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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1987
Page
2
A satirical column lampoons 1980s health worries and tech excess. It parodies rock concerts injury claims and links immoderate exercise to hormonal and joint issues, then lampoons home electronics clutter and the perils of digital watches with fanciful terms like digitedema and toe zap.
Fragmented OCR text references figures and monetary amounts including 260 per and 118, with various garbled names and locations. No coherent event or outcome is discernible from the readable parts.
Iowa reports 14 percent of residents below the poverty line, about 409000 people, a 0.4 point drop from 1986. Howard County is now the poorest, while Story County remains best off. Data guide federal education funds and reflect lingering rural poverty.
Bender of 840 South 15th Street Marion ducked as his car lost control and struck a tractor and trailer parked in a construction zone on Interstate 380 near the Cedar Rapids Airport. The 2:30 p.m. crash involved a tractor trailer owned by C&E Construction of Hampton Iowa. He received treatment and was released from Mercy Hospital.
The Goodwins a family of seven spent Aug 1 in a Linn County cornfield and later refused a full time job and a house offered by HACAP. They left Mount Vernon after newspaper and TV coverage, with Randy Simonds reporting their departure and a note promising to return Sept 2 to settle accounts.
Cedar Rapids man Daniel Phillips received a life sentence after a Linn County jury found him guilty of first degree kidnapping for abducting a 12 year old girl at gunpoint in January. He forced her to an abandoned house where the assault occurred before her release while he remained at large.
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