Eighteenth General Assembly Senate and House Notes
Des Moines sessions report bills introduced on topics from school relief to railroads and tax laws. Debates cover foreign insurance, grave robbing penalties, liquor restrictions, and a state health board. Adjournments and votes mark passage or defeat of numerous measures across both chambers.
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Star Coal Company
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Weekly Review of Domestic News Ends and Varied Incidents
A sweeping domestic summary reports events from Lower California’s claimed revolution end to a Queen Victoria fortune. It notes fires in Albany and Brewster, multiple murders, financial frauds, railroad rate cuts, canal plans, a Mormon discovery, and violent death in Quero Texas, with political moves in Illinois and Virginia debt policy.
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Lower
California
Queen Victoria
Semi-Annual Tax Payment Bill Passed in 1880
The legislature adopts a reform replacing demand for taxes with installment payments due between January and March and September. Delinquent payments trigger distress and sale of nonexempt property. The act revises sections on interest, delinquency, and filing forms, with April as a payment reference and lower late-payment penalties.
Multiple crimes and political notes ripple through early 20th century news
The report lists numerous crimes from across the U S including a bank directors prosecution in Montreal, a Syracuse slated hanging delayed to April 23, a Mount Joy homicide by a barber, a DC postponement of a murder sentence, post office deficiency at Cheyenne, a Pittsburg stabbing, a Galveston bank robbery arrest, and a Galveston murder. It also covers mob violence against a confessed criminal, German currency expansion to twelve marks, socialist repression in the Reichstag, Russian fears of German attack, and Liberia’s peaceful annexation of Medina adjacency.
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France
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Europe
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Kingdom of
Medina
Rumors and unrest as European capitals watch czar anniversary
A House of Lords bill to reform land tenure norms surfaces while The London Standard notes rumors of parliament’s dissolution. In St. Petersburg a reform planned for the czar’s 25th anniversary prompts student fears and measures of protection. Gen. Melikoff proclaims order and urges calm.
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House of Lords
London Standard
St. Petersburg
Lyck
Winter Palace
Russia
Gourka
Nero
Rome
Szak
Baron von Schell
Breakfast styles across nations James Hart critiques
The Sanitary Record notes Mr. Ernest Hart arguing for digestible calm breakfasts over tea. He cites Scotch porridge and varied regional customs, contrasting porridge with tea and wine habits, while warning against monotonous routines in morning meals.
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London News
Ernest Hart
Mr. Hart
Mothers Praise Dr Bull's Baby Syrup as Safe Remedy
A physician calls Dr Bull's Baby Syrup the only safe remedy for children and mothers praise its effectiveness, indicating strong confidence in the product from medical and maternal voices.
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German man remarries soon after wife’s death prompts ride insult
A German man quickly marries after his wife dies. The next week his new wife asks to go riding, and he replies in a stinging dialect insult saying he won’t ride out with another woman so soon after the death of his frau.
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A Cross Baby and the Hop Bitters Cure
A traveler’s quip notes that staying with a married friend keeps a man single as a crying cross baby unsettles sleep. The cure is Hop Bitters, supposedly turning crying infants into content sleepers.
The Popes and Their Origins Across History
The Catholic Times notes eighty popes are honored saints thirty-one martyrs and forty three confessors. It highlights St Agatho as the only pope to reach a century and as a miracle worker aside from St Peter. The piece recalls ages and origins of several popes and their notable virtues.
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St. Agatho
St. Peter
St. Agatha
Gregory IX
Celestine Ili
Gregory Xil
John XXII
Clement Xil
Clement X
Pius IX
Sixtus VI
Alexander V
Adrian IV
France
Sixtus V
St. Celestine V
Benedict XV
Urban IV
Gregory VII
Benedict XI
Julius II
Jurisconsult
Bacon Dried Peas Bake and Pea Liquor Thickening
A recipe for baked dried peas with bacon. Soak three pints of peas overnight in seven quarts water, add cleansed bacon, simmer until soft, mash and bake. Strain pea liquor and thicken with Indian meal to make a sliceable cold loaf. fry slices later.
Widow Bedett’s Yard A Nighttime Inquiry and Schoolroom Bits
A fragmentary page item blends a widow’s quest for morning papers with a late night scene on the piazza and a classroom joke about singular plurals. It shifts to culinary notes and brief curiosities, including recipes for salt mackerel and German Milk Soup, plus a social observation on Italy’s finances and labor woes.
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