Eighteenth General Assembly Senate Proceedings Highlight
Des Moines and neighboring towns report petitions and bills on taxation liquor controls railroad aid and county offices. The week features committee reports, amendments, and debates shaping state governance and finance.
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Morris
Wednesda
Saens
Keobokeec
Kellar
Wright
Hebard
Nichols
Des Mores
Lee County
Fage County
Poweshiek
Citie
Webster A
Son County
Scott
Larrabee
Lee
Kien Seeeeeen
Frndisco
Russell
General Assembly
Gen Assembly
Webb
Merrell
Follo Ag
Oye
Mae Tee
Marshal Bryan
Des Moines
Greenlee
Senate
Judiciary
Watn
Ion
Aout
Board of County Committee On Fish and Game
Dickinson
Keokuk
Cedar Rapids & Marion
Congress
Woolson
Iowa
Chickasaw County
Ltate
Eee
Committee On
Boards of Supervisors
Mc David
Clayton
Harvey
Ste
17Th Assembly
State Agricultural Society
Hays
Lake
Bloom
Pearson
Francis
Gay
Bicknell
Lambert
Newbold
Aosemy Brown
Parker
15Th
Casey
Hutchinson
Wapello
Committee of Ways and Means
Fisher
Dean
Lucas
Selandh
Linn
Hornada An
Ahine Adjenroun
Prouty
Cohnele Knight
Blair
Feomala Sis
17Th
Gen- Assembly
Lasgow
Applemental
Calhoun
Jordan
Capitol
Tama County
Hutchison
Large Griffiths Point hotel fire and varied 19th century news
News items report a major February fire destroying the Griffiths Point hotel in New York with $20000 loss. Other notes include a Harrisville weavers strike, a Louisville suicide, January mint coinage, and a Miami Nation citizenship demand. Also: Wisconsin court on mercantile disclosures, Kansas City rail office move to Omaha, and multiple local accidents and incidents.
Iowa News Briefs From 1879 Highlights
A roundup of state matters includes 70 residents in Asylum for the Blind at Vinton, Des Moines sewer work of 2 miles 50 feet, move to form a Clarinda savings bank, and Irish relief fund drives in major cities. The Central Railroad report shows a $28787.52 net gain over 1878, while Du buque County jail records over eight years total 2,385 inmates with ten for murder.
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Vinton
Des Moines
Clarinda
Central Railroad
Iowa
Dubuque
Chicago
Rockford
Lumber quantities from Columbia to phase
Fragmented OCR notes indicate timber quantities moving along a route from Columbia toward a phase or depot. Details on origin, destination, or amounts are unclear, leaving only partial references to lumber and shipment.
Fragmentary Civilian Rhyme Echoes Past Night
A fragmented OCR snippet recalls a night at a house with a married couple and a crying sound. It mentions a cross man and a traveler’s warning to a young man about memory, leaving the scene obscure and unclear in detail.
Edward Reinhardt to be hanged for wife murder in New York
A conviction in New York sets Edward Reinhardt to be hanged on April 2 for the murder of his wife. The report notes other crime news including a $3,500 bank burglary in Westport Connecticut, a missing Hebrew leader in Cleveland, and a series of liquor-control incidents in Tennessee and Massachusetts.
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Edward Reinhardt
New York
Westport
Conn
Socialists seek two year extension of law in Berlin dispatch
Berlin dispatch notes strong probability that the socialist law will be prolonged for two more years. Other reports from Cabul describe executions for disrespect to the British residency and attacks on embassies. A Turkoman force reaches Akweha with Abdul Rahman Khan reported nearby. In London Benjamin Mason, the American minister to Portugal, is nearly paralyzed and may leave his post. The Times questions intensified imperial focus on Central Asia as apt policy. The Canton of Appenstei votes to restore capital punishment. De Freycinet discusses a trade treaty with America amid commerce talk.
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Eilenea
Auditor of State
Chickasaway
Scott County
Ture
Iowa
Ways and Means
Ida Grove
Dungan
St. Paul
Sioux City Railroad
Board of Supervisors
Terry
Stephers
16Th General Assembly
Superior Court
Jordan
Department of Industry
Foster
Hutchison
Boards of Supervisors
Casey
Fort Madison
Prouty
Duncombe
General Assembly
Lee Lee Lewis
Grand Jury
Stockton
Perrin
McDaid
Parker
Seaman
Stutsman
Barnes
Robb
Martin
Harvey
Negie
Union
Hardy County
Muncey
Supreme Court
Tool
Cochran
Mackey
McGregor
House
Ted
Senate
Roberts
Cabul
Abdul Rahman Khan
Akweha
Afghan-Turkestan
Cabai
London
Benjamin Mason
Portugal
Cabal
House of Commons
Ireland
Mundella
Ancient Aztec ruins near San Juan described in vivid detail
Correspondent from North San Juan New Mexico recalls Indian ruins and fortifications along the San Juan River three miles below La Plata mouth. He notes a high bluff, an egg shaped rock pillar, thick walls with port holes, and ruined buildings on the riverbank. He muses on the region’s past and future settlement density.
