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Newspaper

Fairfield Tribune

Location

Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 03, 1884

Page

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Iowa Legislature Passes Multiple Appropriation Bills

Des Moines reports detail numerous appropriation measures passed by both houses, including funding for the state university, deaf and blind institutions, prisons, and various public works. Debates cover liquor penalties, suffrage postponements, and railway discrimination bills, with adjournments and votes recorded.

Des Moines Clark Ludlow Linnville Building Association Jasper County Judiciary Committee Smith Hall Senate Russell Seventeenth General Assembly Iowa Eastman Hutton HOUSE Girls’ Reform School Independence Soldiers Orphans Davenport Fort Madison Normal School Cedar Falls Hospital For Mt Pleasant Anamosa J. W. Haleck The State University State Horticultural Society Thomas W. Darling St. Aurgar Mitchell County Riverside Washington County Milton van Buren County Bilt Eddyville Wapello County West Liberty Muscative County Twn Hepburn Baldwin Jackson County Garrison Benton County O’brien County Board of Supervisors Osceola County Ott Elkhorn Webster County Kellerton Ringgold County Secretary of State Schee Institution For Deaf and Dumb Fish Commission New Insane Hospital Benedict Home Craig United States Circuit Court Capitol Harriet Ketchum Ms. Pleasant Senator Hutchison National Institute Madison Wis J.W. Maddy Ft. Madison Alamosa Supreme Court Iowa Improved Stock Breeder's Association Lyons MccCall McCulob McDaid McVay Millen Mowry Nuvent Overholtzer Pattee Picken Rice Sherman Smyth Storey Tuttle Ward Watrous Wattson Weaver Wilbur Speaker Aaker Babb Bailingail Banta Balter Brothers Bullock Can Widner Wright Wyland Messrs

Leap Year in the Wilds of Dakota

A Fargo tale recounts a bold Dakota leap year proposal from a wealthy homesteader with claims across Goose River Dickey County and La Moure. The suitor confronts the narrator in a door scene, boasting wealth and endurance before a comic collapse and a vow to hire a man to field future proposals.

Dakota Tom Holmes Fargo Pardner Jimtown Goose River Dickey County la Moure States Winnipeg

Airy Baby Yet on an Afternoon Train

A Boston area train scene turns comic as a hapless young man, seated beside a blunt old farmer, recounts life events since school time and marriage. The farmer’s persistent curiosity culminates in the exultant question, Say, her ye ahy baby yet, prompting the young man to hurry off at his stop.

Boston Globe Boston Carter

Conscience Unprepossessing Old Bachelor Meets Child Suitor

A muted dialogue unfolds as a traditional bachelor questions marriage while Miss Mabel, a 12 year old, retorts about needing someone to look after him and cautions against leading him on with her remark. The exchange hints at social attitudes toward marriage and youth.

Miss Mabel

Paris Green Handling Causes Severe Swelling Blindness

A young man mixing Paris Green to kill potato bugs rubbed sweat from his forehead and his face swelled, nearly blinding him for hours. An Ohio man returning from a hunting trip asks if he was nominated for any office.

Paris

Indian tensions and land dispute fears dominate Washington news

Reports from Indian agencies warn of an imminent outbreak as boundaries and fences block homestead lands. News covers land grants, railroad settlements, pension bills, river projects, and political moves from Congress including suffrage reform, postal telegraph, and land dispute rulings.

Riordan Arizona Washington Commissioner of Indian Affairs Dyer Tongue River Black Wolf Anderson General Land Office Geo. W. Fairfield United States Nebraska House Committee On Appropriations Senate House Committee On Commerce St. Louis House Committee On Public Lands Kansas State of Sumner California House Committee On Postal Telegraph Company Telegraph Company Mackey & Co Wm Pitt Kellogg Wylie Theovernment Wm. Berr Philadelpia Idaho Aaron Sargent Germany Russia C. H. Spring Grayville Illinois Aaron A. Sargenc Wm Hunt House Committee On Post Offices and Post Roads Tee Delivuary Post Office Department Mississippi Missouri Ohio Atlantic Pacific Lake Gulf Mississippi River House Committee On Banking and Currency Pacific National Bank

How to Keep Warm in the Prairie Homes

A traveler from the west describes a Russhun Mennonite fuel method. They build four-room houses with a central brick oven and a passage to the yard. Straw is burned daily in the furnace to heat all rooms, while corn stalks fuel cooking stoves for meals.

