New Crockery Store Opens in Cedar Rapids Details
A vivid account describes the Merchants' Block crockery shop newly established in Cedar Rapids. It outlines a 20 by 10 foot sales room, stacked glass cases, a grand 16 foot walnut show case, brass and walnut fittings, pine interior, gas lighting, and a heated furnace. The piece credits Cedar Rapids planing mill workers and Cal Morgan for expert craftsmanship and notes the business aims to showcase elegant tableware and silverware.
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Merchants' Block
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Planing Mill Company
J. W.simith
Cal. Morgan
Fragments on Granges Tariffs and Fog in London
Fragmentary notes reference inflated rhetoric around Grange matters, stock sales at the Union Stock Yards, and attempts to draft railroad tariff legislation. Mentions Kasson supporting Grant, a $95,000 defaulter in Sib ley county, London fog disrupting business, and a VP Stephens speech in Washington. Includes a Dubuque verdict of $10,000 for a railroad worker’s administrator and Mennonites seeking a land grant.
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Mahaska County
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Ft. Dodge
Jonathan Thatcher
van Buren County
J. Devin
Polk County
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Fremont
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Poliawatamie County
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Free Pass Controversy Stirring Milienl Officials
With the new year fears arise over abolishing the free pass system. A Boston & Maine Railroad dignitary questions its abolition after a stockholders meeting where an associate sought courtesies to transact business. Three days later the railroad gave freight worth $3000 to a rival line. A Columbus telegram reports the Bender family arrested at Bivengaville.
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City Council actions on police confirmation and gas meters
The council discussed Thos. Croghen's police confirmation, then postponed the matter. Ald. Upton proposed a resolution to require Cedar Tap Gas Light Co to provide sworn meter counts and usage times, with quarterly or monthly corrections. Ald. Cook moved to direct the County price to consult on land annexation notices for Cedar Rapids, but the motion passed.
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