Hollywood Quiz offers 400 prize photos for youths
A Cedar Rapids and out of town contest awards 100 original 8 by 10 movie photos to four winners. Ten questions test accuracy neatness and originality. Entries from ages 10 to 16 must be in by February 5 at The Junior Gazette office or postmarked by February 4.
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Hollywood
ML. T
Cedar Rapids
Deanna Durbin
Major Bowes
Eddie Cantor
Fred Allen
Mauch Twins
Joe and
Johnny
Daniel and
David
Billy and
Bobby
Freddie Bartholomew
United States
Scotland
Wales
England
Sonja Henie
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Bob Burns
Missouri
Arkansas
Tennessee
Mickey Rooney
Victoria the Great
Fred Astaire
Terpsichorean
Shirley Temple
Jane Withers
Virginia Weidler
Claudette Colbert
Budapest
Vienna
Paris
Don Ameche
Mexico City
Marion, Ia
Kenosha
Wis
Third Avenue
Fifth Street SE
Mooching Mick the Conesville Gazette Dog
Mick the dog follows Ernest Buckman on the Conesville Gazette route and mooches meals from locals. Once a follower of Harold Buckman he even protested a shift to evening delivery. He dislikes train whistles and cleans himself by dabbling in water puddles.
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Mick
Conesville
Ernest Buckman
Ernest
Barks
Patty Stafford
al Wall
Plural of mongoose yields two mongooses tale
A gentleman seeking the correct plural writes to a dealer in playful forms. He first asks for two mongoese, then two mongooses, then splits the word into mon goose and adds a second item, illustrating the patchwork journey to a proper plural.
Thompson photo tree house meeting place in winter and summer
Ray Goodrow 15 and Ellwyn Baumegartner 15 pose from a cedar Rapids tree house built 20 feet up in a rear yard. The trio, including Paul Gustafsson, use a rope ladder and chain to climb, plan future wiring, and keep a padlock secured door for their Roosevelt high school activities.
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Ray Goodrow
First Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Ray
Ellwyn Baumegartner
Ellwyn
Paul Gustafsson
Roosevelt High School
Harold C. Goodrow
Lost Nation Girl Earns Money On Dairy Route
Norma Wulf a 13 year old freshman at Lost Nation High School delivers milk on a daily route in Lost Nation. She bottles milk at a local dairy and works weekdays and Sundays earning praise for politeness and punctuality. Her employer William Haak prefers her service over that of many boys.
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Lost Nation
Norma Wulf
Arnold Wulf
William Haak
Norma
West End
Lost Nation High School
Lisbon Girls Publish Recipe Book For Fair Fund
Five Lisbon Camp Fire girls collect 270 recipes from local housewives to publish Choice Recipes a 25 cent book. They sell 20 ads at $1 each and have two Cornell College students mimeographing. Proceeds fund their first trip to the state fair while supporting the Lisbon Public Library.
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Lisbon
Cheskamay
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Metal
Ethel Mae Bigger
Elizabeth Frederick
Peggy Frink
Margaret Siggins
Matilyn Frink
Weekly quiz questions on presidents voyagers and actors
Five trivia questions test knowledge of Mount Rushmore portraits Columbus Atlantic crossings Supreme Court justices Grinnell College stars and famous infant prodigies in music. Each correct answer earns 20 points with a possible 100 total and varying grades.
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United States
Mount Rushmore Memorial
South Dakota
Supreme Court
Stanley Reed
Marion Girl Adorns Room With Drawings
Martha Ann Young a Marion High School freshman aged fifteen decorates her bedroom with chalk drawings including a bright Hawaiian scene a girl with a doll and a landscape She also makes hats cooks for her family often preparing Christmas dinner She learns ukulele Spanish guitar piano and Hawaiian guitar has three pen pals in Wisconsin Pennsylvania and Texas She is a Camp Fire member working toward torch bearer rank son of Dr H O Young and Mrs Young of 925.
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Marion High School
Martha Ann Young
Martha Ann
Camp Fire
Marion
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Texas
H. O. Young
Martha Ann Plans Career in Commercial Art
Marion resident Martha Ann is deciding between pursuing commercial art or design as a future career, noting options on Tenth Street.
