Eighteenth General Assembly Spurs Debates and Bills
Iowa Senate and House activity shows petitions for tax exemptions, debates on temperance and constitutional submissions, and action on the Department of Industry, hog cholera, school laws, and county officer salaries. Measures passage includes recorder for women, juvenile education, and various local governance acts.
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House
Hornaday
R Tural College
Glasgow
Struble
Brown
Linn
Otter
Fisher
Committee On Agriculture
Sth. Uced
King
Heey
General Assem Barts
Marsha
Cargon
Department of Industry
State Agricultural Society
Clayton
Nichols
Itas
Agricultural College of Industry
Russell
Dickinson
Jennings
Stout
Jordan
Parker
Blair
Ne Dean
Cobbey
Meee Brown
Dean
Tool
Dungan
Greenwood
Stout, Payne, Dotson
Beaman
Elias
Estrays
Senate
Mores
Circuit
Shelley
Jones
Hedges
General Assembly
Hartshorne
Farmer’s Mutual Aid Insurance
Cedar Rapids
Tama County
Haines
Yeas
Boling
Judiciary Committee
17Th General Assembly
Cedar River
Cedar Ra
Spee Hote
Keers
Board of Directors
Leave
Perrin
Stephens
W. R. Craig
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Payne
O’brien
Porter
Iowa
Hays
Red Rock
Marion County
Stockton
15Th General Assembly
Committee On Appropriations
Prouty
Webster
Newbold
Eedar House
Palmer
Billie
Wan
Teter Henk
Colege Vestibhe - Eee Ee
Anamosa
Reform School
Pisieibemibikicnwass
Agricul
Mms
Bacabocetleskccs
State Historical Society
Peaheing Tre
Madison Penitentiary
Asr
Soldiers Orphan’s Home
Knight
O’ Brien
Yeas and Ways
Cass County
Motteoakent
Acta of Trustees
Union County
George Mann
Marshalltown
16Th General Assembly
Franklin County
Corning
Adams County
From Kitchen to Throne and a Widow’s Fortune
During the reign of Charles I a brewer hires a prudent, plain servant girl who later marries a lawyer and becomes the mother of Mary and Anne. In Colorado, Madden and Augkin were killed and four injured in a mine collapse. Danforth Works in New Jersey burned, displacing 300 workers. A boiler explosion at Brotherton Missouri killed the proprietor’s son and injured a boy who died later. Ice on the Vistula floods villages near Dyskow. A great St Paul fire destroys Auerbach firm’s wholesale building, causing major losses and heavy insurance.
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The
Lancing Mirror
Carl Schmidt
Des Moines Register
Iowa
United States
Burlington Insurance Company
America
Charles I
London
Mr. Hyde
Hyde
Earl of
Clarendon
James II
Mary
Anne
England
Central City
Colorado
John N. Madden
Charles Augkin
Brotherton
St. Charles
Missouri
Simon Zeigler
Williams
St. Paul
Auerbsch, Finch, Culbertson & Co
Webster
Gatliff
Peoria
Rev
Crowley
Shepherd’s Bold
New York
Quero
Texas
Martin
Holland
Coward
David Roberts
Cutter
H. B.claffin & Co
Plea Guilty Pleas in Pennsylvania Bribery Cases
CriminaI news items note several defendants pleading guilty in Pennsylvania legislative bribery cases. Other reports include murder in Mount Joy and Cairo suicides, a Georgia senator suit denial, Peoria fence dispute shooting, a New York preacher’s penitentiary transfer, a Texas card game killing, and a New York cutter’s long-running silk theft totaling forty thousand dollars.
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Pennsylvania
John Wollege
Mount Joy
Russian plot foiled as Melikoff survives assassination
Reports from St Petersburg and Paris detail Gen Melikoff escaping an armed attack on March 3 as he leads the new Supreme Executive Commission. A suspect, Modetsky, is hanged after claiming further plots, while revolutionary manifestos in Paris praise continued struggle against autocracy.
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Gen. Melikoff
Grand Moskaio Street
General Melikoff
Melikoff
A &T. Petersburg
St. Petersburg
Insk
Russia
Hartman
France
The
Temps
Senator Kirkwood's Dilemma and Bright Eyes On Witness Stand
A Washington letter describes Senator Kirkwood's politeness during testimony from Bright Eyes and her father Standing Bear. The piece notes his struggle how to address the Indian witness and recounts her striking dress and beauty, while naming attending senators and notable figures.
