Iowa News Items Snapshot of 19th Century Keokuk Era
Keokuk reports twenty seven churches and Bloomfield hosts a grand number of parish buildings. Council Bluffs plans a new opera house opening January seventeenth. The General Assembly of Iowa begins January fourteenth. Marshalltown's Stuffed Club social circle grows. Villisca builds a flour mill with one hundred barrel daily capacity. Des Moines police to grow fifty percent. Dubuque painters narrowly escape gas exposure. Pioneer Settlers Assoc forms near Bayard. State University winter term opens with high attendance. Dodd Bros. of Fletcher assign liabilities six thousand dollars.
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General Assembly
Iows
Bloomfield
Marshalltown
Villisca
Des Moines
Dubuque
Bayard and Vicinity
Pioneer Settlers’ Association
the State University
Dodd Bros
Fletcher
Council Bluffs
Sioux Falls
Bean
Adams County
Charles City
Atlantic
Keokuk
Iowa City
Suit Filed Over Liquor Sale Death in Crescent City
Mrs. Alta Arnold sues Seifert Reit for 5000 alleging he sold her husband liquor after a warning and that the intoxication led to a fall from a bridge and death in August. Also notes on a Canadian coin mixed with mail, a post office burglary near Macedonia, and a school board push to end corporal punishment in Council Bluffs. A Meth odist church scaffold collapse in Le Mars injures two men, with one badly hurt.
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Alta Arnold
Seifert Reit
Crescent City
Arnold
Reif
Macedonia
Krox
J. M. Kelly & Co
Geo. Tompkins
Council Bluffs
Bray
New York
le Mars Sentinel
L. R. Wasmar
Charles Adamson
President cites need for Mississippi River work funding
President Arthur forwards the Mississippi River Commission annual report and urges Congress to allocate one million dollars for continued works below Cairo to meet flood season risks. He notes prior appropriation was fully used and highlights grain and cotton region priorities and transport benefits.
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Jan. Sth
Congress
Secretary of War
Mississippi River Commission
Mississippi River
Commission
Mssissippi River
Mississippi
Cairo
Cuester A. Arthur
Executive Mansion
Jan
President urges Hennepin canal cession and surveys
President Arthur sends to Congress a special message with Illinois cession act copies for the Illinois and Michigan canal. He notes surveys by the secretary of war, cost estimates, and potential benefits from a widened waterway from Hennepin to the Mississippi, boosting upper valley commerce.
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Congress
Hennepin Canal
General Assembly of
Illinois
United States
Illinois and Michigan Canal
Secretary of War
General Assembly
Illinois and Michigan
Illinois River
Hennepin
Mississipi River
Rock Island
Mississippi River
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Kansas
Nebraska
Atlantic Ocean
Chicago
Upper
Mississippi
Mississippi Valley
Chester A. Arthur
Oar Cakes From Oatmeal Paste
A short method for thin oat cakes with salt added. Mix oatmeal with cold water to dough like texture, roll thin, sprinkle meat above and below, bake quickly on a hot bakestone, turning to avoid cracking. Finish by holding warm until crisp as each piece dries.
Park Theater Fire and Several Deaths in January
Weekly review lists Park Theater Cleveland burned January 5 with damages around 200000. It notes deaths include Col John Irwin Nevin January 5 and a family burned in North Carolina January 5. Also reports weather events fires in Chicago Cincinnati Meadville and Atlantic City with extensive losses and multiple fatalities.
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John Irwin Nevin
Pittsburg
Ohio
Marshal Field
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Government buys railways in France report from Paris
A Paris correspondent notes the French government plans to purchase railways. The move signals a shift in national involvement in transportation and could affect industry, workers, and railway operations across regions.
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Paris
Government of Railways
Henry B Payne Nominated for U S Senate by Ohio Democrats
Columbus Jan 8 The Democratic caucus on secret ballot nominated Henry B Payne of Cleveland for the United States Senate to succeed George H Pendleton. Payne led on the first ballot with 48 votes to Pendleton 33 and Durbin Ward 9. 42 were needed. Payne has a long political career including Ohio Senate service, presidential elector, congressman, and Electoral Commission member.
