Senate and House Pass Broad Iowa Legislation In 1884 Session
Des Moines reports show a flurry of bills enacted and introduced. The Senate passed measures on tax sales and sheriffs’ indemnity, while the House approved a half mill Capitol fund levy and a state veterinarian bill. Numerous amendments, debates, and retirements filled March days with changes to taxation, pardons, and municipal oversight alongside discussions on railroads and school books.
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Congressional Debate Touches Pensions and Education Bills
Washington discussions cover pleuro-pneumonia, gender suffrage petitions, land laws, and a major common schools funding plan. Senate and House consider paying judges, star route frauds, Alaska commerce, and Indian affairs, with adjournments and executive sessions interleaved.
Delinquent Tax Penalty Repeal and Election Ticket Bill Action
The House passed a repeal of section 866 of the 1873 Code and enacted new penalties for delinquent taxes while defining fraudulent practices in printing election tickets. Voting details showed 71 to 12 in favor for the repeal and 49 to 32 on the election ticket bill. The session adjourned until 9 A.M. Saturday.
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Weaver
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Carpenter
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Watrous
Holbrook
Yeas
Brown
Marshall
Committee On Elections
Pulling His Moustache on a Train
An old man accuses a slender, moustached passenger of disguising a murder and bank fraud. The crowd confronts Miles Gash as he resists unmasking, finally fleeing when the train slows at a crossing.
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Mexico
Miles Gashwell
Villian
Scott
Modern education rings and the wrists prompt
The statement critiques contemporary schooling for overemphasizing adornment with rings while neglecting practical discipline. It argues education should balance symbolism and physical responsibility, ensuring students develop both cultural polish and functional rigor.
Iowa notices and incidents from 1884 district reports
Revival at Palmyra brings thirty three converts while Creston ponders ending corporal punishment in public schools. Fish Commissioner Shaw stocks Lake Okeboji with 300000 trout and 200000 white fish. Council Bluffs raises city auditor and attorney salaries to 1000. Grundy Center plans 75000 in new buildings. Dubuque finds Jeremiah Davis dead after warehouse collapse. Wapello reports cattle with foot disease likely from frost. other cattle show similar symptoms. A Crescent farmer loses a steer to hydrophobia. Sidney jail entry attempt thwarted. Burlington Insurance Co. lauded for prompt loss payments. Cedar Falls notes Indian camp and weather shifts. Wapello cattle disease reviewed by Drs Paren and Beattie. German immigrant children travel unaccompanied to Sioux City. Iowa Republicans plan April 30 delegate convention in Des Moines. Democrats schedule Burlington convention April 25 for national meeting in Chicago. Drake herd examined by Gate of Chicago vets. disease deemed foot rot like, caused by bad shelter. five head dead, others may be saved with care.
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Western Insurance Company
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Cedar Falls
Louisa County
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Labrador
Sioux City
Frederick
Christine
Anna
Chicago
L. G. Kinne
State Register
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Simon Beattie
Drake
Effingham
Illinois
Weekly review of tragic incidents from 19th century era
A set of brief items report a Kentucky child poison case and two deaths, a large fire in Missouri with post office loss, a fatal wall collapse in Missouri, a Georgia crime with multiple deaths, Grand Trunk train wreck in Indiana with fatalities, Colorado mine sale, Rhode Island Democratic tickets, Kansas cattle disease stance, Brooklyn candy toxin test, Utah polygamy trial, Ohio embezzlement arrest, a cremation in Pennsylvania for Clara Tilton aged about 23 with property ties to Ohio.
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le Moyne Crematory
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Philadelphia
Willmington
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Nothing for dinner ends in a brisk lunch at the Exchange
A Detroit Free Press vignette shows a Park Street husband returning to find his wife busy at sewing and a meager meal. He visits the Woman's Exchange for hot lunch, learns the wife bakes pies and rolls, and realizes the sting of domestic economy. The tale ends with the quip that women practice economy at another's expense.
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Detroit
Time as tyrant and vanity’s social sting
A reflective note on time's toll as age advances diminishing health and vigor. It contrasts personal vanity's grip with social favor, suggesting both wear with age and influence self-perception and status.
Rebels Near the Nile Hit by Attacks and Suppressed
Telegraphic reports from Suakim on March 18 describe Osman Digma rallying up to two thousand followers near Handoub after a recent defeat. He calls for religious war while disciplining disloyal followers, with 150 scouts ordered to kill stragglers.
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Grasshoppers, Railroads, and Odd 1880s Notes Across Nations
A collage of 1880s items: locusts in southern Australia devastate crops including onions and grapevines. US stock dividends totaling 4 145 000 from 19 of 153 mines. railroad payrolls of over 17 million monthly. currency rise from 207 million to 817 million. January butter and cheese exports climb. a Philadelphia divorce tale over $50 000. egg production tops 75 682 889. wheat and corn values cited. Union Pacific branch to Colorado gray granite quarries. a Portland man trains a spider to haul a floating chip to shore.
Supreme Court of Kansas Rules Offensive Article Privileged
Kansas Supreme Court rules that circulating an offensive article about a political candidate is a privileged proceeding if shared only among voters, even when key claims are false and derogatory. All justices concur in the decision.
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Remarkable cat rescues kittens amid theater blaze in London
A cat in a London music hall braved smoke to save three of her kittens, returning for a fourth and perishing with the litter. The scene reveals a devoted animal hero amid a deadly fire, as charred remains lay together after the blaze.
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