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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1978
Page
19
University of Pittsburgh linguist Dr. Robert Parslow notes Pittsburgh speech forms distinct sounds and vocabulary. He cites slippy streets, dingo fenders, aul vowel in downtown, and words like redd up and jum bo as marks of the Midland dialect influenced by Scotch Irish roots.
Napoleon Ohio AP report notes Heller-Aller Co. 92 year old windmill business thriving as energy costs rise. President Charles Buehrer says orders up since 1972 with activity nationwide. Mills range from 800 to 1000 dollars for smallest to lift water from 125 feet, to 12 footer for 300 feet. Company employs 45 and shifted to pumps tanks fountains and sheet metal to survive.
In Dublin a small shop begins selling contraceptives without doctor prescription as birth control advocates challenge Ireland's ban. Ann Connolly of the Contraception Action Program says the group hopes to provoke arrest or acquittal. Police have not acted yet. penalties max six months jail and 100 dollars.
The Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate dating to 1700 gains attention after being featured in the film Agatha about Agatha Christie. The hotel is noted as where Christie resurfaced after an 11 day disappearance in 1920.
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