Old Almanac Quilt Directions Leaflet for Readers
Readers can obtain a free Old Almanac Quilt leaflet by sending a stamped self addressed envelope to Nancy Page at The Cedar Rapids Gazette. Members met at Nancy Page’s home with rulers scissors fabrics and patches to outline a twelve block quilt based on zodiac figures from a grandmother’s almanac. Each block finishes at twelve inches square with an inner six and one half inch square in plain blue, color choices varied by month, and connecting bands to unify the design.
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Nancy Page
Nancy
Pattern transfer and applique guidance for Aries quilt square
Nancy guides members to cut pattern from today's paper and transfer to a 6.5 inch square cloth. She emphasizes accuracy, tracing, and turning allowances, with Aries zodiac centered on stiff cardboard. Use fine blue fabric, two strands of embroidery cotton, small stitches, and a slanting hemming stitch for applique.
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Nancy
Aries Pattern Ideas For Quilt Enthusiasts
The article describes next week’s diagram of a large block with star patterns for an Aries quilt. It notes four appliqued stars, blue for zodiac blocks, and vivid fast colors like yellow green and pink. Nancy will explain the sign and date meanings in the pattern arriving the following week.
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Nancy
National Head of Odd Fellows to Attend Iowa Convention
The national head of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, W. F. Jackson, will deliver the principal address at the Memorial building in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday Oct 19 at 7 pm. He recently was elected duire of the national grand and will soon assume that post. The five day Iowa Odd Fellows and Rebekahs sessions run Oct 17–21 with a full program including grand encampment, Rebekah assemblies, and installation of officers.
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Jackson
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Order
Memorial Building
Odd Fellows
J. H. Woodside
Linn County
State of
Kansas
Hotel
Montrose
Roosevelt
Lyons
Hotel Montrose
A.m
Odd Fel- Soret Grand Lodge
Rebekah Assembly
Mee Montrose
Hotel Vrose
Memorial Balkus
Ore
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Memorial Oe Ane
Arene Lodge
Rebekah
Hotel Mont
Oxford Federated church forms with Methodist union
At a recent Oxford meeting of the Preastenen and Methodist churches, the First Federated Church of Oxford organized an executive board. Members named were Earl Hevern Lou Edwards Sarah Yenter Mrs Dewey Worthman Mrs George Yenter Albert Yenter Mrs Dewey Swanson W A Scott and George Cotter. The board is authorized to select a pastor for the coming year.
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Oxford
Federated Church of
Federated Church
Earl Hevern
Lou Edwards
Sarah Yenter
Dewey Worthman
George Yenter
Albert Yenter
Dewey Swanson
W. A. Scott
George Cotter
Harvesting of the Fall Mushrooms in Autumn Feast
Poetic prose celebrates autumn harvest as hunters gather fall mushrooms and forest bounty. Images of timber gods, fish hawk, and fox frame a vivid season, urging hunters to call hounds, bend trees, and prepare bountiful boards for an autumn feast as nature shifts to fall colors and migration.
Livestock Credit Aid Planned by Sioux City Omaha Firms
Washington report says cattlemen will be first to receive loans as Sioux City and Omaha agricultural credit corporations move to aid embarrassed stockmen. C. C. Jacobsen and Charles C. Kuning led talks with M. C. McCarthy, Jesse H. Jones, and Fred Hovey to establish loan policies, collateral rules, and a staff to evaluate eligibility. The aim is to set up an examining division soon and begin lending at the earliest date.
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Washington, D. C
Sioux City
Omaha
C. C. Jacobsen
District Corporation
Washington
Charles C Kuning
Jacobsen
Kuning
M. C. McCarthy
Jesse H. Jones
Fred Hovey
Omaha Kartiker
Credit Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Amateur Gardener Confusion Solved by Old Hand
A farm journal quip advises on distinguishing plants from weeds: pull them all, and if they regrow they are weeds. The exchange captures practical gardening humor about early growth and weed identification.
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Farm Journal
Almanac Quilt Block Missing Request Ad
A notice from The Cedar Rapids Gazette asks readers to mail ten cents per missing Old Almanac Quilt block and include a stamped addressed envelope. Send to Nancy Page, care of the Gazette, with copyright noted 1932.
