Emmetsburg Colonel Commission and Iowa News Highlights
The report lists E S Ormsby of Emmetsburg commissioned as Colonel by Governor Gear. Other items note deaths in Fairfield and Dubuque, a major fire in McGregor, fatal lightning near New Hampton, burglaries in Buffalo, and political and legal notices across Iowa including the Republican State Convention dates and church conventions. It mentions peat beds in Clay county, a fatal sawmill accident at Clinton, and notable society and transport incidents across the state.
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E. S. Ormsby
Emmetsburg
Gear
Aletha Jewett
James F. Wilson
Fairfield
McGregor
Oscar Burdick
Chicago
Robert Burns
New Hampton
J. W. MelIntire
Des Moines
Taunton
Somersetshire
England
United States
Clay County
Hancock
Kidney-Wort Promises Healthier Bowels and Kidneys
An advertisement urges readers to trust Kidney-Wort to restore bowel and kidney function. It promotes both dry and liquid forms and notes druggists sell it. The copy emphasizes faithful trial for improved health.
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Ady
Mobs, Murders, and Misfortune Reported Across Cities
A June 3 dispatch notes Benjamin colored being hanged in Charleston for a murder in August. In Cresfield Elijah Sterling attacked his wife and son with an ax, the son escaped while the wife died. Lancaster reports a ten year old boy killed another boy in a knife attack. Thomas Burs killed Charles Bell in a Chicago saloon over money. Fannie Gatewood of St Louis, claiming kin to Senator Gatewood, shot herself May 30 and will die. she is 22 and considered intelligent.
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Edward Desenders
Brooklyn
N. Y
Indianapolis
Ind
John Eurich
Eurich
Leadville
John Lynch
Charles Syles
Lynch
Syles
Dallas
Texas
Milton
Baker
Hayes County
Depty
Thomas Burs
Charles Bell
Chicago
Dubuque
Fannie Gatewood
St. Louis
Senator Gatewood
Kentucky
Army Officership as Social Prestige in Victorian Times
The article critiques aristocratic families who push sons into army officer roles as a social rank marker. It argues the army fosters idleness and contempt for honest work, noting Sir Garnet Wolseley’s critique that enlistment has long attracted idle English gentlemen seeking ease, with campaigns offering only sporadic hardship.
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Chambers’ Journal
Guards
Garnet Wolseley
There is perhaps no tonic offered to the people
The piece extols Hop Bitters as a valuable tonic for stomach upset and blood purification, urging early use as a preventive remedy. It emphasizes low cost and quick benefits, warning against waiting until illness worsens.
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Boston Globe
IOWA STATE GREENBACK CONVENTION OPENS IN DES MOINES
The Iowa Methodist State Convention meets in Des Moines Plymouth Church May 31 with temporary officers Bishop Hurst presiding and committees named for credentials finance publishing and rail transport. Evening sessions cover temperance education and religious press as Rev J F Hurst is elected president of permanent organization. The second day features historical society talks and plans for Episcopal residence in Des Moines.
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Jacob Hess
Bellevue
Wicke
Episcopal Convention
Diocese of
Iowa
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Plymouth
Sioux
Lyon
Osceola
Plymouth Church
Des Moines
Hurst
Bishop Hurst
L. M. Walters
J. C. W. Coke
R. 8. Robinson
J. T. Crippen
Church
L. H. Woodworth
H. C. Sigler
Nothwestern
B. Mitchell
J. H. Lozier
Coxe
Henry Richel
W. P. Hepburn
C. C. Nourse
J. Ellen Foster
Bishop J. F. Hurst
D. D
J. W. McDonald
A. Lee
Ch. Heidel
C. W. Blodgett
T.M. Williams
D. Murphy
H. Ross
Lewis
FC. Wolfe
J.T. Simmons
John Mahin
Methodist State Historical Society
E. H. Waring
R. W. Keeler
C. H. Heidel
C. E. Gatch
W.J. Spaulding
W. F. King
E. L. Parks
Hust
Hohn
Muscatine Journal
R. C. Glass
Thompson Smith
Henry Rickel
T. McStewart
C. F. Clarkson
James Harlan
C. Heidel
G. W. F. Willey
Emory Miller
Shepherd Wilson
W. H. Pillsbury
J. N. Pardee
C. 8. Ryman
W. H. Berg
Provisional Board of Trustees
C. A. Boardman
W. F. Coles
J. H. Woolson
T. McK. Stuart
W. F. Bourke
Ormsby
Committee On Credentials
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Committee On Publication
W. M. M’creary
Yankton
Dakota
Committee On
State Central Committee elects officers at convention
Reduced fare to delegates was lost and a resolution that the Greenback party makes no war on legitimate banking was laid on the table. Hon. L. H. Weller was elected Chairman and Capt. Muffley Secretary for the ensuing year. Gen. Weaver spoke two hours. Nominations followed with Jesse Harper of Illinois and M. H. Williams of Missouri. The convention adjourned sine die.
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Iowa
Marshalltown
Daniel Campbell
Mr. Davis
Davis County
E. H. Gillette
Jesse Harper
Illinois
M. H. Williams
Missouri
Leonard Brown
Joseph Ingalls
Polk County
W. H. Calhoun
Marshall County
L. H. Weller
Chickasaw County
O. A. Garrison
Reading
Crawford Davis
E. N. Andrus
State Central Committee
A. Edgington
Gaffiel Clarion
C. Lower
M. J. Kane
Railroad Commission
Congress
District of Columbia
Greenback
Capt
Muffley
Gen. Weaver
Cure for car sickness via paper charm tested
The Boston Herald reports a simple preventive for car sickness using a sheet of writing paper worn next to the chest. A lady so afflicted rode 12 miles then traveled New York by rail with a sleeping car and dining car, experiencing a comfortable journey.
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Lowell Road
Chesnut
New York
Value of Sawdust Proves Market Growth and Uses
The article cites a New York market of about five hundred sawdust vendors with $200000 invested and over $2,000,000 annual business. Prices rose from fifty cents per load decades ago to $3.50 now, with sawdust used in hotels, kitchens, plumbers, and packaging for deadening walls and floors.
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N. Y
New York
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