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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1934
Page
10
Grain values fluctuated in a narrow trading range on a volatile Chicago session. Wheat and corn slipped while oats stayed flat. cash trade showed modest activity as buyers and sellers weighed a softer tone and limited demand.
New York prices showed indecision with metals firm while industrials eased. US Steel and several blue chips drifted. late trading saw about 500000 shares change hands as margins and other news failed to spark strong direction.
Fragmentary OCR text lists places like Shanghai Hongkong Mexico City Montreal and New York with numbers and sugar market references. No coherent event or outcome is readable from the fragment.
Reports say the public enemy No 1 Baby Face Nelson is being hunted in Iowa after a 1934 Ford coupe bearing Minnesota plates B 3 859 was taken in Austin and abandoned in Mason City. Fingerprints linked the car to the Dulinger gang member.
An early tally shows vehicle toll activity in Cedar Rapids this year with counts and local traffic impact. The report highlights increased use of toll facilities and notes figures likely to influence city budget planning.
Marion Sorosis Club begins year at Mrs LaVerna Crew home with yearbooks presented. Discussions center on Seeing the United States and Studying Problems Through Books, including essays Americas See It and A Neighbor Looks at America. Guests from Detroit and Savanna attend, and local meetings plan membership elections and a benefit dance for the club room fund.
The Federal Reserve Board returned a statement from the Federal Advisory Council urging a return to the gold standard and the end of monetary experimentation. Acting Governor J Thomas said he was amazed the council delivered the statement, noting it had not been discussed with board members before the council’s Sept. 17-18 meeting in Washington.
Four representatives from Iowa institutions spoke at a College Student Hygiene luncheon in Des Moines in connection with meetings of the Mississippi Valley Conference on Tuberculosis and the Mississippi Valley Sanatorium Association. Tuberculin testing, health service functions, and student well being were discussed.
The local highway commission announced that Highway 6 east of Iowa City will be opened temporarily for Saturday and Sunday due to the Iowa South Dakota football game. The detour at the Rock Island railroad crossing seven miles east of Iowa City is being addressed with planking and repair crews to restore the viaduct.
Wilbur Briles and Donald Strausser were arrested within six hours after Carl Malik reported his car stolen. The car was recovered, Strausser was sent to juvenile authorities, Briles pled guilty in district court and faces sentencing October 1.
A jumble of lost items and ads appears including a brown feather purse with keys and reward, a black billiard purse with money and papers, a blue silk knit purse, and various small services and store offers. Public notices warn against immoral use of want ads and promotions for local services and goods.
Readers and advertisers are urged to exercise caution with car sharing and transporting others. References should be exchanged and carefully investigated to avoid risks and misunderstandings.
A vintage ad page lists beauty shops with pricing on wigs permanents and sprays and on the same page saless of classic cars and parts from Liberal Terms and Trade Hupmobile Distributors at 620 2nd Ave SE. It notes open evenings and Sundays.
A garbled rate table details consecutive day pricing for want ads with lines and insertions. It notes out of town readers may mail or phone ads to Cedar Rapids Gazette Want Ad Department and mentions contact via the Gazette office.
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