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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1939
Page
7
Albert Edward Wiggam presents scientific views on moral questions and human motivation. He discusses parental favoritism, the limits of profit as a motive, and habit formation drawing on William James. The piece explores how habits shape destinies and urges breaking harmful routines early.
In England a Sunday law permits purchase of cut flowers on the Sabbath but bans the sale of potted plants, reflecting restrictions on certain goods on Sundays. The rule highlights selective commerce allowances during religious observance.
A crossword style grid lists horizontal and vertical clues ranging from education and age terms to anatomy and objects. Notable entries reference a New York educator Murray and terms like infant underdone and time gone by among others, with many abbreviations and partial phrases.
Hollywood gossip recalls director Frank Lloyd’s long ordeal making sea epics. He endures fog delays on Mutiny on the Bounty and fights weather with crews, fighting seasickness and discipline while studios fret over budgets, yet he returns to sea drama projects.
A collage of Hollywood gossip and upcoming releases. Notes on John Barrymore, Janet Beecher, Fay Holden, Dolores Del Rio, Victor McLaglen, and the Crosbys. Mentions of burning topics like burial crypts and Nazi spy confections, plus New York fashion and stage headlines.
Publicity agent Ralph Pollock recalls using The Oomph Girl of the Theatre to promote Darianne a New York strip teaser now admitted as not his original idea. The anecdote traces the gag to a Lincoln high school annual and mentions unrelated chatter about Joe DiMaggio and a San Francisco seafood dinner. Arthur Treacher comments on public perception after a successful tour.
Mary Manners notes that meddling friends and family often ruin new romances. Janice impresses a young man until relatives push the relationship, provoking a retreat. The author advises a hands off approach and suggests not interpreting occasional exclusion as a slight.
A political figure is cautioned to curb problematic statements after an earlier avoidable remark. If he repeats such comments, officials say further tolerance will not be extended.
A reader asks how to end a too serious boyfriends role without causing backlash. The Miss Manners reply suggests gradually tapering the dates, declining some invitations, and accepting others to shift toward dating different boys while avoiding stubborn definitions of “going steady.”
The menus for a family of five two adults and three children outline daily meals for about $12 weekly. Each day’s recipes aim to provide balanced calories protein minerals and vitamins to maintain energy and tissue health.
A Wednesday menu lists meat loaf with egg sauce, mashed potatoes, pickled beets, and bread with butter, plus breakfast and tea items including cereal, bananas, toast, milk, and coffee. It notes daily milk and butter allowances, a total daily cost around 1.70, and advertises dessert ideas such as chocolate chiffon cake and strawberry cream roll with a request for a self-addressed 3-cent reply.
More than 1,000 attended the three act senior class production Mignonette directed by Mrs Irene Griffin. June Rock played Mignonette with Thomas Hilton as old Jonathan Mills and Gene Mullin as young Mills. Others included Junella de Poy, Kenneth Krumbholz, Mary Kathleen Byrne, Pauline Huston and Betty Curry.
A stamped envelope should be sent with requests for the Special Cakes leaflet. Requests for Meta Given booklets go to her care of The Cedar Rapids Gazette. For marketing, budgeting, diets or low cost recipes call the Community Nutrition Service at 5515.
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