Rock Rapids man named to state GOP chair
H G McMillan of Rock Rapids succeeds James E Blythe as chair man of the republican state central committee. Davies a Peru bank cashier who shipped funds burned the books and stole cash. Lyon county democratic convention backs free silver at 16 to 1 ratio and instructs delegates to push it in the platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. G. McMillan
Rock Rapids
James E. Blythe
Republican State Central Committee
Davies
Peru, Iowa
Lyon County
All Iowa backs Allison for president, statewide support grows
General Drake is accused of Campbellite ties without shame while Clinton forms a civic federation to spur councilmen into duty. The state convention endorsed Senator Allison as a presidential possibility and all Iowa now supports him with anticipated enthusiasm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Allison
Iowa
Manchester man takes morphine, dies in suicide note
Charles Prowse of Manchester died by his own hand using morphine, mourning his wife who died within a year of their marriage. He left a note stating he wanted to die and be with her. The incident reflects a troubled period following the loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Prowse
Manchester
Fifth district Republican delegate convention in Cedar Rapids
President J. A. Miller calls a delegate convention of the Republican Club of the Fifth district to organize a Fifth district Republican league in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, July 20. Each town and township should send several active organizing Republicans to participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Miller
Republican Club
Cedar Rapids
Republican League
Fitch district Republicans reelect W D Lee Toledo man
The Fitch district Republicans reelected W D Lee of Toledo as central committee man for two years. He is described as discreet and a strong organizer. He has completed nine years managing the Toledo Chronicle, with the paper showing growing evidence of his good judgment and republican principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitch District
W. D. Lee
Toledo
Lee
The
Toledo Chronicle
Democrats Pick Fight On National Issues In Defiance Of Prohibition
Democratic papers growl at Republicans for focusing on national questions and ignore prohibition. They vow to press state issues if needed and warn the coming campaign will center on national policy. The chant Beer, Beer! tires, but attention stays on the deficit and the Democratic Congress.
Senator Green and Cash Campaign Debt Suit at Anamosa
During the fall campaign Senator Green aided C. J. Cash with campaign funds and accepted a note. Cash defended that the note lacked valid consideration as it financed political purposes, thus voidable. The justice of the peace ruled for the plaintiff after a full day of wrangling, signaling intraparty tensions in Jones county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Green
C. J. Cash
Cash
Green
Anamosa
J. L. Sheean
Geo. Bennett
Jones County
Central Committee
A Glimpse of Francis Drake Early Life and Career
A compact sketch of Francis Marion Drake, Republican governor candidate, tracing his birth in Rushville Illinois in 1830, family lineage, early moves to Fort Madison and Drakeville, frontier pursuits, California trips, Civil War service, later business and political work, marriage to Mary J. Lord, and list of children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Marion Drake
Rushville
Schuyler
Ilinois
John Adams
Harriet O'Neal Drake
Drake
James Drake
Virginia
Nash County
North Carolina
Benjamin
John A
Celia Thayer
Harriet J. O'Neal
Franklin County
Nancy M
J. B. Lockman
Drakeville
Jane
Francis M. Kirkham
Chicago
Henrietta J
George T. Carpenter
Drake University
Adeline
Henry Kirkham
John Hamilton Drake
Albia
General Drake
Francis M
Fort Madison
Davis County
Centerville
Appanoose
Horseshoe Bend
Platte River
California
Plains
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Unionville
John Edwards
House of Representatives
Patten
Cramer
Missouri
Jackson
St. Joseph
Mulligan
Lexington
Thirty-sixth
Iowa
Mark's Mills
Ark
Arkansas River
Marmaduke
Keokuk
Iowa & Nebraska
Amos Harris
Kansas
Andrew J Baker
Towa
Mary J. Lord
Nova Scotia
Millie
Theodore P. Shantz
Jennie
Lazelle Sawyers
Eva
Henry Goss
Frank E
Baldwin Becomes Owner and Editor of Cascade Pioneer
Charles D. Baldwin has purchased his partner's share in the Cascade Pioneer and now acts as proprietor and editor. The move consolidates ownership and leadership at the newspaper, signaling a new phase for the publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles D. Baldwin
