Davenport youth dies in Rock Island saloon brawl
A Davenport resident, a Frieble, was beaten to death during a street saloon fight in Rock Island a few nights ago. Other regional notes include a $250,000 planned Council Bluffs building boom, railway tie upgrades in Hastings and Avoca, and a bank safe theft at Iowa Falls with $90 to $100 in cash lost plus nearly $2,000 in notes.
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Strawberry Point
Benton County
Mt. Auburn
Frieble
Davenport
Rock Island
Council Bluffs
Close Bros
Ida County
Davenport Academy of Sciences
Hastings and Avoca
Hoag & Steer
Iowa Falls
Keokuk
Hildebrand
Campion
Ft. Madison
Gen. Washington
St. Paul
Sioux City Railroad Company
Manitoba
Knoxville
Lew Sherman
Edgar O. Campell
W. F.campbell
Campbell
Sherman
Attire and appearance of Cabalese women in Calcutta
A correspondent describes Afghan and Cabalese dress in Calcutta, detailing tight bodices, veiled faces, padded saris, jeweled foreheads and ornate hammerbands. He notes footwear, embroidery, and the striking long hammerband, plus the bazaar’s slipper stalls. He contrasts beauty among children with adult traits and mentions women carried in baskets or riding behind husbands.
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Calcutta
Hafiz
Minced Foul and Egg Recipe from Old Cookery Note
A cold roast fowl and hard boiled egg are minced and mixed with milk butter flour lemon juice and seasonings. Simmer bones skin and trimmings with onion in water for an hour, strain, add egg and fowl, season and boil briefly, serve on toasted sippets.
Ada Thumbs Up Given After Brief Mother Daughter Talk
A short exchange shows a mother telling four year old Ada to desist, and Ada replying that she may speak again if she wishes, illustrating a simple household moment.
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Ada
Maryland Democrats Set June 9 State Convention
The Democratic State convention of Maryland meets June 9. Reports cover wage hikes for Scranton miners, rains in drought-threatened Kansas, late Alabama crop reports, and multiple national notices.
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Maryland
Scranton
Kansas
Battles and political shifts reported from abroad
Details cover a April 19 battle with Gen Stewart against Afghan Ghazis, British casualties, and a later April 25 clash at Hyderabad. Also noted are Home Rule tensions in Dublin, Land League proposals, ship relief cargo actions, and a long roundup of cabinet appointments and European unrest.
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Stewart
Punjab
Afghanistan
Hyderabad
Ross
Dublin
Shaw
Parnell
The
Land League
Constellation
Ireland
Earl Granville
Foreign Department
Marquis of Hartington
India
H. C. Childers
Lord Selourne
Wm. E. Forster
Lord Northbrook
Admiralty
Charles Dilke
Mr. Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Constantinople
Vienna
Sligo
London Times
Earl Cowper
Marquis of Ripon
High Joint Commission
Washington
Lord Lytton
the Times
Earl of Kenmare
Scotland
Earl of Cork and
Orrery
Buckhoards
Duke of Westminster
Forse
Marquis of Landsdown
Earl of Morley
Thomas Brassey
Campbell Banonermans
War Office
Lord Carlingford
Steam Dredging of Oysters Signals Maritime Change
The New Haven Register reports Connecticut oyster beds shifting from hand raking to steam dredging. The William H. Lockwood, a forty nine ton steamer, uses a powerful stern engine and a carpetbag dredger to gather oysters, reducing labor and cold exposure while potentially impacting bed conditions.
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Chesapeake Bay
Connecticut
New Haven Register
William H. Lockwood
Fair Haven
Pittsburgh doctor’s joke yields lasting patient health
A prominent Pittsburgh ape told a lady patient to try Hop Bitters after she complained of ill health. She used the Bitters and recovered permanently, leaving the doctor amused but unhappy he lost a good patient. The anecdote appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot.
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Pittsburgh
Harrisburg P Patriot
Iowa General Assembly Acts Digest 1881 Summary
A compilation of acts approved March 27 1881 from the Eighteenth Iowa General Assembly including railroad land titles taxation penalties jury and court rules school fund bonds memory of war payments and adjustments for penitentiary officers assessment reforms and insurance provisions detailing taxes for railway aid and dam safety penalties for stock owners derelictions in town governance and county boundary changes with multiple House and Senate file references and dates.
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House
Senate
M. Heisey
Anamosa
Fifteenth General Assembly
Sixteenth General Assembly
Seventeenth General Assembly
Iowa
17Th
General Assembly
State Library
William E. Miller
Mills & Co
Polk, Boone and Story
Story
Sheldah
Boone and
Polk
Boone
Keokuk
Lee County
Sth General Assembly
Ana
17Th General Assembly
C. W. Mullen
Black Hawk County
Iowa National Guards
Albia
Register of State Land Office
Secretary of State
Iowa Legislative Actions Reported with Bills and Resolutions
The document lists acts and joint resolutions through March addressing court procedures, stockholder liability for banks, and various memorials and requests to Congress. It notes repeals, amendments, and constitutional change proposals, including liquor prohibitions, land scrip, railroad titles, and river channel work in Southwestern Iowa.
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Savings Banks
Iowa
Senate
Memorial
Congress
House
Des Moines
Raccoon Forks
United States
State Horticultural Society
Capitol
Legislative Department
William Riley
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Justices of the Peace
Nishnabotan River
Fallen Bonapartes in Paris Pain and Poverty Revealed
A Paris garden scene shows an elderly Bonaparte and her daughter in deep mourning and poverty. Once rich royalty with imperial ties, they now live in a garret near Rue de Lille, reliant on occasional charity from Princess Mathilde and Bonapartist supporters. The daughter studies sculpture while the son Pierre drags through gout and dependence on a Versailles innkeeper’s charity.
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Luxembourg
Paris
Letitia Bonaparte
Napoleon I
Jerome
Joseph
Murat
Louis
Josephine
Marie Louise
Hortense
Napoleon III
Victor Noir
Pierre Bonaparte
Rue de Lille
Mathilde
Jeanne Bonaparte
Roland
36Th
Jerome Napoleon
Napoleon
Prince Pierre
Versailles
Potato Salad Recipe from Early American Cookery
Boil six large potatoes then peel while hot and slice thin. Dress with sweet oil pepper and salt to taste plus finely chopped onion and a large spoonful of capers. Add vinegar until moist and mix well for a plain but palatable dish.
Boy and mother flee thunderstorm scene
A little boy walking with his mother experiences a sudden thunderstorm. He exclaims that the sun is bursting out into a loud laugh, capturing a moment of childlike astonishment amid weather.
Noah in the Ark Becomes a Childs First Confessional Moment
A six year old entering an oratory mistook the priest in the confessional for Noah in the ark. The ad warns against soothing remedies containing opium morphia or paregoric and promotes Dr Bull’s Baby Syrup as opiate free.
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Oratory
Noah
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