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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1939
Page
8
The text presents opinions on science versus morality, dancing partnership dynamics, debate and tolerance, and the impact of wide reading on independent thinking. It cites Arthur Murray on dancing mastery, discusses tolerance through genuine debate, and warns that mere reading can dull individual thought.
The passage likens reading to ingredients that must be heated in the mind’s oven to become bread. It argues that knowledge only becomes power when actively applied, creating a new product that enhances the world, echoing Woodrow Wilson’s idea of adding to the world’s fitness for affairs.
Verse praising inner triumph and steadfast virtue. It highlights courage, wisdom, and faith as true victories beyond fame or wealth, urging resilience through hardship and keeping true to self. The poem frames triumph as spiritual strength gained by perseverance.
On April 20 1939 O W Lawrence was appointed administrator of the Frieda Ann Wright estate in Linn County Iowa. Creditors must settle debts promptly and claimants must file authenticated claims in the Linn County District Court office.
Daily menus for a family of five two adults and three children aim to cost about 312 a week. Each day’s menus and recipes seek a balanced diet with sufficient calories protein minerals and vitamins to support growth and energy.
A historical menu outlines breakfast items including stewed prunes milk toast and coffee for adults. Luncheon features pea and cheese salad bread and butter baked bananas with celery sweet pickles and mayonnaise.
Daily menu items include tea for adults and milk for children with a total daily milk allowance of 3 quarts for drinking and cooking plus one can evaporated milk for cooking. Butter allowance is half a pound daily. cost for the day runs about $1.50. Modern desserts offered include several cake recipes available by requesting a self addressed stamped envelope.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes a contact for the Special Cakes leaflet and Meta Given booklets help. For marketing food budgets and diets a Community Nutrition Service can assist by calling 5515.
Inmates at concentration camps were required to listen to Hitler's Friday speech as loud speakers were installed for the broadcast. The report notes the spread of the address to prisoner populations across camps.
The text notes camps across Germany confining socialists, communists, Jews, and others deemed enemies, where prisoners were gathered to listen. It also mentions Walter Wellman’s 1910 attempted transatlantic flight in a non rigid airship with a crew.
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