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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1936
Page
6
Charles R. Gay warns that a system shaped by ten thousand years of evolution and capable of self improvement cannot be radically altered overnight, as it has raised humanity’s living standards and decency through steady progress.
The piece critiques the President's drought tour for being self serving and costly while urging continued relief and soil and water conservation. It contrasts the President's stance with voter sentiment and analyzes the accuracy of the Literary Digest and Hearst polls versus actual election results in 1932.
Thousands of parents mark the first day as 5 year olds begin formal learning. The article notes parental memories and hopes for future outcomes, urging continued sober responsibility from start to finish of the school years.
The article cautions against overreliance on unofficial straw polls like the Literary Digest results. It notes representativeness issues across economic classes and inconsistent predictive success across histories, citing examples from 1928 and broader polling limitations.
A 1936 magazine page offers a collage of vignettes and opinions. It muses on free will versus fate, the governor’s power of pardon, religion and misfortune, science and Hollywood, politics, Americanism, and everyday observations like ashtrays and speedometers. It ends with a corrective aphorism from a father about hard knocks shaping children.
In a wide eyed sketch of social life, Libby Holman is praised as the most generously squired figure of the current scene. She is often seen at night clubs with multiple escorts while living in the Billy Leeds estate in Oyster Bay.
Johnny Farrar, once a Vermont poet, now heads a publishing firm with partner Stanley Rinehart. Backed by Messmore Kendall, they published Anthony Adverse, turning it into a decade’s book sensation and fortune. Bernard Sobel, famed press agent for Ziegfeld, helped popularize the era’s publicity tactics and the phrase Glorifying the American Girl.
New York hotels largely allow cooking in rooms as dining rooms fade in importance. Deluxe properties installed kitchenettes and refrigeration, with even smaller suites now equipped. old Waldorf used a sniffer to patrol corridors while hotels curb snooping and avoid past lawsuits over room security.
The descend ants of David McCammon held their annual reunion in Central City on Sunday. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Howard Hart with four children, Mr and Mrs Beverly Anderson with four children, Mr and Mrs Rufus Hanken of Anamosa, Mr and Mrs Ray Robinson and daughter Louise of Cedar Rapids, Mr and Mrs Henry McCammon, Mr and Mrs Lester Falcon with sons Robert and Donald, Mr and Mrs Henry Anderson and nine children, Henry Meredith of Central City, and John Anderson of Anamosa.
Sunday morning Leslie Vernon Johnson son of Mr and Mrs Peter J Johnson of Cedar Rapids married Miss Vera Mae Myers daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter C Myers of Cedar Rapids at the Methodist parsonage. Rev A M Smith officiated with attendants Kathleen Barnes and Edward Stoudt of Cedar Rapids observing.
State of Iowa Linn County notice dated August 29 1936 appoints Mary Elizabeth Barger executrix of the George H. Barger estate. Creditors urged to pay and claimants to file authenticated claims with the Linn County District Court clerk.
A reader laments a prideful man who longs to reconcile with Sara after a brief infatuation with Doris. The note predicts Sara would welcome him back, urging him to swallow his pride and seek forgiveness for neglect.
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