07 Oct 1880
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1880
Page
1
A small steamer named Daisy Whitelaw operates near the harbor to capture large whales with rifles and harpoons. The bark includes details on whale species, notable catches, and challenges in stalking those elusive giants between the Heads and Farallon Islands.
An account of Nerocystis seaweed details its extraordinary length and bladderlike structures. The plant reportedly reaches hundreds of feet, with a six to seven foot bladder, garminate leaves, and robust stems that hinder boats, while uses include fishing lines and draining water in vessels.
A Bellefonte Pennsylvania Presbyterian church built thirty to forty years ago from brown stone is crumbling and unsafe. The congregation faces a costly rebuild, estimated between twenty and thirty thousand dollars, after elders warned against the new structure. The old building’s collapse was blamed on untested quarry stone and weak maintenance.
An 1872 Syria measurement by Lieut. Couster yields a medium cubit at sixteen inches and a hand span of nine inches. The zereti handbreadth is five and one third inches, giving furlongs as fifty five and a half yards. Also notes a Canary trainer in Philadelphia, Mr Wiss, who trains birds to whistle with a unique box, selling trained birds for up to sixty five dollars.
A scattered 19th century page extols Dr White's Dandelion Alterative as a liver purifer and tonic, listing ailments from biliousness to kidney disease, with multiple Cedar Rapids vendors. The issue also recounts a dangerous cow scare, local patent medicines, and passerby humor amid small town advertisements and notices.
A damaged OCR fragment advertises Dr Thomas Hydraulic Oil and other tonics for coughs colds croup whooping cough bronchitis throat and lung relief plus rheumatic pains and skin issues. It includes testimonials from Jacob H Bloomer of Virginia NY and mentions Pope and Bilous and other retailers. It also references Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy and Dr Bulls Cough Syrup with scattered branding and buyer notes.
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