29 Apr 1939
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1939
Page
1
The Junior Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa invites prose poetry or art for Mother's Day. Grand prize is ten dollars worth of books plus ten runner up prizes. Entries due by May 9 at 5 p.m. Bring mail or deliver to The Junior Gazette office. Include name age school address and teacher if desired.
A batch of eighth grade poems from Calmar Public School as published in The Junior Gazette showcases student voices. Poems cover reading, literature, George Washington, nature, exams, war, and summer hopes, with notes by editors acknowledging varying viewpoints.
Shueyville high school girls expand an International Correspondence Club with 15 members exchanging letters and photos with youths in Palestine Denmark Switzerland South Africa Latvia and Java. Members include Inez Witousek president and Mary Turecek secretary.
In Plainfield Indiana seventeen high school girls finished a full year long course in home economics at the local high school. The program covered sewing cooking and housekeeping as part of the curriculum.
A 16 year old in Boston crafted a functional heart model from scrap glass rubber tubing and old apparatus costing just over a dollar. The device pumps red and blue dyed fluid through vessels to simulate blood flow like a real heart.
Ice on wings forces birds and aircraft to land. The icy conditions impair lift, prompting emergency landings to avoid crashes and protect passengers and wildlife alike.
The item lists five trivia prompts about Marian Anderson Lincoln Memorial, King Zog’s exile, the Diamond Jim nickname, and date based event matches. It also notes scoring: 20 points per correct answer, 100 for all five, with grade tiers, and directs readers to bottom of page for answers.
Cecil B. DeMille directs Union Pacific a sweeping historical epic merging East and West with a steel railroad motif A romance set against gun fights and adventure stars Barbara Stanwyck Joel McCrea Akim Tamiroff Robert Preston Lynne Overman Brian Donlevy the film showcases Stanwyck’s ongoing star appeal.
Wilmington Delaware juniors in a local school Junior Hi Y club propose the ideal teacher. They call for a single, medium attractive, 22 to 37 year old woman who is a square shooter, reasonable, direct, able to admit mistakes, and able to meet students at their level with a touch of foolishness yet sternness.
Toddville High School boys joined cooking class under Mrs Eva Sloan to sample the girls work despite a tight one hour period. They baked angel food cake at a home session and served the meal to Monroe township board members. County Superintendent Walter A Shupp praised it as an excellent meal.
She sang Ave Maria. He fled to Greece. Diamond Jim Brady. Notable dates include 1906 San Francisco earthquake 1775 Paul Revere's ride 1914 opening of Panama Canal 1848 gold discovered in California. The date Sunday May 14 appears as a reference point.
A historical notice emphasizes bicycle safety for students nationwide. It lists six rules: keep both hands on the handlebars, follow traffic laws, ride solo, avoid hitching to vehicles, avoid riding abreast in hazardous formations, and equip bikes with a bell, headlight, and rear reflector. The piece closes with a prompt asking riders if they are observing these rules.
A Decorah reader writes about Gloria Goltz a 12 year old student in Estella Johnsons 6th grade expressing pride in her horse drawings and noting her lack of formal lessons. Another reader Wilma Johnson from Van Horne congratulates local teachers and thanks the Junior Gazette editor for a prize book Treasure Mountain.
The text states that fish are color blind and perceive colors as different shades of gray. It elaborates that fish distinguish only grayscale tones rather than true colors.
Iowa author Phil Stong earns $250 in the New York Herald Tribune Children’s Spring Festival for the best book for older children published this spring. Coats wins $250 for The Story of Horace. ten honor titles named for younger and older children.
A witty exchange on proper etiquette when serving duck ends with a courteous reply about requesting the shared dish if it slips onto a neighbor’s lap. The admonition emphasizes politeness and self restraint in social dining mishaps.
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