4 H Club Letter Contest Seeks Entries From Members
4 H members may win autographed copies of Adventures in 4 H by Betty Baxter Anderson by submitting 100 to 200 word letters on What The 4 H Club Means To Me. Entries due July 22, with prizes for four winning letters. Judges include Ray Anderson and others. neat, single-sided, one page letters preferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Baxter Anderson
Cedar Rapids
Tipton Fair
Gazette
Ray Anderson
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Mrs. Don Wherry of Wyoming, Ia, Writer For “Wallace
Lucille Gove
Linn County
4 H Club Contest Rules and Entry Details
Guidance for Iowa 4-H members on writing a 100 to 200 word piece about what 4-H means to them. Provides format requirements name age address club leader and submission deadlines by July 22 with mailing instructions and prize details of four copies of Adventures in 4-H.
London magistrate warns boxing the ears is dangerous
A London magistrate states that boxing the ears is the most dangerous way of hitting someone, highlighting concerns over the act’s harm.
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London
Socrates Pioneered the Inquiring Reporter Style
The ancient philosopher Socrates roamed Athens asking questions to spark thought, creating an early form of investigative dialogue. His method emphasized dialogue and curiosity as tools for uncovering truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Socrates
Athens
Cub Reporters Take Editor's Place on Junior Gazette
Marie Lyzette and Donna Hughes interview each other as acting editor and associate editor for two weeks in The Junior Gazette. Lyzette, a Wil son high school graduate and Coe College hopeful, envisions a small town paper role and values originality. Hughes, from Sidney Ohio, enjoys feature writing and aims to become a teacher with freelance work, eager to work in the composing room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Lyzette
Donna Hughes
Ivery
Junior Gazette
Gazette Society
Wilson High School
Cedar Rapids
Marie
Dorothy Thompson
Coe
Sidney High School
Sidney
Ohio
Charles Ritter
First Avenue E
Donna
Toledo
Gazette
Thompson
Ieft
Donna Nughes
Cub
Penny Earned Is Penny Saved For Her
A thrift-minded ten year old from Waubeek named Lorna Vretenberg saves every penny she earns and even more. She helps neighbors run errands carries milk for the elderly on icy days and keeps a coin bank in a tin can. She cans vegetables bakes and sews while caring for a garden and chickens. Lorna aims to attend high school then college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorna Vretenberg
Waubeek
Lorna
Waubeck
Allen Vretenberg
Ninety Year Old Doll Keeps Cool In Four Petticoats
Cedar Rapids girl Bebe Frame, 12, cherishes a 90 year old doll named Lil. The doll, formerly owned by Lil Cutler, has a solid china head, blue eyes, black hair, a feather ticking body, brown leather hands, and stands about 38 inches tall. Lil wears four tucked muslin petticoats with skirts reaching the floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Bebe Frame
Lil
Hold That Tiger: Mabel Stark Tiger Trainer Chronicle
The Junior Gazette reviews Mabel Stark’s Hold That Tiger detailing her 25 years with tigers, rise to headliner in the world’s largest circus, and the dramatic, scarred life of a renowned tiger trainer. The excerpt highlights a vivid narrative that grips readers despite its adult themes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Stark
Caxton
Junior Gazette
Miss Stark
Duo Possesses Musical Talent By SARAH MAY MESSENGER
Beverly Wright and Bob Wright are a Cedar Rapids musical duo both pursuing study and performance. Beverly, a Roosevelt high school graduate, teaches eleven piano pupils and plans to attend Coe College to study music while serving as church pianist and glee club accompanist. Bob, ten years her senior, plays trombone in the Roosevelt band and teaches four boys trombone lessons to fund his own, also active in bugling and the Y M C A Drum and Bugle corps. He admires Tommy Dorsey and helped form The Hungry Five Little German Band with brothers and friends, competing this year with his and Beverly’s rendition of From Day to Day.
