State Convention Called for Des Moines on June 11
A Burlington telegram reports the Republican State Central Committee met and issued a call for a State Convention at Des Moines on June 11 to nominate a Governor Lieutenant Governor Superintendent of Public Instruction and Supreme Court Judge. Representation is one delegate per two hundred votes or fraction over one hundred for Secretary of State last year totaling 772 delegates.
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Burlington
Republican State Central Committee
Des Moines
Supreme Court
Illinois Legislature Sought in Session as Fasting Prayer Urged
Citizens voice discontent with the taxed state government and push for a day of fasting and prayer for relief. The people express discouragement and call for action against the ongoing operations of the legislature.
Taxpay List Shows Eleven Seats Contested in House
Clerk Adams furnished a weekly tax report listing eleven members facing seat contests. The omission of J. J. Wilson versus Carpenter suggests the dispute has subsided.
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Taxepay
Adams
J. J. Wilson
Carpenter
Dick Tartar Confederate Officer Dies
Dick Tartar, famed as a Confederate general and son of a U S president, led troops in Stonewall Jackson's corps and was noted for military daring and strong profanity on the battlefield, contrasting with Stonewall Jackson's retreat and prayers.
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Dick Tartar
United States
Stonewall Jackson
Confederacy
Stonewall
Albany Argus Puffs Tilden Reissued by Vicksburg Herald
A marked copy of the Albany Argus with Tilden puffery resurfaces at the Vicksburg Mississippi Herald office. The Vicksburg editor says sending the pieces abroad was a mistake and vows to oppose Tilden’s nomination with full effort. He mocks the Bureau of Nincompoops as still at work.
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Albany Argus
Mr. Tilden
Vicksburg
Miss
Vanpersitr Repeats Debt Payment to Greeley Daughters
Connellus J. Vanpersitr discharges an honorable debt by paying $61,187 to the daughters of the late Horace Greeley. The payment follows a compromise that ended Surrogate proceedings, a bad beginning yielding an auspicious ending.
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Connellus J. Vanpersitr
Horace Greeley
Clarkson writes vigorous editorial in Des Moines Register
Davenport Gazette praises Mr. BR P Clarkson as a capable editorial pen wielder. It notes his red hot piece Who Conquered at Shiloh in the Register, penned by a Clarkson family member captured at Shiloh and held in rebel prisons.
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BR. P. Clarkson
Des Moines Register
Shiloh
Register
Clarkson
Davenport Gazette
Letterer’s critique of 1876 fraud and personal gain
In a Gramercy Park writer’s missive to the Iron City Tilden Club the author argues that crimes against the people surpass individual wrongs. He condemns pretended generosity used to profit from the alleged crime, noting the speaker’s self-serving insistence on disinterested virtue as offensive.
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Iron City
Tilden Club
Gramercy Park
Tilden’s South Support Questioned by Enquirer Sun
The Enquirer Sun notes public doubt over Tilden’s Southern support citing his $250 aid during last year’s famine and disease while critics point to Hayes and others who gave more. It contrasts Tilden with The New York Times which sent a $1,000 check and questions his generosity as he seeks votes.
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Enquirer Sun
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Georgia
South
Hayes
New York Times
Des Moines Register weighs Beck renomination in editorial clash
The Des Moines Register argues it is not for or against Judge Beck but insists he must be met fairly. It notes Cedar Rapids initiated the campaign and a railroad attorney drafted the indictment, linking the movement to Northwestern Iowa’s nomination in the Republican State Convention.
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Des Moines Register
Judge Beck
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Beck
Iowa
Sioux City Journal
General Farmont project to flood deserts near California and Arizona
The article discusses General Fremont’s plan to flood a dried desert district between California and Arizona by a 25 mile canal split in two sections. It claims water influx would modify climate across a large region at an estimated cost of about one million dollars and notes feasibility despite huge scale.
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Gulf of California
California
Arizona
Fremont
Afglos
Blaine Amendment Tangles Election Security and Civil Liberties
The senate reviews Blaine’s amendment to an army appropriation bill aiming to ban armed presence at elections. It tightens penalties for carrying weapons near polling places, but brigadiers oppose expanding who is restricted. The debate centers on rights and security amid postwar tensions.
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Blaine
Bleine
Congress
Mr. Blaine
Chicago Tribune
Senate Republicans Hold Caucus on Army Appropriation Bill
Saturday the Senate Republicans held a caucus to discuss strategies to defeat the Army Appropriation bill in its current form. They focused on the sixth section and the posse comitatus provision arguing it could hinder federal enforcement on election day.
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United States Authority
Congress
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Nebraska
Nevada
Kansas
Colorado
Revival of Business Across Northern Mills and Factories
Notes report a busy summer ahead for Lowell cotton mills, Cohese Harmony Mills full time, and strong demand in St Louis, Sandusky, Newark cutlery, and Pittsburgh to Harrisburg steel rail work. Portland rolling mills run day and night, Ohio iron improving, New Albany factories full, Algerian and Spanish ore imports rising, Philadelphia shoe output surging, Troy iron works busy, and a brisk linen and ready made goods trade anticipate a profitable season.
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Harmony Mills
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N. Y
Sandusky
Ohio
Pittsburg
Scranton
Troy
Southern Pacific Railroad
Rolling Mills
Portland
New Albany
Cincinnati Gazette
United States
Harrisburg
Johnstown
Lake Superior
Philadelphia
Boston
Bessemer Works
Burden
E. Corning & Co
Why Flowers Turn to the Sun
Wiesner’s Vienna Academy monograph on heliotropism in plants surveys light effects on turning toward the sun. It explains how increasing light intensity alters heliotropic strength, the limits for growth stoppage, and how plant sensitivity shifts these limits. The study links light refrangibility to heliotropic response and notes Vicia sativa curves across most spectra.
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Wiesner
Vienna Academy
Republican Call for June Convention in Des Moines
The Iowa Republican state central committee issues a call for a convention at Des Moines on Monday June 11. The move aims to energize the campaign, restore Iowa as a leading Republican state, and mobilize voters against greenback and Bourbon Democrat opposition amid national political turmoil.
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Iowa
Republican State Central Committee
Des Moines
Revolutionary Cabal
Washington
Congress
Union
County Board of Supervisors Apr 7 9 1879 Proceedings
Story County Iowa board convened April 7 8 9 1879 with Chairman and three supervisors. They examined claims for allowance and approved a 125 grant from the bridge fund to grade a road in Palестine township and referred other petitions. Bonds of county officials were approved and sheriff deputy appointment confirmed.
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EALED
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Story County
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Lucas & Greeley
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G. W. Suvoanr
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Same
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J. B. Grove
Warren Township
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H. C. Foster
Franklin Township
L. Oliver
A. W. Davis
Tyler
Court House
Kelley
Iowa
R. P. Suimups
Paxton
D. A. Biesiow
Supervisor Story Co
Heath and Milligan Lead Offered in Twelve Colors
Heath and Milligan are the only manufacturers of strictly pure colored lead, offered in twelve colors. They are not paints but share the same consistency and must be thinned and used like white lead. Available in 100 sh. kegs, 123 b., 5 cans. Tuomas and McLain are agents at Ames.
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Tuomas & McLain
Ames
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