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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1939
Page
20
A guide on infant growth and care from The Parents' Magazine editor Clara Savage Littleday highlights feeding, sleep, and habit formation. It emphasizes breast feeding, doctor supervision, sun exposure, exercise, play, and early character development as essentials for a healthy first year.
A humorous column describes Mrs H as meddlesome in home repairs, annoying carpenters and painters while insisting on color choices. It notes hiring workers becomes harder each year when she calls with a job and that she believes in guiding professionals.
La Porte City notes show Helen Fleming eighth grade teacher hosted a covered dish dinner for women teachers. Kildare Klub members and husbands held a wiener roast at Leverett Lassen’s home. Louie Schriecker hosted a noon dinner for the fifty second wedding anniversary of August and Mrs Lange. August Lange and spouse have seven children with relatives in Chicago Brandon and La Porte City. Charles Garling hosted women teachers from the local school for a Tuesday dinner.
This playful feature suggests tea party engagement reveals with tea cups and daffodils, a doll announcing from a paper microphone, telegrams, and letter puzzles for guests. It includes a recipe for Toll House chocolate crunch cookies and notes 14 million Americans play musical instruments.
A Cedar Rapids Gazette ad promotes Anne Adams pattern 4051 for sizes 34 to 48. It touts slenderizing lines, chic charm, lace edging, and a fluttering skirt. The order asks for 34 yards of fabric plus lace and lists pricing for pattern and book options.
New York opens the world fair as 50 000 workers finish the exhibits. The opening day features President Roosevelt and an unprecedented radio hookup. Visitors flood the area while the Atlantic fleet arrives and an outdoor entertainment program unfolds on the fair’s amusement zone.
City notices list meetings and events across groups. Masons gather at Fairfax for Joe Holds funeral services while city plan commission meets at city hall at 7 30 p m. Pythian Sisters initiate and hold Mother’s day program. Catholic Schools convene Monday at 8 p m with social hour and refreshments. Cedar Rapids lodge 141 O F meets Tuesday at 8 p m. Jan Hus lodge staff aids North English candidates for second degree. Northwestern Bell talks on Modern Telephone Magic at Rotary Club luncheon. Railway Employes Benefit Association division 30 meets at Sokol hall Tuesday at 8 p m. W Eulert noted.
The national secretary from Chicago will be a guest at a meeting followed by dancing from 9 to 12 and refreshments. Norden lodge No 336 Vasa Order of America meets Wednesday at 8 pm in lodge rooms 338 First Avenue E. Raymond Kresensky, federal writers project director in Iowa since 1935 and a 1922 Coe College graduate, speaks Monday at 9 30 am at the chapel program, introduced by Dr Vernon E Lichtenstein.
Delegates at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology hailed a test of a new oxalic acid based coagulant as a potential breakthrough for stopping hemorrhage and aiding haemophilia patients. A Toronto test with a rabbit showed rapid cessation of bleeding after small dose injection, though Science deemed the findings unproved.
Washington reports the administration seeks to start two 45000 ton battleships and a 40000 000 dollar program for nine high speed mosquito boats. Navy bids opened May 25 for four torpedo boats and several submarine chasers, aiming at 40 knot speeds for patrol and hit and run strikes.
Luana Mrs R L Evans was hostess Monday evening to the Club of the Hour. Two short stories were reviewed by Margaret Sebastian and Charlotte Meier.
Randalia Thursday Reading circle gathered April 27 at Mrs. Earl Beman's home. The program featured numbers by Bessie Jellings Bessie Odeckirk and preschool children directed by Evelyn Reid.
Ny lettie gay argues that infants benefit from early solid foods to meet essential nutrition and support growth. Mothers can introduce varied vegetables and textures from four months, avoiding overreliance on milk and overly sweetened or strong flavors, to cultivate a balanced palate and smoother meals.
The University of Iowa Scottish Highlanders will perform in New York City for the World’s Fair from June 19 to 28. Thirty-nine band members plus four Scottish lassies travel June 18 and return June 28, marching in a June 24 parade along Fifth Avenue and Central Park. The group joins a four day Scottish clan convention with 1,500 delegates, led by Pipe Major William L. Adamson and Colonel Dailey. The Iowa band, the largest in the country, is sponsored by an educational institution and has about fifty-five members.
On the University of Kentucky campus engineering students say William Dunlap of Pisgah Kentucky won the May day queen election over six women but was counted out when ballots were tallied Miss Ramona Perkins of Lexington was announced winner.
A colorless chemical chromogen changes color when acted upon by a torment. The statement explains the biochemical basis of coloration in higher animals, noting the transformation from a colorless substrate to pigmented compounds through a reaction with the tor ment.
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