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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1932
Page
6
A compact list shows monthly and yearly subscription prices for Rapids and Marion editions. One year costs 5.00 with a 9.50 rate indicated. monthly options priced at 60 cents and 3.00 respectively.
With the Gazette absent its editor, the column space will feature current editorial opinions from other representative newspapers. The plan aims to provide diverse viewpoints while maintaining the newspaper’s editorial discourse.
The piece argues supply and demand cruelty in agriculture limits farmer power. It cites inelastic food demand and individualist farming as barriers to collective action. A truce in the Iowa front offers relief but real reform requires self-sufficient farming and shifted cropping, not marches or government machinery.
A columnist notes a nationwide private swing around circles by motorists on a summer road network from Detroit to Chicago and Lake Michigan. They praise the roads and miles of travel, the educational system, and regional vitality across states and provinces as evidence of enduring national assets.
The Detroit News notes agreement on improvements in recent weeks and discusses how optimistic voices contrast with harsher paints of conditions. It critiques political strategies cited by outsiders as misguided while highlighting local business leaders’ roles.
Detroit News notes early figures on 3 cent letter mail show Chicago's post office revenue not rising as expected. Postmaster Arthur C. Lueder says July August averages fell from 2.8 million to 2.0 million letters daily while first class revenue rose marginally. The piece argues federally set rates are speculative and politicized, urging self governing post offices to optimize charges.
A Lincoln Star column lampoons growing average women’s foot size from 4 1/2 to 6 4 amid chiropodists’ findings. It jokes that parties promising dainty feet could sway female votes, and whimsically suggests laws to adjust shoe sizes to fit athletic outdoor women like Molly.
A Canton Ohio bank, closed last October, resumes operations thanks to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The reopening frees more than 750 000 dollars to 14 000 depositors and supports school and Christmas savings, small accounts under 50 dollars, and a 10 percent withdrawal allowance on checking. The reconstruction agency faces criticism for helping banks and not the forgotten man.
The Detroit News notes the Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania uses plastic surgery to reform inmates by altering faces to aid social readjustment. It mentions disguising ex-convicts from police, with a tongue in cheek remark about fingerprints remaining an issue.
The Detroit News notes that signals from Mars inhabitants reached Prof. Pickering amid a tight financial moment. The paper suggests silence might let the issue fade and avoid public disclosure.
A sprawling reminiscence lists morning sounds, circus imagery, travels, and pop culture references from 1930s life. It includes reflections on journalism ethics, literary quotes, celebrity trivia, and notices of entertainers, films, and poetry with casual, essay-like observations.
The Oxford movement gains new life amid 1833 economic dullness as faithful reformers push to restore traditional ritual and apostolic succession. Leaders like Newman Keble and Pusey faced opposition from established church figures while many sought a return to pre reformation faith and ritual.
A reader challenges the autointoxication theory for arthritis deformans and dementia precox, while the author argues there is no such condition. The piece critiques doctors who blame toxins, notes miseducation in schools, and urges careful physical exams, warning against quack nostrums and unsupported metabolism claims.
By William Brady MD, the article explains holism, effects of acute inflammation on activity, and that chronic joint trouble benefits from daily exercise. It notes uncertainty about the causes of deforming arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, admitting we do not know a definite cause or cure. Copyright 1932.
The verse praises cheerful words and small deeds over wealth or fame. It argues true worth lies in gentle helper acts like sharing bread, comforting the ill, or placing a flower in a bare room, which honor God through mercy and love.
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