Prizes Awarded For Best Mystery Short Story
Darlene Miner, Roosevelt high senior from Cedar Rapids, wins the Writers' Club prize with a mystery short story written in Miss G Esther Chapin's class. The piece invites student submissions bearing original author attestations and will be given to her school as the prize.
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Writers’ Club
Darlene Miner
Roosevelt High School
Cedar Rapids
G. Esther Chapin
Junior Gazette Office
Girls Dye Eggs In Quaint And Colorful Easter Designs
Sultanni and Tanda girls sponsored by First Presbyterian church dyed eggs in the church basement with rabbits chickens silver stars and gold polka dots The display included George Washington with lace hats and Cupid mouths The eggs will be gifts for Sunday school kindergarten children on Easter morning The Junior Gazette offers five youth books to best puzzle solutions by April 13.
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Tanda
First Presbyterian Church
George Washington
Margaret Curray
Bessie Rudzinski
Nancy Frazee
Joan Lattner
Mary Ristine
de Loris Harley
Lorraine Guy
Patricia Ann Fortune
Angeline Thomas
First Presbyterian
Midnight Rendezvous Mystery Challenge Exposed
Young readers are invited to solve a mystery from Midnight Rendezvous in The Junior Gazette. Five prize books will go to the best endings written to Chicago midnight events and the identities of the sinister man the sweet old woman the young couple. Entries due noon Thursday April 13 with judges final.
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Gazette
Chicago
Five books offered in giveaway by Junior Gazette
The Junior Gazette of Cedar Rapids Iowa announces a book giveaway with five titles valued at two dollars or more each. Readers are invited to send solutions to the newspaper for entry.
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Junior Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Pigeons Fun To Play With Says Marion Farm Girl
Barbara Trimble seven of near Marion loves pigeons more than other pets. She keeps a large, tame flock that flies back to her when fed and roosts in a barn at night. Barbara enjoys riding a pony, making clothes for dolls, and keeping an animal scrapbook on the Concord rural school student two miles southeast of Marion on highway ninety four.
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Barbara Trimble
Marion
Barbara
Concord Rural School
Harvey Trimble
Highway Ninety-Four
Quiz on Easter Bible Questions and Scoring
Easter themed quiz lists five biblical questions with 20 points per correct answer. Five correct yields 100 points, with 80 for excellent down to 20 for poor. Answers are at page bottom.
Are All the Chores Done Charley A Farm Child Narrates
A Cedar Rapids I. C. School pupil TOM MEIS aged 13 recalls farm duties. The bedtime recital lists chores from chores to chores including feeding animals milking churning and hauling water. He answers yes to his mother in a plain rural verse recorded in the paper.
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Charley
Tom Meis
I. C. School
Cedar Rapids
Bookkeeper and bookkeeping noted for triple double letters
A trivia snippet states only two English words contain three consecutive double letters bookkeeper and bookkeeping. It mentions PTSALKING BOOKS in England offering records for the blind with ten records covering a 90000 word book, each side running about half an hour.
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England
Answers To Quiz on Bible Passages
Answers reference Acts 12 4 as Easter’s only named mention Christ drives money changers from the temple denouncing them as thieves in Matthew 21 12 13 Christ feeds five thousand and the crowd seeks a king in John 6 5 15 Emmanuel meaning God with us Matthew 1 24 Simon of Cyrene from Africa helps carry the cross on Good Friday Luke 23 26
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Deanna Durbin Star Rise in Three Smart Girls Era
Profile of Deanna Durbin detailing her breakout in Three Smart Girls and later hits as a child star. Notes on birth in Winnipeg Canada December 4 1922 education in Los Angeles, height weight blue eyes brown hair and personal habits. Mentions films songs and reading list reflecting a rising career.
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Deanna Durbin
Deanna
Miss Fix
Northwest Passage
Rebecca
the Citadel
My Mother Is a Godsend to Care for Me
A short student poem praising a mother as a tireless caregiver who cooks cleans and comforts. Rosemary Schnoebelen, 14, 8th grade, I. C. school signs the dedication detailing daily chores and guiding support.
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Rosemary Schnoebelen
I. C. School
Cedar Rapids
Debunking Popular Animal Myths by UC Biologist
Dr. Raymond B. Cowles exposes common false beliefs about animals. Ostriches hide by lying with necks stretched out, bats aren’t attracted to hair, snakes can’t hypnotize, and porcupines don’t throw quills. He also debunks glass snakes and hoop snakes and notes salamanders’ heat limits and rattlesnake defenses.
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Los Angeles
Raymond B. Cowles
University of California
Giant Panda Thumb Reveals Evolutionary Oddity
The giant panda’s so called thumb is not a true thumb, but a novel organ evolving from a nodular bone near its claws. University of Manchester anatomist Frederick Wood Jones reports in Nature that this pseudo-thumb aids bamboo grasping, explaining the panda’s unique adaptation.
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New York
Frederick Wood Jones
University of Manchester
Wood
Mr. Wood
Easter Day Poem by A Student at Wilson High
A short Easter poem by Mary Kay Angerer from Cedar Rapids honors Christ's risen glory. The speaker envisions angels removing the stone and reflects on humanity's small returns for the sacrifice that gives life and faith.
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Mary Kay Angerer
Wilson High School
Cedar Rapids
Boy Wins Doll Contest in Lorain Nationality Group
In Lorain Ohio a boy named John Crompp topped 400 children to win first place with a Japanese Geisha girl doll in the nationality group of a doll contest.
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Lorain, O
John Crompp
Children Beat Parents in Northern Ireland Tongue-Twister Contest
In London, children defeated parents 34 to 28 in a tongue twisting competition. Teams tackled the same phrases including Which switch miss Ipswich miss and Should such a shapeless sash such shabby stitches show.
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London
North Ireland
Ipswich
Willie Wilkins
Winnie Walkins
Easter Bunny Desserts and Pineapple Sherbet Party Menu
Bright holiday sweets recipe roundup includes Minted Pineapple Sherbet for 4 to 6 with mint and pineapple, Easter Bunnies made from bread with sweetened condensed milk and coconut, and a pineapple cake with pistachio garnish. Includes steps for sherbet, bunny molds, and a festive pineapple cake.
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