Congress opens with Sherman president pro tem and Carlisle speaker
Senator Sherman chosen President pro tem of the Senate and Carlisle reelected Speaker as Congress convenes. Vanderbilt dies in New York at 2:30 p m from brain paralysis, leaving a sharp debt controversy as Treasury shows a $4 887 198 rise in the national debt for November and Democrats contrast debt growth with Republican reductions. Local notes cover editors Burdette and community life in Story County with school, church, and civic news.
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Sherman
Senate
Carlisle
House
W. H. Vanderbilt
Money King
America
New York City
Treasury
Treasury Department
Cleveland
Rev H J Everly vindicated in church court appeal
The Des Moines church court reversed a lower finding and reinstated Rev. H. J. Everly after appeal. Three charges were reviewed but only the imprudent conduct charge was sustained below. The panel’s vote favored Everly and he is restored to the ministry amid strong defense arguments. A petition circulates in Ames seeking an alley for the church rank present year.
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H. J. Everly
Des Moines
Judicial Court of the Church
Des Moines Register
Everly
Miller
Call for drainage work on Spring Branch road in Story City
A letter to the editor from Andrew Clausen urges Lafayette Township and Story County Supervisors to finance a ditch along the entire Spring Branch to drain standing water and make the road passable year round. The writer cites prior success a mile south and urges early spring action in 1886 to prevent further waste. Story City, Dec. 2, 1885.
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Geo. Shugart
Spring Branch
Story County
Andrew Clausen
Lafayette Two
Story City
Property transfers listed for week ending December 9 1585
H L Carrell Abstract and Loan Agency reports transfers to Jesse Barker James to Chas G James Kennedy to Lewis Marsh Otis Eastman to Jesse Barker Shields to Sullivan and other parcels in Ames and Kel areas with sums ranging from 1400 to 19740 dollars, including several lots and half sections in Eskler and Duff additions.
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H. L. Carrell
Abstract and Loan Agency
Nevada
Iowa
R Lco
Jesse Barker
A James
Chas G James
GW Kennedy
Lewis Marsh
Hine
Otis Eastman
R P Shields
Daniel P Sullivan
Ames
P Shields
Daniel C Sullivan
Eskler
Kel
Kelly
John T Cook
Daniel C Ghee
Melinda W Huntington
Anna C Richmond
Duff
Hugh B Smith
Alto
H Brooks
Iowa RR Land Co
G A Underwood
Sebre Emerson
Anderson
Illinois Central excursion to San Francisco and Mexico in January 1886
Two first class Pullman car excursions offered by the Illinois Central Railroad in the second week of January 1886 travel to San Francisco and City of Mexico with four days in New Orleans and stops in San Antonio and Chihuahua. Round trip rates vary by origin from $110.00 to $125.00 with 6 month return validity. Exposition at New Orleans highlighted. no snow or ice on route. Excur sion circulars available from Manchester Iowa with maps folders and books on California and Old Mexico. J F Merry Gen West Pass Agt
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Ilinois Central R. A
San Francisco
City of Mexico
New Orleans
San Antonio
Chihuahua
Illinois
Freeport
Ashley
Chicago
Dubuque
Sioux City
Ill
Jackson
Miss
St. Louis
Memphis
Aberdeen
Yazoo City
Manchester
Iowa
California
Old Mexico
J. F. Merry
West
Pass. Agt
Discovery Promises Health Through Dr King's New Discovery
An important discovery proclaims Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption and Colds as a cure all for throat chest and lung ailments. The ad claims it cures consumption and bronchitis and offers a trial at J H Pickett Co's Palace Drug Store. Henry Dunkle's team frightened town and damaged a wagon tongue before speeding off.
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Dr. King
J. H. Pickett & Co
Palace
Henry Dunkle
Ayer
E. G. Edgerly
Council Bluffs
Iowa
John H. Stoddard
Petersburg
L. E. Herman
Mercer Sr
Jersey City
B. Z. Johnson
Mt. Savage
W. H. Stickler
Terre Haute
Ind
E. M. Breckenridge
Brainerd
Minn
Reminiscences on Civil War Enormous Mobilization and Battles
The passage compares Union and Confederate manpower, noting nearly 3 million North and 1.9 million South served, with four years of conflict draining much of the population. It contrasts Waterloo, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness with the vast costs of war, highlighting Gettysburg’s scale and Pickett’s charge in military history.
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South
North
Union
Confederacy
Germany
Appomattox
Roman Empire
Waterloo
Wellington
the Wilderness
Europe
Gettysburg
France
England
Great Britain
Pickett
Cemetery Ridge
Halleck's Injustice to Grant and Related Pieces
The December North American Review features Colonel Fred Grant on Halleck’s misrepresentation of General Grant after Fort Donelson, with McClellan’s arrest authority cited. Also includes Senator Koutwell and Gen Rosecrans on Johnson’s plot and Grant’s mistakes, plus Rice on A Disfranchised People and a defense of ecclesiastical tribunals in Rome and the Inquisition. Also mentions Hunt's Remedy claims for kidney diseases.
