Resurrection Garden Sermon Highlights Easter Triumph
A Talmage sermon uses a garden tomb of Joseph as a symbol of resurrection. It contrasts postmortem honors with ante mortem neglect, defends flowers for graves, and envisions four connected gardens from Eden to Heaven. The preacher urges simple funerals, living virtue, and universal risen hope.
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Louis Klopsch
Washington
Dr. Talmage
Paradise
Eden
Heaven
God
Great Bear
Cassiopeia
Earth
Jerusalem
Joseph
Christ
Egypt
Napoleon
Mahal Taj
India
Nicodemus
Ody
Necropolis
Bethlehem
Pilate
Brooklyn
Boston
Mount Auburn
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Spring Grove
San Francisco
Archangel
Sexton
Eiveryman
Christ Our Lord
Antonia
Heavenly Harbor
Zion
Treatment by Music to Aid Hospitals in New York
Doctors announce plans to introduce medical treatment by sound vibrations in New York City hospitals. The Medico-Musical scheme, led by Drs. George W. Jacoby Frederick Peterson Pierce Bailey and C A Hurter, aims to form the St. Cecilia society of America with support from prominent women. Peterson says sound vibrations aid certain diseases and may relieve insomnia, though music is a remedial agent, not a cure.
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New York City
George W. Jacoby
Wrederick Peterson
Pierce Bailey
C. A. Hurter
Ring shirt of steel wire 114 inches long linked in four-way rings
A shirt fashioned from steel wire length of 114 inches with rings joined by rivets and each ring connecting four others. Ends flattened and bound, leather neckband three layers thick sits 254 inches high with decorative tooling like bookbinder work.
Great Star Photo at Allegheny Observatory
Prof Wadsworth produced a curved plate photograph at the Allegheny Observatory showing Orion and surrounding sky over more than 1000 square degrees. The plate records the images of over 50 000 stars whose positions can be measured.
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Allegheny Observatory
Wadsworth
Orion
Man sentenced to three years for cattle theft in Wyoming
A Wyoming cattle thief was convicted and given a three year penitentiary term after due process. The Chicago Tribune notes the great west is not what it used to be.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Great West
The
Chicago Tribune
Mothers Congress Notes and Public Reforms in Des Moines
Des Moines April 16 special correspondence reports Henry Sabin urging teachers to attend the national Mothers Congress in Des Moines May 21 through the week. The piece covers notaries commissions expiring July 4 1900, new army post site near Des Moines, county insane asylums reform, engineer building at Iowa State College, national guard camp plans, and state office reorganizations including parole clerk appointment and municipal law revision commission with potential abolition of special charters.
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Army Post
Des Moines
Nest State Fair
Henry Sabin
Mothers’ Congress
Sabin
National Congress of Mothers
Congress
Mothers
Mothers' Congress
Hull
War Department
Middle West
Adjt
Tivers
Loch National Guard
National Guard
den Trewin
Allamaskee County
Thomas D. Henry
Webster County
W. A. Melntire
Wapello County
Dunham
Delaware County
Theophilus
Scott County
Wilson
Washington County
R.w. Bickniele
Waterloo man held in Chicago for mental health evaluation
Horace Nichols of Waterloo was detained by Chicago police after causing a disturbance at Forty-seventh street and Ashland avenue. He pushed pedestrians into a muddy gutter and laughed, and he allegedly threatened several people. Nichols, a stockman, was arrested and arraigned for disorderly conduct. the case was continued for a sanity inquiry as his family was notified.
