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War talk and local notices from Cedar Rapids and beyond
The Cedar Rapids Gazette covers wartime optimism, railway and wheat market notes, and community updates. It notes leadership changes at Cedar Rapids press holdings, weather impacts on crops, a grand lodge amending its name to Iowa Workmen and admitting women, naval appointments, and reflections on the Spanish-American War's rapid progress and Commodore Dewey's victory at Cavite.
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Cedar Rapids
Leiter
Grand Lodge of the
Ancient Order ‘of United Workmen of Town
Waterloo
Int Society
Iowa
Spain
Bulletin
United States
Dewey
Cavite