Chicago Herald Newbraska

No. The German Empire Population and Moral Reflection

A fragment discussing virtue and vice through contact and public stock of honest manly principle. It cites the German Empire population as 45,194,172 according to the last census.

German Empire

Cowboys on the frontier a tale of grit and tragedy

A 19th century reminiscence portrays cowboys as tough, skilled riders living rough on the Texas prairies. It recalls Gentleman Joe a college bred depictions, a Fort Worth shootout with Red McGuire, and a fatal near-mythic code amid love and betrayal.

Texas Smith & Wisson John Adams Adams Massachusetts Fort Worth Jonathan Andrews Joe Red McGuire McGuire Bea John

Banks Organized and Closed in 1880

A historical note reports that 59 national banks were organized in 1880, 11 passed into voluntary liquidation, and 3 failed, reflecting banking stability and consolidation of that year.

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General Assembly Boggs Head Brown Marshall 18Th General Assembly Vyeas Messrs. Bants Fordyce Jones Congress Lewis Weirich Mr. Brown Nashua van Buren Auditor of State Decatur County Committee On State University McDeid State University of Iowa Iowa Butter and Cheese Association College For Yeas College For the Blind J. W. Maddy Maine Cass County Clingan Polk City Ekhorn Grove Shelby County Harrison Clayton Institution For the Deaf and Dumb Council Bluffs Sutton Sweney 17Th General Assembly 16Th General Assembly Grand Army of the Republic Department of Iowa Iowa State Agricultural Society Abraham Bayless Caldwell Carson Chambers Chubb Donnan Gillett Glass Hemenway Henderson Hunt Hutchison Kamrar Larrabee Logan McCoy McDonough Miles Nichols Payneer Robinson Robert Stephens Whaley Wilkin Nays Baker Graves Hendrie Johnson Whiting John H. Gear Burlington Gas Light Company Independent Rock Falls J. B. Mead John Sheme Rpyanoase County Universalist Sciety of Dubuque Kerr Curtis Barb Badwin Ballingall Butler Canfield Chamberlin Culbertson Cloud Dabney Derr Doerr Gilliland Grant Hardy Haviland Hogeland Holbrook Humphrey Huskins Jordan Killen Linehan Lucas Lynch McCarty Manderscheid Merrill Miller of Carroll Miller of Lee Nachtwey Ranck Schmidt Seringeour Stewart Upton Wherry Benson Calkins Campbell Carpenter Cele Converse Davis Densmore Fillmore Hamblin Hersey Kennedy Kuhn Linn Livingston McCall McCullouch Nugent Tutte Watrons Weaver Green Hayzlett Mentzel Vanderpoel Wilbur Twentieth General Assembly Iowa Prisoners Aid Association State Agricultural College Mt. Pleasant Boys Reform School Mall Duncan Railroad Commissioners Moraxes Senator McCoy Executive Council Reform School Industrial School Board of Trustees Majority Committee On Cole Hail McCullough Smythe Great Candersheid Merrell Miller Carroll Canck Stewar Waidner Wight Loud Scrimgeour Hancock Committee On Appropriations Committee of Beach Secretary of the Interior Yellowstone National Park Vance Minority Committee On Foreign Relations Ellis New Orleans Territory of Cockrell Snater van Wyck Hovee Randall Morey Culverson Wasnurseton Union Pacific Railroad Fort Wallace Palmer Post Office Committee Hoar George Blair Maxy Potter N. Y Messrs. Kelly Long Mass Messrs. Follett Foran Hurd Secretary of War Vicksburg Washincton Severalty Delph Dolph Jonas Wouse Mississipi Keifer Garfield Dorsheimer Pusey McCormick J. D. Taylor Warner Cox New York Worthington Dunnard Hewitt Washixeton Committee On Naval Affairs Secretary of Navy Greeley Committee On Library James Monroe Meeker Josephine Meeker White River Agency Martha Vaughn Louisa Jackman Kentucky State of Georgia Hampton South Carolina Charleston Pugh West Call Women's Suffrage Platt Committe On Territories Andersen Plumb Secretary of the Treasury Departments of Justice and Interior Secretary of the Navy Greely O Niel Pennsylvania Convention of Hous James B. Steadman Sarah E. E. Seelye Franklin Thompson Washington Matters Lincoln Ft. Belknap Montana House Committee On War Claims Union Chas. Koerner Alton Ill Interior Department the Tribune
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