Regional Vernacular Glossary Poses Colorful Speech Variants
A garbled list of dialect terms with humorous definitions and fractured sentences. It reads like a rural speech lexicon capturing local words such as pin rat watch Keaner pint sumpin stud stump sole stow tarnit Ian Joe tarred freight sailfish row show tin sin damn reindeer spine nacho.
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Billy Bob
Jeff
Bubba
Keaner
Bro
Loomis
County Line Road
Decatur
Ian
Adj
Joe
Freight
Jim Bob
Widen
Betty Sue
Joe Bob
Paroled Cedar Rapids killer questioned by parole board
Willie Love, 42, released from a minimum security prison eight months before completing a 25 year term for second degree murder and attempted murder, despite a parole board risk assessment calling him a poor risk likely to reoffend. He was freed Oct 5 from Lino Lakes Minnesota to supervise his release.
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Bill Brewer
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Willie Love
Ernest Gibson
William Gibson
L&h
Love
Lino Lakes
Minn
Rick George
Iowa Board of Parole
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Cedar Rapids Gazette Subscriptions and Postage Rates
The Cedar Rapids Gazette lists pricing for carrier and motor route deliveries and mail options. Morning Editions and Sunday editions run seven issues for 12.80 and 141.40 annually, with regional restrictions and postage details. The AP retains republication rights for local and AP dispatches.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette Company
Third Avenue SE
Iowa
Associated Press
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Inc
P.O
Two Brothers Battle Leukemia Through Bone Marrow Transplant
Saul Nunez, 15 months, receives a bone marrow transplant from his older brother Israel at the University of Iowa Hospitals. Doctors hope the transplant stops Saul’s leukemia with two-year monitoring to confirm success while the family stays in Iowa City.
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Johnson County
Iowa City
Saul Nunez
Saul
Chicago
Israel E. Nunez
University of Iowa
Israel
Michael Trigg
U of I
Trigg
Israel Nunez
Nunez
Ada Otero
Cedar Memorial Hospital
Cedar Memorial
Sheila
Ronald McDonald House
Puerto Rico
Otero
Nunezes
San Nunez
Mary Petersen
Cedar Rapids businessman sentenced in drug conspiracy case
Timothy Shelton, manager of Novak Monument Co., was sentenced to 50 months in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana. He cooperated in testimony against others, earning a reduced sentence from 87 months. The case was part of a September crackdown that involved 65 defendants and large drug seizures. Gary Strode pleaded innocent to related federal charges.
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Vanessa Shelton
Cedar Rapids
ElRoy Novak
Hansen
Shelton
Iowa
Gary Strode
Indianapolis
Ind
Strode
U.S
Belgian Scouts Stray Into East Germany on Border Crossing
A six member Belgian Boy Scout group aged 12 to 16 wandered across the East German border from West Germany near Neustedt after poor map reading. They spent a night at a barracks while East German authorities questioned them before being allowed back to the West via a crossing point.
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Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Kassel
West Germany
East Germany
Nentershausern
Hesse
Neustedt
ADN
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South
Mike Deupre
David Grimes Sarasota
Fla
Herald-Tribune Inter
C.R
Tommy Tucker
Boy
Marrow
By Lyle Muller
Winthrop
of Iowa Hospitals
Timothy Shelton
Second St. St
Downtown
Drennen
Drennen's
Lindale Mall
Yette
Hawkeyes
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