The
Cascade Pioneer
A Clean Honorable Record for Hon. Matt Parrott
Muscatine Journal profiles Hon. Matt Parrott, GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, as a hard working newspaper man turned newspaperman executive. He learned the printer’s trade, built a country paper into a Waterloo Reporter success, ran a major job printing business, served as Waterloo mayor for three terms, held three terms as State binder, eight years in the State Senate, chaired the cities and towns committee and the ways and means panel, led the Republican senate caucus, and has largely stayed out of campaigns aside from editorial and personal work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine Journal
Matt Parrott
Waterloo Reporter
Waterloo
State Senate
Senate
Parrott
Receipts under McKinley and Wilson bills compared
A Washington Tribune table shows ten month receipts under Wilson and McKinley laws. Wilson receipts total 235,343,893 versus McKinley 309,872,852. August to June 1895 Wilson 225,343 McKinley 239,867, TTA. Last ten months Wilson 236,243,898. McKinley 264,931,588. First ten months’ deficiency and surplus noted with sinking fund figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New York Tribune
Wilson Law
McKinley Law
Notes on fashion and society from an era
A collection of brief observations on changing dress codes and social norms. Topics include bicycle attire and bloomers, restrictions on street paper selling by young women, women's suffrage in England, fashion plate criticism, Winnie Davis’s forthcoming The Veiled Doctor, Countess Gien’s early work as a cigarette-maker, and the polka skirt’s revival tied to 1843 Paris fashion moments with Fanny Ellsler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnie Davis
Giennot
Italy
Newark
N. J
Fanny Ellsler
Paris
Louis Phillippe
Ministry of Public Instruction
Weather Crop Report From Central Station Iowa July 16
The past week showed a mean temperature about 6 below normal with six days of dry cool weather aiding harvest. A light frost on the 9th lightly damaged a garden truck and corn in low lands but not crops. Late reports note dreary conditions in many districts and injury to small grains and grasses in eastern counties. Beneficial showers Saturday night and Sunday offered relief. harvests continue with oats under way and corn tasseling in favorable areas. Potatoes and minor crops are in fair condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Station
Drs Moines
Iowa
Judge Woolson Sentences Ex Senator Cassett to Nine Years
Judge Woolson swiftly sentences ex senator Cassett known as a bank wrecker to a nine year term at Anamosa penitentiary last Monday. Cor respondents are poised to ionize him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolson
Cassett
Anamosa
Warm Weather Clothing in Ceylon Tea Island
Column from Colombo dated January 7 1895 describes life in British Ceylon. It notes native dress varying from minimal cloth to wrapped garments, labor conditions with pay from 14 to 1 cent per day, and principal industries including tea with 85 million pounds shipped last year. The writer travels by special car with the railway chief, plans to visit Tuticorin, and mentions English breakfast tea shared with Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colombo
Tuticouri
Clement F. Street
Street
Railway Review
Chicago
Monticello
Rev S H Phillips Dies After Pin Injury
The 82 year old Reformed church minister from Durham Bucks county died at St Luke’s Bethlehem PA from blood poisoning following a prank pin prick on his leg. The incident began on a Cope family porch as Miss Cope, 20, lightly pricked him with a hat pin, the pin broke, and infection led to leg amputation and death days later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. H. Phillips
Durham
Bucks County
St. Luke's Hospital
Bethlehem
Pennsylvania
Mr. Phillips
Reformed Church
Justice Cope
Cope
St. Luke’s Hospital
Robbery by Hired Man Hartman At Amber Farm
Lew Hartman and family left home at 10 am to visit neighbors and found upon return at 6 pm that a revolver a gold necklace three silk handkerchiefs a large pocket book and some money were stolen. Henry Nordhoff the hired man a tramp in service about a week was arrested on suspicion and held for the September district court term. The tramp was discharged for lack of evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lew Hartman
