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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1942
Page
8
Albert E. Wiggam discusses how mourning customs, popularity through guesswork, and casual teaching moments at a Dover school can influence youth. He cites psychologist M I Preston linking horror media to increased anxiety in children, urging wholesome alternatives amid notes on fires storms and insects destroying timber annually.
The article describes Madura island near Java with salt-made white hills 30 to 40 feet high and explains Java’s salt reliance. It recalls Lake Bonneville in Utah and its salt beds near Great Salt Lake, noting vast oceanic salt reserves and methods to harvest salt from seas and reservoirs.
The notice invites readers to mail a stamped self addressed envelope to Uncle Ray at the newspaper to obtain a copy of the ten pictures by Frank C. Pape and several hundred words of text authored by Uncle Ray.
W Sam Stoch elected grand knight of Cedar Rapids council Knights of Columbus last night. Leonard Hines wins Cornell College chemistry prize under Dr Nicholas Knight. About 25 locals plus visitors head to Prague for ninth Sokol festival and tournament. June 8 1922 J F Travis named to fill justice vacancy. Fire destroys William Frank ice house near Marion. Horace Hedges named Lions district director in Omaha. June 8 1912 Heald Diserens Wardle elected to State Historical Society. City Plumbing Inspector Charles McHugh named vice president of American Society of Inspectors in St Louis. Prof Bohumil Shimek spoke at Iowa State University event.
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