08 Mar 1867
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Newspaper
Jefferson Era
Location
Jefferson, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1867
Page
1
Local notes discuss Union Pacific ties and pricing, county post offices, and questions on party support. A wag quotes a $600 offer for a shirt worn at news, while debates touch religion, law, and food costs. The piece contrasts crusts of politics with curious daily curios.
A promotional piece extols Town Iowa as America’s garden spot and land of promise. It contrasts the boundless prairies and rivers with old states, urging emigrants to abandon rents and masters, come west, build cabins, sow fields, and live freely under God.
Virginia legislature debates new Reconstruction measure amid extra session called by Gov. Pierpont. Congress notes the death of Samuel Downing at age 108, the last Revolution War veteran. Tuscarora sails to Weefue Islands as debates on punishment for mistreatment of American seamen continue. Congress recess set until May 8, 1867.
The Tribune predicts a year of strong business activity with widespread employment and higher wages. It notes improved currency outlook and reduced fears of postwar inactivity as market signals show spring wheat prices rising and Iowa farmers rallying to gather top white-fir seeds.
From Clarinda region several gentlemen propose erecting a woolen factory at Glenwood. The plan promises ample housing for workers and increasing western Iowa employment. Reports note incoming orphans traveling toward Glenwood for work, and local optimism grows that accommodations will soon meet demand.
Breckinridge garners thirteen votes for governor in Kentucky. Tiavana reports five hundred Americans ill this winter. New Zealand reports large platinum finds. Laverrier predicts August meteor shower. Cincinnati burglars raid with morphine abuse. Chinese government rejects English Hong Kong coin. Tennessee legislature edges toward gold standard pay. Proposal to tunnel Mississippi at St Louis discussed. Fremont aids starving South Carolinians. California gold output nears 800 million in eleven years. Radical and Freedmen ticket in Georgetown D C shows Lincoln portrait. Leavenworth organizes against Indians in Kansas Nebraska. NYC female barbers show dexterity. Surratt name prominent in Maryland history. Radicals taunt opponents as tar and feathers party. Texas prairie fire damages vast area. Prof Benj Pierce appointed to top geologic survey post. Chicago Post Office handles ten and a half million letters. postage receipts exceed 422000. Brownlow orders three year volunteer police to maintain peace. Since discovery of America about fifty thousand books printed. a dictionary of these works considered for New York publication. Thirty seven Abbotts and two Adamites listed.
The article notes vast snowfalls across the Eastern, Middle Western and Southwestern states during winter 1867. It argues snow supplies gases and acids that fertilize soil and likens late winter storms to manure topdressings, estimating millions of tons of snow falling in January and February benefiting future crops.
The Toledo Blade notes spring wheat from Woodbine Iowa sold at 2.50 per bushel with a 22 cent rise over No 1 soft spring. Magnolia Star cites Harrison county yields of 40 to 44 bushels per acre across 20 to 30 acre fields, supporting strong state wheat production.
A Fort Dodge column recalls a New York merchant praising Fort Dodge as a thriving business hub based on its sharp, advertisement filled newspaper. The piece also bundles a national snapshot with state ratifications, population estimates, and a Des Moines courthouse funding report from St. Domingo dispatches and congressional notes.
The petition of I B Newton seeks four hundred seventy five dollars plus interest on a contract and note against Robert Davis. An attachment against his goods is issued returnable at the next term beginning April 29 1887. If Davis fails to appear by April 20 1867 default and judgment will be entered. HEAD RUSSELL attorneys.
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