Panic over gold and bank failures spreads across the country
Amidst bank collapses and government strain, gold prices fall and shipments from Europe ease scarcity. Observers debate specie payments, currency value, and the Grange movement's faded hopes as Election returns show mixed regional shifts.
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Jay Cooke & Co
Sten Noyra
Europe
Pacific
Wy Street
Stead
Go Nn Cerktin
Grange Party
Avery
Prosperity of Cedar Rapids Manufactories
A Cedar Rapids editorial extols local factories and water power, praising the central Iowa location, railroad access, and a new agriculture implements company backed by farmers and investors. It highlights Saint John Cahill's foundry venture, the Grain Growers Manufacturing Company, and plans to unite producer and manufacturer interests to ease transportation costs and boost home production.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Cisad
Manny Wa Enterprises
Hatsleo
Mess
Jobs & Cahi
Messrs
St. John & Cahill
A. Bull
Linn
Editorial notes on Tama County politics and New York Catholic tensions
The Tama Citizen editor laments personal attacks during a campaign and defends editors under fire. The piece contrasts editor endurance with calls for restraint, while criticizing New York City’s Evangelical Alliance and Catholic influence, arguing accessibility of city privileges would differ if Catholic power were absent.
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Evangelical Alliance
New York
Firemen parade and county fair in Cedar Rapids letter
A young Cedar Rapids correspondent writes about the Cedar Rapids firemen visiting Independence, the County Fair in Buchanan County with delay due to weather, and a sister’s reflections on horse racing. She notes the Central Town Business College Journal and reports a local suicide of Miss Reeves, then commemorations for Lieut. M. A. Woodruff at Presbyterian Church with Rector G. S. Percival officiating. The letter rails at local news scarcity and clerks dismissiveness.
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Ubl
Cedar Rapids
Buchanan County
Thie City
Business College of McArthur
Williams
Central Town Business College Journal
Misa Reeves
Lim
Presbyterian Church
West Wide
M. A. Woodruff
Percival
St. Janes Darah
Woodruff
Ory
Fragmentary quote from local candidate over next Tuesday
A garbled passage shows a candidate speaking with uncertainty about future news after Tuesday. The text includes stray names and phrases about Bol, Molitor, and a brother, with scattered social pleasantries and weathered syntax.
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Bol
Mr. Molitor
Cedar Rapids City Council Weighs Sidewalk and Main Laying Proposals
The Cedar Rapids council debated sidewalk work on Town Avenue and laid mains on Greene Street with motions to table and postpone. Aldermen Forsyth and Clark pushed petitions forward while a committee of the whole reported progress, and the recorder was instructed to publish the order by law. The Cedar Rapids tors book bindery advertises book binding and blank book production services.
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Elder
Mansfield & Cerpentar
John McVan
Clair Smith
F. Miller
The
Owl
Recorder
Forsyth
Kaya
Ald. Clark
N. M. Hubbard
Sidewark
Town Avenue
Greene Street
Ald. Porsrth
Ald
Smith
City to lay sidewalks and street work order 1873
An 1873 city order directs the municipality to construct sidewalks and related street improvements on certain parcels and abutting lots. It requires the owner of a wire works to reimburse costs or face enforcement, with timelines for completion and adherence to charter provisions. Officials F. Charles and J. Suldard are cited.
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Une Lorz
van Buenetree
Stder
Oir
Eldewal
Akid
F. Ctarles
JG. Suldard
Dugan
Oncon
Prngkiaia
Rome & Co
Broxdwar
New York
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