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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1938
Page
4
The Cedar County lime boom centered at Lime City near Wilton Junction fueled by Sugar Creek limestone. Starting in 1882 the United States Lime Co and Sugar Creek Lime Co built kilns, mills, and infrastructure with 13 kilns powering a regional industry until 1904 when operations halted and the town faded.
The Cedar County lime industry centered at the Proctor quarry near Humboldt with J E Proctor senior known as the old quarry man. Proctor, who moved to Lime City in 1891, later farmed the land once owned by the Sugar Creek Lime company, while A B Walton owns the U S Lime site. Crushed stone filled highways, lime burning faded, and few relics remain as Cedar County’s enduring but overlooked manufacturing heritage.
Inland Steel reports its new continuous strip mill can produce a steel strip a mile long and a yard wide in 24% minutes. The claim highlights a major efficiency advance for the Chicago plant and the steel industry.
The department of agriculture was established in 1889 during President Grover Cleveland's term and its secretary earned a cabinet post.
Column notes human kindness to dogs can slip into fuss over funerals and wills. A Boston terrier Queenie lies in state in a $200 coffin while Justice Eli Newman’s will dictates the ceremony, prompting the speaker to question such elaborate canine obsequies.
A historical note explains the term assassin as a European label for a secret Mohammedan sect founded in the eleventh century renowned for ruthless murders. The description covers their methods to eliminate enemies and the sect’s notoriety.
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