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Doctrinal Breezes and Diverse Prairie Notices
A long, jumbled synopsis blends religious debates among sects with local Iowa items. It cites Shia and sanctification debates, Quakers and Baptists, then shifts to regional notices: butter shipments, rail projects, hog losses, alcohol bans in Alaska, damper on obscene literature, a council bluffs rumor, and a peculiar rat trap tale from Bedford county.
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Jacob Blake
Bedford Southwest Democrat
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