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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1933
Page
7
Paducah Ky residents complete financing for a $65,000 factory to employ 1000 to 1500, using a local scrip system. Employers buy certificates, pay workers half in scrip, stickers attach value, and after four cents worth of stickers the certs are cashed for $1.
Boston reports on the U S S Constitution known as Old Ironsides with nine bow ornaments over its long career. The sequence includes Hercules Neptune a fid dle bow a Jackson bow an eagle billet head a dragon and a billet head again. An 1834 revival of the Jackson bow met anti Jackson protests and a sawed off figurehead at Charlestown navy yard.
London importers supply over 1,000 leeches weekly from France for use in hospitals. The animals are shipped in damp moss, kept unfed in water tanks until needed, and used to draw blood from bruises, congestion, and in pneumonia.
P J Nemmers opens a new Cut Rate drug store at Third avenue and Third street SE Cedar Rapids. The shop features a modern soda fountain and interior decor by Grant Wood. Nemmers, a 1900 Highland Park College of Pharmacy graduate, brings over eleven years in Cedar Rapids and twenty years in Bancroft to the venture.
A newspaper editor narrates the birth of a baby at home, detailing costs for doctor, nurse, and supplies. The account contrasts hospital norms with a practical pay-as-you-go approach, noting $35 for doctor and nurse two weeks at $35 weekly, plus small drugstore and layette purchases.
The reader asks which cereal best avoids starches and sweets for acne guidance. They state oatmeal is good for those who like it and prefer wheat as a cereal, while avoiding fried or overprocessed forms and sticking to natural grain from threshing.
Readers ask about torn knee cartilage and a condition described as water on the brain. The response notes surgical removal or anchoring of torn cartilage as possible remedies, and mentions meningitis with no known cure. The Cedar Rapids Gazette invites stamped self addressed envelopes for brief health questions.
A long list of Cedar Rapids area grocers and assorted stores with addresses in neighborhoods and nearby towns. The fragment enumerates numerous family, small, and chain shops including Masek Grocery Frank Masik Grocery Miller's Select Foods and Sterling Grocery plus regional outlets in Lisbon Lone Tree Manchester Marion Vinton Washington West Branch Wellman Williamsburg and others. The directory reads like a postal or business directory snippet.
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