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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1879
Page
4
A fragmented 19th century narrative recalls a chaotic scene where a man named Smith is dragged by a police officer after a street altercation. Jones, another captive, endures a wild mesmerism prank that spirals into chaos with jokes, accusations, and a dramatic collapse into theatrical violence.
The article recounts Persian suatirs whose childhood training enables daily feats of extreme endurance, distances near the incredible, with a Teheran runner once completing vast terrain in fourteen hours. It contrasts a royal critique with praise and notes the dangers and deaths linked to such rapid travel. It also mentions a Teheran to Ispahan promise saga and a corral incident, plus various mining, religious, and scientific notes.
A long column covers education policy in Philadelphia and Cedar Rapids style reforms, arguing on salaries tied to teachers' competence rather than grade taught. It urges resisting retrenchment that harms public schools, praises salary regulation as improving teaching quality, and contrasts with prior underpayment.
A scattered text mixes testimonials for a patent medicine with соncerning social rights of children and women, and a sermon on morality. It recounts a patent remedy claim for Life Benever, then shifts to rights of children, education, and parents, alongside remarks on Lincoln and colonization, and ends with a caution about risky wedding rings and dangerous “death rings.”
An advertisement for Dr King’s New Discovery from W L Weller Cedar Rapids la touts it as a world renown remedy for consumption and all lung related diseases. It cites physicians and medical journals endorsing the formula and urges readers to try a trial bottle or full bottles at one dollar. It also includes a long clipped paragraph about temperance meeting anecdotes and a jumbled farmer anecdote ending with a moral about wealth and moderation.
A Gentle Remedy claims to ease kidney, liver and bladder troubles and torpid stomach. It purports to cure acute lumbago and piles and to relieve longstanding indigestion with gentle constitutional action. Gases of twelve years’ standing are said to be cured. Cour druggists keep it.
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