Chest Drive Aims for Top Pledge Rise in Cedar Rapids
Chest funds highlight a Community Chest kickoff featuring Public Health Nursing and eight agency presidents including Boy Scouts Chester Johnson Home for Aged Women Metta A Burd and YWCA Mrs C Harve Geiger. A. L. Smulekoff urged larger pledges and a goal of 89 605 26 with a breakfast at Montrose hotel and drive to October 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Health Nursing Association
Community House
Aulden Griffin
Gladyce Getz
Robert Gardner
Wilfred J
Bill” Lattner
Eleanor Cook
M. H. Morrison
Public Welfare Bureau
Penick and Ford
William Vesely
C. Harve Geiger
Quaker Oats Company
A. L. Smulekoff
Cedar Rapids
Montrose Hotel
James H. Blackstone, Jr
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Old Age Security Aged Women Home Turns A Life Story
By Beity Anderson, the tale recalls 1918 knitting for soldiers at the Home for Aged Women. Mrs S entered at 52 as a worker and later for years saved small sums while keeping the house neat and served on Monday mornings. Now 72 she seeks admission with board approving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. S
Home For
Cedar Rapids
Community Chest
Soldier Boys
the Home
Poland protests to Prague over Teschen dispute
A Polish foreign office spokesman said the army is ready to move into the Teschen minority area if ordered, while hoping for a peaceful settlement. Tensions rise as Polish planes allegedly fly over Czech territory and violent incidents flare in Teschen, with Hungary voicing dissatisfaction with Czech minority proposals.
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Teschen
Polish Foreign Office
Warsaw
United Press
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Prague
Budapest
Workers Alliance backs F. D. R. note
The Workers Alliance of America reelected David Lasser as president and Herbert Benjamin as secretary treasurer at its fourth annual convention in Cleveland. About 500 delegates approved sending President Roosevelt the group’s endorsement of his peace message to the harassed peoples of Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
INS
Workers Alliance of America
WPA
David Lasser
Washington, D. C
Herbert Benjamin
Roosevelt
Europe
Clerk’s Report Approved as Cedar Rapids Court Opens September Term
Judge George C Scott opened the September term of the United States district court in Cedar Rapids with a brief session. The sole business was approving the clerk Lee Mc Neely of Dubuque’s report. The judge attributed the brief proceedings to being caught up with the calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States District Court
Cedar Rapids
George C Scott
Lee McNeely
Dubuque
Scott
Coe and Cornell Coaches to Address Young Men’s Bureau
Athletic coaches from Coe and Cornell will speak at the Young Men’s Bureau meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Thursday night. Moray Eby and Dick Barker lead the panel with Willis Lamb and Forest Rutgers assisting, and 6 Jud Dean backing Barker in basketball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coe
Cornell
Young Men's Bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce
Moray Eby
Dick Barker
Eby
Willis Lamb
Forest Rutgers
Barker
Jud Dean
Dance Couple Marks 57th Anniversary in Cedar Rapids
Mr and Mrs Frank W Dance of Cedar Rapids observed their fifty seventh wedding anniversary with a family dinner at their country home in Cedar County. They were married Sept 27 1881 at Tipton by Rev L L Sweet. He is 81 born Aug 16 1857 in Cedar County and she 1863 in Cedar Bluffs. They have four daughters six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank W. Dance
Park Avenue
Mount Vernon Avenue
Dance
Linn Township
Cedar County
Tipton
L. L. Sweet
Baptist Church
John Dance
Cedar Bluffs
Cedar Rapids
Arlynn M. Bittner
Gail H. Clark
Georgia H Frederick
Lisbon
F. Evelyn Hocken
Troy Mills
Bonnie Bittner Thomson
Mount Vernon
Vivian Clark Fackler
Des Moines
Helen A. Clark
Robert W. Bittner
Elizabeth J. Frederick
Leo F. Frederick
Warren C. Fackler
David W. Thomson
Hernia Treatment Notes From Health Column History
A reader thanks the Southern Health Service for hernia care via injection and notes gradual removal of a truss. The column recalls past cautions on injections and non surgical methods, referencing 1920s and 1930s debates about ambulant treatment and radical operation versus conservative care.
Caution Advised on Hernia Treatment Claims
The text warns the public to seek only fully qualified doctors and avoid deceptive specialists offering non surgical cures. It states hernia surgery remains truly surgical and injection therapy is a modern method used in many cases, requiring as much skill as the radical operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Reader
Malt Coffee Question and Fool Proof Cough Medicine Advice
Question and answer column discusses malt coffee harmlessness and endorses Fool Proof Cough Medicine. Recipe includes flaxseed infusion with citrate of soda glycerin lemon juice peppermint essence and notes infant and adult dosages. Claims relief for acute respiratory infection and chronic cough with emphasis on safety and booklet availability for 25 cents.