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Tenth Street
Marion
Martha Ann
King Wins Laugh With Great Dino Saur Request
In a humorous tale from Cedar Rapids written by Esther Chapin at Roosevelt high school, the king seeks a giant dino saur as a lap dog for the queen and Garrick is the sole man strong enough to fulfill the odd command.
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Garrick
G. Esther Chapin
Roosevelt High School
Cedar Rapids
Garrick Marries Nadaline in the Feast of the Gods
In Nadome, Garrick the tallest giant wins Nadaline’s hand by bold acts during the feast day. He serenades, blocks her ride, and builds a house as she defies her suitors. The king’s plan fails as Nadaline secures marriage to Garrick, who remains tallest and most handsome.
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Nadome
Garrick
Nadaline
Largest herbivores among the world’s giants
A survey notes that many of the biggest animal species are vegetarians including the elephant giraffe gorilla hippopotamus rhinoceros water buffalo and muskox. The list highlights prominent herbivores from diverse habitats.
New Lincoln Book Rhyme Portrait of a President
A new rhymed life of Abraham Lincoln from poverty to prominence is presented in Out of the Heart of Kentucky. Daniel Maurice Robins presents sixteen episodes, with notable writings and illustrations by Lottie B. Turner, dedicated to youth.
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Abraham Lincoln
Hardin County
Kentucky
Daniel Maurice Robins
Christopher Publishing House
Boston
Joseph Fort Newton
Gettysburg
Lincoln
Lottie B. Turner
Stamp era reforms and early US postal rate debates
A historical overview traces mid nineteenth century postal reform efforts in the United States. It notes high rates, private mail services, and Congress debates before 1845 reforms cut rates to two zones and revised charges while noting printed matter and large books could not be mailed. The piece ends with a teaser: To Be Continued.
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Folster
United States
New York
Benton
Express
Stagecoach
North Carolina
England
London
Edinburgh
Congress
American Letter Mail Company
Be Careful Lesson From Dramatized Safety Tale
A Roosevelt High School student Carl Arp writes a Cedar Rapids safety short story about a father teaching his son Johnny three risky highway behaviors to avoid. The tale uses a town on the Lincoln highway setting to stress cautious driving and gunplay consequences.
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G. Esther Chapin
Roosevelt High School
Cedar Rapids
Carl Arp
Mr. Jones
John
Pete
Johnny
Johnny Scores
L Grant
Jack
Clancy
Edgewood boy builds three story home for his white rats
Weslie Newton, 13, of Edgewood, creates a three story house for six white rats with ladders between levels. He plans a top story "whoopee room" with teeter totters and a spinning wheel to keep pets content. He also sketches and made egg crates last summer. He is the son of Mr and Mrs John Newton.
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Weslie Newton
Edgewood
Weslie
John Newton
Surprising Hot Grapefruit Prank Recipe
The narrator recalls a cold windy night with guests and a warm playful treat. They planned chilled grapefruit but broiled it briefly with sugar, serving hot fruit to delighted diners who expected cold, a culinary joke that tasted delicious.
Quiz Answers Include Presidents Philosophers And Composers
Answers To Quiz list Washington Jefferson Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Columbus sailed from Spain to Gulf of Mexico in 70 days while modern liners cross the North Atlantic in about 4 days. Named jurists Hughes McReynolds Brandeis Butler Stone Roberts Cardozo Black. Gary Cooper appears. Composers Mozart Beethoven Schubert Chopin Mendelssohn are noted.
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Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Columbus
Spain
Gulf of Mexico
North Atlantic
Hughes
McReynolds
Brandeis
Butler
Stone
Roberts
Cardozo
Black
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Mount Vernon High School
Marilyn Frink
N. A. York of
Grinnell College
Iowa
Margaret Lindsay
Gary Cooper
Lola Lane
King
Fair Garrick
Hazel Abernathy
Roosevelt
A. C. Zalesky
Hartsville
Lincoln Highway
Pearl
Pop
Father
Jeanette Bever
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Chopin
Mendelssohn
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