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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1892
Page
3
A verse by Yankee Bludo celebrates a fifty year marriage of a couple who recall starting with one cow and a small farm debt and now enjoy several cattle, a larger house, multiple chairs, extra kitchenware, and growing wealth. The narrator notes progress as inevitable and laments few have shared their industrial gains.
A French Count De Paris befriends four men at the Pericles Club in London and wins £800 from Alfred M Faverill in baccarat. Faverill’s father learns of the loss and offers to pay, but the forged check is later revealed as a deceitful scheme and the Count contemplates further deception while mischance and discovery unfold.
On a Bowery Fourth Avenue car a boy on the platform refused to pay for a trunk, prompting a quarrel with the conductor. The trunk was kicked into the street, then hoisted back aboard after a heated exchange with a furious German passenger. The incident drew laughter from bystanders.
Professors Waldron and McArdle of the North Dakota Agricultural College collect grasses for a state display at the World's Fair. They find a slough grass reaching twenty five feet along Devil's Lake shore and coil it for transport. A wild wheat variety, taller than cultivated types, also appears on the prairies this season.
In a crowded House, Chairman Bland opened the silver debate with a strong defense of the measure. George Fred Williams and other noted Democrats argued against it, while Col. Abner Taylor and A. J. Hopkins pressed the opposition.
In a speech about a Treasury bill a speaker urges lawmakers to drop party aims and vote according to what is right and just. He asks them to honor pledges to the productive masses, insisting the bill will pass if they act on conscience.
R. Q. Mills won a U.S. Senate seat as Horace Chilton withdrew after Mills secured 120 votes on the first ballot. The election, seen as a tariff reform victory over free coinage, sparked wild celebrations in Austin with thousands cheering Mills’ triumph.
Washington dispatches report a vigorous cabinet session over the Behring Sea dispute. President administers a sharp note to Lord Salisbury seeking a definite reply on a proposed modus vivendi and hints at immediate follow up if the response remains evasive.
Ex Governor Thayer via attorneys files motion in Lincoln Nebraska Supreme Court to reopen the 1892 Thayer Boyd gubernatorial contest. The motion seeks vacating the mandate and allowing a reply and new trial. Governor Boyd serves as amid ongoing dispute. The piece also reports national murder and lynching statistics for 1891 with numbers by region.
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