Four Iowa 4-H club entrants win prizes in letters contest
Judges at Mrs Don C. Wherry’s home near Wyoming selected four winners who will receive autographed copies of Adventures in 4-H. Frances R. Hill Vera Mae Lippert Pauline Ford Lucille Embree top the list with several honorable mentions among Jean Minish Evelyn Dukek Frances Knight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Don C. Wherry
Wyoming
Betty Baxter Anderson
Wherry
Ray Anderson
Gazette
Lucille Gove
Linn County
Frances R Hill
Coggan
L. D Hill
Be Natural
A. W. Savage
Vera Mae Lippert
Cedar Rapids
W. Lippert
Indian Creek Bluebirds
F. Lorence
Pauline Ford
Central City
C. M. Ford
Jackson
Daniel Rogers
Lucille Embree
Anamosa
A. R. Embree
Louise Cook
Jean M. Minish
Mount Vernon
A. R. Minish
Merry Sous
Sarah Kirkpatrick
Evelyn Ruth Dukek
Marion
C. H. Dukek
Linn
Edna Dahms
Frances Lee Knight
Springville
C L. Knight
Whittier Gleaners Club
Lenna Whitcomb
Miy Frances RK. Hill
Ames
Boy Scout Camp Canoe Trip Plans North Woods odyssey
Eighteen Boy Scouts from Waubeek undertake a ten day canoe expedition from Ely Minnesota to Moose Lake with guides Harold West and Jim Manville. The journey covers about 60 miles by four day portage and includes exploration birding fishing and tree rock studies. Participants must be First Class Scouts aged 15 with medical clearance and merit badges before packing gear for backcountry travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakes
Woods
Ely
Minn
Moose Lake
Harold West
Jim Manville
Trip
Waubeek
Anamosa
Northwoods
Waubeck
Bill Kelsey
Perry Woodward
Charles Imig
Martin Hanson
Elmer Grissel
Carl Huff
John Hershey
Charles Field
Harold Blocher
Jack Sopousek
Ed Kopecky
Charles Smig
Wayne Schreckengast
Answers To Quiz Review
A concise recap lists six rows of eight stars for question one. It identifies George Jessel as the answer for two, Mexico for three, on the face for four, and Confederate for five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Jessel
Mexico
Norma Talmadge
Eddie Leonard
Richard Dix
Adolphe Menjou
Quick Quiz for Stars and Geography Knowledge
A short trivia page presents five multiple choice questions with options on the flag stars Norma Talmadge the Tropic of Cancer and meanings of prone and Merimac gunboat. Each correct answer earns 20 points. total scores range from 20 to 100 with bottom-of-page answers.
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Central America
Mexico
South America
Cuba
Cocoa Syrup and Chocolate Milk Recipe Tips
The excerpt presents a simple chocolate milk guide and a cocoa syrup recipe. It outlines using cocoa or syrup, pouring into milk hot or cold, and finishing with whipped cream for parties. The cocoa syrup combines cocoa, sugar, salt, and water heated to dissolve the sugar, then boils briefly to thicken, with vanilla added before storage.
Young collector gathers 2000 movie star pictures
Juanita Day, 14, daughter of Bert E Day, has built a 2000 picture collection of movie stars over five years. Her favorites include Sonja Henie Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland. She sources pics from magazines newspapers and friends with brother Richard assisting.
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Eileen Smith
Juanita Day
Bert E. Day
H Avenue NW
Sonja Henie
Dorothy Lamour
Ray Milland
Juanita
Richard
Novel of Life At College Is Excellent
Florence Crannell Means writes The Singing Wood with a Mexican flavor. Loduska Day befriends neglected campus peers at a California college and, after inheriting an orange grove, keeps 1850s decor intact while pursuing international ties with the University of Mexico. The tale blends campus life, travel appeal, and appreciation of Mexican art and people.
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Florence Crannell Means
Houghton Mifflin Company
Loduska Day
California College
Dusky
Orange Grove
University of Mexico At
Mexico City
Mexico
M. L
How Many Words Can You Find VACATION Challenge
A newspaper contest invites readers to form words from the letters in VACATION and submit lists to The Junior Gazette by Thursday August 4. Three entries with length and accuracy win a new book each.
Nip the Collie Guards Chick and Kittens in Cedar Rapids
A large collie owned by the Thomas Wall family in rural route J Cedar Rapids devotes himself to Beep the baby chick and two adopted kittens. He avoids barking to not wake them, caring for them with a gentle, affectionate nature despite not being unusually smart.
