Iowa Moves to Primary Elections for Most Offices
Iowa's enacted primary law requires nominating candidates for most offices by party primary, sets dates for June elections, defines party affiliation records, and outlines nomination papers, ballot printing, poll procedures, and official notices for the 1908 and subsequent primaries.
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General Assembly
Iowa
Supreme
District
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Congress of
United States
Congress of the
Superior Courts
Congress of the United States
Board of Supervisors
Executive Council
Judgec of Election
Secretary of State
Suleta
Doe
Saree
Oliver Edes
Congress
The Broken Compact
A fragment from a conversational piece recounts a vow to support each other despite betrayals in love. A bachelor girl laments a greedy, ungrateful suitor who borrowed ten dollars, while the narrator notes men’ s mixed utility and calls off anger yet hints at future marriage to the same brutes. The piece ends with a sharp tease about the broken promise.
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Sammie
Various curiosities and observations from daily life
A collection of short reflections and oddities on faith, work, science, weather, and society. Topics include expert disputes, job security, faith cures, blind massage laws in Japan, Gaumont's chronomegaphone, high altitude limits, church affiliations, mother’s influence on children, exercise, lunar rain patterns, a two headed brook trout, lightning and fences, Belgium wages, and aging parlance.
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Japan
Leon Gaumont
Piels
Strong Sixteenth Century Nursery Breakfasts in England
The Northumberland Household Book records daily nursery breakfasts for Lady Margaret and Master Ingeram Percy in Lent. Meals feature manchet bread, beer, butter, salt fish or sprouts, boiled mutton bones, and on fish days baked egg and salted options, with milk absent and beer described as very different from today.
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England
Lady Margaret
Maister
Ingeram Percy
Field quotation on dog act case at Swansea
A passage from The Field highlights a magistrates court case in Swansea in October regarding a dog alleged to have worried sheep. The article stresses clear presentation of key facts from the source.
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Swansea
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William K. Brown
J.B. Wayne
Howard Collins William Longley
William Strong
Robert Thompson
Hamburg
New Hampshire
New England
London
Birmingham
London & North Western
John H. Black
Joseph Raymond
Township Trusteca
Clarence Foster
William Jones
H. S. Wilson
James Smith
Tom Jones
Ee Dan Brown
George White Selese
Clear Lake
Georgetown
Colo
Belgium
Ghent
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