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Nancy Page
The
Cedar Rapids
Central City Social News And A September Wedding
Central City notes describe Mrs Myrta Cunningham hosting former Kearns school pupils including Mrs Willa Crane Cedar Rapids Mrs Frank Kirkpatrick Springville and others. Dorsie Wilmott announces engagement to Rollo Wright with marriage Sept 12 in Galena Illinois and farm residence planned west of Central City. Jean leaves for a two week motor trip through northern Minnesota. Pleasant Valley club elects officers with Mrs Rollo Batchelder president and the next meeting at Frank Randall home. Mrs Ralph Bishop’s birthday surprise gathering hosted by Mrs S D Zimmerman features card playing with several friends. A card party honors W D McParkerkeeth Gs E Butters Dugal McTavish and F O Satter.
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Myrta Cunningham
Kearns’ School
Willa Crane
Marion
Frank Kirkpatrick
Cedar Rapids
John Yocom
Lucy Lacock
Springville
Richard Bowdish
Thad Cook
Henry Scott
Elsie Batchelor
Central City
Dorsie E. Wilmott
B. H. Wilmott
Rollo Wright
Lewis Wright
Galena
Ill
Rollo Batchelder
Pleasant Valley
Martin Neilson
Ethel Goodlove
Herman Koch
Frank Randall
Ralph Bishop
S. D. Zimmerman
Mesdames Dale Rowley
Francis Goldsberry
Leo Cornwell
Fred Cornwell
Sam Zimmerman
W. D. McParkerkeeth
E. Butters
Dugald McTavish
F. O. Satter
Finally Held After Break In With Police Night
Kansas City police tracked and arrested 24-year-old Robert Farnsworth Tivis after a break in incident. Tivis climbed into his sweetheart’s apartment when she had another date and waited for her return. A passerby spotted him, leading to his capture and detention.
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Kansas City
Robert Farnsworth Tivis
Tivis
Success Of Eastern Plans May Extend Railroad Mergers
New York report notes eastern trunk line leaders agreed on consolidation under four systems totaling eight billion dollars in railroad properties. Informed circles say the eastern move may open the door to large unifications elsewhere, with the Northwest seeing renewed pressure to merge between the Northern Pacific and Great Northern lines after two years of inactivity.
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NEW York
Eastern Trunk Line
New York Times
Northwest
Northern Pacific
Extension course on group work for youths at Coe College
Four youth organizations the YMCA Camp Fire Boy Scouts and YWCA will sponsor an extension course at Coe College this fall titled Technique for Work with Groups and Individuals. Classes meet Mondays at 7:30 p.m. instructor is Mrs William H Morgan of Iowa City a Columbia psychology graduate. A kickoff talk is set for Tuesday at the YWCA.
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Y. M. C. A. Camp
Fire, Boy Scouts
Coe College
Tie Ao Se
Oe Ee
William H. Morgan
Iowa City
Columbia University
Morgan
New York
Columbia
Ariana Burr
Carroll Thomas
Boy Scout Office
Charles Filipi
Wisconsin Professor To Talk At Coe On Philosophy Rural Life
Prof. Ellis Lou Kirkpatrick of the University of Wisconsin rural sociology will address the Coe student body at 9 30 Monday morning in T M Sinclair chapel. He speaks on A More Adequate Philosophy of Rural Life and is an authority on rural sociology. He teaches Rural Standards of Living.
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Ellis Lou Kirkpatrick
Department of Rural Sociology
University of Wisconsin
Coe
T. M. Sinclair Chapel
American Country Life Association
Kirkpatrick
Labor Chief Urges Utah Voters to Oust Smoot
William Green president of the American Federation of Labor urged Utah workers to vote against re-electing Senator Smoot and support Dr Elbert D Thomas for the U S Senate. He cited Smoots votes on Parker Supreme Court sales tax child labor amendment Clayton act and federal wage increases.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Utah
Smoot
Elbert D. Thomas
United States Senate
Green
John J. Parker
Supreme Court
Cities Service Gets Kansas Injunction
A three judge federal court in Topeka granted an interim injunction barring Kansas officials from enforcing gas rate reductions and from pursuing receiver ship against ten Cities Service subsidiaries. The trial was scheduled for October 25. the state attorney general Roland Boynton and the Kansas Public Service Commission were enjoined.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Roland Boynton
Kansas Public Service Commission
Local social notes from Lowden and area
Miss Emma Richmann hosted a quilting party Tuesday afternoon. The Lydia circle of Zion Evangelical church was entertained Monday evening by Miss Martha. Mr and Mrs L H Neier of northwest Lowden were surprised on their twentieth wedding anniversary as fifty friends gathered at their home for an evening reception.
