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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1897
Page
3
Joris Von Linden records a poetic vow in Chicago about unrequited love. He resigns from idle dreams to pursue labor and fate. The piece contrasts wealth and status with honest hearts and modest hope.
Lambert chastises a misbehaving infantry group for failing to salute and discipline. Capt. Close, a revered but enigmatic commander, looms over headquarters with a storied Civil War past and strict frugality under a fever-stricken post era.
The作remarkable sequence notes 19 letter full names combining given and surname for famous figures like Lucius Domitus Nero Nicholas Copernicus William Shakespeare Emanuel Swedenborg Napoleon Bonaparte and Janes Abraham Garfield. It mentions Columbo spelling of Columbus and Christopher joining for another 18 letter form among history’s best known names.
Iowa state notes describe flood damage near Burlington with drift wool covering bottomlands and houses displaced. The unfinished dike above Burlington proved badly damaged and must be rebuilt. River is falling and farmers can plan crops. Separately, Rev Geiger is expelled from Davenport Congregational church membership amid misconduct charges and a $25,000 slander suit. Ancient Order of United Workmen elects 11 grand officers with offices in Cedar Falls Ottumwa Cedar Rapids and other cities.
Observations from Webster County reports rotten corn in cribs at Barnum Moorland Callender Gowerie Burnside and Badger with 76 percent no longer fit for feed and large losses anticipated. Miss Lucia B Griffin elocutionist of Albia won a $10000 verdict against Mindly Central Railway in Chicago for injuries suffered in Madison Wisconsin in 1894.
A conference of the state central committee of the Silver Republicans populists and Silver Democrats met in Des Moines and decided to hold three conventions at the state capital on June 23 to nominate a state ticket and adopt no platform.
In Rock Valley a judgment of five thousand dollars was given in favor of J. Van der Ver against D. Zubbelink. The case concerned divorce and alleged alienation of the plaintiff's wife by the defendant, who induced her to divorce and marry him. The decision reflects the marriage dispute and financial remedy sought by the plaintiff.
Governor Drake pardons Amelia Darby Evans who is dying of consumption in Anamosa penitentiary. She served a 15 year term for killing her betrayer Thomas Lloyd at Kob a small mining town in June 1893.
Reports from Iowa detail deaths including Hiram Wheeler of Beaumont Texas connected to Qodebolt and a three year old girl boiling to death in Luton. Crimes span Ferdinand Fleming’s arrest for breaking open mail sacks and the capture of two bank robbers in Eldon. Fires claim Muscatine’s First Methodist church with substantial losses. Also noted are promotions for W N M Wilson in Washington and a coal mine fatality at St Thomas, with Masonic leadership changes in Mount Pleasant.
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