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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1937
Page
2
A rebus crossword contest for readers 18 and under offers $3, $2, and $1 prizes. Entrants must cut out the puzzle, mount it with name, address, age, town, and parents, and submit by 5 p.m. Friday November 19 or by mail by November 18 for Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas.
Marionie Hemsley, 11, a sixth grader from What Cheee, shares how she enjoyed reading SABS The Elephant Boy by Frances Flaherty. Published by Oxford University Press, the tale follows a little orphan boy and his elephant friend Sabua who embark on adventures including a movie role.
Hollywood stamp enthusiasts include Adolphe Menjou Ginger Rogers Noel Madison and Shirley Temple among stars who collect. Arthur W Haysel Columbia bit player trades stamps from a room full of duplicates and shows a love of filling spaces rather than chasing market rises.
Doris Klenk 16 daughter of Frank and Mrs Klenk of route 1 Oxford is a senior at Oxford High School. She walks four miles daily with her sister Jean and helps on the farm after school and Saturdays. Doris stars as Home Economics club president and glee club member and edited the 16 page monthly high school paper. She was voted most popular girl and crowned carnival princess at the Pepper Pot Pow Wow. After graduation she plans to teach at State Teachers College.
Five trivia prompts test teams and knowledge from Cornhuskers and Middies to Wolverines and Wildcats. Questions cover team affiliations, language prevalence, coastlines by state, silver quarter circumference, and Japan’s emperor, with scoring and answers at page bottom.
A Junior Gazette cookbook note explains a simple meat sauce and spaghetti meal. The method uses olive oil, garlic, onion, hamburger, tomatoes, and spices, simmered slowly, with al dente spaghetti and grated cheese. Readers are invited to submit more recipes for a Junior page cookbook exchange.
The McKinley high school community in Cedar Rapids cheers the under construction field featuring a sodded football gridiron a fifth mile cinder track and two concrete tennis courts to be used for volleyball and badminton during the year The project progressed rapidly with clearing of lumber bricks and trees and ongoing leveling and lighting Principal W L Paxson notes the football field will be ready next fall while the track will host all city meets Enthusiastic staff and students express strong support}.
Movie lands in 1940s comedy with Leslie Howard posing as a Shakespearian actor to charm Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland. Eric Blore Bonita Granville and Spring Byington co star while Patric Knowles plays the rival suitor in a brisk, witty plot about romance and ridicule.
Mammoth Cave Kentucky maintains chemically pure air and a year round 54 degree temperature. In 1935 Hollywood produced five hundred feature pictures, with $135 million invested in picture making and $350 million in taxes.
Loren Duffey age 18 and his brother George 16 from Manchester high school save from sheep and poultry to buy band clarinets. Loren at Cornell and George in high school both excel in academics and music while living in a cooperative dorm. Loren earns funds through work and scholarship while George writes finals and plans a career in chemistry. Roy John, 9, tends ducks and piano lessons as he eyes farming and future band needs.
At eleven, Paganini composed music of extreme difficulty believed to be beyond mortal skill. His violin mastery sparked tales that he wielded supernatural powers.
Answers include Cornhuskers Nebraska the Middies Naval Academy Fighting Irish Notre Dame Wildcats Northwestern and U of Arizona Wolverines Michigan Chinese not English Florida three inches Hirohito emperor of Japan Score if all correct is 100.
Melvin Arp seventeen of Marion has built a diverse music collection after finding old sheets in a second hand piano. He studies piano and pipe organ for years and hopes to become a concert pianist after high school. He favors Bach Chopin Brahms and Beethoven and plays only classical music. He also hikes observes nature cares for birds gardens and gardens for his family in summer delivering groceries as a Gazette carrier.
A poem by Winifred Neal of Mt. Vernon describes Tuesday ironing duties. She mentions pressing towels and hankies first then dresses and shirts for Dad, leaving shirts for brother to Mother to avoid wrath, and finishing with a smile after the long day.
Ruth Mastin interviews Roosevelt Franklin and Wilson high coaches to reveal bench behavior during games. The report details actions such as watching plays signaling substitutions and managing time while others describe coaches calming or reacting with nervous habits.
Readers seek exchanges of movie star pictures and related collectibles. Vera Pyle and Jeanette Knapp list items and ages in Cedar Rapids addresses while others like Marcelle Sweeting and unnamed contributors request trades for Gene Autry Jeanette MacDonald Kay Francis and more.
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