Des Moines Items Cover Dairy Tests and Tax Measures
State veterinarians praise the dairy tuberculin exams as valuable for market confidence. Iowa moves on railway assessment and aims to aid farmers. Debate over copyrighting the new code includes options for state publication and private publishers. Bankers’ opposition to asset disclosure and tax deed issues stir revenue law talk as reforms consider ten year tax certificate cancellations.
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Des Moines
Mareh
Gibson
Iowa Lines
Dowell
Polk
Junkin
Congress
Iowa
House Ways and Teans Committee
Iowa Legislature Extra Session Affects Rail Road Pay and Public Bills
In Des Moines March 6 and 8 reports show the senate cutting railroad commissioners salaries to 2500 dollars yearly and reducing asylum superintendents to 2600 dollars. The printing costs bill targets substantial savings, while other measures address temperance, notarial fees rising to five dollars, and abolishing the state oil inspector post. House actions include civil procedure rules, jury fees shifted to counties, and telegraph company liability rules. A poisoning incident in Nashville, Tennessee involves J. C. Kelly and family.
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Des Moines
Senate
Committee On Charitable Institutions
Senate Committee On Printing
County Board of Supervisors
Committee On Public Health
Senate Committee On Printing and Binding
Perrin
Chickasaw
Iowa
House
McWinley
Georgia
Manahandem
House of Representatives
Telegraph
Klemie
Winneshiel
Byers
Agricultural College
Samuel Rankin
Des Moines, Jr
Insurance Committee of the House
Life
Men of the Day: Lectures and Leaders in Ambition
Reports hint at Nansen delivering fifty illustrated lectures starting next October. Lee Merriwether, a St Louis mayoral candidate, gained attention from a travel memoir. Ras Alula’s life story inspired a youth, and Prince Ileari d Orleans allegedly travels Abyssinia for business aims. Senator Hoar noted for wide reading and quick memory. Wrinkled purses foreshadow wrinkled faces.
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Nansen
Lee Merriwether
St. Louis
Uvery
Europe
Ras Alula
Italy
Paris
Ileari d’Orleans
Abyssinia
Senator Hoar
Massachusetts
Senate
Elopement Shocks Davenport Society
Davenport society reels as R B Cook elopes with Eleanor Spelletich. Cook is son of J E B Cook a top state attorney and a promising attorney himself. He leaves a wife and two children. Mrs Cook writes that she may never see him again. Spelletich known in society with good reputation. whereabouts unknown.
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Davenport
R. B. Cook
Eleanor Spelletich
J. E B. Cook
Ife
Cook
Foreman fatally shot by man on Miller Payne ranch
Ernest Hearn, 25, was shot through the head by Dennis Chapman at Chapman's Hamburg area home on the Miller Payne ranch. Hearn, foreman for Payne, had gone there to oust Chapman by force. Chapman surrendered to Hamburg officers. Hearn was married with a family and long-standing good reputation in the area.
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Ernest Hearn
Dennis Chapman
Chapman
Hamburg
Miller Payne
Hearn
Payne
Editorial Association elects officers in Independence
The Northwestern Iowa Editorial Association closes its two day session in Independence electing S G Sloane Charles City Citizen president J F Grawe Waverly Independent vice president and Robert Campbell Hopkinton Leader secretary treasurer Resolutions condemn the Senate action reducing legal advertising rates.
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Northwestern Iowa
Independence
S. G. Sloane
Charles City
J. F. Grawe
Waverly Independent
Robert Campbell
Hopkinton Leader
Senate
Triplet birth ties to a farmer’s wife near Le Mars
Mrs J J Albright living ten miles northwest of Le Mars gave birth to triplets all girls. She has now 15 children in 15 years with three sets of twins among the brood. The triplets are strong and healthy. oldest is 14.
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J. J. Albright
le Mars
Winley hospital fund completed in Dubuque
The Winley hospital fund drive in Dubuque finished with several hundred dollars to spare as the town fills needs for civic health. Counterfeit coins circulate widely around Idora with many dollars and half dollars convincingly forged.
