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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1942
Page
5
Albert E Wiggam discusses work as a social constraint and play instinct, arguing humans seek activity only when necessary for survival. He also covers interviewing for business, and steps to cure chronic drunkenness through acknowledgment, long-term psychology, and literature discussion with a doctor.
Firefighters answering an alarm at a Philadelphia pier found no fire. The tug John Wanamaker boiler spilled coffee, triggering the call as crew invited the fireboat to share a cup. No damage, no injuries reported.
A briefBIOGRAPHY recalls Rudyard Kipling as a four year old who fled a hen in Bombay and later learned Hindustani. It traces his birth in India, childhood in England, 1871 voyage via Suez to England, and time with a sea captain before his parents returned to India.
A brief note invites readers to obtain a leaflet titled Flying Machine Pioneers by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to Uncle Ray at The Cedar Ranids Gazette.
Ten to twenty years ago on September 21, 1932, six thousand people filled the Municipal auditorium for fall fashion revues sponsored by Cedar Rapids downtown stores and the Chamber of Commerce mercantile bureau. A separate crime report notes two masked highwaymen fled with $1.20 from G. B. Graves eight miles north of the city as he hauled melons into Cedar Rapids. Local government plans progress on a new courthouse and jail with a recommended $750,000 cost after months of work by Linn County Protective association and the courthouse committee. The city health board ordered garbage be wrapped in paper before disposal in cans.
Sept 21 1912 Fire Chief Mohrbacher joins 800 fire chiefs at the International Association of Fire Engineers annual convention in Denver. Sheriff Loftus chaired a harmony banquet at the Montrose hotel hosted by Linn County Republican candidates.
A letter traveled three continents and two oceans before finally reaching Lieut. John J. A. Lyons at Fort Benning. After being misdirected from Atlanta to Australia and Ireland to New York, it circled back to the correct Lyons in Frisco and then to Benning, completing a remarkable cross continental delivery.
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