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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1869
Page
2
The State Central Committee arranged bolting of Republican meetings with local committees coordinating speaking. The paper reflects on eighteen years, noting rising subscriptions, a focus on home news, and a bold public stance while avoiding personal matters. it asserts party loyalty and future improvements to printing and mechanics.
The paper promotes its enhanced mechanical appearance and announces a new volume, boasting top printers and full job work capabilities. It pledges prompt, neat, and cheap service matching any first rate office, thanking readers and inviting continued support for community prosperity.
Friends of I N Whittam Esq gathered at Wass and Eastman to honor the Cedar Rapids figure on his departure. Mayor West presented seven volumes of Abbotts Digest as a testimonial, praising Whittam’s service as mayor city attorney and United States Commissioner while wishing him success in Atlantic Cass County. The event also notes local Baptist associations profits and a river accident involving a horse and buggy.
A lengthy promotional note extols Western Gas Insurance Company as a strong Western institution with over six thousand members after five years of operation. It highlights compliance with state law, deposits with officials, and the benefits of the contribution plan, urging locals to support home institutions and use local agents for policy protection. It also includes an excerpt from New York Times on the Fifteenth Amendment and lists ratification status by state with dates and actions.
A promotional snippet extols Demorest's Young America as a bright children’s magazine combining instruction with entertainment. It highlights accessibility for parents and a yearly subscription price of $1.50, mentioning a premium offer and Broadway address. A separate fragment refers vaguely to Andean to Atlantic topics without clear context.
The publisher aims to render the magazine the best parlor periodical in America with costly premiums and premiums included in the annual fee of three dollars. The writer notes the high expense and wonders how such offerings are affordable, attributing it to the publisher's efforts.
Scattered items report butchers in Ostuanya ending credit sales, lightning strikes damaging seventeen Cedar Falls homes, and poll prices for corn in Montgomery county. Des Moines planned bridges spending, pension disbursements to 300+ retirees, a drowning incident near Iowa City, a 8000 pound steer owned by E C Brown, Good Templars lodge in Montans, and a new M E Church in Iowa Falls. A 12-year-old boy Charles Carson killed in Burlington while near an engine. a railroad survey from Atlantic to Hamburg via Almakee, 72 miles long, with annual output near 1,000,000 bushels.
At an April road meeting in Gas Balls the Town Car Company was organized to double a line from the Minnesota State Be via Cedar Falls and Toledo to a point south of the latter place. The Cedar Falls office is set with T. A. Graham as president and directors from Blackhawk and nearby counties. Construction crews near Sioux City prepared five miles east on the Lions Tails Sioux City line, while the Meggavar & Western branch from Canaver northwest to Dacorak, eight miles, is near completion.
The document records appointment of a receiver for the late firm and partnership, authorizing collection of all debts and management of assets. It notes that all partners and successors are bound to honor the receivership, with specified authorities to collect funds and settle claims under court index.
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