01 Apr 1869
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Newspaper
Jefferson Era
Location
Jefferson, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1869
Page
1
Fragmentary item from a late 1800s paper covers Union Pacific rail work near Iowa and Georgia, a San Francisco excursion, a polar exploration note, and a Davenport to New Orleans grain shipment. Also mentions Van editors, Chicago goods sales, and a Baptist elder care movement in New York.
The Good Templar Executive Committee of the Wheetson lodge of Hemphrs will hold the Oakaloosa meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday, April th wdfth, 169. Delegates from D. W. Railroad line counties and the state’s southwest are invited. A recent January Montana meeting boosted temperance revival and lodge vigor. Programs include evening talks by Rev. Tira WW King of Des Moines and Miss Mattie HIM of ML, with more details to follow. Executive and Publishing Committees meet Tuesday afternoon.
A bank balance appears even as reports from Council Bluffs narrate a camel sighting and a woman’s revival conversion. Iowa items note railway finances, bridge replacements, a Des Moines government building, and a state convention. arrests include whiskey ring suspects and a post office theft case in De Witt. The Iowa Law School displays growth, Grimes donates, and religious revival meds gain fame amid a flood of varied regional updates.
Washington report details a March act extending military bounty rights. It clarifies that discharged soldiers by expiration of term are entitled to full bounty and extends eligibility to widows, minor children, or parents of deceased veterans. It also sets timing for claims and transfer of unsettled cases to the Treasury for final settlement. A note from the War Office claims mustering out twenty infantry regiments could save $15,000,000 yearly.
Notice from Thomas Mercer in Marshalltown and others listing dates for appeals regarding annual lists, with offices of Assistant Assessors in divisions Jackson Orr Montana, John J. Ruskell Jefferson, Isaac Young Dodge, Aren Poeabous Waterloo, Darius P. Eilaworth Eldura, and others. Includes instructions for written appeals and deadlines, plus notices to postmasters. For Calhoun County mortgage foreclosure suit by Holmes & Webb and Tead, attorneys, regarding JG Cooper mortgage with Foreman, property in Calhoun County Iowa.
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