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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1932
Page
17
A $150 cash burglary occurred at the Auto Parts shop on 720 Second Avenue SE at 9 10 p m Thursday. The front door was forced, the safe unlocked, and a man fled in a waiting car after a brief three minute visit. police seek two men and a matching vehicle.
A Cedar Rapids column lists local items: a fresh Jones county sausage shipment at Hladky's 1600 4th Avenue. Ce dar Rapids Osteopathic society luncheon speaker Burgin, at the Y.M.C.A.. Bee Joan and Jeanne Halamicek ads. a first fire alarm at 340 Eleventh St SW due to a chimney spark. no police court cases. Shueyville church services with last conference sermon. Mrs Leonard and daughter rushing to Belle Plaine after sister Mrs Harms injured. Rudolph Hurka leaves for Columbia University. ukulele classes start at Playground building. Colyer H Sisam promoted to Woolworth Des Moines manager. Clifford Bresette collapses at Hotel Roosevelt, seeking transit west.
Cedar Rapids Iowa letter writer argues prohibition failed to curb vice and lawlessness, noting the Eighteenth Amendment did not produce temperance and that enforcement is ineffective as drinking rises among youth. The writer urges timely completion of the question for moral and social relief.
All Democrats in the territory are invited to the open meeting of the Second Congressional District Democrats on Friday at 8 pm in the Hotel Roosevelt. Campaign plans and future prospects will be discussed with leaders including Charles D. Huston, B. M. Jacobsen, William Keefe, Laura Etter, Richard Mitchell, and June Fickel among those expected.
A dense catalog of grocery specials and prices from A N Watson covering sugars, flours, butter, oleo, lard, bacon, canned goods, condiments, fruit, coffee, and beverages. The fragment lists multiple unit prices and pack sizes for weekly sale items.
A crowded ad lists numerous everyday staples with prices for soap, potatoes, cereals, canned goods, dried fruit, and baking supplies. Items include P and G soap, Camay soap, silk tissue, jelly powder, jelly beans, raisins, prunes, cocoa, cereal, oats, and spices with unit prices and package sizes.
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