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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1880
Page
3
A sprawling column cites figures on pensions and payments, stock market fears, and election results. It recounts incidents from Tennessee to Iowa, notes Garfield inauguration plans, Chinese labor policy, Irish rent strife, and a plea for biblical image theatre as education. It also reports drownings in Dubuque, press attitudes to a Passion play, and various political opinions.
A letter from Issac O Leer promotes forming a County League against liquor sales in Linn County. He suggests a stock company, uniform assessments, and a central committee to collect notices of violations and prosecute in court. He cites a New York example where drunkenness declined.
A Leader editorial argues private citizens should not arrest violators of prohibitory law. It insists elected officers must enforce liquor laws, urging temperance supporters to push for candidates who will execute the laws and resist electing "temperance municipal officers."
A London letter mocks Iowa as an agrarian giant with wheat corn and butter exports, noting J D Shuttleworth and a Cedar Rapids protectionist view. It also covers Cedar Rapids holiday goods, temperance politics, and calls for citizen involvement to enforce prohibitory laws amid saloon influence.
The speaker argues that Cedar Rapids should shift from theory to action on temperance. They condemn lengthy debates and the big parade temperance movement, proposing decisive enforcement of the law. Every temperance supporter should act as an officer in practice to stop hype and promote real results.
In Washington, Nov 26, 180-, Democrats mock Republicans plans for an extra session to block a proposed apportionment bill. The piece discusses Fourteenth Amendment issues, potential investigations into Southern states, and the fate of Bailey, Maynard, and independent voters in Tennessee. It notes budget figures for 1832 and compares them with 1881. WALTON.
The Cedar Rapids City Council discusses gas lighting contracts and street lamp pricing. Proposals from Cedar Rapids Gas Co and Minneapolis Globe Light Co are debated with motions to renew, contract, or refer to the gas committee for report at the next meeting. Recorder T. G Sropparp notes actions and amendments.
A Iowa newspaper urges readers to choose the Iowa State Register for state capital news, global affairs, and a strong agricultural section led by Valderkson. It highlights its timely family paper content, practical farming guidance, and clarifies no pecuniary motive. The offer includes weekly Register and Traces for 1881 at $2.30 for both or $1.35 for six months.
Market brief notes W. D. Waterhouse Co and W. Bradley & son report on hogs butter lard and poultry prices. Hogs reported by T M Sincisir Co premium heavy and light hogs with varied prices. flour market listed per sack and per ton. potatoes onions butter lard and chickens priced per unit.
In Linn County Iowa defendants including V Holcomb Ira Davenport and others are notified of a mortgage foreclosure case brought by Carrie W Thayer. They are summoned to appear before noon on January 2 1881 or a default will be entered. The suit seeks twelve hundred dollars plus interest on a promissory note dated November 1st and secured by a mortgage. Mills & Reed Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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