Readers Enthusiastic About Book Review Plan
The Junior Gazette features a reader driven plan inviting youth critics to submit age and grade in reviews. A Merriweather Lewis adventure is highlighted with bold claims about trials along the expedition and Sacagawea as guide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Gazette
Merriweather Lewis
William Clark
South Dakota
Missouri
Yellowstone
North Fork
Sacagawea
Mandan Fort
Rockies
Mountains
Columbia
East
Pioneers in a Dark and Promised Land Adventure
A radio linked adventure book follows the Weston Roane family crossing the Cumberland and into Kentucky led by Daniel Roane. They escape Indian attacks and harsh hardships as they seek a new life and a promised land that proves perilous.
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Fedoration of Womens Clubs
Weston
Jed
Daniel Boone
Cumberland Mountains
Kentucky
South
Daniel Roane
Virginia
Roane
Bays
Girte
Ada Carotinfe Clark
Palo High School
Blaze the Pony Seized by Gypsies Returns Home Tale
A children's book features full page pictures of hearses and the story Blaze the pony stolen by gypsies. Billy and his dog and pony travel with the gypsies, then Blaze escapes and journeys back home while the guest critic notes the adventurous plot and family themes.
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Blaze
Billy
Photographer Youth Captures Town From Water Tower
George Flaharty, 17, a Clu tter high school graduating senior, takes hundreds of photos with a pocket camera. He climbed a 300 ft water tower to photograph his town, earning money selling snow and moonlight pictures to students.
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George Flaharty
Clutier High School
George
Prince and Pauper and Classic Stars in Film Guide
A movie guide listing multiple 1937 era films. The Prince and the Pauper stars Billy and Robby Mauch with Errol Flynn and Claude Barns. Mark Twain story about a prince and beggar boy swapping places. Also reviewed are A Star Is Born with Fredric March and Janet Gaynor, and The Good Old Soak with Wallace Beery and Una Merkel.
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Prince
Billy
Robby Mauch
Errol Flynn
Claude Barns
Mark Twain
Westminster Abbey
Fredric March
Janet Gaynor
Hollyawood
Wallace Beery
Una Merkel
Eric Linden
Betty Furness
Ale woman of Ryan rides lion singing old verse
A fragmentary poem line about an ale woman of Ryan who sang on a lion ends when Len desires meat and halts her song. The text also lists Mary Lubbock, first grade, Franklin School, Cedar Rapids.
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Ryan
Len
Mary Lubbock
Franklin School
Cedar Rapids
Answers To Quiz 1 From The Gazette
A fragment describes quiz results with true false statements about a snake nickname, hydrogen, Princess Elizabeth, a patent for a clothes hanger by an 8 year old in New York, and a Gazette photo showing oxen used in High Amana for field work.
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New York State
the Gazette
Amana
Iowa
Young dress designer Irene Fritz Shows Pattern Prowess
Irene M. Fritz an 11 year old doll dress designer from Oxford Junction has created hundreds of paper patterns and draped real fabrics on two china dolls. She plans outfits, colors, and complete wardrobes, with brides as her specialty. She is a straight A seventh grader, loves geography, and hopes to become a professional dress designer.
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Irene M. Fritz
John Fritz
Oxford Junction
Irene
Jane Withers
Pupi
What Does A Camp Fire Girl Learn
In Brooklyn, Camp Fire Girls study nature, birds, plants, and trees while learning first aid. They supported a treasury with two one act plays and performed charitable acts like mending toys and sending boxes of food and comfort to shut-ins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
M .A Stewart
Florence E Benton
Quiz Tone Questions Reflect Early 20th Century Knowledge
A list of true false prompts covering topics from geology and chemistry to royalty and patent law. Items reference horned blowers lava flowers Lakehurst Hindenburg Margarets Rose Emish throne adult patent laws Buffalo Bill boyhood home and oxen farming in Iowa.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Margaret Rose
Buffalo Bill
Scott County
Iowa
Stamps by A C Zalesky Herald Coronation Issues
A coronation stamp release totals about 186 issues with 135 for Crown Colonies and the rest for dominions, Australia and India reportedly delaying participation. Canada issued a single stamp. South Africa showed enthusiasm for the route with ten stamps. New Zealand and England tie to the Jubilee era with pending colonial sets arriving.
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British Empire
Australia
India
Canada
Union of South Africa
New Zealand
Bern
Werigrete Darcunion
Nat Ergland
Winners in My Hero and Heroine contest next Saturday
Winners in the My Hero and My Heroine contest will be announced next Saturday. A prize letter will be printed from all three divisions grade junior and senior high schools. Winners will receive prizes by mail. Watch for the best letters next Saturday.
