Iowa News Snippet Highlights Local Politics and Expositions
Representative Sheean of Jones County seeks a 65174 dollar appropriation for the Anamosa penitentiary. President McKinley nominates Edward Knott as U S marshal for Iowa's northern district. A Pittsburgh fire kills about twenty and causes over two million in losses. Iowa druggists press for lighter liquor burdens. Monticello banks show 450 per capita deposits. Uncle Horace Boies rebuts Bryan with Windom ideas. The Iowa State Register defends a postal bill affecting fake newspaper schemes. W C Hayward touts Omaha Exposition potential. Lyon County indicts two osteopaths amid a bill to permit osteopathy. The Express accused of misquoting for district judge expansion. debate hinges on court staffing and facilities.
Congressman Cousins Backs Toledo Postmaster Nomination
Congressman Cousins recommends W. D. Lee for postmaster in Toledo Iowa. Lee long served as Fifth district representative of the Republican state central committee and has done effective party work. He is regarded as a gentleman and well regarded by the community and post office patrons.
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Cousins
W. D. Lee
Toledo
Iowa
Lee
Republican State Central Committee
Republican Party
Lobbyists Rebuked for Disrupting Des Moines Legislature
Speaker Funk publicly rebuked persistent lobbyists in Des Moines for crowding the floor and speaking loudly beside legislators. He warned that if conduct continued the lobbyists would be barred from the House floor. The speaker urged orderly behavior from the third house.
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Des Moines
Funk
Exodists head to Klondike amid crowded Seattle
A party of thirty four leaves Ottumwa on the fifth as dispatches report Seattle packed with travelers bound for the frozen north. Many find no lodging, camping in tents while awaiting boats to Dyea. Predictions compare the expedition to Napoleon’s Moscow retreat.
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Klondike
Ottumwa
Seattle
Dyea
Artic
Napoleon
Moscow
Trade fray between Springville and Central City
Springville and Central City clash over trade as both towns launch a market day to attract customers. Tensions rise as merchants and residents weigh benefits and losses from the competing events.
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Springville
Central City
Leutgert Convicted of First-Degree Murder in Chicago
Adolph L. Leutgert, tried twice for the sensational murder of his wife, was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. The first trial ended with a hung jury. He testified in the second trial, but poor legal management by his counsel, Harmon, is blamed for the outcome. Leutgert mocked the verdict, hoping for a supreme court reversal.
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Adolph L. Leutgert
Chicago
Leutgert
Harmon
Supreme Court
Women Suffrage Debate At Des Moines Committee
A joint debate before a Des Moines house committee drew large crowds as suffrage supporters and opponents presented pro and con arguments. Miss Hay of San Francisco and Mrs Belden of Sioux City led the legislative campaign for the national group while Des Moines activists urged caution.
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Committee of the House
Des Moines
Legislative Committee
Miss Hay
San Francisco
Belden
Sioux City
H. A. Foster
Stowe
Cassady
Decline of Jones County Farmers Institutes
The Jones county institutes attract less attention than years ago as farmers turn to agricultural papers for practical experience. The piece argues readers favor home papers over meetings, noting farmers are still intelligent and active but the exchange of ideas has moved online into print.
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Jones County
Center Junction
Institute School of Instruction
Mortgage Recorded for Chicago and Northwestern Railway
County Recorder Miles Cook records a large mortgage by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company covering about eighty pages in Jones county records and extending into multiple counties along the railroad route.
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Miles Cook
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company
Jones County
Col Hendersons Speech On Silver Coinage And Repudiation
Col Henderson denounces the proposed restoration of free silver coinage as a repudiation threat harming bonds and credit. He cites McKinley and warns that silver monometallism would ruin capital and labor, urging Republicans to defeat the measure in November 1900.
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Mr. Speaker
Earth
McKinley
Great National Association of Manufacturers
United States
Republican Party
Speaker
Bryan
Mr. Bailey
Mr. Henderson
Chicago
Republic
Ohio
Mr. Norton
Simpson
Kansas
Little Mac
Second Cedar Rapids button works opens to join rivals
Eastern Iowa items note a second pearl button manufactory starting in Cedar Rapids. The piece also lists nominations, appointments, arrivals, and local incidents across towns from Manchester to Dubuque, Marion, and Worthington, including crimes and political events.
