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Newspaper
Benton County Times
Location
Vinton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1895
Page
2
Local notices urge voters to back a new court house and approve a $75,000 limit. Campaign mentions coroner duties, candidate support, and a strong drive for county records safety. Also promotes White Lead purchases, elocution contest, and various sales. Prominent names include LaGrange & Co., W. A. Quinn, and G. K. Ball.
Report notes bread purchases at W L Browns City Hat Grocery as a small price highlight. The piece quips about Gen Drake the railroad president dismissing his special train and riding in a farmer’s lumber wagon to the capital, remarking on the humbling sight of defeat for a rich magnate.
The October term grand jurors are Wm. Schlosman foreman of Florence Jacob Miller Bruce J F Robbins Canton C B Greenlee Iowa H J Meyers Homer F S Ulery Jackson and George Attsen Kane. Obituary Mrs W J Taylor died at her Vinton home October 28 1895 in her 45th year pleuro pneumonia was cause. Anna Eliza Barger born Milford Indiana May 24 1851. She leaves four children Aliie Robert William Edwin and a sorrowing husband. Funeral at M E church yesterday at 10 conducted by Rev T M Evans with Rev Wm Cobb assisted. I O G T and Allie’s pupils attended.
The document lists jurors summoned to appear at court on Nov 1 at 1 o clock, including J J Marlow Blairstown Edwin J Houser Van Horne J B Bradford Belle Plaine J C Rouse Urbana and others from Vinton Garrison Shellsburg and Belle Plaine. It notes speeches by Sam S Wright Esq of Tipton in Cedar County with endorsements of his combative but nonabusive rhetoric and references to prohibition debates. It also contains partial testimonials about Thatcher bed springs and local advertisements from Home inde the loaves Seat WT Brown's City Hall grocery and others.
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A farmer can construct fencing using local materials at 20 cents per rod for a 2-foot hog fence and 30 cents per rod for a 4-foot fence. Tools cost about $5.50, and land area is quoted in dollars per acre. Anam Geriant, Vinton, Town, two blocks south of Kelley's canning factory.
Washington correspondent analyzes looming national contests as a gauge of the 1896 presidential race. It notes Ohio, New York, and Maryland dynamics, Campbell in Ohio, Gorman in Maryland, and reform organization activity. It includes discussions of hog cholera, cattle export data, and Secretary Morton's farm insights, with quotes and figures from officials and stock reports.
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