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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 09, 1939

Page

35

Mind survey on parenting and work motivation by Albert Edward Wiggam

A lecture style exchange discusses parental favoritism injuring both children, the primacy of self‑worth over profit in business, and the psychology of habits as explained by William James. It argues favored children risk egotism while unfavored ones face resentment, and that genuine work drive stems from recognition and betterment rather than pay.

Belgium Holland Sweden William James

Sunday blue law in England restricts potted plants

English Sunday rules allow purchase of cut flowers on the Sabbath but prohibit buying potted plants, reflecting a ban on certain garden goods during religious observance.

England

Leading educator named Murray appears in horizontal clues

Puzzle grid lists many clues across horizontal and vertical items. Highlights include educator Murray in New York and various definitions such as infant, underdon, masculine, marshal terms, and legal references.

Hollywood sea drama chiefs and gossip in one column

JIMMY Fidler praises Frank Lloyd as Hollywoods leading sea drama director who endures brutal shoot conditions and sea sickness while chasing perfect seas for Mutiny on the Bounty. The column mixes industry rumors, actor notes, and fashion touches in a lively daily chronicle of showbiz.

Ruler of the Seas Frank Lloyd Hollywood Lloyd California

Oomph Girl gag tied to Darianne burlesque tease

Publicity agent Ralph Pollock admits he reused the Oomph Girl line from a Lincoln high school annual to advertise Darianne, a New York imported strip teaser, in Burbank. The piece notes Pollock did not originate the gag.

Monniker Ralph Pollock Burbank

Budding Romance Spoiled by Interference Advice Column

Mary Manners counsels on romance and social pressure in a reader Q and A. A girl named Janice learns that too much help from family and friends can derail a budding relationship. A second letter asks how to end going steady and open up to other dates without backlash.

Mary Manners Janice Miss Manners

The Beachcomber and Sudden Money At The Theaters

Iowa program features Dark Victory with Bette Davis and George Brent and The Rookie Cop with Tim Holt and Virginia Weicher. Stagecoach with John Wayne and Claire Trevor frames county listings. Strand presents The Crisis on the Czechoslovakia seizure.

Paramount Charles Laughton Elsa Lanchester Charles Ruggies Marjorie Rambeau Iowa Bette Davis George Brent Tim Holt Virginia Weicher State Stagecoach John Wayne Claire Trevor Harry Carey Palace Janet Gaynor Robert Montgomery Franchot Tone Nancy William George Hayes Old

How Family of 5 Can Eat Well On $12 a Week

The menus in these columns plan a five person family two adults and three children for about 12 dollars a week. Each day’s menus and recipes aim to supply a balanced diet with enough calories proteins minerals and vitamins to sustain heat energy and tissue maintenance.

Daily Menu and Budget from a 1939 Homemaker Guide

A detailed daily meal plan lists sliced bananas with cereal, toast, coffee, milk for children, luncheon items, pineapple and cottage cheese salad with specific quantities, sardine crackers, tea, meat loaf with egg sauce, mashed potatoes, pickled beets, bread and butter, apple sauce, graham crackers, and a daily milk allowance. It includes cost estimate about 1.70 and notes on evaporated milk, butter, and cooking needs. The piece promoting festive cakes offers chocolate chiffon, coffee ice box cake, orange sponge, and strawberry cream roll with a request for a self addressed 3 cent reply.

Special Cakes leaflet request and nutrition help contact

A stamped envelope should be sent to the department with the Special Cakes leaflet request. For Meta Given booklets address care of The Cedar Rapids Gazette. For marketing food budgeting diets or low cost recipes call Community Nutrition Service at 5515.

Cedar Rapids Gazette Community Nutrition Service Dial

St Patrick's seniors stage Mignonette with large crowd

More than 1000 spectators watched St Patrick's high school senior class present the three act play Mignonette directed by Mrs Irene Griffin. June Rock starred as Mignonette with Thomas Hilton and Gene Mullin as Jonathan Mills in a southern romance filled with humor and strong supporting turns by Mary Kathleen Byrne Pauline Huston Betty Curry and others.

Mignonette St. Patrick's High School Irene Griffin New South June Rock Thomas Hilton Jonathan Mills Gene Mullin Pickaninnies Janella de Pay Kenneth Krumbholz Mary Kathleen Byrne Pauline Huston Betty Curry Mary Phelps Mary Creighton Marguerite Ward Dorothy Doyle Fay Convey Mary Erlacher Glenn Morgan Raymond Driscoll Marcella Gibbons Mary Elgas Jack Carney Junella de Poy Jack Weldon Lester Usher Dale Hasley Mildred Weix Frank Lana Josephine Palumbo Richard Pfiffner Robert Erlacher Earl Minninger William Elwood Jeanne Brabbit Jack Kenney Robert Heaverlo M.A

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