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Iowa News In Brief From 1886 State Items
Ten people were killed and 126 injured in Iowa in 1886 coupling cars. Des Moines hosts a Legion of Honor grand lodge meeting March 1. Davenport to get a canning factory employing 300 to 350 seasonally. Creston folks held about 500 lottery tickets with nothing to show. State board of health issues birth marriage death duties circular for physicians. Council Bluffs grocery dodge mixes winter stock with new spring goods. Wm. Loughridge, ex-Iowa congressman, dying in Pennsylvania. President Cleveland invited to state G A R encampment at Dubuque. Gen Sherman may attend. Dr J A Campbell named acting state veterinary surgeon. Rome history published for state library. Cedar Rapids social scene buzzing over Rev Talmage lecture. special trains planned. Cattle import rules for Illinois stock approved and circulated. Mad stone inquiries attract many. Davenport claims a cure in one specimen. A swindler posing as Jenny electric light rep bilks Cedar Rapids and others. 8 W Coffin of Fairchild grows fish in a pond, now 12 000 stock. one original fish remains. Dubuque man Charles Hayes patents a combined harrow and cultivator.