Political slate listed for Iowa offices with names and counties
The record lists candidates for state offices including Auditor J A Lyons Guthrie County, Treasurer Byron A Beeson Marshall County, Supreme Court Justice James H Rothrock Linn County, Clerk Gilbert B Pray Hamilton County, Reporter N B Raymond Polk County, Railway Commissioner J W Luke Franklin County, and Congress 7th District J A T Hull Polk County. The piece closes with a poetic couplet praising a gentle brave suitor and violet imagery.
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Byron A. Beeson
Marshall County
Supreme Court
James H. Rothrock
Linn County
Browne Couple Escape Quiet Domestic Turmoil
A married couple, Gibson and Louise Browne, resolve their differences without public drama. They avoid arguing while managing a minor rift over going to a party, use an opiate-like remedy, and end the night in shared laughter after a secret misstep is revealed.
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Mrs. Browne
Gibson Browne
Browne
Gibson
Mr. Browne
Mrs. Gibson Browne
van Horns
Louise
Zenas Dane
Blade
Duet Dreams with Margaret in Circassian Melody
The speaker recalls playing a Circas sian melody with Margaret on a June day. Their fingers moved in harmony as memories of love and a wish to unite their lives into one enduring duet linger, revealing the tension between longing and fate.
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Margaret
Brave Mary Sexton and the Long Lake Dam Rescue
Mary Sexton saves the express by reversing a spur switch at Downer's Bend to divert the train from a dam breach. She faints after signaling John Manning, the train's engineer, who later marries her. The tale appears in Hornellsville news with the couple's wedding announced months later.
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John
Express
Mary Sexton
John Manning
Mary
Long Lake
Long Lake Pass
Hornellsville
Mortality Camp
Downer's Bend
Mary's
Sue
Long Lake Dam
The
Downer’s
Downer’s Bend
New Era
Manning—Sexton
T. S. Plicer
David Sexton
John S. Manning
E. J. Lawler
N. Y. Ledger
Plowing the Land with Oxen in Peru
A brief glimpse describes Peruvians using six to a dozen teams of oxen in fields of twenty to thirty acres. The animals are yoked by tying, illustrating an agricultural method that would amuse an American farmer.
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Peru
United States
WN. Y. Journal
Present power of the past in skillful acts
A reflection on how past labor shapes present ability across arts and trades. The text argues that real present value rests in a well rooted past, enabling swift execution and continuity in work, with civilization advancing as present needs are met by ready tools and mechanisms.
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Philip G. Hamerton
Scribner
Hamilton & CO
Invention of the Compass Mystery and Proposed Discoverers
The compass invention is depicted as a mystery with disputed origin. Some trace its use to Arabs in Africa via Me linda, others credit Flavia Gioja of Amalfi around 1302, while some assign the invention to other unnamed sources.
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London
China
Chicago Herald
Lafiteau
New World
Vanco da Gama
Lisbon
Africa
Melinda
Flavia Gioja
Amalphi
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Odd Fellows Hall
C. M. Soper
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C. E. Turner
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Couriis
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W. A. Thrall
Manz
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Emmet County
J. A. Lyons
Guthrie County
John Y. Stone
Mills County
Gilbert B. Pray
Hamilton County
N. B. Raymond
Polk County
J. W. Luke
Franklin County
Congress
J.A.T. Hull
S. M. Weaver
Hardin County
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G. M. Morse
Recorder
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7Th Street
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