Dramatic Rescue By Young Hero At Helbane Hotel Fire
Dramatic rescue unfolds as a brave 11 year old girl climbs the burning Stones hotel in Helbane. She reaches a trapped five year old and leaps to safety into a life net as the building collapses behind them. Firefighters rescue the rest amid alarm and crowds.
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Marine Rye
Center Junction
Helbane
Stones Hotel
Delmar 15-Year-Old Teaches Tricks With Farm Animals
Donald Witt, a Delmar high school student, trained his horse to open barn doors and shake hands while a pig can play dead. He kept several pets, built a three corner shelter for birds, and successfully fed and tamed quail pheasant and a squirrel. His aim is to become a successful farmer using new methods and machines.
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Donald Witt
Delmar
Donald
Letter The Junior Gazette Publishes Young Poet
A 17 year old Cedar Rapids student JACK ROHRER sends a poem to The Junior Gazette and asks for publication. The editor replies with thanks and confirms the piece will be published.
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Gazette
Roosevelt Senior High
Jack Rohrer
Cedar Rapids
Junior Gazette
Immigrant Scene On A Steamer And Street Life
A vast steamer idles under cloudy skies as distant voices rise. Yellow skinned workers and rickshaws populate the street while a cherry blossom girl with small feet smiles at the scene. The sea laves the hull and city sounds mix with distant calls and bargaining.
Rural School News Paper Editors Win Local Interest
Sixth and seventh graders at Center School in Scotch Grove township publish a monthly paper titled Center School News. Miss Velma Tobiason leads the Wise Owl English club as students gather write edit and print the full publication. Editors include June Henrichs Loretta Kray and Joyce Otten with Lucille Bartels and Dale Ladehoff added to the staff since March.
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Center School News
Jones County
Scotch Grove Township
Wise Owl
Velma -Tobiason
June Henrichs
Loretta Kray
Loretta
Joyce Otten
Athletes Not Dumb Says Winthrop Student Robert Sharp
Robert Sharp of Winthrop, a basketball player and top student, asserts that athletes are not dumb. He is a county spelling champion, maintains straight A averages, and earned four A’s in a six week period, reflecting exceptional academic achievement.
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Robert Sharp
Winthrop
Robert
Petticoat Army Rules With Strict Discipline
Forty years ago a Cedar Rapids Arthur school club of eight 6A pupils formed the Petticoat Army. They recite a pledge, hold daily court martial, and declare demerits for absences while studying US Army history and performing plays, songs, and a piano solo.
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Petticoat Army
Arthur School
Cedar Rapids
United States Army
Evelyn Barnett
Joyce Rogers
Shirley Watrous
Marilyn Milner
Annie Smithey
Miss Barnett
Ann Pavlovsky
Lillian Dinsdale
Bernette Lind
Verna Jean Burr
Mary Ellen Heldt
Marilyn Neimier
Betty Lou Hamer
Jeanette Larson
Ruth Jeane Ferguson
Ruth Jean
Franklin High survey: Cedar Rapids study habits
A school survey of Cedar Rapids Franklin senior high students shows about half go to one movie weekly and a third study at home with a radio. Two thirds have a quiet room for winter study, two percent study four hours at home, twenty percent study 1 1/2 hours, and less than a fourth do no regular home study. One third meet in outside groups weekly, and 17 percent practice music outside school.
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Franklin Senior High School
Cedar Rapids
Parody on Gratiano's Speech from Merchant of Venice
Ruth Reuter a 13 year old student in Sth Grade Monticello writes a playful parody based on Gratiano's speech. The piece mocks laziness and urges effort in study noting the danger of ignorance and the urge to learn.
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Eones
Oime
Ruth Reuter
Monticello
Quite Different She An Education in Pronunciation
A short exchange plays with how foreign words sound and the mispronunciations they provoke. The speaker notes various attempts from family members to say antipathy anatomy and autonomy, then dismisses any true analogy among them.
Temptation Almost Too Much The Udine Van Fossen Artist Hope
Udine Van Fossen a Toddville high school sophomore draws and designs art from posters to clothes patterns She says she started as a child and hopes to become a real artist She assigns credit to her mother teachers and classmates for models and inspiration She has won fair prizes and serves as high school art editor with ambitions for a newspaper career
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Udine van Fossen
Toddville
Udine
Adine
Jeft
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Lone
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Richard Stevensos
Blaze and the Gypsies
C. W. Anderson
Macmillan
Movie Guide
Limerick
Elizabeth
A. C. Zalesky
Fay
Pig
Eastern Seaport
Gratiano
the Merchant of Venice
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