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Oue North American Review
Fred Grant
Halleck
Grant
Fort Donelson
McClellan
Koutwell
Gen. Rosecrans
Johnson
Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil for Wasting Children
Dr. 8. W. Cohen of Waco Texas reports using Scott's Emulsion in infantile wasting with good results. It restores wasted tissue and gives strength. he recommends it for diseases with atrophy.
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Scott
8. W. Cohen
Waco
Texas
Harper and Brothers offer Harper's Weekly volumes and bindings
Harper and Brothers advertise subscriptions for Harper's Weekly and magazines including Harper's Magazine and Young People. They announce annual volumes begin with January issues, offer bound volumes at seven dollars each plus cloth cases, and provide postage paid mail or express delivery within limits. Remittances via money order or draft are advised.
Harper's Bazar 1886 Fashion and Household Guide
Harper's Bazar presents weekly Paris and New York styles, patterns, and cutouts enabling home dressmaking. It features cooking, servant management, etiquette, needlework art, and literature marked by practical household advice and celebrated humor.
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Harper’s Bazar
Paris
New York
American Punch
Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Magazine Subscription Notice
An advertisement offers subscriptions to Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Magazine with annual and volume options. It details prices for one year and back volumes, binding services, cloth cases, and payment methods via post office money order or draft. Also notes free postage to US or Canada and asks newspapers not to reprint without permission.
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Harper's Weekly
Eckeeen Ee
Harper's Magazine
Vans Eissends
Harper’s
Harper's
Franklin Square
United States
Canada
Harper's Bazar
Eicabus Unus
Harper's Young People
Harrer’s Bazar
Hanner & Brothers
Harper & Brothers
New York
Harper & Broty-Ers
Harper's Young People An Illustrated Weekly Prospects
Harper's Young People presents a weekly mix of illustrated stories natural history science travel and life facts aimed at young readers. Esteemed by critics for accuracy and value the periodical offers athletic sports games and pastimes with engaging content and quality storytelling for families.
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Harper’s
Publi
Century Magazine offers sampling of authors and features
The rolled text outlines varied fiction by Howell Foote and Cable and a slate of Special Features including Tricycle Pilgrimage to Rome and papers on Persia and Christian unity. It lists contributors Frank R Stockton Helen Jackson Foote Harris and others with illustrated departments and an offer for back numbers and subscriptions from The Century Company New York.
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U. S
Frank R. A Stockton
Helen Jackson
H. H
Mary Hallock Foote
Joel Chandler Harris
H. H. Boyesen
T. A. Janvier
Julian Hawthorne
Richard M. Johnson
Grant
Beauregard
McClellan
J. E. Johnson
Lew Wallace
Admiral Porter
Enti
Tus Century Co
New York
St Nicholas The Nations Leading Boy and Girl Magazine
Illustrated monthly periodical for boys and girls edited by Mary Mapes Sige. Subscriptions 25 cents per issue or 3.00 a year in advance beginning with the November number. Features include serials by Frances Hodgson Burnett W D Howells and Jos eph Pennell illustrations with stories by Louisa M Alcott Rose Kingsley and many others and articles on great English schools Rugby and more.
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Harper's Weekly
America
Thespare
Walter Besant
Pang Ha Hiv
Harper’s Weekly
General Grant
Antietam
D. C. Buell
Shiloh
Pope
Longstreet
Second Bull Run
Kearsarge
Alabama
Cne
Mary Mapessige
St. Nicholas
Frances Hodgson Burnett
W. D. Howells
George Washington
Horace E. Scudder
Louisa M. Alcott
Joseph Pennell
J. T. Trower
Shakespeare
Rose Kingsley
Alfred Parsons
Susan Coolidge
H. N. Boyesen
Nora Perry
T. A. Jangier
Washington Gladden
Rossiter Johnson
Joaquin Miller
Sophie May
Hezekiah Butterworth
W. O. Stoddard
Harriet Prescott Spofford
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C. F. Mount
R. J. Stark
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Maine
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Brooklyn Eagle
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Brotherhood
Will Scott
M. E
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Bagley
Sheldahl
Emma Abbott
Monitor
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Oliver
George A. Stitzell
Mary McFarlan
Webster City
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Clinton County
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George Briley
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Marshalltown
Smith Child
Dunlap
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J. F. Gillespie
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Presnell
Boone
Dyer
Roy Childs
Indianapolis
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M. Z. Presnell
Mr. Hasting
Homer Swafford
Murphey
Farrar
Briggs
M. M. Mason
Cambridge
Garden of the West
P. D
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E. Cook
Benton County
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A. W. Southwick
Cedar Falls
David Maxwell
Elkhart
E. F. Jackson
Cambridge Lodge
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W. H. Gallup
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Circleville
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Baton Courier
Brooklyn
Christian Advocate
Nyae
ANN & CO
Broadway
Munn & Co
Scientific American
INN & CO
Office American
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mass
George W. Cable
John H. Queal & Co
Maxwell & Sob
A. H. Thayer
Ww _& son
J. L. Bartlett
Boyd Guiding
Fonta
Ben
Marizet
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