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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1872
Page
2
In Parmer's column a curious bee swarm forms with a wingless queen. the hive reveals a young queen and brood, showing vigilance and unusual colony behavior. Also noted are experiments on potato plant growth using plaster dust and bone meal, yielding doubled results in certain conditions.
A sagacious English hare dog named Beauty, missing for about two years, is found by Mr. Lane’s family in Walton Street. The dog had stayed loyal, comforting a child during prayers, and was finally identified as Lane’s pet when he leaped around Mr. Lane. The dog is reunited with the Lane family at Cold Springs, bringing tears to the eyes of the two children who loved him.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a 19th century editorial page with jokes among editors, talk of Horace Greeley and Grant, Democratic and Republican tensions, and a long disjointed anecdote about Daniel Drew and a minister. Names and places are scattered, with no clear single event.
A garbled mosaic of jokes, quips, and oddities from a historical column. It features playful takes on marriage, religion, circuses, editors, and sea voyages, with quirks of wording and a Titusville Oil Clay prospectus among the fragmented items. Strong names or places are sparse but include Brigham Young, Philadelphia, and Titusville hints.
A mosaic of society notes from an era: an eleven year old female confidence operator in San Francisco, a seventy two year old mother of a baby, lectures on Dickens delighting English audiences, and a university with sixty three young women at Ann Arbor. Tales of love like a Scotch plaid, rare phrases, women urging rights, long attendance at circuses, vast reading lists by a Boston woman, and a new reading room in New Haven. Mars Elliott described as handsome and stylish, doctors weighing roles in education, a Troy church sermon by a middle aged dame, engagement bracelets, two Vermont girls earning money fast sawing wood, fashion’s hair and bonnets compared to a horse’s mane, a grieving widow silent after three years, a Chicago church employing a woman sexton, suffragists calling a San Francisco convention, a quip on an Irish peer’s view of etiquette, and satirical jibes about backs of ears and bustles. A Vermont Vermonts rumor of old maids seeking husbands in Wyoming ends with squaws preferred.
There is no doubt that the consumption of malt liquors is constantly increasing in this country. Mr. Meury Clusen, in the opening address before the brewers, Congress now in session, stated that in the United States licenses give employment to many thousands of people and represent six hundred million capital. Phase breweries employed thousands of workers and produced millions in tax revenue, with sales rising from sixty to hundreds of thousands and reaching a vast total last year.
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