Youthful Cedar Rapids Market Aides Sell For Fun And Profit
Teenage vendors from Cedar Rapids and nearby areas rise early to run family stands at the city market. Blanche Horacek 17 sells flowers for her own money, Glen Metzger 14 and Donald Novak 13 trade beans melons and clothes for services, sisters Mary Katherine 15 and Helen 13 keep the stand while plucking home produce, Garlan Wetzel 17 earns mainly for keeping the stand, Eleanor Mae Klouda 17 enjoys picking strawberries, and LeRo Andeile 17 drives the truck to move goods. The youths emphasize fun and modest earnings rather than full professional retail work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah
May Messenger
Cedar Rapids
Blanche Horacek
Blanche
Roosevelt High School
Glen Metzger
Marion
Glen
Donald Novak
Mary Katherine
Helen Kazimour
Helen
McKinley High School
Garlan Wetzel
Garlan
Eleanor Mae Klouda
Wilson High School
Eleanor Mae
Hisself
LeRo
Andeile
Roosevelt TeRos
Souths
Cub Reporter With 8000 Movie Pictures Reveals Favorites
Ruth Masten interviews a young Cub Reporter who hoards about 8000 movie pictures. She describes prized icons and lists favorite actors, while noting she keeps scrapbooks and dreams of displaying sets. Her hobbies include swimming baseball and ice skating.
Foot Nurse Requested by Patient on Ward
A patient complains the nurse would not place a hot-water bottle at his feet and the head nurse explains the specialty limits. The patient then asks for the foot nurse, highlighting ward staff roles and patient expectations.
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Page
Maxine Blankenhorn earns 15 firsts at Louisa fair
Maxine Blankenhorn, 12, of Columbus Junction, shows a 29 entry exhibit at the Louisa county fair. She wins 15 first premiums and 12 second premiums with pieces including clothing, dolls, pillows, booklets, maps, baked and canned goods. A member of the Four-H Girls club, she attends Washington independent rural school in Concord township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxine Blankenhorn
Columbus Junction
Maxine
Louisa County Fair
H W. Four
Washington Independent Rural School
Concord Township
S. G. Blankenhorn
Summer Work Pays Her Way To High School
Edna Olmsted, starting milking cows at 12, now handles up to ten cows and helps neighbors during haying and canning. She earns funds from farming, cream, and chores to pay Monona high school expenses, while leading in 4-H and pursuing clubs, pen pals, and memory books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Olmsted
Edna
Eskader
Waterloo
Canada
Minnesota
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Washington
Lincoln
Anna Muth
Mohona
Wy and Dietrich Mystery In Studio Quiz
A playful Hollywood quiz asks who could fill a blank after a Dietrich comparison with Mussolini’s favorite film star. It also covers a candid camera contest entry rule and a tour of Iowa coeds sleeping locations. A 12 year old’s mountain rescue story offers options of who aided him.
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Mussolini
Hollywood
Marlene Dietrich
Dietrich
Interesting To Note Changes In Movie Stars
In Cedar Rapids 1 year old Gladys Rejsa preserves a growing photo collection of stars. Once about 12 she began clipping pictures, now totaling around 3000 with 900 of Joan Crawford and 200 of Clark Gable. She also has images of Loretta Young, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power, Bette Davis, Ronald Colman, Shirley Temple, and Freddie Bartholomew.
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Gladys Rejsa
Cedar Rapids
Gladys
Joan Crawford
Miss Crawford
Clark Gable
Loretta Young
Jean Harlow
Carole Lombard
Tyrone Power
Bette Davis
Ronald Colman
Shirley Temple
Freddie Bartholomew
Mount Vernon Girl Earns Proficiency Award in Domestic Arts
Kathleen Current of Mount Vernon, a Mount Vernon High sophomore, excels in sewing and cooking. She began sewing at age four and has produced doll clothes, quilts, and wardrobe pieces. She earned a DAR proficiency certificate for domestic arts and outstanding citizenship, is active in band and choir, and aims for honor roll again this six weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathleen
Mount Vern
Mount Vernon High School
Weok
New York
Kathleen A
Laurence Current
Mount Vernon
Extinction Notes on Passenger Pigeons’ Historic Abundance
A historical note recalls passenger pigeons once numbered in vast flocks that bent trees beneath their weight and darkened skies as they passed overhead, signaling immense abundance before their collapse.
Why the bloodshed in wars and quest for peace
A reader from Blairstown laments war’s toll and asks why nations clash. The verse mourns dying families, displaced homes, and the refrain “Peace On Earth” as the hopeful theme. Richard Stoll voices a plea for universal peace.
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Richard Stoll
Blairstown
Snails Show Ability to Learn Simple Lessons
A study demonstrates that snails can learn basic tasks through conditioning. Researchers trained snails to associate a stimulus with a reward, observing faster responses over repeated trials and suggesting more complex learning capabilities in invertebrates.
