Various Iowa News Briefs Across Cities and Trials
Fire damages the home of S C Robertson in Des Moines on December 26 with losses around $900. The Hart House in Belle Plaine and other local incidents are reported. Accidents, obituaries, new papers announced, and public notices record rail and post office changes, a fatal beer cask explosion near Strawberry Point, and a grave injury from a runaway wagon near South English.
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S. C. Robertson
Des Moines
Belle Plaine
Daytonville
Washington County
Kinross
Keokuk County
Turner
Fremont County
Tama County
Allamakee
Marena
Ringgold County
Imogen
Imogene
Strawberry Point
Fritz Zeuch
Kleinlein
Zeuch
South English
Lewis Wolf
Etta Lamb
Knoxville
Owen Westfall
Kansas
Chariton
Westfall
Miss Lamb
Fires and disasters mark a busy year end in many towns
The weekly review reports a series of fires in Brunswick Maine Reading Pennsylvania and Newberryport Mississippi plus deaths from blazes at Ayerstown New Jersey and Milwaukee. It notes weather extremes in Minnesota and heavy rains in Kentucky and Illinois rail accidents in Missouri Kansas Texas and a deadly mutiny aboard an Italian ship.
Russian Nihilist crackdown and Cuban slavery bill update
Reports from Vienna and St Petersburg describe a secret Nihilist meeting raided in Kiev with 98 men arrested. executions and long prison terms follow. Spain reports progress on Cuba abolition bills in Senate and Chamber, with gradual emancipation planned for 1886 1888 while Canovas ministry loses support.
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London Standard
Vienna
Kieff
Count Mutarde
Berlin
Madrid
Canovas del Castillo
Martinez Campos
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Cuba
Tamarind: A Tropical Tree With Widespread Uses
Tamarind is native to Africa and India and grows in East Indian Islands. It reaches 60 to 80 feet, has compound leaves and white turning yellow flowers. the fruit is a 3 to 6 inch pod with tart pulp and seeds. In the West Indies the fruit is sold shelled or shell fruit with sugar. the pulp is tart and laxative. Uses include drinks, medicine, timber, charcoal, and seed kernels as famine food in India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
India
East Indian Islands
West Indies
Cause and Effect: Indigestion Weakens Nerves
The main cause of nervousness is indigestion, caused by a weak stomach. No one can have sound nerves and health without Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach purify the blood and keep the liver and kidneys active to carry off poison and waste. See other column.
Statement on Hair Dye Sparks Disputed Claim
A brief exchange notes she dyed her hair and she exclaimed it was false. He responded that he presumed so, signaling uncertainty over the dye claim.
Baby Plant Draws Portland Curiosity at Gallery Exhibit
In Shannahans art gallery a 12 inch baby plant draws crowds from Portland, Oregon. The exotic lily family plant, indigenous to Japan, blooms semi annually with a star shaped brown and yellow flower. A tiny nude baby figure under a canopy, with outstretched limbs, is the centerpiece. Varieties imitate animals and birds. a San Francisco specimen sold for 300 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Oregon
Shannahan
Japan
Lilly
Mark Hopkins
San Francisco
Foundling Hospital
Dr Bull's Baby Syrup endorsed for safety
An advertisement touts Dr Bull's Baby Syrup as free of opiates and harmful ingredients. The copy mentions a pretty girl and notes a handsome third in dresses in the surrounding content.
American influence in European hotel life and dining norms
The text compares American hotel practices with European ones, noting American dining in cars, fixed daily hotel rates, and the desire for exact charges. It observes Europeans’ resistance to Westward innovations, the prominence of American hotels, and how travelers seek predictable costs and fewer extras.
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Byron
Venice
America
Washington
Edmund Burke
Hamilton
Burr
Burke
Parthenon
Ireland
United States
Europe
England
Meanest Men in Boston Clothiers Highlight Unfair Labor Tactics
The Boston correspondent recalls a Mark Twain tale about a mean boss and a Boston clothing firm in the North End. Thirty five girls pooled 22 dollars to buy two albums as a Thanksgiving gift, but on payday each lost half an hour of wages for the gesture. The writer calls for sharper satire on such merciless businessmen and questions Boston merchants’ fairness.
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Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Durant Station
Texas
Mike Kelly
United States
John C. Fremont
United States Army
Kansas
Boston
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Mark Twain
Hartford
North End
Lassesanksgiving
Dual Woman Attracts San Francisco Attention In Medical Oddity
A report from San Francisco describes a two-bodied woman with two separate heads and brains sharing one lower body. Doctors note independent language use and sensations, with pain felt by only one, and the pair, born in South Carolina to a slave mother, are said to communicate in four languages. The tale blends sensational exhibit history with notes on their origins and public curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Columbus County
South Carolina
Europe
Chicken Shortcake and Scotch Stew from Early Recipes
A 19th or early 20th century recipe excerpt describes Chicken Shortcake breads with boiled young chicken, onion, salt pork, gravy, and a biscuit like dough baked in a square pan, then served with gravy and greens. It also outlines Scotch Stew with ground beef, onion, salt, pepper, water, simmered for hours, finished with butter.
Beautiful and Costly Vestments for Christmas Mass at New Cathedral
At the New York Sun piece details the Christmas Day high mass attire, noting the cardinal and clergy may wear about $10,000 in vestments plus jewelry. It describes a diamond pastoral cross, a Paris made gold mass vestment set with a 15 foot red Sicily silk cape, and various richly priced items from miters to church fabrics. It explains vestment costs vary from $7 to $315 for chasubles and up to $460 for dalmatics, with many items donated by parishioners and color schemes for liturgical seasons.
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New York
New Cathedral
Sisters of Mount Vincent
Paris
Sicily
Rome
Europe
Brussels
Nottingham
Domestic Recipes From Old Cookbook Reproduced
A fragment lists molasses candy, sponge cake, soda biscuit, currant cake, simple sponge cakes, butter taffy, jelly cake, cocoanut pie, rich plum cake and method notes. It reads as a vintage home cooking guide with ingredient lists and brief instructions for each dessert and baked good.
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J. L. McCormack
Jacob Rutgers
Polk County
Baker
Rock Island, Ill
George Dalber
Sioux City & Pacific Railroad
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Hurd
First Baptist Church
Burlington
Northern Nebraska Railroad
Sioux City and Nebraska Railroad Company
Gibbons
Newton
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Chicago
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Wm. Siebel
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Farmers and Traders Bank of
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L. F. Parker
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Tunnel
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Weekly Review
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Ayerstown
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Sheffield
Carlton College
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Clara Clavis
New Orleans
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Miss
Union
Woolner Bros
Peoria
Ill
Edison
Montreal
London
Thomas Neill
Constantinople
Turkey
Buell Woolen
Blue Rapids
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St. Vincent
Spirit
Mary D. Pomeroy
Crescent City
Point Keyes
Cincinnati
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Licking River
Little Miami
Chicago & Alton
St. Louis
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Kane
Berda
Geo. Hoyne
Col. P. Bond
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Best
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Best’s
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Sioux Falls
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Russell County
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Lloilo
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