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Columbus
Henry B.B. Payne
Cleveland
United States Senate
Geo. H. Pendleton
Payne
Pendleton
Durbin Ward
Mr. Payne
Hamilton County
N. Y
John C. Spencer
Canandagua
N.Y
Ohio
Ohio Senate
House
Senate
House of Representatives
Garfield
Cincinnati
Hancock
Goy
Headley
Iowa State Agricultural Society Address and 1883 Fair Notes
The Iowa State Agricultural Society held its annual meeting in Des Moines January 9 with President W T Smith delivering a synopsis of the year’s work. The society praised agricultural progress, discussed pleuro-pneumonia and sought Congressional action, and favored a permanent fair location owned by the society. The treasurer reported receipts and disbursements for 1883 and the Des Moines vote carried 71 to 23 for locating the next State Fair in Des Moines. Officers were elected: President W T Smith, Vice President H C Wheeler, Secretary J R Shaffer, Treasurer George H Marsh. several directors were re‑elected and Newell nominated for a vacancy, with the Finance Committee reappointed.
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Iowa State Agricultural Society
Des Moines
W. T. Smit
Timothy Day
Winchester
van Buren County
Fairfield
Iowa
Commonwealth
Chicago
Loring
J. G. Rounds
Dubuque
W. T. Smith
Mahaska County
H. C. Wheeler
Sac County
John R. Shaffer
Jefferson County
George H. Marsh
Messrs
J.J. Snouffer
Linn
Fitch B. Stacy
Mitchell
L.C. Baldwin
Pottawattamie
F. N. Chase
Black Hawk
L. S. Coffin
Webster
P. G. Ballingall
Wapello
L. F Newell
N.S. Ketchum
Marshall
Newell
U. S. McNeil
Harry Fulton
E. 8
Fonda
Farmers’ Protective Association
Oe Ge
Rosecrans bill seeks longer service pay for officers
Long congressional summary notes General Rosecrans proposing that officers under Major with twenty years in one grade receive pay of the next higher grade. It covers bounties for NCOs musicians teamsters and privates who served since 1861 and were honorably discharged. Also reports on patents military affairs postal investigations cattle disease and river/muscle projects with various appropriations and appointments.
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General Rosecrans
House Committee On Patents
United States
Horse Committee On
McCook
Senate
Col. C.C. Morrow
Missouri
Jere Williams
Ohio
Signal Bureau
Hazen
Chicago
St. Louis
Louisville
Nashville
Cincinnati
Holmes
Iowa
Des Moines
Allison
Fort Dodge
Struble
St. Paul
Sioux City
House
O Brea
New York
Liverpool
Gresham
Sharpe
Post Office
Secretary of the Treasury
Cattle Commission
James Law
E. F. Thayer
J. H Saunders
Sherman
Union Pacific Railroad
Secretary of the Interior
New Mexico
House Committee On Appropriations
Court of Claims
Union Pacific Company
Senate Committee On Commerce
Gibson
Senate Committee On
Edmunds
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Senate Committee On Agriculture
House Committee On Agriculture
Miller
Anderson
Sumner
Bingham
House Committee On Railways and Canals
Murphy
Hennepin Canal
Wemple
Erie Canal
House Committee On Rivers and Harbora
Blanchard, Gibson, and Henderson
Illinois
House Judiciary Committee
How to Propose Opinions From a Bevy of Fair Ones
A Terre Haute Mail excerpt gathers diverse views on courtship tactics from multiple women. The piece lists strategies from swift proposals after brief acquaintance to the “now or never” tactic, and notes preferences ranging from grand marriage prospects to patient, steady courtship.
