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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1940
Page
5
Glimpses of readying food for preservation as a city market opens. Tips cover budgeting, garden planning for canning, jar and lid quality, enamel linings, jar sizes, needed equipment, and processing methods with the Community Nutrition Service offering further guidance.
A vintage advertisement touts Quaker Macaroni enriched with powdered whole milk. It claims superior creaminess and flavor over standard macaroni, with quick cooking and sturdy, tender results. The copy urges shoppers to switch and look for the big blue and yellow package.
Cedar Rapids Gazette farm editor Ray Anderson will deliver the commencement address to 172 Linn county rural eighth graders at McKinley High School auditorium Cedar Rapids next Tuesday at 9 45 am.
City council Friday filed petitions for streets and avenues Twelfth Street NE Thirteenth Street NW Tenth Avenue SW and Twelfth Street NE again along with Tenth Avenue SW. Wagner Motor Co yards light move and curb removal on Eighth Street and Third Avenue SE approved. Windsor hotel beer permit renewed. Preliminary plat for George Ilen area near Fifteenth Street SW approved. Probate notice for Dora Engerson will be heard June 1940 in Linn County Iowa. EDWIN W. LUNDQUIST, Clerk. G K Thompson, Attorney.
Two faculty lectures kick off Alumni Day at Coe College as part of the fifty ninth commencement. Dr. Ben H Peterson speaks at 10 30 am in Science Hall about Modern Science in a Modern World. Eleanor Taylor discusses Good Music at 2 30 pm in Stewart Memorial Library lobby. The day ends with a 6 30 pm alumni dinner in Voorhees quadrangle dining room. Dr. Harry M. Gage delivers Sunday’s baccalaureate.
Uncle Wiggily the rabbit and a fly catcher bird set out on a May day to gather blossoms and flowers for Uncle Wiggily s wife. The bird traps flies while the pair explore woods and meadows and spot a bobcat named Bobbie.
Uncle Wiggily asks the bird to surprise Bobbie with a fly catching plan. The bird worries about missing and nipping Bobbie, while Uncle Wiggily agrees to the plan. The cartoonish scene ends with promises of a next installment about a fountain mishap and a runny pencil sharpener.
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