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Cedar Rapids Times

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 13, 1879

Page

4

Jumping Jacks and the Ramsey asylum tale in the park

A narrative follows Alec Ramsey's hunchback rise from a rough London street to a social uplift via Jumping Jacks. The tale links his invention to a park carriage of hunchbacks and the Ramsey asylum, highlighting charity triumphs and the boy's economic luck amid hardship.

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Foreign Gossip Sparks From Global and Domestic Affairs

Reports from England, Berlin, and London detail prize fights fine sentences for fighters and bystanders. Charles Eastlake of Notting Hill dies by self‑destruction over a tormenting question. Dr Morris proposes a milk jelly method to preserve milk. German army biscuits feed troops with high nutritional value. Russian mission plans to Japan. famine and pestilence devastate Brazil. cannibalism reports amid drought and plague. Senate debate recounts Civil War memories and distrust of Jefferson Davis.

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Patriotic devotion and a mother's plea from 1870

The letter from Elizabeth Upright of Buller county Iowa seeks discharge for her eleventh son in the Seventh Illinois, after ten sons served in the Union Army. The Adjutant General verifies the family service, while other notes report hog cholera losses, Halifax snow, and Bank of Oswego’s receivership.

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