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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1935
Page
26
Ripley explains a Grant County lake known as Lake of Soap where windy or stirred water coats shorelines with thick foam. The water's mineral content darkens hair in sun, and US government notes its use as a cure for gangrene tissue. Experiments were conducted Monday near an event called The Bridge Of Boats.
The article reports Robert A Edwards facing execution by electric chair at Rockview penitentiary after a conviction tied to the death of Freda McKeehne. The case parallels Dreiseran themes as commutation was denied and the sentence carried out shortly after midnight Monday.
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