Many Girls Learn to Sew in WPA Classes in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids WPA and NYA programs place 23 women and 5 girls on relief into playground and sewing projects. At Fillmore and Lincoln schools young girls learn sewing and crochet after noon, with mothers and sisters remodeling garments and making new items from old material.
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Works Progress Administration
Cedar Rapids
National Youth Administration
Fillmore
Lincoln
Little Sister
WPA
Playground Commission
Nevin Nichols
Rachael Hatch
Hese
Lincoln School
Fillmore School
NYA
Sunshine Mission Center
Public Health Nursing Association
Camp Fire
Good Penny and the Aunt in a Bayville Mystery
Judith Pennet sits with her aunt Mary and Spencer Owen as she faces her father Chester Pennet’s embezzlement conviction. Aunt Mary arrives to help Judith manage the house while Judith insists on choosing her own path and rejecting Spencer’s interference.
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Judith Pennet
Judith
Spencer Owen
Spencer
Chester Pennet
Chester
Mary
Vermont
Bayville
Aunt Mary
Boston
Mr. Owen
Senate
Mary Pennet
Tam
Sam Emory
Gilbert Saunders
Spring activities mapped for children in Cedar Rapids
Spring vacation plans include kite flying contests rope skipping festival and a model aircraft contest leading to the Eastern Iowa marbles tournament on May 23. Kite building classes run daily at the playground commission workshop and Community House with teachers on duty to assist.
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Playground Commission
Iowa
D Avenue
Second Street
Ellis Park
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Eastern Iowa Marbles
Rowan's Assembly of Artists Draws Attention
Edward B. Rowan leads federal art exhibitions paid by the government, assembling units from many states. Shows travel from Idaho to Kentucky with about thirty artists per unit, including Indian art and mural design sketches. Francis Robert White is noted for lively figure studies.
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Edward B. Rowan
Washington Post
Rowan
Treasury Department
Little Gallery
Cedar Rapids
Idaho
Kentucky
Washington
Francis Robert White
Heavy tax payments sweep County Treasurer office
Taxpayers flooded the County Treasurer Milo Sedlacek’s office to pay the first installment before April 1 delinquency. Receipts reached about $60,000 on Friday and $48,000 on Thursday, with several $1,000 bills among the payments. Sheriff James H. Smith ordered deputies to guard the office.
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Milo Sedlacek
James H. Smith
New Fishing and Hunting Licenses Now Available
County Recorder Dempsey Jones announces new fishing and hunting licenses at the courthouse. Combined hunting and fishing license is 1.50. Hunting or fishing license only is 1. A six day non resident fishing license is 1 and a non resident season license is 3. Non resident hunting licenses bring 15. Trapping licenses cost 1 for 1 to 15 traps, more than 15 traps cost 10.
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Dempsy Jones
Easter Dinner Preparations and Mother’s Day Menu Tips
A vintage guide urges recognizing mothers labor in preparing Easter and holiday dinners. It lists festive menus with roast lamb and beef pot roast, orange souffle, baked ham, salads, pies, and chocolate desserts, plus steps for planning, shopping, and cooking ahead for a polished table.
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Mother
Hilda Whipped Cream Cake Recipe From Marion Inquiry
A note thanks Ione Willmott of Marion for sending Hilda Whipped Cream Cake instructions. It lists 14% cups sugar 1% cup water 34 teaspoon salt 2 cups sifted cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla. Whip cream and fold in beaten egg whites then bake 45 minutes. Plum dumplings and rocks requested with Bohemian dumplings and moist rocks recipes sought.
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Ione Willmott
Marion
Hilda
Cheese Popcorn Recipe Request For Pastel Color Mix
A reader asks Jeanette Beyer for recipes for pastel color popcorn and cheese popcorn. The letter directs responses to The Cedar Rapids Gazette care of Beyer.
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Jeanette Beyer
Madeline D
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Marmola Reducing Packet Promises Easy Fat Loss
An old advertisement touts Marmola as a simple fat reducer from medical science findings. It claims weight slips away with no starvation or drastic measures and cites 20 million Marmola packages sold since 1907.
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O Iny Medical Laboratories
America
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Naomi Doebel
Mead Redding
Sunshine Mission
Dren’s Hospital
Iowa City
Mission
Edith
Katherine
Bessie N
Marmol
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