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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1937
Page
9
Colonel Stewart guards a bundle of papers and letters from his son Aaron in a haunted room. In present Leesboro a crowd debates courage and legacy after Aaron defends a boy against a bully. Billy challenges tradition, seeks meaning, and reads up on the term pariah as the town ponders motives and truth.
In a shaded campus mood a teen girl defends Aaron against gossip about his family history. At home Billy Elliott and Donald share wordplay and meals as Dr. Stewart and Elliot VI steer daily life. A life insurance payment looms as future plans unfold. (To Be Continued)
A Van Buren elementary class in Cedar Rapids built a health house on the school lawn. The edible craft uses graham cracker roof, prune and raisin gables, peppermint post, milk-bottle chimney, cracked wheat doors, and a marshmallow hat for the dog guardian.
Dorothy Salisbury a 12 year old from Hazleton Iowa writes kindly about the first Junior Gazette praising the issue and proposing a girls recipes corner for youthful cooks. The editor replies that if enough readers send in recipes they will print them regularly and invites boys to contribute camping and vacation recipes.
Elizabeth Mobry, an 18 year old invalid from Cedar Rapids, writes poetry with her sister Mary Helen assisting. Despite illness she pursues schooling at mid 1938, studies English government economics and French at home, and explores biology languages. Her poems show gallantry and she is an honorary Writers' Club member at Coe College.
Ward Lee a 16 year old from Decorah Indiana builds a rotary snowplow using a one horse motor. a sheet iron disc forms blades to fling snow through a side flue while an apron scoops powder ahead. the same wheels power a scooter Ward plans to rebuild for hills while keeping under fifty miles an hour.
Weekly movie guide comments on 12 to 18 year olds. Charge of the Light Brigade with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland is tense for youth yet exciting. Lloyds of London with Freddie Bartholomew is a strong historical drama for youth. Woman in Distress with May Robson is a lively melodrama about reporters and is suitable for the whole family.
A teacher shares a notebook of classroom boners with humorous mistakes from students. The piece notes misspellings and misreadings, offering a lighthearted peek at errors, with invitations for readers and teachers to submit their own anecdotes signed by the related instructor.
Kindergarten pupils at Van Buren in Cedar Rapids build a grocery store front to learn shopping skills. They craft beaver board displays with painted awnings, colorful fruit and vegetables, and paper sacks, arranging canned goods with labeled peas carrots and tomatoes to resemble a real store.
Junior Gazette notes noon hour options at Franklin Jr High Cedar Rapids. Children may go outside to slide and play in various ways or stay indoors with quiet games if the class prefers. Teachers may allow room use at noon for quiet activities. Beth Jean Veverka and Betty Barrier document the guidance.
Jimmy Sharon a Cedar Rapids sixth grader and Tyler school newsboy hunts discarded envelopes for stamps. He salvages cancled stamps from waste baskets and streets and has mounted stamps from Egypt Greece Bavaria Austria and Turkey in his collection.
Third graders at Cleveland school in Cedar Rapids reenact pioneer life by crafting candles, butter, cornbread, and dried apples. Students display a cardboard fireplace scene with handmade furniture, orange-crate cradle, rag rugs, and borrowed antique items such as a brass kettle, snuff box, spinning wheel, and 1825 sampler.
A Mary E. Clark and Margery Closey Quigley Etiquette Jr piece urges students to stop whispering during performances. It counsels quiet behavior when musicians tune, and shows classroom courtesy by bowing to teachers and saying good morning unless rules forbid speaking. Copyright 1937.
At Franklin school in Cedar Rapids Miss Margaret Porter teaches eighth and ninth graders how to hit notes by thinking before singing. Students changing voice learn to read notes and sing without accompaniment, moving from uncertain matching to independent pitch accuracy, proving practice and mental focus yield progress.
A father checks on his twin boys where one sobs while the other laughs. The crying twin says the other was bathed twice by the nurse, while he has had none. The scene uses humor to highlight a mix up in caregiving as the family laughs at the misunderstanding.
The article notes that birds lost teeth and heavy jawbones to reduce weight, enabling easier flight. It explains that natural evolution eliminated these structures to improve aerodynamics and efficiency in flight.
A set of True False style facts tests readers on figures such as Grand Coulee’s district role in Washington, Fred Perry’s ship captaincy, Lindbergh’s stated residence, Irltubb s comic strip status, Shirley Temple with Freddie Bartholomew, and Chicago high school credit reforms, asking readers to judge truthfulness.
The Mighty Treve stars Noah Beery Jr and Barbara Read in a heartwarming tale of a brave shepherd dog. Rose Bowl with Tom Brown offers family friendly comedy with little football. Code of the Range stars Charles Starrett, a western about a sheep and cattle war appealing to boys.
A feature notes that amateurs can gain fame and earnings from hobby photography. It cites a stormy Empire State Building snapshot sold for 135 dollars and highlights a book You and Your Camera by Eleanor King and Elmer Pessels for youths ten and older, detailing early careers of famous photographers.
From 1862 exam questions highlighted in an old clipping brought to The Junior Gazette by Mrs. Lester E. Chehak of Cedar Rapids. It lists queries on voice modulation at punctuation marks, artificial language, lumber measurement from three boards, reading voice compass, and prime versus composite numbers.
The item lists quiz answers about Grand Coulee in Washington state dams and statements about Fred Perry Charles Lindbergh Irl Tubbs Shirley Temple and Freddie Bartholomew with true and false designations. It presents corrections or confirmations of common knowledge facts from a newspaper page.
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