Enterprising Woman Rebuilds Homes On Her Own
Agnes Kubasa, 623 Thirty-first Street SE, farms ten acres near Mount Vernon Road and has moved five houses onto the lots. She digs, lays pipes, bricks septic tanks, lays oak floors, does wiring and plumbing, paints, and builds foundations with her 15 year old daughter assisting. She aims to finish a full basement on her current project before bad weather.
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Jack-of-all-building Trades
Agnes Kubasa
Thirty-first Street
Mount Vernor Road
Kathy
Edo
Ng Mycelf
Mount Vernon Road
Kubasa
Mary Ann
Building Trades Council
the Gazette
Florence Boyd
L Avenue NE
Mrs. Kubasa
Colorado execution? Franklin played every CU position in 1917
Walter B. Franklin, who this summer ended 20 years of service as Colorado University's graduate manager, once played every position but one for CU in a 1917 grid game with Utah State.
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Boulder
Colo
Walter B. Franklin
Colorado University
C. U
Utah State
Music Registrations Begun At Coe College
Coe College announces music course registrations at the conservatory for the week of Sept 16. Private and class lessons are offered for ages five through college level in piano strings woodwinds brass percussion voice and more. Faculty and contact details provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coe College
Conservatory
Paul S. Ray
Coe
Max Dachler
Grace Swab
Louise Crawford
Eleanor Houts
Alma Turchek
Martha Leksa
Ray
Grace Huddle Lockhoff
Stanley Vesely
Morris Katzoff
Howard Ellson
Joseph Kitchin
Alan Richardson
Eleanor Taylor
Crawford
The
Music Conservatory
Half Of Arms Outlay To Be Spent This Year
Defense experts estimate less than half of the $10.263 billion defense appropriation will be spent in the current fiscal year ending June 30 1941. Spending accelerates after January 1 1941 with monthly outlays rising toward $500 million then $600 million and aviation gear will push output to 1 500 planes a month. A further deficiency appropriation of about $1.75 billion is expected next week to finance the pending conscription program pushing total defense funding beyond $12 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Defense Commission
Congress
Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids Teacher Guest At Japanese Wedding Feast
Miss Dorothy Stofler, a Wilson High School home economics teacher, traveled from Los Angeles to Honolulu to study. She attended a Japanese wedding anniversary feast with 100 guests and a Chinese birthday dinner for 60, observing traditional dress, multi course meals, and speeches. She shared gifts received and planned to bring back textiles for students.
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Cedar Rapids
Dorothy Stofler
Los Angeles
University of Hawaii
Honolulu
Oahu
Miss Stofler
Miss Stoflet
Japan
China
Wilson High School
David A. Stoflet
First Avenue
Cedar Rapids Cadet Chooses Army Air Service Ambitions
John Vourganos of Cedar Rapids, a flying cadet in the forty seventh school squadron at Randolph Field Texas, writes home praise for the service and fellow cadets. He plans six months at Chanute Field to study math and mechanics on track to become an air corps officer.
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John Vourganos
Cedar Rapids
Randolph Field
Texas
Constance Moore
Randolph
Charley McCarthy
Ray Milland
Vourganos
Viola Stefanako
Air Corps
Chanute Field
Rantoul
Ill
Peter
Franklin School
Mail Carrier In 33 Years Travels 500000 Miles
Cleveland M. Nellis, rural mail carrier at Hilton New Jersey, began duties in 1907 and has logged about 500000 miles in 33 years, missing mail only twice due to snowbound trains.
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Hilton
N. J
Cleveland M. Nellis
Nellis
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Jack McKinney
Gazette
Money Corporation
2Nd Ave
Cleveland
Ohio
King Band
Brabbit-Taylor Music Co
1St Avenue
Ylor
Wanda Montz
Army Air Service
John B. Turner and Son
Turner Funeral Service
John B. Turner & Son
Second Avenue
America
Studebakers
Studebaker
Studebaker Commander
Raymond Loewy
Boeing
South Bend
Ind
Studebaker Oy
Pry Alpha
Kadlec Bros
Studebaker Distributors
Iowa
Millsap Motor CO
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