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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1934
Page
12
Bearded reformer Harry Pidgeon built a 34 foot boat and sailed around the world, covering 35 000 miles in under a year of sailing. He left Los Angeles November 18 1921 and returned to port after three years, eleven months and thirteen days.
A fragmented price list shows cigars and tobaccos with various quotes including Lord Montan Cigsa 3-50-2 and La Provedora cigars 65C 790-39c with several small coins and bulk deals noted, indicative of a mid century catalog entry. The text includes multiple items with prices per pack or unit and references to pipe tobacco and pouches.
A fragmented catalog page lists numerous beauty and personal care products with prices and occasional brand names. Items include toothpaste, powders, lotions, creams, shampoos, and perfumes from brands such as Colgate, Barbasol, Ipana, Kolynos, Lux, and Luster.
The Gazette will publish the first edition of The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens starting March 5. Experts debate titles and dates with Dickensian sources citing The Children's New Testament and other variants.
Handwritten copies of a Dickens manuscript were prepared before the March 5 publication, likely by Georgina Hogarth for each of the Dickens children and with permission for Mrs. Dickens. A copy was also made for Mark Lemmon with Dickens's consent. The current location of these copies is unknown. A 1869 note from Dickens mentions another observer outside the family.
Charles Kent reports on traditional Indian views that the soul departs through the mouth at death and that a person who dies of strangulation is barred from the happy hunting grounds.
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