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Emma Richmann
Lydia
Zion Evangelical Church
Martha Mr
L. H. Neier
Lowden
Entering Cornell College as Mount Vernon Freshman
Miss Fussell of Cedar Rapids moved to Mount Vernon and, after finishing her junior year at Washington high, entered Cornell College under a special educational program for outstanding three year high school students. She excelled in Sophrosyne Cecilians Lit eratae and French club and held leadership roles in Epworth League. Her family has longstanding ties to Cornell.
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The
Gazette
Mount Vernon
Washington High School
Cedar Rapids
W. Fussell
Soviet
Avenue SE
Miss Fussell
Cornell College
Stony Ridge Camp
Stone City
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Mcporn Gs
Washington
Cornell
Board of Trustees
Chloroform Ends Life Of Snake Held Captive By Spiders
In Elgin Illinois Tommy the garter snake trapped by two spiders Ferocious Frankie and Hamstringing Herbie was euthanized with chloroform after a humane intervention by Dr A L Mann Elgin Mayor Myron W Lehman and members of the SPCA. The flailing battle ended in the basement of banker Roland Swanberg.
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Tommy
Roland Swanberg
Frankie
Herbie
St. Charles
Dr. Mann
Death of Young Artist Tied to Self Destruction Theory
Washington report on Sylvia Rockin, a Potomac river houseboat resident and aspiring artist, found strangled by a bathrobe cord. Investigators build the self harm theory for a coroner's inquest as her NY relatives arrive. a sister Beatrice reportedly hanged herself in 1928. B Speidel, 30, a post office clerk and fellow resident, claims he woke to find her hanging.
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Washington
Sylvia Rockin
New York
Beatrice
B. Speidel
Fruit Shower At Home For Aged Women Thursday
Adeline Taylor reports on the Home For Aged Women at 202 Twelfth Street NW preparing for an annual Thursday fruit shower. Residents, led by matron Gusta Minott, enjoy crafts, readings, and social activities while visitors bring fruit, jellies, linen, money, and other gifts.
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Home For Aged Women
Adeline Taylor
Home For Women
Twelfth Street NW
Only Real Stockmen Entitled to Loans
The Reconstruction Corporation said only farmers and stockmen or firms engaged in farm animals or breeding, fattening may receive loans. Ford Hovey leads agricultural activities. Canners, packers, processors, and merchants are not eligible. Loans backed by first mortgages on personal property, real estate optional. Interest set at 7 percent with no service or inspection fees. Loans offered directly to applicants in four types: livestock-range, breeder, pasture, and feed lot. Cross-district loans only at central markets like Chicago, Kansas City, and Omaha.
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Washington
Reconstruction Corporation
Ford Hovey
Credit Corporation
Agricultural Credit
Chicago
Kansas City
Omaha
Explosion at blast furnace kills guard in Indiana
Explosion at a rock wool furnace inside Putnamville state penal farm kills guard Lee Orr, 28, and critically injures another guard and three inmates. Injured were David ers. The blast sends Orr through a window. victims taken to Putnam County Hospital. Gas buildup likely triggered the explosion.
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Greencastle
Ind
Rock
Putnamville State
Lee Orr
Daviders
Putnam County
Woman Says She Killed Musician In Self Defense
In Oakland California Mrs Delmasso told police she shot Claude Beers 36 musician with a national broadcasting chain in self defense. She said Beers threatened her in her home while her three children slept in a rear bedroom.
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Oakland
Calif
INS
Claude Beers
Delmasso
Beers
George
Marke
Albert
Soviet Oil Trust Signs Jap Oil Contract
The Soviet oil export trust signed an agreement authorizing Japanese industrialist Kucziro Matsukata to sell oil in Japan. Negotiated in Tokyo, the deal involves 200000 tons to be shipped early next year. Berlin reports link the deal to Japanese naval oil independence from American supplies.
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Moscow
Kucziro Matsukata
Japan
Tokio
Matsukata
Berlin
Pacific
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Aries
Head OF Odd Fellows
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Senate
Hotel Trosem
Hotel Roosevelt
Memoria
Grand Lodge
Mebuilding
Montgomery Ward & Co
Epicures
Central
Eastern
Wisconsin
Labor
Voters of
Sen. Smoot
Cities Service
Washington High
Lasswell
Margaret Fussell
Elgin, Til
Boyson Jewelry
Second Street
S.E
Ireland
Woman's Club
Santa Claus
Gusta Minott
Chloe
Ven
Hoover
Soviet Oil Trust
Akron
Merchants Bank
Excelsior Springs
Missouri
Elms
America
Rates Elms Hotel
Mt Excelsior Springs
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