Iowa Legislature debates reform and capitol plans in session
The Iowa Senate and House hear petitions on temperance salaries and school issues. Bills launch on capital punishment, county officers’ pay, tax laws, and state institutions. Committees advance measures for school support, railroads, and municipal governance while adjournments set timelines for February action.
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Life
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Lyor
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Farmer’s Mutual Aid Insurance Company
Iowa Deaths and Incidents Highlight Iowa News Notes
A Muscatine resident Betsey Ann Matthews dies at 77 after forty years in the city. A Nevada corn harvest shows over 200000 bushels cribbed amid strong weather notes. A Dubuque man dies from a fall after liquor use. his wife sues a liquor seller for 5000. A 800 foot flowing well is bored at Cole stock yards for C and N W rail. A Council Bluffs pair charged in abortion death case. bond set for preliminary hearing. A West Liberty girl burned fatally by a stove incident. her father injured saving her. An attempted freight wreck near Cedar Mines is foiled by switch-light, while a Hamburg assault ends with two killers dead and one captured. A Leavenworth man defends himself in attack near Hamburg, and a Black Hawk County surveyor dies after supper. Funeral aid funds raised supports the family.
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Betsey Ann Matthews
Muscatine
Newton Journal
Nevada
Cole
Wier & Co
T. H. Allison
Mary Baker
Council Bluffs
Rosa Gifford
Rock Rapids
Iowa
Ida Walters
West Liberty
Ida
Cedar Mines
Wm. Sallades
East Leavenworth
Hamburg
F. M. Thompson
Spring Creek Township
Black Hawk County
Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup Promised To Cure Colds
Spring brings blasts and autumn brings fruit and colds for which nothing better exists than Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup. It always cures at 25 cents.
Congress Debates Porter's Relief and Yorktown Monument
In Washington the military committee reports Fitz Porter relief bill with Logan minority assertion of limited Congress power. Bayard defends specie resumption while Chandler eulogies follow. A Yorktown centennial bill seeks 100000 for a monument and 20000 for celebration arrangements. House and Senate discuss post roads and national gold banks as well.
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Washington
Randolph
Military Committee
Fitz J. Porter
Logan
Congress
Edmunds
Judiciary Committee
United States
Pendleton
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Weaver
Allison
Conkling
Dawes
Ferry
Morrill
Rollins
Voorhees
Bayard
Goode
Yorktown
House
Committee On
Chandler
Washigton
Gordon
Pacific
Cockrell
Secretary of War
Omaha
Nebraska
Committee On Finance
Witty Cement Vendor Quips About Mending Jars
A sentimental young man quotes Nature guarding the rose with thorns to praise women. A cement vendor touts its use mending jars while a buyer asks if it could fix a door jar. The vendor replies the door is usually sound enough.
Father Is Getting Well After Using Hop Bitters
A Rochester lady reports her father’s recovery from a previously deemed incurable illness after using Hop Bitters. Daughters testify to his marked improvement and renewed health.
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Rochester
All About Coal Its Grades and Uses in Industry
Detroit News outlines coal divisions hard and soft with subdivisions graphitic raphitic anthracite semi bituminous and bituminous. Lehigh is the hardest coal commanding a premium. Scranton and kin are similar though not identical in quality. Semi bituminous dominates steam generation in locomotives and boilers. Blossburg and Briar Hill brands span the East and Atlantic markets. Loyal Sock is a new soft anthracite grate coal praised for clean combustion and high heat.
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Lehigh
Scranton
Pittsburg
Lacawanna
Wilksbarre
Bettreme Y
Wilkesbarre
Lackawanna
Pittston
Pennsylvania
A- Blossburg
Clearfield
Broad Top
Cumberland
Fall
Brook
Morris Run
Blossburg
Blosburg
Aaron Bloss
Tioga County
Troy
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Union
Fall Brook
Atlantic
Maryland
Seaboard
Blair Hill
Oh‘o
Briar Hill
Church Hill
Willow Bank
Massillon
Grove Bank
Brookfield
Briar Hall
Massilon
Ohio
Michigan
Boiled Lemon Pudding Recipe
A lemon suet pudding combines flour suet bread crumbs sugar and eggs with grated lemon rind and juice. The mixture is mixed with milk soda and salt then tied in cloths and boiled for three hours served with sauce or wine.
Sealskin Sacques Out of Fashion Rumors
A witty remark counsels not telling a wife about sealskin sacques going out of fashion as she will claim they will be cheap, reflecting a domestic humor tone. The line highlights trends and frugality in a lighthearted social snippet.
Charleston Children Debate Snow Mystery
Charleston youngsters saw snow for the first time last week and debated if the white coating was flour salt or sugar, reflecting wide curiosity and playful skepticism.
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Charleston
South Carolina
Calcraft the Hangman and His Daughter’s Forbidden Love
A London World reminiscence recounts the hangman Calcraft and a near romance with his daughter. The narrative recalls his chilling profession and a secret withheld from a lover who later learned his father-in-law’s grisly trade, moving toward a tragedy.
Changes of the Planets Across Cloud Layers and Moons
The professor explains that sun visibility is blocked by planetary cloud layers and that Jupiter shows a southern opening in its clouds. He notes Saturn as younger, with rings and eight moons, three newly formed, and argues moons may not reflect sunlight as Earth’s moon does. He compares moons to planets and posits light and heat foundations for life on Jovian bodies.
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Jupiter
Earth
Saturn
Mercury
Mars
A French Canadian Family Encounter During a Pilgrimage Visit
A New York Times correspondent records a visit to a French Canadian farmhouse high on a hill. He observes a large stone house with outbuildings, shares a rustic supper with nine dipping arms, and notes plain, content faces as the family discusses markets and pilgrims to Ste Anne. The rite ends with a family kneeling in prayer and the shaved son-in-law tending the guest before a quiet night in a tall bed.
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New York Times
Canada
Ste Anne
Ackley Mayor Fined in Attempted Suppression Case
Mayor Allen of Ackley was fined 10 dollars for attempting to suppress Alderman Kirby and suffered a beating in the process. An Allerton man, L. A. Mize, was arrested for selling two kinds of lemon ade, 5 cent glasses and 10 cent glasses. The 10 cent glasses allegedly contained spirits ferments. A three year old child wistfully asks Meta to save the pie so her papa can see it when he returns home.
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Washington
Rush Clark
Iowa
Keifer
Jere Haralson
Haralson
Shelley
Fourth
Alabama
Committee On Elections
Selma
Democratic Party
Gen. Shelley
Lowndes County
Price
Sapp
Thompson
Carpenter
Manning
Neal
Bennett
Henderson
Allen
Ackley
Costa
Kirby
Allerton
L. A. Mize
Meta
Pepe
Old Charm Found in Wiltshire Graveyard Lock Locket
A 1338 locket, found during grave digging at Devizes churchyard, Wiltshire, is described as a two batonite lock with a silver band, likely from the sixteenth century and worn as a charm. The piece is noted by Cunnington in Wiltshire Archaeological Society proceedings. Lupton’s test for real toad stones is cited as a quaint verification method.
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Cunnington
Wilts
Child’s Bedtime Quip From The Four Year Old
A four year old boy quips at bedtime about a sibling occupying both sides of the bed. The exchange ends with a playful line about not laughing without snow and a buggy ride needing reins.
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Tommy
Harry
Larry
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