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Beverly Wright
Bob Wright
Beverly
H. B. Wright
Thirteenth Street NW
Roosevelt High School
Coe College
Second Christian Church
Glee Club
Wright
Cedar Rapids
Max Daehler
Liszt
Debussy
Palmgren
King’s Daughters
Leo Courtemanche
U. S. Navy
Bob
Roosevelt
Boys’ Glee Club
Tommy Dorsey
Clay Smith
Read the Screenplay Quiz About Notable Figures
A newspaper quiz asks five true false questions about King Gustav V of Sweden visiting the United States German Count Haugwitz Reventlow Katharine Hepburn Gone With the Wind and the origin of the spice cinnamon and the color of a sorrel horse. Answers hidden at page bottom.
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Gustav V of
Sweden
United States
Count Haugwitz-Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
Katharine Hepburn
Hold That Tiger Sparks High Praise From Reviewers
The passage praises a book about escaped tigers and their personalities. The reviewer urges reading in air conditioned comfort and notes memorable figures like a Sheik plotting against a trainer and the Rajah who dies of grief after his trainer departs. The tone is enthusiastic and promotional.
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Miss Stark
Sheik
Rajah
Picnic Meat Loaf From Gelatine Mold
A recipe for Picnic Loaf using ham or corned beef and gelatine. Soak gelatine in water, mix with a hot white sauce, add meat, peppers and onions, season with salt paprika Worcestershire, mold in an oblong pan, slice to serve with lettuce and tomatoes. Serves 6.
Nine pearls form cross in 1874 oyster find
An 1874 report notes pearl fishers found an oyster containing nine pearls arranged in a cross. It observes birds increasingly accept human offerings as civilization encroaches on nesting sites. Death Valley, California, is highlighted for extreme heat reaching 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
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United States
Uncle Sam
Death Valley
Calif
Panamint
Funeral Mountains
Marion Girl Sells Onions and Helps Family
Lesta Jean Rion an 11 year old from Marion for more than three years grows and sells fresh onions and supplements income with strawberries and plums in season. She saves for a bicycle and uses earnings to buy gifts while helping at home cooking sewing and caring for younger siblings. She studies piano hopes to accompany an orchestra and dreams of becoming a kindergarten teacher after college. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rion of 350 Eighth Avenue Marion.
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Lesta Jean Rion
Marion
Lesta
Junior Gazette
Jerry Iny
Irving School
Howard Rion
350
Eighth Avenue, Marion
Blue Eyed Parents Have Brown Eyed Children Surprise
Grace Wallace of Anamosa reports 6 year old Henry Pillard and 4 year old Emil Pillard, both brown eyed, while their parents Emil and Mrs Pillard, both blue eyed, live on Rural Route 2 south of Anamosa.
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Robert Ripley
Emil Pillard
Anamosa
Mr. Ripley
Notice To Cub Reporters
Remember to keep a scrapbook of all stories printed in The Junior Gazette and photographers should keep copies of their pictures. Notebooks must be submitted to judges to compete for prizes. Bring or mail stories to The Junior Gazette desk even without a meeting. Check with your editor before starting a story.
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Junior Gazette
Cub
Modern House For Dolls Has Electricity
Dorothy Hawkins, 15, Cedar Rapids, displays a fully equipped electric doll house with removable roof, artificial yard, fountain, miniature stage, and 80 dolls. She designs doll clothes, exhibits at Mason City Hobby show earning two trophies, and toured Miss Colleen Moore’s Fairy Land Castle in Des Moines. Dorothy is a McKinley High School junior.
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Gre
Dorothy Hawkins
George A. Hawkins
Fifteenth Street
Cedar Rapids
Dorothy
Colleen Moore
Chicago
Miss Moore
Iowa
Des Moines
Fairy Land Castle
McKinley High School
Young Liscon dairyman hopeful for future farm ownership
Norman Nesley, 13, of Lisbon aims to own and operate a dairy farm after completing eighth grade. He studies dairying through reading and hands on work, keeps a dairy scrap book, enjoys geography and music, and plans to attend Iowa State College to deepen his knowledge before starting his own operation. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Nesley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Nesley
Lisbon
Norman
Guernsey
United States
Jersey
Cornell College
Spot
Gazette
Iowa State Agricultural College
Ames
John F. Nesley
Answers to Quiz One in Brief
False statements on the Swedish royal party visit and the Dane identity are clarified. Norma Shearer is named as the subject in question five, while cinnamon is clarified as derived from bark.
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Norma Shearer
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