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Bright Eyes
Amee Cen Samate ‘Curtis
Washington
Inter-Ocean
Senator Kirkwood
West
Standing Bear
Miss Eyes
Miss Bear
Bear
Mr. Bear
Ferry and
Lauisbury
Senate
Gen. Burnside
Anthony
Ruth as a pastoral contrast in Judges and Ruth
Dr Plamptre discusses the Book of Ruth, placing it in the Old Testament canon as a refreshing contrast to the Judges narrative. The piece highlights village histories, simple sorrows, legal forms, and devout farming life in a rural setting untarnished by city vices.
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Plamptre
Dr Bull's Baby Aby Syrus Rated Best Teething Medicine
Investigation confirms Dr Bull's Baby Aby Syrus as top teething remedy. Product claimed effective with a price of % cents per bottle.
Mrs Coburn's Rice Pudding Recipe
A concise recipe for rice pudding uses one cup of rice one cup of sugar half cup of butter three pints of milk one teaspoon of cinnamon and four nutmegs baked for two hours.
Maine News Hop Bitters Ad Keeps Curative Claims
An advertisement from Portland touts Hop Bitters as a cure for ague biliousness and kidney complaints. The copy encourages readers to try the remedy and praises its curative qualities.
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Maine News
Portland
Remarkable Giants of Elephant Skeletons in Europe
Reading from old tales, elephants’ teeth and bones in Europe were long passed off as giants in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Stories recount the Dauphine giant in Louis XIV’s era found in a tomb with a Teutobochus inscription and nearby coins. The Lucerne giant likewise misled locals until Blumenbach proved the state exhibit showed an elephant skeleton.
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Europe
Dauphine
Louis Riv
Teutobochus Rez
Cimbri
Teutobochus
Lucerne
Basle
Blumenbach
Dgsuiits’ College
Brave Pennsylvania Woman Mary Owens Fought in Civil War
A Philadelphia Press correspondent relates Mary Owens of Danville Pennsylvania who joined the army under the name John Evans. She fought eighteen months, was wounded in two battles, revealed as a woman in hospital, married her sweetheart Owens, and returned home a widow and heroine celebrated in her Welsh lineage and Yankee pluck.
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Mary Owens
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Danville
Montour County
John Evans
Owens
Mary
America
Geography recitation in Nevada amuses school board
A schoolboy delivers a solemn geography recital listing places with comical names such as Termilk Canyon in the Paradise Mountains and Gouge-Eye on a road from Limburger to Whoop Em Up, across from Bang Eye and Knock Em Stiff, drawing laughter from the committee.
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Agricultural College
State Board of Health
Allopa
Homepathic
Yeas
Keokuk
Executive Council
Larrabee
Senate
Nevada
Board of Education
Buttermilk Canyon
Paradise Mountains
Eden
Gouge-Eye
Limburger
Bull Town
Bang-Eye
Neighbor's hospitality saves weary traveler from night outdoors
An exhausted traveler had to sleep at a neighbor's due to crowding and limited lodging. Morning brought an invitation to stay for breakfast, but he declined, remarking they already have visitors when company comes.
Irishman Seeks Work at Bray Householder's Claim
An Irishman applied to a Bray resident who had rented out her servants for no one to meet. She refused saying there was no work. He insisted that little work would occupy him, prompting the humorous exchange.
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Raymond
Senator Hill
Georgia
House of Commons
Dublin
Cork
Bristol
Sheffield
Metropolitan
York
Great Britain
Germany
Northcote
Fragmented wedding quip mis reads by OCR
An OCR damaged excerpt shows a clergyman and a young mother exchanging mid sentence remarks about handling a child and a bride. The garbled text includes awkward phrases and incomplete names, suggesting misread letters and missing context in the historic item.
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Linn County
E. G. Coombs
Woodbury County
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Manly
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Wild Joe
Henry Horn
Creston
New Buffalo
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Wm. Hobbs
Rock Islan
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Northern Iowa Butter and Cheese Association
Monticello
Henry Droege
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Macedonia
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Dyskow
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Cairo
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Wheeling
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Patrick Daley
Rawhide Buttes
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National Union Greenback Labor
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Geo. W. Brewster
Hoyt
Kearney
Preyor
Pomeroy
Representative Weaver
Stephen B. Dellaye
New Hampshire
J. Chambers
Paris
Nordenskjold
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Cabul
Abdul Rhamon Khan
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