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Cedar Rapids
T. W. Summerside
Manchester
One merchant urges constant newspaper advertising
The Clinton Herald cites a leading merchant advising that persistent hammering of name and business into the public mind is the only right way to advertise. It says newspapers are friends and help build the community, and without them people would be left without an epitaph.
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The
Clinton Herald
Wyoming Journal
Hea
Livestock Sale by Onslow Farmer With Forty Head of Horses
William Livingston of the old Clark farm near Onslow keeps seventeen heavy horses on feed for the market. He recently sold two teams, fetching 300 dollars for one and 220 dollars for the other.
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Wm. Livingston
Clark Farm
Onslow
Wyoming Journal
Jones County School News Highlights and Changes
The Jones County Teacher reports on new schoolhouses in Bates district Wayne, staff changes at Laurel Hill and Olin, widespread measles and diphtheria impacts, new libraries and chart additions, and several principal and teacher appointments. It notes state certification renewals, school board meetings, and legal changes requiring boards to elect teachers in session.
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Jones County
Bates
Wayne
Tyrus Peck
Laurel Hill
Lucy Andrews
Hale
Frank Erickson
Anamosa
Stone City
Black Oak
Margaret Wall
Adelle Bevans
Jackson Center
Josie Rubin
Chiswold
C. R. Scroggie
State Board of Examiners
Elizabeth Shipley
No. 2
Scotch Grove
Pine Grove
Howard Dawson
Julia Paul
Mineral Valley
Mayme Hanna
June Renno
Olin
Chicago
Daisy White
Prin. W. C. Cummings
Onslow
Grace Maple
Frank W. Hicks
Mt. Vernon
Center Junction
Hicks
Norine Larimer
Newport
Strawberry Hill
Julia Chesire
Bertha Kratzer
Newart
Wm. Seeger
Morley School
J. M. Stearns
Supt
Cowan
Wayne Township
Wayne Center
Rome
Hale Townships
Oxford Junction
Uncle Sam
Cuba
Madison
Oxford
One Fare Round Trip to Cleveland on Nickel Plate Road
Round trip fare to Cleveland via Nickel Plate Road offered for February 22 and 23 1898 by the Students' Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. Return by February 28. City ticket office 111 Adams St depot corner Clark and 12th Sts Chicago Illinois. Telephone Main 3389 38w2.
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Nickel Plate Road
Cleveland
Adams St
Clark and
12Th Sts
Chicago
Illinois
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House
Anamosa Penitentiary
Senate
Edward Knott
Waverly
Towa
Pittsburg
Monticello
Horace Boies
Fairfield
Boies
Windom
Iowa State Register
W. C. Hayward
Davenport
Lyon County
the Express
Tur Express
Linn County
Col. Henderson
Eastern Iowa News
George Jones
East Hillside
Worthington
Mlorenece King
Waterloo
Alaska
Pioneer Law Makers
Col
John Scott
Nevada
W. F. Kruger
Rolle
William J. Bryan
Dubuque
Luther A. Brewer
John W. Geiger
Marion
Edgewood
Davenport Cremation Society
Remley
Hopkinton
McConnell, Place & Wilson
C. EB. Reeve
CG. C. Brown
Congregational Church
FE. &. Peck
Currier
State University
Ah-T
Usu
Ulster
Royal
Royal Baking Powder CO
New York
Jones County School News
A. Monger
Monger
Army
Rababha
M. W. Herrick
Mon Atlallo
Jones Vo
Lawn
Duebuque
Delaware
Link
Jones
Omeo
Postoiiac
J. W. Doxsee
Twornay
Lang
J. N. Hughes
Apornay
LAW
Oudur Rapids
Jon County
W. A. Mirick
M. D. Paras
Congregational
Montisello
Calla
T. B. Kent
J. E
E. L. Dilmore
M. D. Phybiclans and Surgeons
Sycamore Street
First Street
Examinations of the Eye and War Free
Rundle
Kouraa
Monticello Bank
Postoffice
Wim. J. Coughlan
D.D.S. Fyions
Hicks & Billers
Matpulessen
Oles
Lews
J. H. Lathrop
Actioneer
C. J. Wilson, M.D. C. ML
Fulton, Iowa
Bohlken
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