Survivor Recalls Shipwreck That Took 33 Lives on Pourquois-Pas
Reykjavik reports survivor Eugene Genedeec described the 30 year polar career of Dr. Jean Baptiste Charcot and the Pourquois-Pas wreck after a 70 mile gale drove the ship onto rocks near Faxa Fjord. 29 bodies were recovered and four crewmen are feared dead.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
INS
Jean Baptiste Charcot
Charcot
Copenhagen
Denmark
Eugene Genedeec
Faxa Fjord
Herofficers
Dr. Charcot
Pourquois-Pas
Greenland
Angmagssalik
Antarctic
Arctic
Paris
Lawrence Tibbett Booked for Cedar Rapids Concert December 7
Booking of Lawrence Tibbett, renowned American baritone, announced for Cedar Rapids Community Concert season. He will appear December 7, joining other attractions including the Joes European ballet on November 11 and Toscha Seidel with Bartlett and Robertson. Membership drive planned September 21. dues urged for 1937 38 season.
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Lawrence Tibbett
Cedar Rapids
Wind and lightning hit Iowa towns prompting damages
In TROY MILLS wind and lightning damaged homes with a tree felled at Mrs May Nietert and a chimney toppled into Mrs Dell Peyton’s roof. A local farmer Fred Dudley lost a horse to lightning while a strike near John Price’s property stunned him and his son. WINTHROP high school elected officers across four grades with named presiding officers and representatives. TROY MILLS junior senior classes also elected officers for the consolidated school.
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Clinton
Grand Mound
Calamus
Lost Nation
Marion
Anamosa
Edward Hamdorf
Lenard Ahl
E. V. Riedesel
Wheatland
Harley Shelton
Melvin Dennie
E. Lowry
Leona Ladehoff
Troy Mills
Glenn Donlea
Merrill Wenholz
Jenette Briggs
E. F. Timson
Dorothy Hester
Evelyn Monaghan
Mary Jean Hickman
Billy Brubaker
Robert Sharp
Billy de Haven
Gordon Donlea
Bonita Briggs
Troy Mills Consolidated School
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Jean Charcot
Elza Powell
Merle Wright
Wilbur Perry
Robert Orcutt
Charles Webster
Gale Wilson
Donald Phillip
Mount Vernon
Lisbon
Franklin Township
Lee Stinger
Lucile Gove
North Marion
Waterloo
Clyde Lindsley
Luther Plattenberger
Gordon Rahn
West Union
Iane Waldie
William Waldie
Cedar Falls
Gaylon L. Schroyer
M. A. Schroyer
Edgewood
Kenneth Arthur
Ernest Stone
Virginia Moser
Arthur Platt
Fay Scott
Dorothy Walters
Marie Perrinjaquet
Lloyd Bushaw
Dwight Newman
Burdette Berens
Kathryn Smith
Richard Minkler
Day Westerlen
Donald Walters
Wanda Tilp
Merle Sharp
Patsy Cropp
Helen Marie Walters
Evalyn Minkler
Wesley Newton
Lila Smith
Helen Kellogg
Iowa News
Kneip Markets
Leo Wicke
DIAL
Duke of Kent
Cooper
Newport
Mays Tea Room
Kap
Armstrong Clothing Co
Armstrong
Armstrong’s
Ces
Young Men’s
Glenaquhardt
Young Men’s New
Raglan
KNOX
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