Clash Over Woman Suffrage in Iowa Legislature
Des Moines letter by Julian Richards surveys a busy Iowa session on state printing contracts, school textbook bids, redistricting plans, biennial elections, and a looming clash over woman suffrage. It notes a $15,000 annual saving from a printer bid, a state textbook commission proposal with bid bonds, and advances on measures like automatic couplers and open quail seasons.
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Smith
Republican House
House
Committee On Printing
Senate
Binder
Conaway
Binder Young
Ray of
Poweshiek
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
School Text Book Commission
United States
Speller
Grammer
Iowa
Des Moines
Whelan
Wapello
Polk
Dubuque
Linn
Pottawattamie
Woodbury
Scott
Clinton
Lee
Senate Committee On Constitutional Amendments
Titus
Fair
Shaw
Ray
Lavender
Carr
Ellison
Lewis
Ladd
General Revenue Fund
Healy
Carney
New York
Wisconsin
Board of Control
Julian Richards
Sposen Case Reveals Cheese Theft Hypothetical
A hunter party at Brig Adams's ranch debates a lawyerly hypothetical about damages for stealing cheese. The "Driggs" claimant seeks redress for imagined losses from a warehouse cheese, but the judge explains no standing in court exists for such a case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teton
Brig Adams
Driggs
Brig
Chicago
A Parting Shot and Sheridan Last Word Exchange
A young girl at dinner quizzed a solicitor on legal terms and mocked his speech, noting he should have brought a barrister. The Chicago Chronicle notes Sheridan’s retort to Pitt about last word and last argument in debate.
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Chicago Chronicle
Pitt
Sheridan
Bridges and Streeter Exchange Anxious Remarks
In a Boston Transcript snippet Bridges asks why Streeter did not introduce his wife yesterday and Streeter replies he feared she would think less of him. Bridges counters that Streeter did not introduce her to Wharf either. Streeter concedes fear of Noa altering her view of him.
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Bridges
Streeter
Wharf
Noa
Boston Transcript
Irregular Practice and Phunny Phacts From Far Lands
The piece cites a Chicago Record joke about a tour doctor and Aunt Maria, noting a baby with croup quickly cured before the doctor arrives. It also includes a phonographic spoof from the Exchange about forced letter substitutions and a brief zoological note on kangaroos.
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Maria
Chicago
Old Time Trotters and the Arabian Horse Tradition
A historical look at early American trotting races from 1831 at Hunting Park Philadelphia. Notes on top horses like Topgallant Whalebone Columbus and the shift from stallions to geldings. Describes Barbary Arabian origins, pedigree claims and Arabian horse traits with era context. Beer was the universal drink of the English until tea and coffee arrived about 1650.
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United States
Hunting Park Course
Philadelphia
Topgallant
Whalebone
Dread
Chancellor
Collector
Lady Jackson
Moonshine
Columbus
Woodruff
Centerville
N. Y
Andrew Jackson
Desert
Africa
Ishmael
Abraham
Ismail
Ibn Ibrahim
Solomon
Arabia
Hubert M. Skinner
Arena
One Minute Cough Cure Promises Quick Relief Ads
A collage of 19th century medical ads extols One Minute Cough Cure for coughs colds croup grippe and lung troubles. Other remedies include DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve DeWitts Little Early Risers and general tonics from J H Bacher & Co. the text includes quips about politics and barking dogs and notes a death from hydrophobia in Pisek Bohemia.
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J. H. Bacher & Co
de Witt
Cured by DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve and Cough Cure
After years of suffering from piles, B. W. Pursell of Knitnersville Pa was cured by a single box of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. The ad also touts cures for eczema rash pimples and obstinate sores and endorses One Minute Cough Cure for whooping cough croup and lung troubles.
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B. W. Pursell
Knitnersville
DeWitt
J. H. Bacher & Co
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Greencastle
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Swift Specific Co
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Farwell
F. M. Hicks
H. M. Carpenter
Richardson
Ass’t
The
Lovell State Bank
George L. Lovell
RU. Rickiers
R.C. Stirton
R. C. Stirton
R. U. Ricklers
J. 8. Hall
J. W. Coxsee
Herman Sandhouse
Nicholas Holst
D. E. Pond
North America
Hartford
Nort British and Mercantile
Pennsylvania
Rafes
Hawkeye Merchant Tailoring
New Merchant Tailor Shop
Second St
Times
Zach TR
Monticello
O. R. Ricker
Rea
Solons
Scheel Fext Books
President Jackson
Myron C. Walters
Myron B. Walters
James Kirkpatrick
Mary Kirkpatrick
John Kirkpatrick
Onslow
S.eessserees
Aise J I
W. P. Sanford
Meade Sanford
Scotch Grove
Stacy Miller
H. D. Miller
Rome
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Lucy M. Ashcraft
al Fis
Hale
Charles M. Shadduck
Mary E. Wasson
Frank
BAA Onslow
Iics
Secesserecs
Esteessors
W.M. Preston
Grace Brazleton
Bradstreet
Stall
N. Walston
W. Halston
Peter Huges
Thomas Hughes
Nwt
Wyoming Township
John Zimel
John McGregor
John W. Irish
J. H. J. Stutt
Anamona
Ellen F. Gill
Alba M. Fairbanks
Lizzie Paul
Mary A. Calkins
Oxford
Jackson County
Eyeee
Lathrop
Centaua
Irem
Suhr Bros
German Empire
Philip
Macedonia
Pisek
Bohemia
Jimpson
Detroit Free Press
Sir P. Sidney
Japan
Castoria
Bohlken
John Gibson
First Street
Bateman & Millholen
Students of
Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
W. M. Beardshear
Ames
Ponent
Smith Premier Typewriter Coy
Syracuse
Monroe Street
Hawks Nursery Company
Milwaukee
Wis
ST. P
Traine
Fast
Omaha
Sioux Gila Rapids, CO
Crbenvnse
St. Pau
Minnen
Davenport
Farley
Calmar
Ars
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