Amber
Anamosa Journal
Henry Nordhoff
Nordoff
Republicans of Marshalltown Plan Opening Campaign Meeting
The Republican traveling men's club of Marshalltown promises to open the campaign this fall with a rousing meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Traveling Men’s Club of
Marshalltown
Clinton County Jurors Eligible Count Reported
Clinton county records show 5,170 men are eligible for jury duty, outlining the pool for upcoming trials and service requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton County
Stranger Hung Near Delhi In Suspected Suicide Or Murder
A stranger’s body was found hanging from a tree one and a half miles south of Delhi yesterday. Police report three suspicious men seen nearby before discovery. The deceased had $3 in his pocket. Coroner and sheriff investigate possible suicide or highwayman assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delhi
Atmospheric electricity could power world’s needs say Dunn
Elias B. Dunn, weather observer in New York, argues atmospheric electricity can be tapped and stored to supply light, heat, and power. He envisions cities lit by air electricity, trains and cars run by it, with coal obsolete and telegraphs losing monopolies. He cites Earth and sky as energy stores and a method to store electricity as the key to a future of widespread convenience and abundant comfort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elias B. Dunn
New York
Edison
Tesla
Grenadiers
Uhlans
Mars
Dunn
Boston ‘Transcript
Porous plaster removal technique noted in old office lore
A New York Recorder note explains that alcohol removes an obstinate porous plaster after its usefulness ends and erases unsightly traces. It warns that soap and water are often ineffective in such offices, suggesting the need for a valuable agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Recorder
Burial marker for 9 year old girl in Alabama cemetery
A marble slab in Wetumpka Alabama lists a 9 year old girl named Her Name Henry Ritter Emma Ritter Denia Ritter Sweet Potato Cream A Tartar Caroline Ostic as the daughter of Bob and Snakey Cutten. The article notes a US divorce rate of one in 479 marriages according to statistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ritter
Emma Ritter
Denia Ritter
Caroline Ostic
Wetumpka
Ala
Bob
Snakey Cutten
United States
Christian Endeavor Convention Inspires National Gratitude
The convention's success pleases Christian people nationwide and shows youth zeal beyond politics. Census figures for Dubuque county list town populations: Cascade 1,128, Marg ley 160, Dyersville 1,810, Epworth ih.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque County
Cascade
Margley
Dyersville
Epworth
Cleveland era quips on a president and suffrage
A collection of 19th century editorials and jests on Grover Cleveland touching gender politics and suffrage. The items tease Cleveland family politics and the free coinage of girls, noting public sentiment and press humor from multiple papers.
Gillen completes contract with Fleming for Gillen House
Mr. Gillen yesterday closed a contract with Mr. J da Fleming of Calmar Iowa to take charge of the Gillen House next Monday morning. Fleming, now in Calmar's hotel business, is described as a thorough landlord with a first class house. Gillen has worked twenty years in hotels and leaves the Gillen House in Iowa noted for first class standards under Mr O E Gillep and his wife and daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillen
J. da. Fleming
Calmar
Iowa
Charpa
Gillen House
Fleming
O. E. Gillep
Armdémosa Idureka
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J. W. Doxsee
Ghn. Drake
Pittsburg
England
the Weather Crop Report
Colomno
Ceylon
India
King’s Cash Store
Cleveland
Rochester Democrat-Chronicle
Blade
Toledo Blade
Omega
Grover
Omaha
Globe-Democrat
Mr. Cleveland
Philadelphia
Nimes
Remley & Ercanbrttorneys
Angmosa
M. W. Herrick
Thorney
Mont& Ticello
Jones Co
Dubuque
Delaware
Linn and
Jones
E. H. Hicks
Limanated
Hicks & Eilers
J. W. Coxsee
Montt- Acollo
Gaio
Monticello Bank
C.W
C. L. Lovell
Fankers
Huy
Olrive
Bidwell's Block
Opera House
W. A. Mirick
M. D. Beigian
Burghon
Congregational Church
W. W. Hunter
EVICE
St. A
T. B. Kent
Malin Street
Qgentor Junction
O. B. Rundle
Entist Tooms
Postoffice
Wm.j. Coughlan
D. D
Itis
Hicks & Ellers
J. H. Lathrop
Oxford Junction
Wil
Alex Rice
Monticelo
Inclis
Ohico South
Cedar Street
O. R. Ricker
Montivello
Agenita
W. P. Harrison & Go
Clark
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