Iowa adopts sweeping changes from extraordinary session
Summary of new provisions reorganizing executive council powers over procurement and audits, county officers duties, bank and building lending rules, militia and insurance regulations, legal procedures, school governance, taxation, liquor laws, and municipal authorities. Includes new revenue measures, county bridges book, and updated voting and ballot rules.
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Iowa State Register
Iowa
Executive Council
Walter Mark
State House
General County Fund
Board of Supervisors
Board of
Direc
Staite Bank
State Board of Pharmacy
Commission of Pharmacy
District Court
Board of Review
United States
Lowa
Mutual Assessment
Foreign Notes Span War Ends And Global Trade Talks
The report chronicles varied items from Brighton electric jaunting to Italy's troop losses at Adava and a Mithra sanctuary find in Konjica. It notes Nobel's will contested, Edinburgh drunkards' explosive mix called dynamite, Zeller's fraud convict, Birmingham Jubilee medals, Cairo's new antiquities museum, NSW harbor spending, and England Germany free trade pact on the Sooloo islands with limited dutiable goods.
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Supreme Court
Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa
Courts of Equity
Courts of Law
Brighton
England
Italy
Adava
Konjica
Herzegovina
Balkan Peninsula
Nobel
Edinbugh
Rudolf Zeller
Birmingham
Germany
Cairo
Museum of
Khedive
New South Wales
Sydney
Sooloo Islands
Spain
Elephant on Trial in London Court Over Circus Murder
A famed Asiatic elephant named Charley, star of a London circus, was acquitted by a coroner’s jury after an inquest into a keeper’s death. The trial sparked debate on elephant nature with witnesses praising Charley’s gentleness and education yet noting a history of cruel treatment by a former keeper.
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London
New York Journal
Charley
Charles Reade
German Needle Manufacture Surges in Late 19th Century
The article notes strong German progress in needle production with exports rising from 1.83 million pounds in 1895 to 2.8 million in 1896. Aix-la-Chapelle factories output 50 million needles weekly, mainly of superior quality. China becomes the primary buyer, taking 60 percent in 1896, with other markets including British India, France, Britain, the United States, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Turkey.
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Aix-la-Chapelle
China
British India
France
Great Britain
United States
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Turkey
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Militia
Statte
Re Board of Health
Pharmacy Commission
Normal School
College For the Blind
Hospital For Insane
Industrial School
Soldiers’ Home
Congress
Secretary of State
Justices of the Peace
County Recorder
Board of Educational Examiners
Washington
State Board of Health
State Board of Medical Examiners
Anamosa Penitentiary
Board of Save
County Road Fund
Emlin McClain
Glenwood Institution
Monument Commission
State Historical Department
Board of Library Trustees
Miss Wiggins
Zie Higgins
Ingene
Lowel
al En Sheli
Hood
Eva Franklin
H. New York
Sansaparilla
Lice Ie
Hood’s
B. J. Kay Medical Co
Ouahia, Neb
Columbia
Columbia Bicycles
Pope Mfg. CO
Hartford
Conn
Atalogue
Mal
Omaha
State Medical, Company
Neb
Cincinnati
Draggisia
Minar Express
Bale
Des Moines
Moines
Willson & CO
Waile
D.C
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