Democracy of Towns in Des Moines council clash
A controversial Democratic platform debate is described with sharp partisan rhetoric. The article criticizes the 1864 and 1868 platforms, ridicules fifth resolution, mocks repudiation talk, and contrasts with Grant era policy while noting a rise in wheat acreage estimates across several states. Advertising lines claim ads extend shop fronts into newspapers.
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Chiats
Sachoma
Des Moines
Epublican
Toto
Democratic Party
Oarin
Geare
Republican platform and Erie rail disaster reported
The Iowa Republican platform declares support for Governor Merrilian wine's administration, fiscal restraint, and the Fifteenth Amendment, while a terrible Erie Railroad accident near Mast Hope, Pa, devastates a passenger express. The freight engineer is blamed. the company compensates victims, and the engineer faces manslaughter charges.
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Erie Railroad
Mast Hope
Pike Go
Major Powell Expedition Report Reaches Public Through Letter
Dr Jehard Edwards of Normal University in Boomington presents Major Powell's June 20 1809 letter amid public release. It details four canyons twenty five miles long with walls 2000 to 2800 feet high, boat line lowering past rapids, loss of instruments and papers, use of plant driers for letters, fossil collections and a region map, misread signals caused wreck, exploration of a grand wild country, and plans to move toward Green and Grand rivers and Lake observations after eclipse observations.
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Jehard Edwards
Normal University
Boomington
Ths
Powell
Colomada
Niutah
Iowa News Briefs: Political Moves and Local Advancements
Reports from Sioux City to Mt. Pleasant cover state developments. Gen Harneys in Sioux City. Towa mills. Aloux City wharf boats. Muscatine population data. Council Bluffs storm loss. Dubuque praise. Loomis preparing Buchanan county history. Fort Dod ge coal mine. Warren oversees Davenport bridge. Murry nominated for Senate. Lounsberry elected Griswold College president. State University salary hikes. Weslayan debt cleared. endowment grows. Local editorials urge practical action. Des Moines Baptist University debts to be raised. Benton County pilots primary nominating system. list of summer and fall state elections for 24 states outlined. Mississippi and Texas elections deferred by presidential timing.
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Council Bhuffs
Dubuque
GK. Warren
Davenport
F. Murry
Madison County
Lounsberry
Des Moines
Griswold College
State University
Town Wesleyan University
Mt. Pleasant
Andy Felt
Z. F. Childs
The
Baptist University At
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Alabama
Congress
Tennessee
Montana Territory
Maine
Colorado
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Iowa
California
Supreme Court
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Texas
Public Debt Decreases Citing Grant Administration Gains
Gen Garfield speaks on fiscal results for the Grant era noting three quarters of receipts totaling 256 million dollars and a projected year end receipts of 871 million against 324 million in expenditures leaving a 37 million dollar surplus. He credits honest internal revenue collection for tax stability.
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Gen. Garfield
Gen. Grant
Treasury
Vegetable health elixir praised by readers and readers insistence
A June letter advocates Phaxtation Birrena as invaluable for mothers and women. It cites three children in a New York home, praises the tonic for weakness, digestion and heart symptoms, and extols Magxouta as superior to German Cologne at half price. The page also notes a sunken barge load found near Port Madison and a petrified bacon curiosity in Burlington, with local commentary on medical and social views.
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James Marsh
West
4Th St
N. Y
Periuvino Bacox
Mississippi River
Port Madison
Boul Catlin
Estate of A D Brock Administrators collect debts
In the Wis miscellaneous notice the Clahes in favor of the estate are placed with the administrator for collection. Debtors are urged to settle in Jefferson to discharge liabilities and ease proceedings, by Dan Melus attorney for the estate, July 1869.
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A. D. Brock
Jefferson
Dan. Melus
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