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Iowa News Highlights From Des Moines to Dubuque
West Side reports widespread chinch bug damage to grain fields. Senator Allison to deliver Iowa City university oration in June. J. W. Meyers of LeMars praises Iowa as a rich, healthy homeland. Green drive well patents upheld as valid by the supreme court. Fort Dodge to gain a 24 stall round house by the Illinois Central. A Greenfield man finds mastodon remains in western Nebraska. Dubuque Prohibitionists plan early hostilities against saloons. Sigourney reports 130 pocket knives and 21 razors seized as burglars. Des Moines printers beat Lead er in baseball amid umpire controversy. Oskaloosa balloon ascent ends in fatal fire. County superintendents oppose cheap schools and back four-year terms. Fort Madison trees threatened by giant worms. Secretary Kennedy gathers data on illegitimate births in Iowa. Missouri Valley Times editor jokes on twenty-two-year career. Burlington line ends pay-car system for employees. Larkin’s violent past leads to tar and feathers in Omaha. Sibley resident refuses to help a neighbor, trades a cook stove for payment.