Iowa Legislature Debates Bills and Elects U S Senator
Nineteenth General Assembly reports committees on police judges and tax, with many bills proposed from school books to road work. Senate and House members vote for United States Senator, adjourn after tributes to late Watson E Webster of Page county.
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Pickler
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Redfield
Iowa
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E. Whiting
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Dickinson
Wright
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Stout
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Lewis
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Havens
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Senate
Clark
Eighteenth General Assembly
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Eee Uogen
Auditor of State
Nineteenth General Assembly
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Kamrar
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van Staden
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Wrigh
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Greefeld
Harmon
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Benton
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Dashiell
Tron
W. E. Webster
Messrs
Robb and
Johns
Eldora
Davinson
Rorick
Davidson and
Evans
Platter
St. Clair
Watson E. Webster
Page County
Maxwell
Clarinda
Merten
Wicks
Panic Topic Sparks Knife Edge Debate in Grand River Store
A Detroit Free Press account recalls a late night gathering of six or eight men in a Grand River grocery discussing panics in crowds. Mr Hopewell jokes about shooting to deter a panic, then a powder prank triggers a real stampede leaving him terrified and fleeing to the sidewalk.
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Detroit Free Press
Grand River
Mr. Hopewell
Hopewell
Lemon Custard Pie With Meringue Topping
Mix cornstarch with milk then stir into boiling milk and cook one minute. Cool and blend with lemon juice rind eggs yolks and sugar. Bake in a pre lined dish half an hour. Beat egg whites with sugar to stiff peaks and fold in. Top pie and brown slowly.
Imprisoned Roots Shape Ideas Like Orange Plants
The text compares ideas to orange plants spreading in proportion to the confinement of their roots. It uses a metaphor of a box that restricts growth, suggesting creativity or thought expands with space but is limited by enclosure.
Lincoln Monument Trustees Set Quorum After Vote
A House bill approved five Lincoln Monument Association trustees as a quorum. Multiple measures were introduced including pensions bills and an agenda of eulogies for Senator Burnside. Debates, adjournments, and sectoral bills dominated sessions on January 23 to 24.
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Washington
House
Lincoln Monument Association
Pacheco
Atlantic & Pacific R. Kt
James W. McDill
Iowa
James F. Wilson
Lincoln
George
Agricultural Department
Beck
Payne
Sherman
Oregon
Justice Hunt
Secretary of the Interior
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Secretary of the Treasury
Carpenter
Good Taste Among the Mighty
The elephants are praised for their intelligence and affection, with trainers noting they will step over keepers on the ground without harm. They can kill a man easily, yet show delicate tastes for strawberries and gum-drops and admire bright colors and flowers. Travelers report elephants gathering and smelling flowers with evident pleasure.
Excellent Poun Cake Recipe from Historic Ad
A recipe for a pound cake blends cream butter with lump sugar and sifted flour, uses eight eggs with whites beaten separately, and flavors with carroway. The batter is beaten an hour and baked in a lined tin to create a rich, traditional cake.
Iowa News Items of Broad Dramatic Local Reports
Dubuque faces a rising floating debt over 112 thousand dollars while Northern Iowa harvests a large crop of superior ice. Bridges, telephones, fraud, fires and deaths populate the week with incidents from Mt. Pleasant to Davenport. A Cliff City prehistoric village discovery, town fires, robberies, and a Pontoon bridge study in Dubuque reflect a turbulent Iowa frontier.
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Brooklyn
Brazelton
Mt. Pleasant
Marshall County
Aveca
Webster City
Lincoln
Mississippi
Dubuque
Stuart
Guthrie
Adair
Palmer’s Mutual Fire Insurance Company
W. Lindsey Cook
Weston
Pottawattamie County
J.C. Culver
Mason City
Culver
George Jones
Davenport
Invention of the Telescope Traces to a Dutch Optician
A long report from Ragousa describes Herzegovina’s insurrection against Austrian rule. It notes bold rising, one engagement, and Austrian defeat. It then shifts to a historical feature tracing the telescope’s accidental invention by Hans Lippersheim in 1608 aided by his daughter, with later claims by Jacob Adriansz.
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Ragousa
Herzegovina
Pipa
Hans
Lippersheim
Jacob Adriansz
Metius
Alkmaar
Amsterdam
Hans Lippersheim
Adriansz
Noted Crimes and Fatal Incidents in January Reports
The report lists multiple January crimes and deaths across the United States and Canada. Incidents include arrests, shootings, stabbings, drownings, and murders in Castle Rock Colorado Little Rock Arkansas Red Bud Illinois Durand Minnesota Dillas Texas St Joseph Missouri Cumminsville Ontario. Names include Hanford Collins Leggin Bailey Parker Lennox Cohen Mayer Rourke with outcomes of injuries and fatalities.
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Little Rock
Mollie Leggin
John Hill
Red Bue
Monroe County
Ill
Robert C. Bailey
Bailey
Durand
Minn
Dillas
Texas
Parker
St. George Hotel
Little
St. Joseph
World’s Hotel
James Lennox
Cohen
Lennox
Mayer
Cumminsville
Ontario
Michael Rourke
Rourke
Specter in Kazan Cathedral a Nihilist Hoax
Reported apparition of the dead Czar with an aide de camp in Kazan Cathedral turns out to be a staged joke by two students using a magic lantern. A later tale of Nihists aiming to topple a theater roof was similarly dismissed as fanciful rumor.
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Kazan
Alexander
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Alexander III
News From Abroad Cuba Seizure at Governor Aux
On January 11 seven armed men seized the Governor Auxiliary building in Cuba and took hostages. The incident sparked a tense standoff with Cuban authorities warning of possible escalation. No injuries reported as negotiators sought a peaceful resolution.
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Minn
Cushman
State Board of Health
Wooster & Providence
Woonsocket
R. I
St. Louis
Athol
Mass
Washington
Rock Island
Ill
Offbeat Quotations From A Gasping Mind At The Mill
A curious passage notes an author savoring the moment a manuscript finds a new owner among discarded volumes marked Your choice for ten cents. In another vignette a miller sleeping at his mill is pulled upright by a machine yanking out his hair and awakening him with a startled cry.
Darling, Come Home to My Heart
A lyrical verse laments absence and loneliness describing fading flowers and lone hours. The speaker longs for a beloved to return as winds, rivers, and skies echo the ache for reunion and ordinary joy.
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Come Home
The Drover and the Lost Child on the Prairie
Anthony Hunt, a Western drover, finds a soaked child crying on the prairie during a night rainstorm. He brings the child home, only to discover Dolly, his own daughter, missing from the house. The wife and neighbors had mourned the child as lost, but Hunt reveals Dolly had wandered out to meet him, turning a near tragedy into joy as father and child are reunified.
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Anthony Hunt
Dolly
The
Mississippi
The Philosopher Who Will Hear Every Suggestion
A concise note on a thinker willing to listen to all advice, noting the balance between openness and critical judgment. The passage hints at the value of receptiveness in philosophical exploration and decision making.
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Philosopher
Deter
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