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Horace Nichols
Waterloo
Chicago
Nichols
Forty-seventh Street
Ashland Avenue
Justice Fitzgerald
Woman Livestock Solicitor Heads Northern Plains Territory
Sioux City reports Mrs Ollie Northline as a pioneering live stock solicitor for a local commission house. She controls territory in northern Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska and is praised as the only woman in the United States in this line with a salary matching male peers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Ollie Northline
Iowa
South Dakota
Nebraska
United States
Town Drives State Records With School Tax Total
The report notes that total school taxes assessed last year reached 7,454,202.77 dollars, while all state taxes totaled 18,008,480.60 dollars. It concludes that nearly half of state taxes funded school support, with Iowa’s route through small white schoolhouses across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowie
Iowa
State
Wills Filed For Archbishop Hennessy Estate in Dubuque
Two wills dated January 18 filed in Dubuque reveal one probate bequeathing personally acquired estate to Catholic institutions and another directing estates inherited from brother David J. Hennessy of St Paul to relatives. No contest expected as brother Michael filed amicable suit to meet legal requirements.
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Archbishop Hennessy
Dubuque
David J. Hennessy
St. Paul
Michael
Old Circus Man Joe Tink-Jim Dies in Dubuque
A veteran circus performer born in the Dubuque area died at age 43. He joined the circus as a child and worked as bareback rider acrobat and clown traveling with Dan Rice Spaulding Iowe Mabie and others in bygone days.
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Dubuque
Joe Tink- Jim
Dan Rice
Spaulding
Iowe
Mabie
Western Union College formed by church conferences
An agreement among the Illinois Des Moines Northwest Iowa and Platte River conferences of the United Evangelical church accepts the Lemars normal school as a theological seminary named Western Union college. An endowment of 100000 dollars is started with 11400 from the Hilneis conference. Seven states will contribute to the college. The Normal School association donated five lots adjacent to the campus.
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Ilinois
Des Moines
Northwest
Iowa
Platte River
United Evangelieal Church
Normal School
Lemars
Western Union College
Hilneis
Normal School Association
Fort Dodge incident ends in stabbing after drunken cause
O. TR Rehn began celebration in Fort Dodge for Boer victories but grew intoxicated. His brother-in-law Jbs 1H offered to take him home. Mrs. Rehn blamed Hill for her husband’s condition. A fight followed with Hill stabbing Rehn in the head and body and SHU was arrested.
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O. TR. Rehn
Fort Dodge
J.bs. 1H
Tragedy Strikes Storm Lake Cashier Found Drowning
The body of Truman J. Marker, cashier of the First National Bank of Storm Lake, was found in about ten inches of water on the lake shore near the city around midnight. He had vanished after going duck hunting with a gun following bank closing. Family and searchers located him among weeds along the lakeshore.
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Truman J. Marker
First National Lake
Storm Lake
Writ Refused in Arson Case Over Ashburton Treaty
Judge Shiras denied Charles Spiegel a writ of habeas corpus after Spiegel, brought back from Canada for trial, argued the 1842 treaty covered only dwelling-house fires. The Ashburton treaty was upheld as covering all arson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Spiegel
Dubuque
Canada
Shiras
Chiat
Ashburton
Worker killed at Lyons Paper mill in Clinton
Henry Tartbart, a mill workman at Lyons Paper in Clinton, died after his clothing was caught in a swiftly revolving shaft, dragging him against the building and crushing him into a shapeless mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Tartbart
Lyons Paper Company
Clinton
Tartbuart
Farmington Man’s Suicide Echoes a Family Tragedy
A Farmington man appears to have committed suicide by lying face down in water, an act described as eerily similar to his father’s thirty year old death in the Des Moines River shallows near the same location Andrews committed.
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Farmington
Death of George W Dilliway Prominent Western Relair Dealer
George W Dilliway a leading wholesale dealer in eastern rockery relaiive items died at his home in Mustatingle. He was a longtime mayor of the city and a popular wealthy citizen whose business career spanned over forty years.
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George W. Dilliway
Hig
Mustating
Dle
AV Williams Found Guilty of Murder in First Degree
AV Williams was found guilty of first degree murder for the December killing of Deputy Sheriff Tom Walsh in Creston. The jury recommended life imprisonment. Williams claimed self defense. he has a wife and nine children.
