YWCA Girls Reserve Observe Sixtieth Anniversary Week
The YWCA marks sixty years of Girl Reserves with a nationwide observance in April 2026. A vesper service led by a Bay Area committee and a synchronized birthday party April 26 include a national broadcast from Constitution Hall, with speakers from Washington and local clubs presenting world bank gifts for the war emergency fund.
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United States
Hawaii
Oakland
San Francisco
Berkeley
Constitution Hall
Washington
D. C
Charles P. Taft, II
Taft
Cedar Rapids Association
Wilson Hi
Reading List Curated by Cedar Rapids Stores and Libraries
Local shoppers compile a reading list featuring classics and current titles. Notable works include Gone With the Wind Grapes of Wrath and Mrs Miniver, alongside contemporary novels by Hemingway Hilton and Steinbeck. Compiled by Book Stores and Libraries.
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James Hilton
Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Wiswell
Kenneth Roberts
H. M. Pulham
Esquire
J. P. Marquand
Mrs. Cugat
Isabel Scott Rorick
Mrs. Miniver
Jan Struther
Sapphira
Willa Cather
Tobacco Road
Erskine
Margaret Mitchell
John Steinbeck
Fire and Ice by Wallace Buell and Sioan Pearce review
The critic Profiles Paul Condon a poor college student at a large university who joins a peace group and falls for a wealthy girl. The novella Fire And Ice portrays his grim struggles with jobs meals and shelter and ends with a chastened realization that money shapes life. The piece questions how many Paul Condons exist in institutions meant to nurture the full life.
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Ee Stegner
Paul Condon
University of Iowa
Eee Hanaeanel
Young
Communistic League
Paul
Paul Condons
the Fuller
Utah
Harvard
E. N. H. Fire and Ice
Wallace Buell
Sioan Pearce
Up at the Villa by W Somerset Maugham explores three days
In prewar Italy Mary Patton faces marriage offers from Sir Edgar Smith Rowley Flint and Karl Richter. The tale weaves love death scandal and courage as three suitors compete while a mystery death echoes current affairs with Kenya’s socialites. Kenneth Roberts announces a new novel on Derna and the 1805 Tripoli pirates.
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Somerset Maugham
Doubleday
Doran
Mary Patton
Italy
Sir Edgar Smith
Mary
Rowley Flint
Rowley
Karl Richter
Art Sluent
Maugham
Kenya
England
Kenneth Roberts
Oliver Wiswell
Tripoli
Derna
Africa
Nature Notes book praised by John Kieran
John Kieran’s popular Nature Notes feature in Information Please gains appeal in a new small volume. The book includes fifty essays richly illustrated by Fritz Kredel and endorsed by Gerard Darrow the Quiz Kids star who calls it pretty elementary and suitable for both children and adults.
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John Kieran
Fritz Kredel
Gerard Darrow
Gerard
Vanguard of the Frontier by Everett Dick reviewed
A review of Vanguards of the Frontier by Everett Dick highlights its comprehensive survey of frontier life. The work traces fur traders, river pilots, buffalo slaughter, railroads, and mountain men from St. Louis to Montana with abundant illustrations and scholarly sourcing.
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Middle West
Rocky Mountain
Everett Dick
West
Hawkeye State
St. Louis
Omaha
Montana
Santa
Shakespeare Club Plans History Study and Birthday Observance
The Monday Shakespeare club will study the reign of Edward II and an intro to Richard II at 2:30 p.m. Hostess Miss May Hollenbeck will host at 1317 First avenue with Mrs. Cuthbert W. Smith in charge. Plans include a Shakespeare birthday observance on April 21. Tea hosts today at the Cedar Rapids Art Association gallery honor Fletcher Martin’s exhibit.
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Geneva Haldeman
A. L. Haldeman
Council Bluffs
Cedar Rapids
WLW
Haldeman
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
Edward II
Richard II
Monday
Shakespeare Club
May Hollenbeck
First Avenue
Cuthbert W. Smith
M. R. Warren
Ronald S. Barry
Cedar Rapids Art Association
Fletcher Martin
Wheeler Family Back From Western Winter Sojourn
Mrs. Glenn C. Wheeler returns to 2165 Blake boulevard SE after a month at a ranch near Tucson Arizona and another month with sister Mrs Walter Saunders at Laguna Beach California. Her son Bill, a student at Iowa State College Ames, spends weekend with parents while Mrs E R Hovey returns from Fort Dodge. Lucille K Fisher and Edward Scanlon visit Cedar Rapids friends. Fisher formerly of Cedar Rapids now in St Louis. Fisher also sees Mrs Mary Bruch and Amos Diers Tellier wedding note.
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Glenn C. Wheeler
Blake Boulevard
Tucson
Ariz
Walter Saunders
Laguna Beach
Calif
J. T. Templeton
First Avenue E
Wheeler
Lucille K. Fisher
Cedar Rapids
Edward Scanlon
St. Louis
City
Mrs Warner Honored at Farewell Party
Miss Lillian Jesina at 423 Gwene dolyn drive NE honored Harold Warner at a bridge club gathering Friday night at her home. Attendees included Mesdames Robert A Smith Lester Stow Don Thomson P J McKim Roy Bollinger and Miss Rosaline Collins. Mercy hospital alumnae will meet Monday at 7 30 pm in the hospital library to discuss final plans for the alumnae dance.
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Lillian Jesina
Gwenedolyn Drive
Harold Warner
Bridge Club
Warner
Robert A.smith
Lester Stow
Don Thomson
P. J. McKim
Roy Bollinger
Rosaline Collins
Mercy Hospital
Discriminating compliment on writing style noted
A fragment praises a book for nature lovers, praising simplicity and clarity as key to good writing. It includes a quote about learning by looking closer and mentions E.N.H. cons eres Mature Hele. The text is fragmentary and lacks clear context or full details.
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E.N.H
Hele, Ao
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Visi
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Girl Reserve Department
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Ray J. Beck
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Sixteenth Avenue
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S. C. Hansens
Third Street
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