch fabric. Send 15 cents for this pattern to Pattern department Cedar Rapids Gazette New York NY. Send 10 cents extra for a 1941 42 Pattern book with hat and bag pattern. Also includes a personal advice exchange about trust and dating relationships with guidance on handling a two timing case.
A columnist offers social conduct guidance. A young person asks about leaving home for work against parental wishes and seeks practical steps. Another reader asks for help with a two year steady relationship and evolving feelings. The tone reflects etiquette publishing and reader inquiries.
You can create daisy dailies to beautify a home or give as gifts. The Cedar Rapids Gazette pattern 1000 provides directions, illustrations, stitches, and materials, with a photograph of the daily. Send 10 cents, include pattern number, name, and address to The Cedar Rapids Gazette needlecraft department in New York.
William J. Earnest, 36, a Philadelphia cook, was executed in the Rockview prison electric chair for the fatal slaying and mutilation of Mrs. Ethel Angier Atkins, 34, ex-wife of a Duke tobacco family member. He maintained the act was in self defense after a quarrel with the waitress.
Gazette Special Writer notes women respond to national defense needs by pursuing specialized teacher training in New York. Married women register for a year in nursery kindergarten and elementary schooling to gain practical skills for future emergencies. Training emphasizes classroom work and community resource contact to mobilize for defense.
A wartime diary recounts June 15 to 18 1940 across Germany Belgium and France. The writer notes Verdun’s fall Paris occupation mood and mass exodus with curfews and a capitulating army. Sketched scenes include Maubeuge’s destruction bread shortages and German occupation presence in Paris.
Paris dispatch reports the armistice signing to occur at Compiegne, with Marshal Fochs wagon car to be reused. An inadvertent leak reveals German engineers hurriedly dismantling the old museum car and a small French column bombed on the road between Compiegne and Senlis, leaving twenty graves nearby.
The narrator notes World War I cannons defending the key road to Paris, dated 1918, as he surveys abandoned items. The reflection points to a critical World War era defense position near Compiegne, with contemporary commentary from Shirer’s wartime writings.
The Federal Reserve on Sunday updated installment credit rules to close loopholes and ease limits. Key changes raise covered loans to 1500 dollars, require borrower loan purpose statements, exempt business and entire-building loans, grant farmers flexible repayment, remove mandatory down payments under two dollars, and allow add on credits with 15 month repayment. Farms may use any schedule if down payment and 18 month maturity are met, with half balance due in half the maximum term.
New York AP report says civic groups urge Mayor LaGuardia to stop the America First rally at Madison Square Garden amid warnings of violence. Telegram signees name Dr C R Weiss Samuel Nieman Joseph Goldsmith and accuse audience members of fascist activity while listing speakers Charles A Lindbergh Burton Wheeler and John Cudahy as planned at the event.
In Fitchburg Massachusetts a Connecticut woman Ruth Wolsiewick 38 and Richard Wolsiewick 36 both pled not guilty to kidnapping charges in district court over the abduction of eight week old Kenneth A McLean Jr Held on 20000 bail each awaiting hearing next Monday they also denied related moral charges Conviction could bring up to ten years in prison
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