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Leone Wall
Nip
Thomas Wall
Route J
Cedar Rapids
Beep
One Year Old Radio Fan Charms What Cheer
Charles Turner Morrow of What Cheer loves radios at one year old. He spends up to 50 minutes on the couch arm, switching programs, signaling which buttons start electricity and select stations, and waiting briefly after powering on. He dislikes static and turns off the radio at once.
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Charles Turner Morrow
Charles
Welshman’s 37 year hobby: 3,000 sermons heard
A Welshman has spent 37 years on his hobby of listening to sermons and has now heard 3,000 in total. This long running religious pastime highlights his commitment and steady routine.
Church Group In Monona- Has Hobby Club
Monona Epworth League formed a Hobby club after a study of other Leagues. The club meets first and third Mondays in winter in the church basement. Early projects included knitting, basketry, and crafts. Members created sweaters, scarfs, trays, and small sculptures to share as gifts.
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Monona Epworth League
Clear Lake Epworth League Institute
League
Divides Interest Between Music And Collections
Marilyn Ingham 16 collects dogs elephants and dolls at 2010 First Avenue NE. Her nearly 115 figures include a family of six elephant figures a Chinatown collection plus heavy bronze pieces. She owns two Russian wolfhounds a wire dog resembling Fifi and other named pieces. She plays viola violin piano baritone sax and sousaphone and serves as bugler for a girls corps while teaching three viola pupils and working at an ice cream stand in summer.
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Joanne van Cleve
Marilyn Ingham
Ray Ingham
First Avenue NE
Marilyn
Chinatown
Princess
Fifi
Maggie
Franklin School
Marion
Boy keeps fourteen white rats as hobby at Cedar Rapids home
Fifteen year old Carl Arp son of Mr and Mrs C E Arp 280 15th street NW Cedar Rapids keeps fourteen white rats in cellar pens after a peak of about thirty. A cat devoured some and others disappeared or were sold. His favorite food is lettuce and he even has a mother with seven babies named Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. Carl also runs a large magazine route and attends Roosevelt High School as an 11B student.
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Jack Linkletter
Carl Arp
C. E. Arp
15Th Street NW
Cedar Rapids
Carl
Snow White
Roosevelt High School
At 17 She Is At Head Of Her Household
Alice Fars profiles 11 year old Erva Taylor who keeps a ten room home for four brothers a sister and her father since their mother died. Erva sews cans jams and preserves in summer she helps with laundry shopping and housework while managing school and Sunday class and still finds time to write letters.
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Alice Fars
E Avenue NW
Erva Taylor
Erva
Road Map Hobby Teen Collects Far Flung Maps
Robert Funk, 15, of Cedar Rapids, has collected road maps from 29 states and Ontario, plus picture folders, gathered from friends who vacationed. He uses maps to locate towns and rivers during floods, while his 13-year-old brother Richard also collects maps and stamps. one letter from Hartford, England carries eight cancellations.
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Leone Wali
Robert Funk
Earl Funk
Pale Road
Cedar Rapids
Robert
Ontario
Richard
Hampstead
England
Her Room Is Like a Real Museum
Geraldine Weiss, 11, Cedar Rapids, shelves her room with a travel collage of lava, shells, rocks, dolls, pennies, soap samples, cactus and trinkets from Idaho to Mexico. Items include crayola bark letters, California beach sand, international dolls, Canadian pennies, and a logbook of visitors alongside goldfish, a snail collection, and a signed autograph book kept for Miss Mary Kent’s science class.
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Rosalee
Geraldine Weiss
A. W. Weiss
Meadowbrook Drive
Cedar Rapids
California
Oklahoma
Moon
Idaho
Catalina Island
Arizona
Minnesota
Mexico
Texas
Geraldine
Czechoslovakia
Japan
Mary Kent
Johnson School
Munich police fine passer for littering on scene
In Munich Germany a police officer witnesses a pedestrian throw paper or fruit skin onto the pavement. He fines the offender immediately and issues a receipt for the on the spot payment.
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Munich
Germany
Money in South Sea Islands Pore Poise Teeth Used as Currency
In certain South Sea islands, teeth carved as ornaments serve as money. The claim notes there are very many such items in use and mentions a plentiful variety of hummingbirds in the region.
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South Sea Islands
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BOY Scout Camp
Marie Lyzotte
Canada
United States
Scout
N. Harold West
Edward Kopecky
William Kelsey
Eugene Auer
Waldo Berger
Verne Lehman
Jim Battin
Vinton
Monticello
Max Ramsey
William Graham
Larly
Girls In Blue
Mother
Four-H
4-H
America
Oween
Jeanette Beyer
Dorothy Greene
Monona
Edna Mae Baskerville
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