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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1934
Page
11
George W. Patterson of Burt will headline a Republican rally in Memorial hall Marion at 7 30 p m on Wednesday. Local candidates on the ticket will be presented and taxation supporters invited to hear Patterson.
Handicraft clubs meet for tin can plate projects and Halloween décor while Reading Circle members review a novel. Local clubs host picnics and dinners with plans to entertain husbands, invite church members, and sponsor an art week exhibit in early November.
Guttenberg advances on the $1,400,000 Lock No. 10 project on the Mississippi between St. Louis and St. Paul. The town sees population rise, jobs for 545 workers, and new business from lock construction, with engineers and contractors guiding the project and a planned dam to extend the nine foot channel.
Miss Ruth Griffin leaves this city for Ann Arbor Michigan to take a position at the University hospital. She is the daughter of Mrs. Agnes Yocom and recently graduated from the University hospital at Iowa City with the class of 1932 after two years on private duty locally.
Bronx patrolman Henry Bokelman retrieves Bosco a tiny Doberman pup lost on a seven story roof. After Bosco falls into an exposed water pipe, Bokelman and janitor Hans Buehlinger cut multiple pipes floor by floor to guide the pup to safety amid a growing street crowd.
Secretary of War George Dern on tour of the lock work predicts the Mississippi valley will gain the greatest inland waterway in the world. Guttenberg officials hope the project makes the town a Prairie la Porte again and a prosperous hub on the river.
Louis Schmidt of Winona Minnesota kept over 15000 in gold coins in his basement in jars. His niece Mrs Thomas H Padgett Cedar Falls and her husband are tied to a court dispute over a deed transferring the Padgett home. Guardians say the woman worked for Schmidt and may have taken some gold. a $3000 judgment was returned in Winona district court.
Libertyville Iowa Maurice Louth aged 15 was paroled by Judge C F Wennerstrom on chicken stealing charges on condition he reads ten books of merit. Three titles were named Poor Richard's Almanac The Life of Abraham Lincoln and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Paul Howard 21 received one year in Jefferson county jail with half suspended after pleading guilty.
The Coggon American Legion post will hold a pep meeting on Thursday November 1 at 8 pm with Hugh Orchard Cedar Rapids Chamber official to speak. A luncheon will follow the program and invitations go to friends and members.
A brief note explains that the riflebird earns its name from the sharp whizzing cry it emits, described in the aging text as a rapid, piercing sound. The anecdote highlights the bird’s distinctive vocal signature and its link to its name.
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