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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1940
Page
5
Mary Manners reports on Joe, who left school before completing four years of high school yet became a successful businessman. He studied in spare time through correspondence courses and night classes, proving education can come from self discipline and effort.
The speaker expresses frustration with limited transportation and asks to see the boys less often. They suggest you are making normal progress and propose gradually ending contact by sending more impersonal, infrequent letters.
The writer asks why if love remains, the truth should not be spoken to Ann and urges printing the reply to her letter. The note frames a request to publish the response to show sentiment and resolve.
A series of daily menus shows a family of five can eat well for about two dollars a week. Recipes include butter cookies, tomato hamburgers, mashed potatoes, and orange slices. The plan emphasizes balanced calories protein and minerals with economical ingredients and simple steps.
A timid parent denounces a rule forbidding pupils to visit the lavatory without a doctor note, calling it medieval and cruel. The letter urges parents to challenge teachers or principals, citing bed wetting and constipation as ill effects, and argues every citizen should have a voice in school control.
Meta Given offers a leaflet titled Cooking for Two with a week of menus recipes and tips to handle leftovers in a two person household. It includes creamed onions bread and butter and butter cookies recipes and requests a large 3 cent stamped envelope to obtain the leaflet.
Pattern adi is available by women's sizes 34 through 48 with size 36 at 4 percent. Requires 3 inch fabric and 4 yards Viceroy. Send fifteen cents to Patterns Department Cedar Rapids Gazette 243 West 17th Street New York No 0. Additional ten cents adds the latest Pattern Book.
The Cedar Rapids school board will retain last year’s committee lineup after Monday night’s announcement by chairman Pharded Trewin. The board composition remains unchanged with reelected members. committees include Finance under Penningrath and Kosek, Educational with Dr von Lackum and Thekek, and Building and Grounds led by Blodgett with Dr von Lackum.
A scanned Q A on morality will power and civic duty discusses handling unreturned love by shifting focus to others and cites Milton Wright's Getting Along With People. It also covers reporting unlawful acts, equality of citizens, and overcoming inferiority with examples of overcoming fears and handicaps from history.
Readers have one week left to submit ideas for the amateur ad writing contest. Prizes include 26 special awards and three grand prizes of 200 100 and 50 dollars, with 131 prizes total this week. Judges from Am bro Advertising WD Lyon and Hutchinson Ice Cream will select winners.
Residents return from winter escapes and travels in California Texas Florida and St. Petersburg as professionals change posts. A local attorney joins the Milwaukee railroad as assistant attorney under Judge Cook. Peter Mineck is elected president of the Retail Meat Dealers association. An April Fools weather drop accompanies a tale of bottled messages from 1905. Daily citrus consumption figures are cited.
The Inter Ocean Reinsurance Co and its mortgage department promote FHA style financing with long terms up to 25 years, high loan-to-value, monthly payments similar to rent, tax and insurance protection, and lender safeguards. The notice invites readers to obtain full information at 524 Second Avenue SF.
Readers are warned about deceptive sales as Okinawa shops push quality goods and jewelry at high prices. The article notes cautious spending by parents of high school and college seniors and mentions brands like Hampton and Giuen as examples in a volatile market.
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