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F.P.C.M
Film Producers Guild Sign Labor Pact with Screen Actors Guild
HOLLYWOOD AP Joseph M Schenck president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers announced a labor relations contract between film producers and the Screen Actors Guild affecting about 1 200 senior and 10 000 junior members The eight year pact guarantees a 48 hour work week overtime at time and a half for freelancers and contract players earning 500 dollars weekly or less and a minimum rest period for players earning 1000 dollars or less A committee will study extra players and seek agreement on them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Joseph M. Schenck
Association of Motion Picture Producers
Screen Actors’ Guild
Schenck
Frank Morgan
War risk insurance refused for Italian and German ships
Pacific coast marine underwriters in San Francisco on Tuesday refused war risk insurance to Italian and German shipping at any price. Rates for other vessels continued to rise sharply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
INS
Pacific Coast Marine Insurance
Hrbek Returns From Czech Visit With War Viability Claim
Jan J. Hrbek reports from a three month stay in Czechoslovakia during the Sokol festival that mobilization halted a planned invasion in May. He claims two million Czech troops could be fielded, with women trained to drive transports and operate guns, and notes trenches along borders with Poland and Romania. He attributes Sudeten tension to past liberal policies allowing German schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jan Hrbek
Hitler Pos- Abs
Czechoslovakia
Jan J. Hrbek
Upland Drive
America
Hrbek
Sudetenland
Mr. Hrbek
City Briefs and Personals Snapshot of Local Notices
Chicken pie suppers at St James church and Kenwood Presbyterian with 35 cent meals. Cedar Rapids Navy club set to meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Montrose hotel. Troy Deal fined 10 dollars and costs for speeding 44 in a restricted zone. Mrs Charles O Tisher called to Highland Park Ill by death of aunt Miss Sarah Wessling. Dr Eugene Carmichael left for Chicago to attend the American College of Proctology convention to read a paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy Deal
Highteenth Street
Charles O. Tisher
Hinkley Avenue
Highland Park, Ill
Sarah Wessling
Cedar Rapids
Eugene Carmichael
Chicago
American College of Proctology
In Charge Of A Clinical Demonstration
He will be in charge of a clinical demonstration and will return to Cedar Rapids Sunday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
McBurneys Move to New Home and Kresge Role
Mr and Mrs J McBurney relocate to 1715 First Avenue East from Joplin Missouri. Mr McBurney will become manager of Kresge s dollar store. A Coe graduate of 1922 he began work with Kresge s here in 1925.
Theater party honors 60 Gazette newsboys at New State
Ray Vernimont manager of the New State theater hosted more than 60 Gazette newsboys at a Monday evening party. Alex Fidler street circulation manager reported that the event fostered good relations between the paper and its newsvendor staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Vernimont
New State Theater
Gazette
Alex Fidler
Boys Enjoy Laurel and Hardy Double Feature at Local Theater
Patrons enjoyed a double bill featuring Laurel and Hardy in Blockheads and Gloria Stuart with Michaeloe in Time Out For Murder. The program offered light hearted comedy plus a crime drama presented to a family audience at the city cinema.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurel and Hardy
Gloria Stuart and
Michael Oe
Murer
Anniversary Rally Marks United Lutheran Church Founding
First Lutheran church members plan to attend a Waterloo rally Wednesday at 8 p m as part of a nationwide observance of the United Lutheran church in America twenty year founding anniversary dating to November 11 1918. Rev Chester S Simonton of Messiah Lutheran Harrisburg Pa will speak at the Waterloo event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Lutheran Church
United Lutheran Church
Waterloo
United States
Canada
United Lutheran Church In America
Chester S. Simon~ton
Messiah Lutheran Church
Harrisburg
Sex of Bullfrogs Determined by Ear Size
The article notes that bullfrog sex can be identified by ear size with males bearing larger ears than females.
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U. S
Beity Anderson
Workers Alliance
Young Men’s Bureau
First Church OF Christ, Scientist
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Peter W. Ross
C.S.B
San Francisco, California
The
Mother Church
the First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Massachusetts
Second Avenue
Mrs
Personal Health Service
William Brady, M. D
Film Producers, Actors’ Guild
St. James Church
Navy Club
Kenwood Presbyterian
Prairieburg
St. Joseph's
Lydia Wehmeier
Smulekoff’s
Philco
Smulekoff
Smulekoff's
Cary Philice Mystery Centre
Sleop
Third Ave
West End
McBurneys
Newsies
Ford Dealers
3Rd Ave
Bridge Plenty
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