Iowa State News Highlights Crises and Crimes Across Counties
Iowa items report hotel attack in Council Bluffs leaving Brown injured. Evan Runss dies in a coal shaft accident in Des Moines. Conductor Parrenson killed at Greenfield. rail derailment near Sloan. drought harming muskrats. a Richland man fends off a determined bull. a clerk in Anita shoots at his employer. court rulings on estate bonds. coal miners strike for higher wages. university medical department opens with about a hundred students. population projections for a booming town. various thefts burglaries and political notes across the state.
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Burlington
I. Brown & Son
Broadway
Council Bluffs
John Beck
Tat Manley
Ro Lavender
Brown
Evan Runss
Des Moines
A. Parrenson
Creston & Northern Road
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Greenfield
Itia
Sioux City & Pacific
Sioux City
Sloan
R. D. Hooker
Richland
Mr. Hooker
Hooker
Ayoung
Anita
Cass County
Supreme Court
Mitchell
Madison County
Twe
Centurville
Medical Department
State
Uiversity
Tewet
Northwood
Kensett
Fairfield
D. D. Davis
Rev. H. 8. DeForest
Congregational Church
Freedmen's College
Alabama
Hesxny County
McCinrorn Merchnt
Sherif
M.T. Arsena
Melrose
Monroe County
Tenty-One
Frank J. Stuarz
Dubuque
Many Portus
Ida County
Miquer
Iowa
Henry Laan
Muscatine
St. Louis
Red Cross Story of the Battle Field in Francie
Bertha joins the Red Cross daughterhood to aid wounded soldiers in France. She prays for Louis, the English bride's fiancé, whose token is a golden hair ribbon. Amid hospital wards and fatal wounds, she tends many, including Louis, whose life returns through steadfast care and prayer.
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Louis
Bertha
Cod
Red Cross
Stern
Whale Sinking of Columbia Stirs Ocean Mystery
The New York Sun notes widespread belief that a whale sank Captain Larsen’s bark Columbia after a mid ocean breach. It questions sun monster theories, cites Captain Larsen’s credibility, and recalls the vessel’s uninsur ed status and the crew’s escape.
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Larsen
Columbia
N, Y. Sun
Lost on the Plains A Prairie Guide Warns of Hidden Prudent Dangers
An experienced Western traveler tells the writer that far more people go missing on the prairies each year than people realize. He notes many vanish from landmarks, spiral into starvation and insanity, and never reappear in print.
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Prairies
Prairie Lost On The Plains And The Perilous Compass
N Y Sun recounts cases of prairie wanderers who lose orientation without landmarks. A McKenz ie party member dies with compass in hand after detouring from a trail. Readers witness crew that battle blizzards and storms to find missing men, many succumbing to cold and insanity. The essay notes how compass use fails without landmarks and details tragic recoveries and puzzling rescues.
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Hed River
McKenvig
Georgetown
Pembina
McKenzie
Engtishman
Tie
Caps
Terrible disaster at Adrian Mich and fairgrounds collapse
A grandstand collapse at the Lenawee County Fair in Adrian Michigan mall disturbed two thousand spectators. The disaster left six dead and many injured with a long casualty list, chaos on the track, and emergency care rushing to Opera House for the injured.
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Adrian, Mich
Lonawee
Prand
Jesup
Buchanan County
Iowa
Ardrew Bishop
Recipes and anecdotes on cakes and farm care from a 19th century page
The page lists varied recipes including useful and suggestive cakes and frostings with measurements. It also notes larger horses and mules in the city, plus a quirk about pineapple marmalade and peach vinegar. A horse with colic improves after hot blanket treatment, shared as folk remedy from a Cincinnati column.
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Mike
Chicago Times
Vimes
Michigan
Proper Corn Harvest and Shockery Techniques
The article explains early harvesting harms feed value and outlines timing for cutting stalks low for easier handling. It details building compact shocks of twenty five hills, binding with rye straw, and curing before husking to avoid weather damage and labor. It emphasizes rapid curing reduces cold exposure and supports timely cribbing and storage.
Proper methods for storing and processing corn fodder
The article outlines husking rates of forty bushels per day, use of wagons for loading and hauling, and separating poor corn in field bags. It recommends ventilators in stacks to remove moisture, three rails or poles to create an air channel, and burning smutty stalks to prevent mildew and poisoning cattle from amut.
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M. Y. Times
Treatment of Wheat Sowing Methods and Ground Preparation
Advice from Rural New Yorker on wheat sowing rates for drill and cultivator methods, seed coverage importance, brine soaking to reduce smut, plaster rolling for seed conditioning, and ground preparation with spring plowing and cultivation to improve soil mellowing and yield.
Young man learns value of Esq. in wart of home funds
Detroit Free Press recounts a tale of a young man who sent cash to his father via a telegraph office. The clerk suggests dropping the Esq. honorific, but the sender insists on using Esq. The father's reply arrives: ten dollars with promise of more, proving Dad’s generosity when back home contrasts with his formal title’s weight with strangers.
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Mim
John Blank
Esq
Ohn Blank
Detroit’ Free Press
Consumption Cure Promised by Retired Physician
A retired physician claims to hold a vegetable remedy formula for consumption and lung ailments. He offers to mail the recipe free of charge in German French or English with preparation and usage directions to any requester, naming W. W. Sinan at Lowers' Block Livchester Nu. Curw Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco advertised by C Gilbert's Starches.
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Mas India
W. W. Sinan
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