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Newspaper
Citizen Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1968
Page
3
Short page of classified rates for Citize n Times with ads listing pets real estate and business cards. Includes a joke wedding anecdote and a poetry line followed by an advertisement for Watkins products and store hours.
A compact look at how volunteer fire brigades shaped American firefighting, from 19th century rivalries and paid departments to Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia volunteers and modern professional training. Includes anecdotes of saboteur acts, insurance ties, and old era booze-fueled cracker customs, ending with winter driving safety notes.
Classified ad shows various sale items from the Citi Zen Times in Cedar Rapids, plus stamping dispenser business opportunity by TEPA Marketing Inc with required cash and interview, and a Singer sewing machine sale with payment terms Newton Iowa.
Classifieds offer for a vacant room or large closet for private home storage on the southwest side near 7th Avenue and 7th Street. Contact 362-8104. Also seeks interview applicants for earning money and reporting club activities with mail to Fairfax Iowa Box 123 and Cedar Rapids Box 4278. Army parachutist training described with a blunt three-stage process and a blunt major’s remark.
A man visited the Board of Health asking who his landlord is and learned he has paid no rent for nine years. He feared leaving the house if the roof isn’t repaired. In a separate scene a wealthy Texas resident demanded a U turn but was told it's illegal, then urged to stop the first Cadillac and buy it.
A funny fragment notes a woman rushing through a narrow department store aisle and returning home to a noisy garage door. It also jokes that after marriage a wife is whistled at rather than hailed, and cites Arnold GlasOn defining a “hick” town as lacking a jet airstrip.
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