Linn county boosts relief office and pension staff pay
Linn county supervisors approve revised pay increases for relief office workers and old age pension staff after state board ruling that county officials control the salaries. Nine relief workers gain up to 32 dollars monthly. bookkeeper 75. senior investigators up to 110. director 175.
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Linn County
Linn
Linn County Relief Office
County Social Welfare Board
Relief Office
County Social Welfare and Supervisory Boards
Clarence Beeson
Fred Stirm
Elmer M. Seevell
Marion
Beeson
State Social Welfare Board
County Social Welfare Department
Hazelle Harper
Laura Hutchison
Charles Bues
Melvin Dykes
Frank Skala
Relief Department
Eloyse Bittner
Edwin J. Hurley
Joseph Roeder
Roeder
Liner Athenia Survivor Reaches New York
The first survivor Damon Boynton, 31, of Ithica New York, describes harrowing scenes aboard the sinking liner with women screaming children crying as the ship listed in darkness.
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NEW York
Athenia
Damon
Linn Soldiers Relief Expenditures Drop to 23 181.44
Annual Linn county soldiers relief commission report shows expenses from Sept 1, 1938 to Sept 1, 1939 total 23181.44, down from 29087.65 the previous year. Largest item groceries 1669.87 with other major costs for rent coal milk and administrative salaries, while officials cite budget compliance. Board members include Frank Simon chairman, Frank Kopecky secretary, and A H Walbrand.
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Linn County Soldiers Relief Commission
Soldiers Relief Commission
Soldiers Relief Cammit
Frank Simon
Moerier
Frank Kopecky
Cedar Rapids
A. H. Walbrand
Supervisors decline road vacation near Marion after protest
Linn county supervisors refused to vacate a 1000 foot north south road near Marion despite a petition by 18 residents. R E Choate filed the vacation request for abutting property. Objectors warned of longer routes for school children and Marion commuters as Supervisors Elmer Seevell and Fred Stirm dissented.
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Linn County
Marion
R. E. Choate
Blake Boulevard
Elmer M. Seevell
Fred Stirm
Cedar Rapids Supervisor Rests Vote On Key Issue
First District Supervisor Clarence Beeson of Cedar Rapids abstained from voting on a board matter, stating he did not wish to go on record either way. The move reflects a rare procedural privilege exercised by a board member during the session.
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First District
Clarence Beeson
Cedar Rapids
Britain to Broadcast German Casualties Names
Lord Privy Seal Sir Samuel Hoare announced in the House of Commons that the British Broadcasting Corporation will broadcast in German the names of German dead wounded and prisoners once their identities are fully established.
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London
Privy Seal
Samuel Hoare
House of Commons
British Broadcasting
Twin superstition spans Africa and India
In several regions of Africa and India twins are viewed as unlucky. Cultural beliefs attribute misfortune or death to twin births, leading to social stigma and varied traditional practices surrounding newborn twins.
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Africa
India
Bloomington Girl Uses Hitler Exclamation in Game
In Bloomington Indiana Mary Weaver an 11 year old girl who was it in a hide and seek game counted by fives to a hundred and cried Hitler She explained to a bystander that the remark means Here come ready or not in a moment of play
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Bloomington
Ind
Mary Weaver
Hitler
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