07 Feb 1878
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1878
Page
1
All kinds of blanks including Warranty Deeds Quit Claim Deeds Land Contracts Real Estate Mortgages Chattel Mortgages Notices Official Bonds Power of Attorney and more kept in stock at the Intelligencer Office Retail at wholesale rates with a long list of forms and notices.
The advertisement promotes multiple railroad lines including Chicago to points across the Midwest and West. It highlights the Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis Line, La Crosse and Winona Line, Green Bay and Marquette Line, Freeport and Warren Line, and Chicago and Milwaukee Line. It also mentions Pullman Palace Drawing Room Cars.
A fragmentary timetable lists stops at Cedar Rapids Marshalltown Me Val Jane Grand June and Idol nes MBie with times from 635 a m to 3 25 p m. The scattered data suggests a multi city rail schedule with unclear destinations and matching arrivals.
In 1862 Kentuckian J J Andrews led twenty two Union volunteers to seize an engine and burn the Western and Atlantic rails. After a perilous 133 mile march through Confederate territory they reached Big Shanty and Marietta before burning attempts failed. Pursued through Georgia, most raiders were captured within twenty four hours. Andrews and several others faced court martial and execution, with Andrews ultimately hanged at Atlanta after a dramatic escape attempt.
The United States Government awarded medals to the survivors of a daring Civil War raid. Jacob Parrott, a boy said to have faced harsh punishment to reveal his comrades, led or keyly participated in the attack and its escape. Several captured men endured execution by hanging with vivid, grisly details described.
An ad states the office provides best styles of type and material with neat dispatch. It claims to match or beat any printing establishment in the state on price and quality. Legal blanks kept in stock and various printed items offered.
Poem recalling childhood years and aging through school days. Reflects on Budding forth from early childhood and the passage of youth to manhood. Lines speak of memories, friendships, labor, and the sense of time moving through life.
Followed by a breakdown of debts and totals for 1877 including merchants hotels and restaurants, brokers and packers, and bankrupt courts. The document lists aggregate figures ending with a total of 30 857 998 dollars.
A gray haired man named Dewitt drunkenly stepped onto a track as a train approached in Yountville. The locomotive could not stop in time, running him down, then the pilot gently moved him aside and the man survived, remarking he would have been a dead man without liquor.
In Welleville a local justice faced Daniel Studer and Martha J. Van Buren as he officiated a marriage. He quipped about the devil and binding obligations, lifting his spectacles and joking that what has been coined should not be dissolved. The article notes Iowa’s railroad expansion ranking behind California and Minnesota.
Agricultural and domestic notes offer watering with horse chestnut to deter worms, calf and liver feeds for poultry, gravel drain guidance, and kitchen remedies from annatto cheese to boiling raistys. Household hacks cover roach control, currant cake prep, quick house fumigation, and earache relief.
A scattered compilation cites a 900 pound hog in Manxaro Minnesota, a Tennessean with a broken leg, state immigration shifts from Pennsylvania to Kansas, and Davenport planning a professional club. It notes Iowa hog crop hopes, a Harom New Hampshire suit for room and board, and ongoing tax, liquor, and court tales across the country with multiple local curios.
Iowa lawmakers in Des Moines consider measures to enlarge landlord rights, regulate medicine practice, limit county tax levies, and define school board duties. Additional bills address fugitive recovery costs, duplicate Supreme Court reports, district treasurer settlements, and city boundary adjustments. Senate and House discuss bankruptcy law, taxation, and education funding with votes on various measures.
A late night burglary in Baltimore saw burglars dig through a brick wall into a jewelry store. The safe was exposed and guarded by a signaling system as a confederate warned of detection. Compact machinery aided the safe door breach. watches and diamonds valued at $20,000 were stolen.
Summary of tariff proposals published by a House subcommittee notes reductions and adjustments across textiles metals and food items. It outlines duties on woolen goods iron and steel products sugar wines and hemp with varying cents per pound per bushel and percentage reductions for several categories. The document mentions this is a leading list from the subcommittee and includes changes affecting hosiery yarn fabrics and manufactured goods.
An incident in Indiana involved a man choking on a chunk of sirloin and esophagus obstruction. A doctor used a poker to push the obstruction down and restore breathing.
An oyster harvested from Mobile beds in 1840 set a United States record with a length of three feet one inch and a breadth of twenty three and a half inches at its widest part. The fragment notes this remarkable specimen from early Gulf coast fisheries.
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