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Denver Tribune
San Juan
New Mexico
la Plata
What Chewing Gum Is Made Of
The piece explains the crude process of making chewing gum from coal tar products. It describes refining a thick brown liquid, obtaining a waxy residuum, melting, bleaching, deodorizing, and forming masses weighing about 100 pounds. The final product is flavored with sugar and essential oils and colored before setting on marble slabs.
Incoherent Excerpt With Grim Interjections and Search
A frustrated father threatens to cut his son off for minor defiance as he asks for a prayer. The text shifts to a chaotic scene with someone named Watt rushing to find a minister after a heated exchange.
Pride and Purpose in a Father Son Moment
A father asks what pride means as his son, aided by a gold headed cane, answers that pride is walking with a cane when he isn’t lame, showing resilience and wit in a brief, suggestive exchange.
New View of the Discovery of America in Badische Beobachter
A young recruit misreads a Belgian magazine claiming Columbus discovered America to fund and support the Holy Places. The article notes the misquotation appeared in a leading Ultramontane Belgian source and questions the pious narrative about Columbus and the Church.
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America
Duchy of Baden
Pion IX
Asia
Christopher Columbus
Hly Sepulchre
Badische Beobachter
Grand Duchy
Columbus
Holy Sepulchre
Umbus
Slurs on Women and the Damage of Character
A reflective piece argues that harming a woman’s purity harms her essence forever. It likens youthful indiscretions to stains that cannot be fully cleansed and condemns men for doubting women, urging respect for mothers and sisters and warning against moral judgments.
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Woce Union
Yoram
All
Lewis
Hornaday
Voyeas
Sing
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Ewbold
Yoran
Jasper County
Railroad Commissioner
Druggista’ Association
Jennings
Davenport
Peeters
Inaval Assembly
Joomes
Rairoad
Porter
Lyon
Baker
J . Beck
Glasgow
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Olin
van Buren
Ring Ae Gey
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Haye
Mitchell
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Independent School District
Chickasaweomaan
Judiciary Committee
Committee On Elections
Mattae
Flo House Mo
Anamosa
Ee Assembly
U Cum Taguhecke
Moma
Fogg Wemen
Mt. Pleasant
We Ks
Committee On Rules
Mutual Society Insurance
Cole
Akak Te Sen
Tama
Ol — Assembly
Waterloo Cultural
Wayne County
Howen
B Ford
Jones
Greene
Ham
Shrader
Epeperene
Horst Betty SS Rindle
Cal
Senator Forard
Seems Gehechos
Cedar Falls
Cobbey
Lalerder
Des Morres
Traverse
State Horticultural Society
Griffith’s Point
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Harrisville
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Ellen Fitzgerald
Louisville
Washington
The
United States
Supreme Court of Wisconsin
Kansas City
Omaha
Kansas City & Union Pacific R. A
William Gilman
Mattoon
Inl
Trinity Episcopal Church
John P. Tompkin
Randolph
N. H
Elden Page
R. Johnson
Mr. Prescott
F. Hewey
South Charleston
Ohio
Feith
John Campbell
Huldah
Fort Keogh
E. Guernsey
Desplaine Street Viaduct
Frank A. Deans
Willsboro
Masons
San Francisco
Northwestern Dairymen’s Association
Harvard
Russia
St. Petersburg
Winter Palace
A. W. Saxe
San Jose Mercury
Kilauea
Mauna Loa
Flo
Bay of
Kawaihae
Hilo
Hawaii
Mauna
Mauna Hualalai
Mauna Kea
Seton Loa
Hualalia
John L. Mason
Democrat
A. F. Hopkins
Miss Irvine
Allamakee County
Srarch News
David L. Smith
Morgan
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Berry
Butler County
Buffalo Bill Smith
J. B. Glenn
Bloomfield
Davis County
Harper
Kansas
St. Joseph & Albany
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Mt. Ayr
Wright County
Forest City
Clear Lake
George Hummel
Taylor Station
Pottawattamie County
Peter Rose
Otter Creek Township
Linn County
Hotel Keepers Association of Town
Crime
Cleveland
Evansville
Ind
B. Landon
Andrew Smith
Lawrence
Mass
Lincoln
Cooper
Henry Co
Tenn
Kentucky Line
Paris
Berlin
Afghanistan
England
London Times
Central Asia
Europe
Great Council
Canton of
Appenstei
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