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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1941
Page
9
Dr Mery MacFadyen outlines a Diet that stresses calories not quantity and allows more food than many reducing plans. She suggests slow initial weight loss of two pounds weekly tapering to three to five pounds monthly, with vitamin rich foods and rationed portions.
Miss O. M. writes that blondes can be clean and trustworthy while critiquing a jealous predatory blond who targets other girls' partners. Mary Manners replies that the letter will spark reader commentary and warns the writer to avoid the man, noting such behavior leads to unhappiness.
Pattern 4747 is available in misses and women sizes 12 through 40. Size 16 requires 3% yards of 35 inch fabric and 3% yards ric rac. Send fifteen cents to Pattern Department The Cedar Rapids Gazette New York for this pattern. Ten cents more buys the Fall Winter Pattern Book with a free hat and bag pattern.
CHICAGO UP The army added five candy flavors to the dessert section of the canned field ration. Col Henry B Barry said one ounce chocolate chunks will be replaced by separately wrapped orange lemon lime butterscotch and caramel candies. The move aims to ease wrapping and extend energy between meals.
Vermont lawmakers pass a resolution declaring the United States in armed conflict since President Roosevelt ordered the navy to strike first. The action activates a law for a $10 monthly bonus to Vermonters in the army navy and marine corps, with $500000 appropriated for bonuses.
Mayor F H LaGuardia secured the Republican nomination for a third term by about a 3 to 2 margin or 19 820 votes over John R Davies in a low turnout primary with only 14 percent of enrolled Republicans voting He also drew the American Labor party nomination and will face William O Dwyer in November LaGuardia carried Manhattan Brooklyn and Richmond but lost Queens and the Bronx in a contest marked by party organization divisions Davies ran on antiwar anti New Deal themes while LaGuardia stayed aloof and supporters cited good government as the issue
LABELLE Florida. A 10 year old boy named Earl Maddox is partially blind after three accidents over three years. Each time a stick he struck with an axe bounced back into his eyes causing progressive vision loss. The first accident damaged one eye, the second damaged the other, and the third worsened the remaining sight.
David Sons 18 of Sheffield Iowa was held in Cass county jail on robbery with aggravation. He was bound over to a grand jury after admitting he held up Lloyd Kunze a night clerk at the Pullman hotel last week obtaining 15 dollars.
Pattern 2974 offers transfer motifs to pair towels and pillowcases with His Hers or Mr Mrs designs. Includes 12 motifs about 3 34 by 5 percent inches, materials, stitch illustrations. Send 10 cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette needlecraft department New York address for pattern.
Linda Morton nurses an accidental victim on Titan Tower while torn between love for Dr. Bill Blaine and memory of late Airman Mike Morton. Jo Monroe and Janice Marberry push Linda toward Bill as Steve Hubbard provokes tension on the roof. Linda borrows Jo’s car to confront Blaine and Hubbard. (To be continued)
For the first five months of the current year truck registrations totaled 326,849, up 32 percent from the same period in 1940.
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