Swindle and Social Scandal Mark Iowa News
A Missouri farmer loses 125 dollars in a Council Bluffs confidence game. Des Moines river bridge spans at Buena Vista washed away. Manson church chimney filled with hay forces adjournment. Odd Fellows train planned Cedar Rapids to Dubuque. Rev J B Taylor dies Epworth after forty years with Upper Iowa Conference. Maquoketa widow leaves 50 000 for suffrage temperance and charity. H L Covode, a Dubuque flirt, causes scandal then theft and arrest in Galena. claims traveling rep for F Collier New York.
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Des Moines
Buena Vista
Manson
Ilinois Central Road
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
J. B. Taylor
Epworth
Upper Iowa
J.H. Allen
Maquoketa
H. L. Covode
Covode
Lorimer
Tim O’bhay
Galena
F. Collier
New York
Lester & Griffith
Shenandoah
Iowa
Chicago
B. L. Pyle
la Moble
Homer Smith
Raccoon River
Redfield
Dallas County
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road
Council Bluffs
Babuia
Chicago Inter Ocean of March
March Polk county births and local business notes
March records show 87 male births and 35 female births, total 122 with 87 marriages and 22 deaths in Polk county. Dubuque lumber prices rise, mine sale offers 285000, legal cases, fires, and railroad news fill the period with local commerce, accidents, and public notices.
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Polk County
Dubuque
Chas. McGuigan
Farley
Ruby Camp Mines
Colorado
Denver
The Walking Stewart A Pedestrian Adventurer of London
John Stewart born in 1749 to Scotch parents in London led a wandering life through India Persia Turkey and Europe. He served Hyder Ali and the Nabob of Arcot before becoming a London curiosity and the subject of a single pamphlet The Life and Adventures of the celebrated Walking Stewart. He died Ash Wednesday 1821.
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John Stewart
London
Harrow
Charter House
India
East India Company
Hyder Ali
Hyder
Stewart
Nabob of Arcot
Persia
Turkey
Europe
Atlantic
America
England
Scotland
Germany
Italy
France
Paris
Philadelphia
Walking Stewart
East Indies
Death and disasters across lands in late March and April
A wide array of reports note fires in Leadville causing $14000 loss, heavy snow in Ohio, a Danish princess dies, a palace bombing near Madrid with no injuries, and a cyclone kill in Alabama. Also reported are floods in Nebraska and Yankton, ship canal plans in Florida, earthquakes touching Smyrna and Ohio, and multiple political and criminal incidents across the United States and Europe.
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United States
St. Louis
Cyrus Smith
Chicago
Wolfe
Sidney
Nebraska
Roddy McDonald
Court House
McDonald
Kansas City
Atchison
Albuquerque
Bees in Bonnets Warn of Sweet Fashion Risk
Shades of honeysuckle will be used on new bonnets and may be “too sweet” for wearers. The fashion risk cited is a bee in the bonnet, indicating potential insect interference with the headwear.
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Co. L. F. Oakes
The
Kansas Pacific
Northern Pacific Road
H. E. Sargent
Coughing Doctors Bypass Names in Odd Note
Fragmentary OCR reads like a stray medical note about coughing with unclear attribution. The readable bits mention coughs and doctors, but no clear event, person, or organization is identifiable.
Breakfast Table Quip On Abduction Wish
Mrs. Smith jokes at breakfast about wanting to be abducted while Mr. Smith agrees with earnest humor. The playful exchange captures a domestic moment likely from a newspaper humor column.
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Mrs. Smith
Mr. Smith
Kidney-Wort Moves the Bowels and Cleanses the Blood
A terse note describes Kidney-Wort as aiding regular bowels and blood cleansing. It emphasizes a regular effect without detailing formulation, dosage, or clinical support.
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Mat Staoe
Four detectives seize Mest in London for sedition
A London dispatch dated March 30 reports four detectives arresting Mest at the Office of the prefect. He faces a warrant alleging incitement in his paper to sedition against a foreign state. Police eject compositors, seize the key, and seal the office as Mest awaits Bow Street Court proceedings. The Socialists will provide reaction.
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A. H. Davenport
le Claire
Scott County
Posey
Rock Island County
Ill
George Davenport
O' Donnell
Brush
Wilhelm Martin
Freiheite
London
Bruce
Lord Beaconsfield
Kidd
Quain
St. Petersburg
Constantine
Marine
Alexis
Czar
Russia
Mest
The
Frefat
Bow Street
Hop Bitters Saves Health After Six Years of Illness
A beneficiary reports earning profit of 1200 with sickness costing 200 yearly for six years. He credits three bottles of Hop Bitters taken by his wife for restoring her strength and enabling her to handle housework for a year without missing a day.
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W. ZF
April Constellations and the vernal equinox guide
The April sky article details the vernal equinox near Virgo and constellation positions from Leo to Corvus, with notes on Coma Berenices, the Dipper, Arcturus, and celestial motions. It explains the sun earth and planetary movements, retrograde loops, and expected dawn views of Jupiter Saturn Neptune Venus and Mercury.
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Virgo
Leo
Regulus
Denebola
Berenice
Corvus
Spica
Bootes
Arcturus
E. J. Corucn
Neptune
Venus
Jupiter
Earth
Saturn
Mercury
Mars
Aquarius
An American Newgate Prison Story From Hartford to Simsbury Mines
A 18th century copper mine prison in Connecticut served as a Revolutionary War confinement for Tories and later as a state penitentiary. Accounts describe grim underground chambers, escape attempts led by Henry Wooster, and the prison's 1827 abandonment as public opinion shifted against such cruelty.
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Connecticut
Conneticut
United States
Washington
Cambridge
Hartford
Simsbury
Hell
Henry Wooster
Dayton
Wooster
Irish Family in Bed A Tale Of Rural Irish Cabin Life
Malachi Higgins tenant of five acres lives in a single room cabin built by his father on a divided farm. The mud and straw walls, oozing water from thatch, create a slimy pallor as the family huddles on a raised bedstead with pigs cows and a donkey kept inside for warmth and shelter in winter.
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Malachi Higgins
Higgins
Jadies
Malachi
Prince William of Prussia Portrait From Berlin Correspondent
Berlin notes describe Prince William of Prussia as a promising youth with the Hohenzollern physical type and large hand. A nine month old grasped a jeweled chronometer during a public greeting. He is a secure rider and vigorous oarsman with a British love of sport and adventure influenced by his mother’s side, and Capt. Marr yat is a favorite of the Prince.
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Prince William
Prussia
Germany
Berlin
London Times
Hohenzollerns
William
Capt
Marryat
A Big Eater from Delaware Feats At Onancook
Joshua Joynes known as the Eastern shore glutton ate fifteen pounds of pork twelve links of Bologna sausage one hog fattened for a month one large goose one dam en large biscuit one peck of sweet potatoes one mince pie and drank six cups of coffee. He finished by 2 30 PM after starting at 1 PM then rode five miles home and weighs two hundred fifty pounds.
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Joshua Joynes
Delaware
Onancook
Jaynes
Fragmented Exclamation Sparks Confusion in Witness Voice
A garbled OCR line captures a character shouting Goodness John have you been lir salve and biting lips, suggesting a dramatic interruption or reaction in a overheard scene. The fragment hints at tension or surprise but lacks clear context or full attribution.
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American Iron and Steel Association
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Physical Laboratory
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Newgate
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Kaiser
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