Iowa and nearby towns report a string of varied 19th century events
The itemized notices describe divorces in Boone county, reorganizations in Yubuque and Cedar Rapids boards of trade, agricultural orders from Japan, rail and milling plans, drownings and deaths by lightning, accidents, arson, and local politics. Also noted are rail leases, court actions, fires, and a broad roundup of regional incidents with names and places across Iowa and nearby regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yubuque Board of Trade
Cedar Rapids
Almoral
Delaware County
Japan
Dubuque
Camanche Flouring Mill Co
Perry F. Peters
Sigourney
Skunk River
Davenport
Northern Albania Clans Advance Toward Montenegrin Positions
Reports indicate 150000 Albian clans marching to attack Montenegrin forces at the front near Nov. The conflict escalates as irregular forces converge on strategic positions, drawing international concern over the volatile border area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albania
The Wolf in History and Legend Across Continents
The narrative traces wolves from biblical prophecy to Egyptian tablets and Roman myths, noting their spread across Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. It covers royal punishments in England, American state bounties, wolf biology, nocturnal behavior, fear of trees, and the shift as civilization reduces wolf presence, urging moral aligns with religion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asia
Africa
Europe
America
Benjamin
Romulus
Remus
Rome
Britain
Atheltane
Yorkshire
Edgar
Wales
England
Scotland
Ireland
American Union
Canis Lupus
Palestine
Atlantic States
Congress Debates Land Policies and Public Works
From Washington May 11 to May 18, 46th Congress discusses Cherokee scrip lands in Kansas and Colorado, Osage treaty articles, public building bills, and measures on land offices, pensions, and internal revenue. Speeches by Hill Carpenter and others precede adjournments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Allison
Public Land
Kansas
Colorado
Wallace Wicane
Ieee Koffee
Teller
Kellogg-Spofford
Hill
Carpenter
Ingalls
Senate
United States
Singleton
Ilinois
Committee On
Council Bluffs
Hooker
Indian Commission
Wilson
Glover
Ted
House
Voorhees
Secretary of the Interior
Am’t
Kellore-Spofford
Hampton
Cobb
Monroe
Springer
Ceme
Jeneos
Orth
Committee
Davis
Dutnois
Washinpton
Paddoe
Committee On Public Lands
Eevere
Saulsbury
Sommerville Nicholson
Women’s medicine wisdom proves Bitters’ value, critic says
The Picayune notes that women’s careful study of family health shows Hop Bitters keeps families well at small cost. It argues a cranky bachelor’s claim that women never think is baseless, praising women’s sagacity and the tonic’s role in perpetual health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Picayune
Time Turns the Tables in a Boy and Girl Verse
A narrator recalls childhood teasing of Alice, a girl five years younger, now grown into a bonny woman named Alice. He, Johnny, now loves her but is shy and dazzled. He contrasts past scorn with present longing as time alters their relationship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice
Unclear excerpt of a late night barroom exchange
A garbled dialogue shows a son of Erin asked a stranger for money to join an affair. An acquaintance replies that he witnessed the scene and claimed support for the side of the fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erin
Man-Eating Shark Feeds on Remains of Struck Sailor
Surgeon Swan aboard the Colima reports a fifteen foot man-eater shark hooked near Acapulco while the ship rested near the China. The shark’s stomach contained a human arm with initials A H C tattooed, plus heel and toes, suggesting recent devouring. A British brig sailor had fallen overboard about ten days earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Chronicler
Swan
Pacific Mail
Colima
Isthmus
Acapulco
China
India
Cup of Water tribute from war tale in Fort Smith
An Arkansas Herald recounts Janes P. Moore aiding a wounded Union captain at the front. The captain later left a will provision of 10,000 dollars, with 2,000-dollar installments, to honor the mercy shown. The officer died, and the first 2,000 was received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. P. Hall
Davenport
Lower
Mississippi
Lake Superior
le Mars Sentinel
Society
Plymouah County
Captain Moreton
Chicago & Northwestern Company
Milwaukee Company
Keokuk
J. A. Drake
Centerville
North Carolina
Harriet Jane O'Neal
Franklin County
Fort Madison
Drakeville
Centervlle
J. H. Drake
Albia
M. Drake
J. B. Lockthan
F. M. Kirkham
Bedford
G. T. Carpenter
Chicago
Northwestern Railway
Carbon County Almshouse
Allenton
Goconoe Mountain
Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad
West Liberty
Ohio
Fletcher Lafferty
Stuyvesant
Poughkeepse
N. Y
James Smith
New York
Wm. Harrison
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
Butler County
Kansas
The
Cotton Exchange
St. Louis
Missouri
Arkansas
Texas
Tennessee
Indian Territory
Milford
David Dole & Son
Moscow
Ifty
Milton
First National Bank
Augusta
Maine
Israel Boothey
Berlin
Bismarc
Center Party
German War Ministry
Cln
Altramontanes
Bismarck
Dortmund
Westphalia
Centre Party
Reichstag
Pacific
Tekke
China
St. Petersburg
Skobeloff
Prince Imerstinsky
Skobelof
Cox
Russia
Young
Turner
Congress
Whitthorne
Fort Smith
Ark
Janes P. Moore
Moore
Pennsylvania
Mysterious Pandosia Coin Reveals Lost Bruttium City
A silver coin bearing Pandosia and Crathis emblem solved a thousand year mystery about the legendary city in Bruttium. The artifact, valued at 1000 to the Fish Museum, unlocked Pandosia’s location and Pyrrhus era mint history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pandosia
Pyrrhus
Italy
Pandesia
Bruttium
Fish Museum
Rice Blanc Mange Recipe Steps
A rice blanc mange recipe outlines mixing ground rice oats sugar milk and butter with lemon peel to form a batter. Boil remaining milk with butter sugar and lemon peel, stir in rice and boil ten minutes. Grease a mold, pour in mixture, then cool completely and turn out.
