Camp Fire Girls Celebrate 27th Anniversary with Americana Theme
Camp Fire girls in Cedar Rapids marked the organization’s 27th anniversary with Americana themed exhibits in windows and at gatherings. Seventy seven groups including 813 girls will participate in the Council Fire ceremony at 7:50 p.m. on Saturday March 25 in the Coliseum auditorium with honors and ranks presented by board members.
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Camp Fire
Cedar Rapids
Hiaga
Council
Camp Fire Girls Celebrate 27th Birthday With Americana Theme
Cedar Rapids Camp Fire girls stage a anniversary program directed by Miss Jane Garwood featuring a candlelighting ceremony, patriotic songs, dances, and awards for five and three year memberships. weaving and loom craft taught by A. L. Mason with students Connie Lou Klima Gloria Pahl and others from Towankas.
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Stephen Foster
Council
Jane Garwood
Cedar Rapids
Camp Fire
A. L. Mason
Mary Ann Mason
Connie Lou Klima
Gloria Pahl
Coiffures A Hobby For Springville Girl Iva Mae Wetzel
Iva Mae Wetzel a 16 year old Springville student pursues hairdressing as a hobby. She studies face shapes shading and current styles to create coiffures for sisters and friends. She keeps fashion scrapbooks and plans secretarial work after high school while sewing crochets and embroidery in her spare time.
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Iva Mae Wetzel
Springville
Iva Mae
Springville Consolidated Schools
Ilya Mae
Queen Esther Circle
Friendship Circle
Junior Easter Parade Styles From Mary to Moppet Fashions
Little boys and girls march in Easter parades wearing miniature versions of adult outfits. Frocks for girls range from tight bodices and full skirts to streamlined dresses with boleros. Boys wear Rugby suits with knickers or knits and purses of similar fabrics. Prints dominate children's wear with checks and plaids and floral motifs for daywear. Accessories include poke bonnets with apple blossoms, ribbons, larger bags, gloves, and belts. Coats for girls 6 to 16 split into major fitted with full skirts and straight types, plus reefers that mold the waist. Reefer jackets remain stylish.
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Mary
Insect Proportion: Daddy Longlegs Has 64 Times Leg Length
The daddy longlegs exhibits a leg length sixty four times its body length, a striking proportion highlighting its slender limbs compared with the body.
Illness Started Youth As Butterfly Collector
Ravenna Ohio resident William W. Thrasher aged 20 has one of the region's finest butterfly collections developed after infantile paralysis left him unable to walk for years. He found fitness and purpose chasing butterflies and moths locally. He has nearly 500 varieties in his collection.
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Ravenna
William W. Thrasher
Ohio
Thrasher
Young Collector Gathers Diverse Dog Figurines
Dorothy Schmidt, a 13 year old from Cedar Rapids, collects dogs of wood china iron and other materials. Her trove includes items from Germany and gifts from many cities in Iowa Minnesota and Texas. She aims to expand her collection with dogs from foreign countries and plans a live dog addition to her display.
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Dorothy Schmidt
L. V. Schmidt
Sixteenth Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Germany
Iowa
Minnesota
Texas
Dorothy
Boys Form Own G Man Detective Agency led by 16 year old
West Hartford reports Roy D Bassette Jr 16 heads a youth detective group with 55+ volunteers across several states Canada and Paris. The lab uses fingerprinting skeleton keys and plaster casts while members study exams and can rise from inspector to captain. Police praise their conduct and small-town cases including a missing person resolved by elopement information.
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West Hartford, Conn
Tri-State
Roy D. Bassette, Jr
Canada
Paris
France
Roy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bassette
West Hartford
Joseph H. Grogan
Longest Day Will Match Lunar Month Length
The article notes the Earth's rotation is slowing, making days longer while the lunar month grows longer as well. In the distant future, the day’s length will equal the lunar month’s duration.
Character author behind Pye one to Uriah Heep and more
A reader quiz lists five literary and public figures. It asks which author created Uriah Heep Lizzie Hexam Tim Cratchit and Wilkins Micawber and then poses four more, each with multiple choice style clues, awarding 20 points per correct answer and a perfect 100 for all five. It notes scoring bands and directs to bottom of page for answers.
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Uriah Heep
Lizzie Hexam
Tim Cratchit
Wilkins Micawber
Boy Scouts Aid Britain In Smugglers Hunt
London reports hundreds of Boy Scouts trained by their Scoutmasters to patrol the east coast between Hastings and Rungeness. They learn to locate landing spots, read quicksands, and spot smugglers moving contraband. If successful, the coast service will expand to other districts.
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London
INS
Britain
Hastings
Rungeness
World’s Largest Watch Displayed in National Museum
A watch 914 inches in diameter is shown at the National Museum in Washington DC, touted as the largest watch in the world. The remarkable timepiece draws visitors with its colossal scale and curious craftsmanship.
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National Museum
Washington, D. C
Answers To Quiz Eleven Reveals Notable Names
The list presents Charles Dickens as entry one and Cincinnati as entry two, followed by Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia and Richard E Byrd as entry three with Fredric March as four and William Shakespeare appearing twice as five and six.
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Senator Harry Byrd
Virginia
Richard E. Byrd
Fredric March
William Shakespeare
Did You Know Facts From The Times
A quirky item notes that ACH OF US exhales carbon as carbonic acid enough hourly to form a diamond of 100 carats with refined fossil fuel use. It adds whisker roots house delicate nerves letting cats sense whisker contact instantly. It also mentions a dentist showing wall movies to distract patients.
New Barnes Dollar Sports Library Series for Youth
A new Barnes Dollar Sports Library offers titles on Football Baseball Basketball Track and Field Fundamental Handball and Modern Methods in Archery. The series emphasizes fundamentals coaching diagrams questions and is suitable for home school or library use with forthcoming books on badminton golf swimming tennis skiing fencing boxing and wrestling.
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Barnes Dollar Sports Library
W. Glenn Killinger
Daniel E. Jessee
Charles C. Murphy
Ray Conger
Bernarh E. Phillips
Natalie Reichart
Gilman Keasy
Charles Murphy
Trinity College
Halfback Trains Prize Steer For Show Wins
Willard Frye, 17, from Peoria Illinois, trained his prize steer Flash by playing football with him. Flash won grand champion fat steer at the National Western Stock Show, selling for 68 cents a pound to bring Frye $724.20. Frye plans to reinvest to win more prizes.
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Willard Frye
Peoria
Ill
Central High School
Flash
W. L. Blizzard
Oklahoma A
M. College
Frye
Denver
Willard
Nebraska
Dinner in a Dish Macaroni Casserole by Glenda Farrell
Glenda Farrell shares a casserole recipe titled Dinner in a Dish built on macaroni and cream sauce. She makes a white sauce with butter flour and milk, seasons with salt and paprika, cooks macaroni, and blends in options like salmon and eggs or tuna and peas, ham and peppers. The dish is baked in a buttered casserole topped with buttered crumbs for thirty minutes at 375 degrees.
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Ollywood
Glenda Farrell
Glenda
Most Frequent Words in English
The sentence explains that the words the and and occur most frequently in English, with and and of also common. It notes these words serve as function words that help structure sentences.
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Council Fire
Thompson Proto
Marian Young
NEA Service
Boston
Cincinnati
New York
Pittsburgh
U. S
Notre Dame
Boy Scouts
Charles Dickens
Illinois
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