Cedar Rapids Boys Live in Tree House High Above Prairie Creek
Three Cedar Rapids teens Harry St Germain Amos Thompson and Gordon Shimek built a two week tree house 75 feet up in a elm by Prairie Creek They hauled in a shack planks stairs and a crow’s nest and climb by rope while cooking on a tin stove The boys cross a log over the creek and police photographer and reporter join their Tarzan like camp adventure in the woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arian
Cedar Rapids
Tarzan
Harry St. Germain
Eighteenth Avenue
Amos Thompson
Sixteenth Avenue
Gordon Shimek
Nineteenth Avenue
Prairie Creek
Beverly
Vern Thompson
Thompson
Wey
Harry
Amos
Gazette
Grandson Lands 775-Pound Tuna Off Nova Scotia
Mrs. W. J. McGuire of Washington reports her grandson R. C. Powell Jr. of Forest Hills Long Island caught a 775 pound tuna off Nova Scotia. The 20 year old Harvard junior’s catch, third largest off North American coast, earned him membership in the Liverpool Tuna Club under proper regulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool Tuna Club
Iowa Adopts New Traffic Code With Strict Reporting Rule
The revised Iowa motor code requires immediate reporting of any automobile accident involving $25 or more damage to the nearest police or sheriff's office. If the driver cannot report, any occupant must do so. The law also revises license revocation for nonpayment of judgments within 60 days and connects to AAA safety reciprocity with other states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard S. Ries
Motor Clubs of
Iowa
AAA
Waned fugitive Van Ryk commits suicide to avoid capture
William Van Ryk, sought in Washington D C for a $5,000 jewel theft, died by ingesting poison in his Seattle home while free on a $1,000 bail after arrest under the federal fugitive law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle, Wash
INS
William van Ryk
Washington
D. C
Thirty-five civil cases filed in Linn County court Friday
The Linn County district court recorded thirty-five civil case filings Friday afternoon in the clerk’s office. Cases involve insurance claims, renewal commissions, reinsurance, damages for accidents, and multiple divorce suits for cruel or desertion grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
District Court
E. W. Lundquist
Penick and Ford, Ltd
Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Ltd
Penick and Ford
Cedar Rapids
Jay G. Sigmund
Cedar Rapids Life Insurance Company
Sigmund
United Benefit Life Insurance Company of
Omaha
Cedar Rapids Life
Cedar Rapids Twins Claim Lifeline Surfaces at Reunion
Rita and Renee Huttler of New Hampton repeat a claim at a Fort Wayne reunion that Cedar Rapids hosts three sets of Caesarean born twins, challenging the notion of being the only surviving pair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Rita
Renee Huttler
New Hampton
Fort Wayne, Nd
Twins and children listed in Fillmore area birth notices
Newborn and school age children are named as several sets of twins and siblings in Fillmore area notices. Jane Margretz and Joan Margretz are 5 year olds, Nina Vinton and Norma Jean are 11 and 7, Paul Glen is 3, Don and Constance Cornwell are 6, plus James and Jean Greene 3 last July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mia
Pauline Margretz
Patra
Wilma
Jane
Jean
Wanda
Paul Glen
Fillmore
Joan Margretz
First Avenue
Roosevelt Junior High School
Vinton
Norma Jean
Don
Constance Cornwell
Johnson School
Gus H. Cornwell
Gareden Drive
Huttler
James
Jean Greene
E. J. Greene
Center Point Road
Living Every Day collects Dr Newton essays
Harper and Bras publish Living Every Day a book of 365 selected Dr Joseph Fort Newton essays with the Gazette among newspapers that reprint his work. Newton once led Peoples Church Cedar Rapids then London City Temple and now resides in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Fort Newton
Harper and Bras
Newton
the Peoples Church
Cedar Rapids
London
City Temple
Philadelphia
the Gazette
Dr. Newton
Rail wage talks paused as mediation recess set
Dr. William M. Leiserson, chairman of the national mediation board, announced a recess until Tuesday in wage talks between eighty six major railroads and five operating brotherhoods in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William M. Leiserson
National Mediation Board
WPA Relief Jobs Cut 30 Percent In Six Months
The WPA reports a 30 percent drop in work relief employment over six months and a 52 percent drop from February 1936 peaks. August payrolls stood at 1,482,707 with 2,145,562 in February and 3,085,842 at the program’s February 1936 peak, versus a projected 1,650,000 under Hopkins plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Washington
INS
Aubrey Williams
Work Relief Program
Harry L. Hopkins
Congress
Hopkins
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Old Elm
BY Carl Dueser
Florida
Harry, Gordon and
JG Craven
Shoppers Service
Nova Scotia
United Benefit Life
C. B. Robbins
E. J. Carey
M. Norman Nelson
Union Mutual Life Company
Occidental Life Insurance Company of
Los Angeles
Union Mutual Life Policies
Don Mallas
Samuel Astrosky
Mallas
Astrosky
George Siemer
Freg Pazour
Ed Vorba
Stanley Procock
Ralph E. Shaw
Procock
Third Street
Ywelfth Avenue
Ruth Pracock
FE Avenue
Fifth Street NW
Ray M. Cook
Ralph F. Ellsworth
George E. Kasper
Ben S. Handler
Handler Motor Company
National Surety Corporation of New York
Cleo E. Darrow
Helen L. Platt
Jack Platt
Isaac H. Shaver
Cecille K. Shaver
Margaret M Sampica
Chris Sampica
Geneva I. Evers
Harry W. Evers
Opal Hamor
Charles Hamor
Adelle A. Jedlicka
Louis F. Jedlicka
W. H Stepanek
Josephine Stepanek
Bates
Iowa State Savings
Lillian Vesely
R. M. Vesely
A. P. Stevens
William Hemsky, Jr
A. G. Smid
James A. Swatosh
Fay W. Bailey
A. B. Shakespeare
Glen A. Wiley
Lillian Wiley
Want
Don Cornwell
Jean and
James Greene
Alexander Kaminsky
Sunshine Mission
der. Vom Bruch and
Jimmie Davis
Dr. J.C. Landenberger Optometrist
Third Street SE
Hiltbrunner Music Co
First Street
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