Island No 10 in Mississippi River swept away
The famed Island No 10 three miles long in the Mississippi River has been entirely swept away. The wartime island once housed two Beeo tertile pees, but the current island is only a sandy area overgrown with cottonwood and owl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi River
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Aw A
Boone County
Terongo
Boone
Robert Harper
Marietta Township
Marshall County
Jasper County Sunday School Association
Cynthia Young
John Prior
Elkader
J. J. Brown
J. C. Slason
Canton
Vinton Lodge A. O. U. W
Sweden
Swedensburg
Henry County
Mitchell McGrath
Johnson County
Blair
Clarence
Cedar County
Madison Township
Frank Shupeter
Breda
Thomas Tone
Demoines
John Boyce
Hiram Boyce
Green Township
Wapello County
John
Allamakee County
Hendrickson
Tave
Georgia
Lemuel R. Glen
New York Herald
Alabama
Galvira
Scranton
Augustus Paetz
Washington, Pa
Norway
Michigan
Everett
Foster & Co., Grain Merchants
Boston
James A. Bayard
Delaware
Nail Association
Pittsburg
N. G. Ordway
New Hampshire
Dakota Territory
Columbus
Illinois
Glendale
Cincinnati
French
Potter & Wilson
Palin
Kingston
Ward Bensman
Ashland
Utah
Kinderhook
Treasury
North Pier
General Conference
M. E. Church
J. M. Ried
C. H. Fowler
Joseph Miles
James D. Brown
Reading
Horace Maynard
Constantinople
Key
Geo. D. Roseberry
Spike and
Pottsville
Continental
Philadelphia
Senate Committee On Patents
Baumholder
Rhenish
Prussia
L. M. Hunt
Kalamazoo
Thomas A. Scott
Pennsylvania Railroad
Red Cloud
Spotted Rail
John Euchner
Lime Lake
Machias
Bachner
Mr. Lafferty
Louisville
Gabriel Kaltzer
Sherman House
Otto Lorge
Mihills Manufacturing Company
Fond du Lac
Wis
New Jersey
Vineyard Country
Bricksburg
N. J
Great Eye Harbor
Prospect Mountain House
Lake George
Deadwood
John Delabach
Kara Mountains
Powder River
Joseph Rhodes
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company
Wisconsin Valley Road
Tomah
Wausaw
Chicao
Clinton, Dubuque & Minnesota
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Co
G. P. Lord
Elgin
Northwestern Dairyman’s Association
Roubaix
France
Rossen
Condersport
Court House
Baker’s Hotel
Man’s Insurance Hotel
Journal Printing Office
Hanover
Great Repulic
Burnett's Mills
Ocean
Burlington
Cumberland
Piqua River
Tucson
Silver City
Victoria
New Mexico
San Carlos
Arizona
Ea ‘En
Grant County
Barnegat
Mtt. Pleasant
Tobyhanna
Bradford
Tram Hollow
Oil Center
Middaughville
Mitchell & Jones
Fort McHenry
Baltimore
David P. Shannon & Co
Francis G. Shannon
David P
Hermann Bust
John Marble
Henry Hamlin
Robert Steinman
J. Burke
John Burke
Hermann
F. Sherman
H. Hamlin
Sunbury
Danville
Williamsport
Lewisburg
Watsontown
Lawson’s
Armory
Academy of Music
Planing
Hoyt
Edwin Hoyt
Bridgport Conn
Carl Manke
Buffalo
John Atloff
Spartanburg
8. C
Peter Hawkins
A. A. Carter
L. B. Jones
Huntsville
W. E. Spaulding
Dodge
Fred W. Kelley
National Bank of Mount Kelly
Bordentown
Osceola
Andrew Smith
North Andover
Mase
Supreme Court
Silas F. Beck
Geo. Landphere
Crow Creek
Lucien Notzinger
Gainesville
Willis Cline
Notzinger
Charlie W. Bromley
Wm. F. Bromely
Russell,k
Corpus Christi
Horace Burr
Merc. Barnard
Burr
Brewster
Barrards
Wscern
James Tobin
Hqnor
Tie
Mary
Tobin
Alsche Valley
Podgeritza
London Times
Earl Cowper
the Times
Germany
Chamber of Deputies
Gladstone
London
Vienna
Earl Granville
Lord Granville
Count Karoly
Austria
Shevitch
Winter Palace
Kalonga
Wiimer
Solovieff
Berg
Shevitech
Kropotkin
Ural Mountains
Lord Granvill
Siberia
Golse Sas
Mexico
Larilli
Flechula
Afghanistan
Lahore
Abdurrahman Khan
Cabal
Abdurrahman
Bedakoshen
Hindoo Koosch
Cabul
Herat
Ayob Khan
Egypt
Assiot
Cairo
Count Sale
Red Sea
Gordon Pasha
Perugia
Commeroff
Maynard
Sawas Pasha
Alexandria
Persia
B. Larabee
Oroomiah
North Persia
Kurdistan
Tigris
Abrona
Montenegro
Wasatno Tos
Committee On Finance
Morgan
Eaton
Eten
Davies Hatch
Connecticut
San Domingo
Thomas Worthington
Oale
Army of the Tennessee
Commission On Claims
Gibson
Goode
Tucker
Committee On Education and Labor
Reagan
Yeas
Waserineton
Peoria
Bayard
Marae
Ereuctien de O eLdare
Blaine
Wobb
Atlantic Ocean
Chalmers
Converse
Browne
Johnnny
Postadans
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