Raccoon Pete Wildlife Friend Of Cedar Rapids Neighborhood
Ruth Mastin reports on a three month old raccoon named Pete belonging to Fred Sipe of 1417 Sixth Street NW Cedar Rapids Pete washes his food and face before eating and even dries his paws on a handkerchief his diet ranges from bread and peanut butter to bugs minnows and frogs He shouts handshakes with neighbors and often hides peanuts in corners daily walker Bobby Geltin escorts Pete for strolls Pete will soon live in a custom cage and training to ride a small bicycle is underway with a planned photo when ready
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Ellis Park
Cedar Rapids
Wasatchee
Pete
Fred Sipe
Sixth Street
Sipe
Bobby Geltin
Ellis Boulevard
Mr. Sipe
Ten Year Old Girl Knows Her Baseball
Ten year old Marilyn Condon of Cedar Rapids explains how she plays baseball with schoolgirls when there is no team. She learned positions by play work ups and knows Raiders players, plus keeps a scrapbook with Yankees Cubs and boxing hero Jack Dempsey among her autographs.
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Marilyn Condon
Seventh Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Marilyn
Buchanan
Raiders
Yankees
Cubs
Jack Dempsey
Mt. Vernon teen’s quarrel hinted in poem fragment
A short fragment shows Wanita Hartung lamenting a controlling brother who tries to keep a gal from visiting. The lines reveal family friction and social judgment, all set in Mt. Vernon.
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Wanita Hartung
Mt. Vernon
Answers To Quiz 1 Liam Miranda
Isa Miranda is the subject. True statement 2. The trio slept in all three on different nights. The last clue identifies a prospector as the fourth item.
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Liam Miranda
Isa Miranda
Netherlands uses stamps to showcase Holland tourism
The piece describes the Netherlands as a small nation of about eight million, renowned for vegetables fish cereals milk cheese roots and bulbs. It notes Holland once under Julius Caesar and now blends ancient charm with modern progress, highlighting windmills and a stamp depicting a classic windmill with a 214c denomination.
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Netherlands
Holland
Caesar
B. C
Ruie
Netherlands Reday
Goldfish Await Fresh Water Yet From Yesterday
Dialogue notes a mother asking if the goldfish have been given fresh water and a reply that they have not finished processing the water provided yesterday. The exchange captures a domestic moment with light humor and a simple pet care concern.
Skilled In Woodcraft Wins Prizes for Martin Lubher
Martin Lubher a Roosevelt High School graduate and 17 year old Cedar Rapids youth has won first state honors and a $100 award in the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild Napoleonic coach building contest. He built three coaches totaling about 4,500 hours with his first coach earning third prize and his second prize at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago. His prize coach now on display in Detroit reflects intricate detailing. Lubher’s hobby is gun stocks, with ten guns made and two duplicates, and he plans to study mechanical engineering at Town State College Ames aiming for a government Arsenal designer role.
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Martin Lubher
Fourth Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Fisher Body Craftsman'’s Guild
General Motors
Martin
Chicago
Detroit
Roosevelt High School
Town State College
Ames
Builds Himself Tree Hide Out
Jimmy Tokheim of Maynard builds a tree platform mid maple in his yard as a personal hide-out during vacation. A clothesline serves as an express line to haul up a magazine and an apple dangles to the ground with a pin through stem for delivery.
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Jimmy Tokheim
Maynard
Jimmy
Raises Rabbits For Fun By Local Youth
Donald Neuenshwander of Fayette began rabbit raising last spring hoping to earn money. He faces misfortune with only five of eighteen born surviving from two older does. He continues because he enjoys his pets and plans to keep trying. He notes a litter of seven lost care, possibly due to early handling. A dog also took one rabbit. Don often visits Cedar Rapids with grandfather D. R. Tappen, Beyer park policeman, and has other relatives nearby.
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Donald Neuenschwander
Fayette
Don
Cedar Rapids
D. R. Tappen
Beyer Park
Mrs
A E. Tappen
Mildred Tappen
Jerry
Doris
Nine Year Old Conesville Boy Tames Many Pets
Jack English, 9, of Conesville, trains goats, guineas, a tame hen, turkey gobbler, geese, a cat and a dog. The nanny goat yields milk, his billys remain pets. He plans to move to town next spring with parents and will likely take the nanny but not yet decide on the billys.
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Jack English
Conesville
Jack
John English
Billys
Counselor Tells OF Camp Life
A Cedar Rapids girl Shirley Like spent ten weeks as a busy camp counselor at Camp Good Health. Her day began at 6 45 with wakeup and flag salute, then bed making, meals, health classes, naps, hobby hour, long afternoon activities, and evening entertainment ending with lights out at eight.
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Cedar Rapids
Shirley Like
Thirty-fifth Street Drive
Good Health
Shirley
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