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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1942
Page
11
Albert Wiggam discusses marriage longevity and golden weddings with Dr Louis Dublin and notes longer lifespans increase future golden wedding odds. He cites 21 and 26 as youthful marriage examples and contrasts early chances with past rates. A separate view from Dean Virginia Gildersleeve warns war raises demand for trained minds while college access narrows due to wartime cuts.
Readers are urged to buy Dr A E Wiggam’s booklet How to Be an Emotionally Grown-Up for 10 cents plus a stamped return envelope. It promises fifty self tests and guidance to boost confidence, with aims to identify capable youths for advanced education and leadership roles.
A brief biography of Rudyard Kipling tracing his 1892 world voyage with wife Carrie to Canada and Japan, settling in Vermont, writing the Jungle Books, meeting Sam McClure and Frank Doubleday, and returning to England where he lived the rest of his life.
Cedar Rapids residents woke to 39 degrees as autumn coolness sets in. The 1932-33 edition of Who's Who in America lists 22 local men. New traffic signals debut at the four corners of First Avenue and Thirteenth Street SE.
Announcement notes a $5,500 memorial pipe organ given to the First Baptist church by the children and grandchildren of Theophilus G. and Susanna Krebs, who migrated from Madison Wisconsin to Cedar Rapids in 1869.
The city council adopted a resolution of necessity to pave Twenty seventh Street from Marion Boulevard to Avenue E. A gray timber wolf was shot near town by A L Bright as it watched for field mice at the northern edge of town.
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