Iowa in Focus. fires, deaths, and public notices across towns
A broad Iowa digest reports July calamities and incidents including fires at Eldon Stamwood and A. S. Chadburn’s grain elevator, drownings in Monroe and St. Charles, murders and suicides across Muscatine Des Moines and other counties, reorganizations of jails and asylums, with pension payouts totaling $388 580.20 and 160 workers on a new state capitol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Pension Office
Des Moines
S. W. Jacobs
West Liberty
Iowa
Nebraska
Adam Scharf
Skunk River
Monroe
A. S. Chadburn
Vinton
Thomas Sanders
Cloona Township
Scott County
Rosalie H. Tank
Davenport
Gonsor
Clay County
Waukee
New York
Europe
Rhode Island
Joshua King Harrison
St. Paul, Minn
J. Hoffman
Springfield
Memphis
Tenn
St. Louis
Louisville
Bodie
California
Sioux Falls
E. Lee
Baby
Thompson
Red
Omaha Republican
U. P
North Platte
Texas
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Mifflin
Creswell
Presbyterian
New Orleans
Viksburg
A Great Speech The Democratic Position in Accordance
Hon. Frank H. Hurd of Ohio argues in the House that federal election interference is unconstitutional. He cites the tenth amendment and Lane county versus Oregon, condemns army use at polls, and insists Congress must control appropriations to check executive power. He praises civil liberty and warns that a Republican victory risks centralizing power and ending the republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. Hurd
Ohio
House of Repreresentatives
Garfield
United States
Mr. Garfield
Democratic Party
Congress of
Lane County
Oregon
Chase
Wallace
House of Representatives
Francise
Congress
Supreme Court of the United States
New York
South
City of
United States Court
House
Andersonville
Connecticut
Haney
New Jersey
Robeson
Eiapa
England
Republican Party
Russia
Germany
France
Free America
Graham Cup Cake Recipe and Baltimore Pills Ad
Unabalted wheat meal two cups buttermilk one cup molasses one half cup butter one quarter cup eggs two soda half a teaspoon bake half an hour. There is room enough in the corner of ever traveler's writing desk to the tourist's friend Dr Bull's Baltimore Pills. Price 25 cents.
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Ever Traveler
Tripe a la Creole
Tripe should be chosen in small par boiled pieces with lace like patterns. Cut two pounds into thin strips and cook with onions butter tomatoes garlic parsley pepper and salt. Add white wine and simmer six minutes then mix with thoroughly heated tripe and serve hot.
Hop Bitters Makers Raise Rochester Profile
A Rochester firm Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company grows as its product Hop Bitters becomes widely sold across households nationwide. The enterprise capitalizes on intrinsic value and broad distribution, signaling strong business expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company
Rochester
Raphie
Iowa Railroads Classified by Executive Council
The executive council’s classification of Iowa railroads, effective April 4 for one year, groups lines into A B and C by per mile gross earnings and sets passenger rates A 3 cents B 34 a C 4 cents with half for under 12. Several named lines appear in each class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
Iowa
Executive Council
Scissors Precede Printing In The Long Arc Of Progress
A pithy musing contrasts ancient tool use with early printing. The text notes scissors emerged three centuries before printing’s discovery, and remarks on progress and a man named Weston who cannot enter a certain state, hinting at a larger philosophical point.
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Kate Webster
Richmond
Land
Thomas
Progress
Weston
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Grand Army of the Republic
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e&Men
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Davis County
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Anita
Sweeney
Ed. Kelley
Lioux City
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Country Boy
Willmore
State Historical Society
Iwa City
Oron Lee
Sac City
Belcher
Sherman
Glenwood
Eldora
Anamosa
Close Brothers
Maxwell
Woodbury
Plymouth
Cherokee
W. B. Close
Crawford County
James H
William B
Fred B
Cambridge University
Wm. Teets
Muscatine
William Pickering
Teets
Dickson
Pickering
Wm. Slater
Cyrus Wolf
Coulterville
Mariposa County
Cook’s Carriage Factory
Cincinnati
Jeannette
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Union County
Dakota
S. S. Harris
Episcopal Diocese of
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Granton
Cleveland
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Stillwater
Mirn
D. Gardner & Co
Champaign
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Indianapolis
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Norwood Lumber Company
Norwood
N. J
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Ebervale
Harleigh
Andenreid
Allentown
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August Selzer
Henry Ulrich
Galveston
Carlysle
Post Office Department
Internal Revenue
Tennessee
Elizabeth Collins
James 4. Collins
Sacramento
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Ed. Knell
Wilkesbarre
Greencastle
Kentucky
Alanson Work
Missouri Penitentiary
Hartford
Conn
Waller County
Charles H. Koch
Quincy
Oliver’s Powder Mill
Laural Run Station
Wm. Whitebread
John McKeal
James Burns
Fred Steel
Wm. Kidney
Wm. Allen
Chillicothe
Gov. Bishop
Columbus
Gov. Alien
Scott
Antonio Garcia
Corpus Christi
Augustine Amallo
John C. Davis
Smithville
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Henry McDuffie
Mary E. Sanford
John Sanford
San Antonio
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Lahey
John
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Ind
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Ingo County
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Clayton County
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Clarksburg
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Hunter
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Fayette County
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Yankton
George Lamphere
Beebe
James H. Craft
Charles G. Walrath
Wm. Stock
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James Holton
Superior Court
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Mary Radcliffe
Holton
Supreme Court
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Louisiana
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Smith
John Williams
Howard Holtzclaw
Warrenton Junction
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Adams
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Joseph Atkins
Westmoreland County
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Missouri River
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Paul de Cassagnac
Italy
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Cardinal Antonelli
Belgium
Etoile Belge
Palace of Justice
the Classification of Iowa Railroads
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
C. R. L. & P. Railroad
Burlington
Cedar Rapids
and Northern Rail
Way
Central Railroad of
Illinois Central Railroad
Burlington and Northwestern
Burlington and Southwestern
Kansas City and Northern
Sioux City and Pacific
Sioux City
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