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Winley
Dubuque
Idora
Town City
Harold F. McCormick
Council Bluffs
Edith Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
New York
W. A. Paul
Washington
Burlington Basket Company
Mary Shields Smith
J. J. Smith
Ottumwa
Cooley
Daughters of the American Revolution
Oskatoosa
Baptist Church
Des Moines
Tardin County
India
Stumerton
Shenandoah
Marion Wagener
Walona
Lowa City
E.R. Hedges
Franklin County
Shell Rock
Co. W. Clements
Arlington
Mrs Beechers Death Ends Era of a Noted Cleric
The widow of Henry Ward Beecher died at 10 42 a m in Stanford Conn at the home of her son in law Rev Samuel Scoville. Born Eunice White Bullard in 1812 she led a busy life of charity and writing and raised ten children. Her death follows a long illness with relatives present and occurs exactly ten years after her husband’s death in 1887.
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Albert Wells
Keokuk
Augusta W. Kilbourne
Peekskill (N. Y.) Military Academy
Nic
Stanford
Coo
Mareha
Henry Ward Beecher
Samuel Scovile
Miss Bullard
William Beecher
New York
Stamford
Mass
Amherst College
Beecher
Mr. Dullard
Mr. Beecher
West Sutton
Divine
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Indianapolis
Flymouth Church
Brooklyn
Waterview Flats
East River
Columbia Heights
Fashionably dressed teacher ends life in Reading tragedy
In Reading Pennsylvania a well-dressed young woman threw herself before a freight engine in the western part of the city. She wears a brown dress black coat a monkey fur collarette and a black veil. The body is Miss Isabella Fulton of Decatur Michigan a schoolteacher from Chicago on a visit to her sister a Reading teacher. No motive is given though she had nervous troubles and was in town on a vacation.
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Reading
Isabella Fulton
Decatur
Sulton
Chicago
Remarkable Recovery After Pink Pills for Pale People
O H H Miller once a public official in Ohio County and a respected bookkeeper in Aurora recounts a dramatic health decline. After 1895 he credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring appetite sleep and blood health leading to a full recovery. The advertisement cites Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY and offers pills at 50 cents a box or six for 2 50.
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Greensburg
Ind
Dearborn
Ohio
O. HH. Miller
Aurora
Chambers, Stevens & Co
Miller
Ohio County
Mvke
Mr. Miller
P.P. Stutz
Jeffersonville
Mr. Stultz
Wil Mama
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Dr. Williams’ Med. Co
Relief Promised By Stomach Bitters Against Rheumatism
An old advertisement extols Hostelter's Stomach Bitters as a safe remedy for rheumatism and related stomach and nervous complaints. It claims relief in malarial, kidney, bilious, and dyspeptic ailments, and ends with a market quip about Caseinet candy cathartic.
Hoax Claims on Crop Yields Spur Seed Ad and Notes
A farmer dismisses a sensational claim of extraordinary barley and corn yields in 1896, urging readers to verify before trusting seed advertisements. The item also notes seed promotions offering samples in exchange for stamps, and a church-like Ram’s Horn quotation about self restraint in life.
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John Breider
Mishicott
Wis
Saalzer
Salazer
John A. Sutzer Seed Co
Liv Crosse
No-To-Bac Cure Claims Across 400000 Cases
The Boston Transcript notes No-To-Bac promises to curb tobacco desire claiming over 400000 cured. It touts regulation benefits and money savings while alleging health and manhood impact. An Arctic exploration line references oversized footwear by Fogg.
Star Pobacco and Remedies Advertise Health Claims
A fragment advertising tobacco brand Star Pobacco and various patent medicines claims cures for rheumatism consumption and fevers, urging use of Rose Cab rot Co. remedies and St Jacobs Oil for pains. It references a baby in a buggy and a railroad ball sentiment from Atchison Globe.
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Rose ‘Cabrot Co
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J.C. Ayer Coy
Lowell
American Land Company
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Norfolk & Western Gateway
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