Iowa News Roundup From Oskaloosa To Balmoral
Oskaloosa reports 36 lawyers and seven escapes from Mt. Pleasant jail. Deaths include John Vokes after a railroad injury and Aunt Jennie rumored to be 116. Albia votes 10,000 for a new school with 140 majority. Des Moines plans river fencing to lift toll revenue. Kilpatrick to address Greene county fair. Clinton man Taylor jailed for poisoning his wife. he later confesses. Sloan elopement with widowed mother of five. warrants follow. Sioux City St Paul line extension and Pembina road link grow rail traffic. Mrs. Lambert linked to Manton Marble marriage. S Schoonover dies at 85 from strychnine. Iowa farmers foresee 200 million dollars in produce sales. Insanity stats skew male from intemperance, religious excitement. Perlee miners strike for half-cent pay. Blairstown boys’ street race ends with injuries. Queen Victoria at Balmoral mingles with common folks, gifts to the poor, and a noted omission of Napoleonic flags corrected by a court-level promise to parade them.
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Waterloo
National cemetery to be made at Custor battleground site
Telegrams report plans to convert the Custor battle ground on the Little Big Horn into a national cemetery. The Treasury shipped 500 army tents to Memphis on August 6 as part of disaster logistics.
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Advances in Geography Teaching and New Chemistry Findings
A survey of early teaching methods in physical geography proposes simple experiments with water sand gravel and clay to illustrate erosion delta formation and other physiographic processes. It cites M Villiers on a waxless honey from subterranean caves and notes salicylic acid as a fish preservative derived from willow bark and carbolic acid.
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M. Villiers
Utopia
Mannas
Sinai
Kurdistan
Germany
Decline in Small Tender Notes Hits Circulation Figures
The total outstanding one and two dollar notes have fallen to 320 million. In 1877 the money in circulation stood at 45 million, credited to Treasury rulings that banks or individuals pay express charges on these small bills. Poors Railway Manual shows railways earned 490 million last year versus 473 million prior year, with Western lines leading in earnings and dividends. Seven gold mines operate at full blast in Lincoln county Georgia.
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Georgia
Illinois New Interest Law Sets 8 Percent Rate
The new Illinois law caps legal interest at 8 percent and takes effect now. The piece mocks reliance on quack remedies, noting a 25 cent bottle of Dr. Bull's Baltimore Pills cannot cure dyspepsy or its miseries.
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Dr. Bull
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Seaside Reverie Ends With Hidden Fortune for Writer
A nostalgic Harper's Bazar piece on an oceanfront stroll describes sand, shells, and salty air. A woman writes lines on a golden stand with a parasol as a note reads a bold sum of 100000 dollars.
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Harper's Bazar
Soldier Yeoman praised despite wounds and pain
A letter defends Capt Yeoman against slander about his war wounds. The writer praises his bravery, devotion, and restraint in addressing critics, noting his eight to ten years without liquor since Sumter. The author argues newspapers erred in claiming he was wounded and urges Republicans to speak truthfully.
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