Iowa Senate and House Debates End With Adjournment Notes
Senate and House in Des Moines debate liquor manufacture penalties fire insurance rules and tolling provisions. Bills pass on land, finance, highways, pensions and sanitation. adjournment set for April 11 with votes recorded on multiple measures and amendments.
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HOUSE
Senate
eAchran
Iowa
Errow
Justices of the
Everall
Waterman
Eaton
Carpenter
Healey
Des Moines
Executive Council
British expedition launches stations on Cuyuni amid Venezuelan dispute
A British expedition sets out from Georgetown to build stations west of the Schomburgk line and open a road to Yurvan to protest Venezuela's grant to American miners at the Orinoco mouth. Other items note Berlin bondholders approving a railroad reorganization, and various political tensions across Europe and Africa.
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Demerara
Cuyuni
Schomburgk
Yurvan
Venezuela
Orinoco
Berlin
Northern Pacific Railroad
Edward Blake
London
House of Commons
Vienna
Servia
Athens
Greece
Macedonia
Chili
Prague
Sttikers
Matin
Baron de Courcel
Chamber of Deputies
Negus Menelek
Ramaign
Abyssinia
Mob Hangs Aged Negro In Mississippi Courthouse Yard
A mob hangs an 18 year old Black man in front of the Tuvelo Mississippi courthouse for insulting a white woman. The day’s rumors also recount James Patterson’s arrest after returning from Chicago to Ohio to be tried for assault and robbery.
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Miss
James Patterson
Charles Shoup
Llyria
Ohio
Chicago
Israel M. King
Siiver City
New Mexico
Juarez
Washington
San Francisco
Julius Festner
Omaha
W. O. Gywnie
Pike County
John F. Madden
Oncord
Delk
Howard Polen
Clinton
Moreland
Pittsburg
Annie Morton
West Newfield
Ole Eaton
Sarrellton
Will Godwin
Lee Cunningham
O M. Shed
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Star
Board of Police Commissioners
Bills Move Through Iowa Legislature Include Widow’s Pay and Public Works
A Senate session notes bills to pay the widow of late Representative McClelland, favorably report bills on express companies and opium nuisances, rename the Industrial Home for the Blind, reconsider landlord lien records, and pass a joint memorial to reimburse settlers on railroad lands. Other measures include adoption for soldiers' orphans homes, a $10,000 semi centennial celebration fund, sub-director term limits, and insurance lawsuit jurisdiction and deadlines.
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McClelland
Knoxville
Home For
Congress
Iowa
Big Sioux River
West Fork
Des Moines River
McGregor
McGregor & Western Railway
O'Brien County
Burlington
Unaccepted Challenge at a Country Hotel Ends Without Firing
Veterans recall Civil War deeds and a tense scene in a country town hotel where a stonemason offered $500 and a rifle test to prove soldiers risk their lives for money. Forty frontiersmen then marched 250 miles to Fort C. F. Smith, not a shot fired and no scalps taken.
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Sam
Adam. Sweet
Chicago Times-Herald
East
Fort C. F. Smith
Gov. Smith
Capt. McCabe
Bozeman
Territorial
Sebastopol
Samoiloff
Pearson
Fort C. F. Smith Siege Averted by Forty Picked Men
In winter 1866 Sioux besieged Fort C. F. Smith Montana with 1000 warriors. Governor Smith sought aid from Gen. Hancock and Gen. Smith. Col. Neil Howie led Montana Volunteers and proposed sending forty men under Capt. McCabe to break the siege.
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United States
Fort C. F. Smith
Montana
War Department
Hancock
St. Paul
Green Clay Smith
Neil Howie
Philadelphia Times
Montana Volunteers
Gov. Smith
Fort Co
McCabe
Fort
C. F. Smith
Courage Under Fire and Easter Verses From the Siege
A Sebastopol episode shows a captain drilling a fearful recruit under cannon fire, risking injuries to both as a lesson in courage, followed by a light verse about Easter eggs and a note on Scottish railway delays with a traveling anecdote.
Grant Clubbed by Policeman at Night Incident
The New York World recounts a moment when General Ulysses S. Grant was knocked to the ground by a policeman who mistook him for an ordinary pedestrian. Jacob Riis, then a reporter, witnessed the clash near 23rd Street and 6th Avenue during a snowstorm decades ago.
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Grant
New York World
Jacob Riis
Associated Press
Masonic Temple
Riis
23D Street
6Th Avenue
Fifth Avenue
California Orange Crop Outlook In Southern California
Southern California faces three months of orange picking with an estimated 2,800,000 boxes two thirds of full yield. The crop is valued at about 5 million dollars and reflects an excellent return for a fifteen year old industry. Investments total about 33 million with 10 000 acres bearing and 80 000 more planted.
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California
Time shifts limit public life for truth tellers
A quotation on how the era shapes careers, noting that honesty may hinder advancement in public life, with Washington as an example and a remark about truth telling vs. notary public status.
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Washington
Notary Public
Harper's Bazar
Old Process Ground Linseed Cake Advertised for Dairies
An Iowa advertisement urges stock feeders and farmers to order Des Moines Lin Des Moines Hawkeye Works Marshalltown linseed cake the Best Foods. It offers prices and pamphlets and advises dairy operators to obtain the product for cows and calves.
Drake Sanitarium Ad Agents Exposed in Statewide Listings
Des Moines reports reveal unauthorized agents using the Drake Sanitarium name to solicit for services. Reliable sources warn the public that these individuals pose as Drake representatives, with the real manager listed at West Fourth Street, Des Moines, and a contact phone.
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Drake Sanitarium
Drake Sanitarium Co
Drake Tall
West Fourth Street
Des Moines
Christian Endeavor reports and scattered notes
Eighteen young men led a church, over ten services by the Endeavor society. More than a hundred members of Christian society in Indiana state have been baptized by the chaplain. Ingersoll visited Kalama recently, twelve Endeavor youths served on a ship committee distributing leaflets. A Beyer-led group held one hundred cottage prayer meetings. A young woman in Tiago Chile, the society president last year, raised a thousand dollars for missions.
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Th An Endeavor Society of
Christian Society
Indiana
Chapla Ingersoll
Kalama
Christian Endeavor
Righ
Cndeavor
Beyer
Tiago
Chile
Ciety
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