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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1937
Page
12
A sidewalk display in a Chicago store window features a wax likeness of Jean Harlow in her dressing room. The lifelike figure draws hundreds of passersby and echoes fans’ enthusiasm for the screen star.
The article recounts the 1591 battle of the Revenge under Sir John Grenville, claiming a 15 hour engagement against 53 Spanish ships with heavy casualties and ultimate surrender. It also tells of a 1936 event where an electrical storm preserved a steer mid stride, killed by lightning, resulting in a carcass later destroyed.
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