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AV Williams
Tom Walsh
Creston
Williams
Longlist of Local News From Town Falls and Surroundings
Daniel Evans dies at his Georgetown home. In Daven Park, Fred Theing wins mayoral race by over 1000 votes. Group Might of the low Bankers’ association to meet in Ottawa April 1. Notable figures include Yonmay Cox and Cramer, drummers boy of the Thirty third Iowa. Lyon county bond case resolved, $145000 bonds issued. Lews Gaudard shot by burglars, robbed of 1500. George Robertson dies in Atlantic after illness. Dempster & Pascoe Coal Co files incorporation in What Cheer. Des Moines post office grossed 28200 in March. Dawson post office discontinued. Smallpox alarms in Oskaloosa. The birdsall beetle note. Gov Shaw appoints Col Adams to state board of health. Ottumwa council cuts saloon license to 1500. Mediapolis Bank increases capital to 40000. Mrs Farmer dies of pneumonia. Lindsay Brothers building collapse at Eldora with no injuries. Marriage commits suicide. Mrs Nelson dies in Centerville. Nathan and wife celebrate 60th anniversary in Guernsey. Smedley Steam Plumbing Co files articles of incorporation with 50000 capital.
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Daniel Evans
Georgetown
Town Falls
Davenpark
Fred Theing
Lown Bankers’ Association
Ottawa
Wapeto
Jefferson
Neokuk
Matiuska
Apprnoose
Davis
Monroe
van Buren
Yonmay Cox
George II. Robertson
Cass County
Atlantic
Dempster & Pascoe Coal Company
What Cheer
Des Moines
Tawson
Northwood
Oskaloosa
Shaw
Col. Adams
Sie City
Dn A. Goutbert
Dubuque
State Board of Health
Ottumwa
State Bank of
Mediapolis
Farmer
Goldfield
Wright County
John Bowen
Lalkland Islands
Lindsay Brothers, Grocers
J. 21. Smith
Eldora
Bryan and Silver in the 1896 Democratic Debate
Chicago lines-Herald weighs Bryan's reply to Ottendorfer over dropping free coinage. It argues Bryan would lose integrity and voter trust if he abandons the silver issue, insisting he cannot betray his principles for party expediency. The piece concludes Bryan remains committed to free silver at sixteen to one.
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Bryan
Oswald Ottendorfer
New York
Mr. Bryan
Congress
Brynn Withonk
Trusts Push Free Trade in Porto Rico Debate
A Minnesota congressman argues against tariffs on Porto Rican goods, noting sugar and tobacco flows and the tobacco trust’s influence. He claims free trade would benefit purchasers and cites General Davis on cigarette production while linking opposing voices to trusts and political strategy. The piece also cites exports growing toward 400 million dollars and comments from the Troy Times and Cleveland Leader.
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Porto Trican
McCleary
Minnesota
Porto Kieu
Porto Rico
McClerary
Gen. Davis
American Tobacco Company
The
Tobacco Trust
Chen
Jean Discover
Mr. McGleary
Sugar Trust
United States
Ais
Albany Journal
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Jesus
Westminster Abbey
Greenwood
Poet’s Corner
Grub Street
Handel
John Dryden
Samuel Butler
Waller
John Milton
Sheridan
Horace Greeley
Army and Navy
Massachusetts
Charles Sumner
Springfield
Booth
Mall
Sigius
Mothers Congress
Notaries Perblic
Beardshear
State Agricultural College
Agricultural College
Agricultural Colleges
Board of Control
State Horticultural Society
State Agricultural Society
State Department of Agriculture
H. J. Myrah
Roland
Provernor
WS. Jednards
Tony
Bents
Iowa State News
New College
Mather
Marriage
Alexander
Martin Nelson
Centerville
Nathan McWinnie
Guernsey
Smedley Steam Plumbing Company of
Bryan and
Silver
Trusts
Monopol Inde
Porto
Republican Party
Troy Times
Hanna
Cleveland
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