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Terre Haute Mail
Legal Maxims Worth Knowing from a 19th Century Column
Ignorance of the law excuses no one and many rules govern contracts notes and property. The text lists maxims on signatures, partnerships, minors, Sunday notes, fraud, lost notes, indorsers, and seals. It also covers receipts, consideration, time for payment, evidence rules, and mortgage fixtures.
Two Cup Sugar Cake Recipe And Social Commentary
A recipe for Ssow Batts with sugar butter milk flour eggs and coconut is shared. The text shifts to critique of public vulgar curiosity and eye contact in society, noting manners of dress and the social role of principals and agents amid calls for sympathy and restraint.
Christmas Eve Meeting Brings Jimmy to Banker’s Mercy
A ten year old, Jimmy Neversink, forlorn after his mother Caroline dies, eyes Christmas window displays in Chicago. Banker John Twelve percent, famed for eccentric yet kindly nature, recognizes the boy and offers companionship and a home, luring Jimmy with the promise of warmth, food, and playthings.
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Chicago Tribune
Jimmy Neversink
Jimmy
Caroline Neversink
Nee Johnson
John W
John W. Twelve Percent
John Twelvepercent
Carolne
Caroline Catchfly
Caroline
Side-Tracked Brakeman Finds Date Delayed by Misfaced Switch
A brakeman at a social dance is delayed when his date appears late due to a misfaced switch. The floor manager jokes about repairing the girl as the next quadrille begins. She arrives just in time and the evening proceeds merrily for the pair.
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Bill
Yunno
Mourning Note Paper Features Crape-Finished Border
The article highlights a crape finished border as a striking novelty in mourning note paper with impressive imitation quality.
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W. A. Connor
Grundy County
Ransom Bailey
Eugene Shelton
Billy Swanson
Tama City
Herald
James 8. Bowen
State Trinter
J. R. Davis
Bowen
Rose
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Cedar Rapids
Cascade
Dubuque County
B. C. Sewell
Merchants’ Union Barbed Wire Company
Illinois Central
Barnum
J. Smith
Bureau County
George D. Perkins
Sioux City ‘Journal
John Foster
Anamosa
Linn County
John Allison
Senator Allison
Peosia
Jennie McCowan
Scott County Medical Society
Whoas
Independence
John Manning
Ottumwa
Weekly Review
Milton Higland
Mechanicsville
Shreveport
Louisiana
Michigan Avenue
Abraham H. Godwin
Gen Godwin
Park Godwin
New York ‘‘Post
Paterson
N. J
Mary V. Young
Brigham Young
Salt Lake
Powell's
Wphelpeton
Ontario
Frankfort
Indiana
Coulter's
Proctor
Atlantic City
Howard's Pier
Atlantic City & West Jersey Railroad
W. G.taylor
Lenoir County
N.C
Wm. Crook
Daily News
McCrary
Love
Shiras
Washburn & Moon Manufacturing Company
Walter Rhodes
Glidden & Kelly
Edward Lasker
Northern Pacific Railroad
Galveston
Washington
Reichstag
Berlin
Germany
Lasker
Belleville
Mary Jerome
Angelia
Edwina
John J. Augur
U. S. Navy
Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum
General Augur
Ft. Leavenworth
Augur
Jeanette
Meadville
Conneaut Lake
Lakeview House
Christie Street
Saganaw
Mich
Pains
Lida
Baird
Texas
Fisk & Co
State Penitentiary
Stillwater
Minn
Courbet
Sontay
Soudan
Egypt
England
France
Bicket
Hung Hoa
Red River
Hanoi
Foo Chow
China
Hue
Pall Mall Gazette
Marquis Tseng
Rome
India
East Indies
Acheen
Moore
Pegasus
Kennedy
Ireland
Dublin
Russia
Perm
Stepniak
Sudelkem
St. Petersburg
Journal of
Geneva
William
Rhine
Martin Luther
Henry B. Payne
Mr. Pendleton
President Smith
Cen Ok Ae
Delia
T. E. Brown
Ieee
Eecum
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