Iowa News Briefs Highlight Disturbances and Advances
Reports from Iowa detail a shakeup in professional baseball clubs, new banking plans at Tipton, medical springs at Iowa Falls, railroad ambitions from Davenport to Muscatine, and local tragedies including drownings and a fatal horse accident. Crop conditions across counties are mixed with reports on chinch bugs and army worms.
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Iowa
Tipton
Iowa Falls
C., R. J. & P. Railroad Company
Daveport
Muscatine
Brown George
Davenport
Joseph Mills
Minerva Creek
Albion
Marshall County
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Marshalltown
Dubuque
Hamilton County
Lansing
Winneshiek County
Fayette County
Cedar County
Marion County
Johanson County
Iowa County
Remarkable Cure Claims Stir Skepticism Over Patent Medicine
A board of eminent physicians and chemists announced a compound medicine that supposedly cures a wide range of diseases, claiming other remedies are unnecessary. Despite initial skepticism, demonstrated trials reportedly proved its merits and Hop Bitters are hailed as benefactors by many.
Prohibition Convention Sides With Prohibitionists in Cedar Rapids
The Prohibition State Convention met in Cedar Rapids on July 16 with Dr. Morgan of Blue Ribbon News presiding. It elected Rev. Isaac C. Lusk temporary chairman and Rev. George Elliott secretary, formed committees on permanent organization and resolutions, and debated a full State ticket pledge to prohibition.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Barr
Allegheny
Democratic Party
National Greenback Labor Party of
Altoona
Henry Carey Baird
Philadelphia
Baird
Peter Sutton
Indiana County
Cedar Rapids
Committee On
Iawn
Maxwell
Iowa
Bedlam
United States
Grand Hotel
G T. Carpenter
Oskaloosa
Frank 8. Campbell
Newton
J. M. Beck
J. A. Nash
Des Moines
Dr. Morgan
The
Blue Ribbon News
Isaac C. Lusk
Marshall County
George Elliott
Judge Maxwell
C. E. Brown
Nate Reed
T. Kelly
Vanzapt
D. Nichols
O. T. Fuller
B. C. Barnes
P. Adams
Corn Muffins and Miscellaneous Notes
A recipe for corn muffins uses milk eggs butter and yeast with baking steps. The text also includes quips about Sheridan Boston property values and a note praising Dr Bull’s Baby Syrup as a safe remedy priced at 25 cents.
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Pickering
Leets
Lettsville
Louisa County
Cherokee County
Diedrich Holcher
Homestead
Ottumwa
Central Railroad
L. Martin
Missouri Valley Presbyterian Church
Fred Fay
Council Bluffs
W. B. Porter
le Mars
Ottaway
Assembly of the Northwest
Clear Lake
Clayton County
John Simons
Charles Schultz
Derisom
Crawford County
Chicago
Iowa Falls Sentinel
Samuel Elliott
Sherman
J. L. Martin
Missouri Valley
Sioux City Journal
Davenport and
San Francisco
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Quincey
Coopers of
August Landberg
Omaha
Lawrence
Kansas
Centralia
Snyder Bros
Milton, Ky
American Bankers’ Association
Saratoga
Manayunk
Delaware
Ohio
L. Jenkins
John B. R. Spaulding
Memphis
Tenn
R. M. Chapman
Biddeford
Wm. F. Barry
U. S. Artillery
Fort McHenry
Toronto
Canada
John Charles Adrian Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Merced
California
Texas
Wm. J. Lewis
Carondelet
St. Louis
Sierras
Caliornia
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West Point
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Utica
Ramsey
Minnesota
McCrary
Springfield, Lll
Rock Island
Moline
Cit
Aurora, Ill
Buffalo
N. Y
Pittsburg Agricultural Works
Northern Pacific Railway
Columbia River
Pead Oreille Lake
Peter Anderson
Appeal
Allen
Chillicothe
Anthony Zabriski
Louisiana
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Woodville
N. H
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National Greenback Party of
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Col. May
Vernon
W. L. Utley
Racine
George W. Lee
Grant
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Pittsfield
Chastine Cox
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Atlanta
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Myers
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Chain Deroche
Dakota Territory
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Covert Bennett
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John Hope
Manhattan Savings Bank
Hull
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Missouri
Joseph DeGonia
Potosi
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Carlysle
Marcelus Floyd
Richmond
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Featherstone
Thomas Gaither
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Hedges
Cheyenne
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Strawberry Plains
John Hod
Son
English Jack
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