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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1934
Page
6
Sally lies before the hearth lost in thought as flames rise into human shapes and form a line spelling OH R I 8 T M A S. She decides the scene could inspire her Christmas story and heads to her desk to write a fitting title.
The document lists Easter Lewis Storey as Assistant Editor and Phyllis Wilson as Reporter Chief. It names senior to freshman reporters and students by grade, with Max Sell and Devere Knight among others, plus faculty and staff roles in arts, music, home brews, and alumni coverage.
Third Grade presenters recount the Christmas story from Luke read by Roy Dean Mansfield while classmates and mothers created booklets with Madonna pictures and silhouettes. Children stitched covers, crafted scrapbooks, puzzles, and walnut shell animals, and Santa visited amid effort and good cheer.
A radium clock is described as a tool to estimate Earth's age, with soil and salt erosion likened to an hour glass. The piece contrasts radioactive dating concepts with natural processes to illustrate measuring deep time.
The Girl Reserves met on December 9 with leader Wilson to present a Christmas program. The program included the Lord's Prayer, a rally call, a story titled Santa's House by Mary J. Summers, another story A True Christmas by Charlotte Wederquist, poems by Jane Fletcher and Marian Benton, plus Christmas in Foreign Lands and Silent Night.
The English class required a Christmas incident during a tellable tale session and discussed punctuation and verb choices. Mastery tests were given. World history advances through early revolutions and a recap of earth’s history. Spelling bees continue as a geometry spell down tests geometrical terms.
Excitement builds over the approaching Christmas break as Latin students orally translate work from the past week. Algebra completes review and takes a test on Tuesday. Miss Riddle reads Christmas stories to the class while students also write book reviews.
First grade pupils made shopping bags for mothers and calendars with pictures for fathers. They will have a Christmas party on the last day of school before vacation and look forward to Christmas vacation. The new Elson work backs are enjoyed and students follow the directions well.
The seventh and eighth grades presented block print Christmas cards and a program featuring Orizing poem Porathy Stath ower Haget Martindate Betty Baer and a reading of A Visit from St Nicholas. Afterward, eighth graders toured linoleum prints. parties followed with tea cream cake candy and hot chocolate sandwiches and games. The basketball game ended 16 to 12 in favor of the eighth grade.
Malvern high students staged a unique pep meeting Friday with about 20 participants. Boys wore short pants and bow ties while girls wore old-fashioned dresses. Dorothy Galliher and Winifred Calkins led in long black skirts as a bell drum and whistles band played. The event entertained despite mixed success and included emulation of Coach Dyke’s pregame gloom and a brief pep talk.
The sixth grade presented a Christmas program on Thursday morning built in reading and language classes. Students created calendars in art and read Christmas stories. Each member learned a Christmas poem and kept a sleep and chores chart for a week. Decimals improved and the class raised its average grade. The health lesson covered Sleep and Rest and Friday featured a Christmas party.
Second grade celebrated three birthdays on December 19. Charles Rubenking shared butterscotch suckers for his seventh birthday. Billy Sbeve and Harold Cozad, both seven and ten years old, joined games with Pauline and Zella Bigg as guests. A Christmas “net-school” afternoon featured games and a short program. A helper brought treats in pink stockings containing pencils and orange erasers, and the class planned to borrow fewer supplies from teachers for a few days.
Fragmented OCR passage describes strange breeding habits of a creature and a reader observing youths and heroes in a wild setting. The text mentions ageless tasks, warnings, and family trust themes in a cryptic, historical newspaper style. Names and places are unclear due to garbled text.
Emerson students return from colleges across Iowa Nebraska and Indiana to Ames Tasye State College and the University of Nebraska Lincoln for holidays. The list includes Merrill Wellin Warren Horaee Cheney Fegue Bart Peterson Edith Basa Ruth Cheney Josephine Russell and Margaret Harfiedd among others. Families and neighbors host gatherings as parish and school communities recount Christmas visits and travel plans.
Christmas time at the Ray Parker home features family gatherings, a detailed account of dinners, church activities, and local visitors. Notes mention Mrs Troyat Biwi, Miss Mary Alma Hipley, and Mr and Mrs Aneil Hinges visiting relatives, with cantatas, pageants, and a church program highlighted.
The snippet lists names such as Mrs Earl Watts and Daria spending Friday with Mrs SOA Keint, a birthday observance for a father and grandmother figures, and Red Oak visitors including Mrs Dea McLain and Win Capper, with mentions of local residents and a Friday event at Gyeter supa.
Coach Dale Dyke and the Malvern squads faced Emerson clubs in a pair of close games. The seniors dropped a 26 to 21 decision as Emerson built a late lead. Young Elmer Jackson led Emerson with 10 points while Hogsett added six. The junior highs also lost a tight 16 to 15 contest as Emerson edged Malvern, with Oriole Pledings and Jim Parker among top scorers on their side.
Chess players in the community began a month long tournament to crown champions in two divisions. Class A will award a board and a title, with dues funding the prizes. Class B will include a trophy. Early matches saw Jackson defeat Ho, Wilson defeating McWikan, and Wilson also beating Jackson as rounds proceed.
Malvern players packed the gym Friday evening for three fast volleyball matches. Collins’ team led 15 to 3 early as Oilers dominated 16-3 15-3 over Wedding’s Colts, while Firemen used three sets to beat Cold Storage though struggles showed in the later games.
Fragmentary OCR lists pairings and teams such as Vidley ball, Collis Vee Yas Us Wok STO, and Bisds Sabu With Whage. Reads like schedule notes with multiple short lines, many unreadable terms, and scattered team names.
A fragment notes forty years of peace after Penns treaty with Pennsylvania Indians, claiming no Quaker blood shed by Indians and mentioning a white peer prior to a red min incident.
The American highway association outlines changes to state routes including old No 4 becoming a major north south link from the Canadian border at Nooya to Port Arthur and Highway 5 shifting through Oxsee to Missouri. The plan affects towns from Sibley and Cherokee to Emer son and Shenando, with further changes tying into No 69 and a path toward Kansas City.
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