Toyland library to loan toys for Cedar Rapids children
Mayflower Chapter of the D A R teams with the Jane Boyd Community House to open Toyland lending at the Community House Saturday morning. The program will loan skates sleds toy trains and tie cars for one week with two children sharing a toy at a time. Donations of toys and funds are welcomed to support this Cedar Rapids experiment inspired by Ida Cash’s idea of a free toy lending library.
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Toyland
Ise
Cedar Rapids
Conservation Thrift Committee
Mayver
D. A. R.ich
Ider’s Digest
New York University
Amunity Center
Ida Cash
Children’s Court
York City
Cedar Pids
D.A.R
Ttr
F. _Diserens
Apid Drive
W. E. Peschau
Fourth Avenue
Zabeth Cline
Fourth Ave
Nue
H. A. Lockhart
Meadowbrook Drive
Marjorie Walters
Harrison School
John Stansbury
Forest Drive
Frank Storrs
First Avenue
Toyland Library
Bethany Congregational to Take Flood Relief Collection
The church will collect flood relief funds Sunday during Sunday school morning worship and evening worship at Bethany Congregational Church located at Lav avenue and Sixth Street NW. Rev. J. E. Waery said the collected money will be given to the Red Cross.
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Bethany Congregational Church
L Averue
Sixth Street NW
J. E. Waery
Red Cross
Saturday Is Deadline On 1937 Auto Plates
The County Treasurer Milo Sedlacek office stays open Saturday to 4 p.m. for motorists to obtain 1937 auto licenses. The delinquency date is Feb. 1 with a penalty of one dollar per month.
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Milo Sedlacek
Mind and marriage by science and morals
An author’s note discusses scientific views on marriage happiness and divorce. It cites Dr. Hornell Hart on emotional maturity and self control, noting higher divorce rates with early marriages and the role of training and experience in forming stable unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hornell Hart
How to Improve Your Memory by Dr Henry C Link
A booklet explaining memory rules tested by science offers guidance on remembering names dates lessons and books. Readers can obtain it by sending 10 cents to apply on costs with a stamped self addressed envelope to Dr Albert E Wiggam care The Cedar Rapids Gazette and request MEMORY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Link
Albert _E. Wiggam
Cedar Rapids
Habit of decisive thinking and cheating study
Quotes William James on indecision and urges rapid problem solving. A psychologist study of 409 college students given a chance to cheat on a vocabulary test found forty five percent engaged in cheating over two years.
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William James
F. W. Parr
Decorah
Henry Brunsvold
Highland Township
Cheating rises with age and pressure in 1937 study
The report notes 38 percent of women and men cheated, with cheating increasing from 17 to 21 year olds while sophomores were more honest than freshmen. It concludes economic or competitive or emotional pressure tends to raise cheating levels. Tomorrow asks if marriage makes women more beautiful.
Evanston Pastor Named World Fellowship Week Speaker at Coe
Dr. L Myron Boozer of Coe college said Rev Paul A Wolfe pastor of Evanston First Presbyterian will substitute for ill Dr William Boddy of Minneapolis during World Fellowship week February 7 to 11 at Coe. Wolfe will speak Wednesday close week and conduct conferences. Forty Iowa Presbyterian ministers to be hosted February 10 dinner.
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L. Myron Boozer
Coe College
Paul A. Wolfe
First Presbyterian Church of
Evanston, I
William H. Boddy
Minneapolis
Boddy
California
Boozer
Wolfe
Northwestern University
Voorhees Quadrangle
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Aled
F. L. Diserens
Evanston
Coe
Vicki VapoRub
America
ODGE
Dodge
Oealk
Chrysler Corporation
Handler Motor Company
Second Avenue
Noritake
China
Ivory
Cbedicap
Ireland
Killian
Killian Company
Jean Joyce
WMT
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