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...Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
...their beds tumble the firemen, over the smooth composition floor, and into the cedar-lined closets to get their uniforms. These closets are fitted with a device which turns on the lights inside when the doors are opened. And then as they rush to board the engines they put into use another one of the many novel features of the building. These are no ordinary poles the firemen slide down to reach the first floor. Built of shiny brass, and hung from a steel framework the slide poles have aluminum shutters which open when a man's weight...
...know it had occurred. Cord Cheek, 20, accused of raping an 11-year-old white girl, had been exonerated by a Grand Jury, had gone to visit relatives in Nashville. Twenty minutes after he arrived a mob seized him, carried him to Columbia, strung him up on a cedar limb after riddling his body with bullets. Before dispersing they telephoned the Sheriff to come and get him. Said the Sheriff after investigating: "The lynching was handled in a very quiet manner. We have no clues whatever." Governor Hill McAlister promptly posted a $1,000 reward for apprehension of the lynchers...
...years impressed and persuaded millionaires and Iowa legislators alike. He found a university with an enrollment of 3,500. a plant worth $8,000,000. He is leaving nearly 10,000 students housed in a $19,000,000 plant. Even his bitterest critic. Editor Verne Marshall of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, last week conceded "[The university's] magnificence is largely Jessupian. As an organizer President Jessup is unusually effective. . . . Also, he is as ruthless as such men must...
...Franciscans favored U. S. whiskeys, particularly De Luxe ($3.35 a pint), Golden Wedding ($3), Greenbriar ($3). Old Raven ($3), Cedar Brook ($2.75). Popular gins were Old Ram's Head ($1.75 a fifth), Old Colony ($1.55) and a local product, Old Smoothie...