Soldiers Return From Iowa Volunteers On 30 Day Furloughs
Des Moines reports Fifty-second Iowa volunteers are home on 30 day furloughs with full pay and rations. The state covers travel and will muster them out in Iowa. Health has improved though about 80 in hospitals. Gov Shaw and Adjutant Gen Byers coordinate care, hospital trains, and policy on discharges while officers are promoted on merit.
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Des Moines
Fifty-second Iowa Volunteers
War Department
United States
Camp McKinley
Shaw
Adjt
Byers
Cottage Hospital
Ladies of the Sanitary Commission
Hyde Park Sanitarium
Red Cross Society
Gov. Shaw
R. A. Patchin
J. T
Crayke Priestley
Jacksonville
Col. Egbert
Davenport
Powers
Reinbeck
Iowa
Spain
Della Weeks
Fifty-first
San Francisco
Miss Weeks
Iowas New Bishop Elected by Episcopal Convention
The Episcopal convention in Davenport elected Rev. Thomas E. Green D D of Cedar Rapids as bishop of the diocese of Iowa with 38 clerical and 108 lay votes. Green edged Chicago’s C Edsall as leading candidate. Born 1857 in Pennsylvania, he studied at Kendree College and Princeton, began in the Presbyterian ministry, then joined the Episcopal church and led Grace Church Cedar Rapids to become the state’s largest parish.
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Episcopal Convention
Davenport
Thomas E. Green
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Mount Carmel
Ill
Sparta
Eighth Presbyterian Church of
Chicago
Episcopal Church
St. Andrew's
Grace Church
Cedar Rapidals
Three Banks Authorized to Open by Auditor of State
The auditor of state approves three banks to commence business. Citizens' State Bank of Cambridge carries $25,000 capital with J. A. Groseclose as president, G. J. Sherman as vice president, and Edgar John as cashier. Union Savings Bank of Wilton Junction has $40,000 capital with A. K. Leithe president, G. N. Frenzel vice president, and W. D. Harris cashier. Plainfield Savings Bank of Plainfield shows $10,000 capital with J. A. Cousins president, J. Roach vice president, and W. W. Taylor cashier.
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Auditor of State
Citizens’ State Bank of
Cambridge
J. A. Groseclose
G. J. Sherman
Edgar John
Union Savings Bank of
Wilton Junction
A. K. Leithe
G. N. Frenzel
W. D. Harris
Plainfield Savings Bank of
Plainfield
Capital
J. A. Cousins
J. Roach
W. W. Taylor
Le Grand Stone to Honor Des Moines Hall Wing
Iowa state executive council selects Le Grand stone for the State Historical and Memorial hall wing in Des Moines. Ground broken at East Seventh and Grand. current building cost $50,000 with total project expected to reach at least $150,000.
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Des Moines
State Historical and Memorial Hall
Tfeast Seventh
Grand Avenue
Severe Storm Harms Webster City Area Causing 50000 Loss
A severe storm six miles north of Webster City produced heavy hail damage across a three by twelve mile area. People outdoors were struck by hail injuring some, while many small buildings were wrecked and the corn crop ruined.
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Webster City
Fusion Democrats Win Iowa Nominees At State Convention
Marshalltown Iowa September reports a fusion convention of Democrats Populists and Silver Republicans naming a full ticket led by Claude R Porter for Secretary of State and Nelson Anderson for Treasurer with J M Parsons as Attorney General and William A Spurrier as Supreme Court Judge. The platform backs free coinage of silver with gold at sixteen to one and endorses William J Bryan for president in 1900.
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Laude Porter
Appanoose
W. J. Bryan
Marshalltown
Iowa
Supreme Court
Claude R. Porter
Appanooseé
Nelson Anderson
Des Moines
J. M. Parsons
Polk
H. Gillette
Thomas Jefferson
William J. Bryan
The
Union
Republican Party
Spain
Congress
Washington
United States
Democratic Party
Western Hemisphere
Toledo Indian training school described for Sac and Fox
Government builds a 70 acre facility west of Toledo with 35 thousand dollars funding. The planned capacity is 75, serving Sac and Fox children locally, with future potential as a nonreservation school for nationwide pupils. Programs focus on carpentry, farming, sewing, and household skills alongside basic literacy.
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Tama County
Toledo
Sac and Fox Reserve
United States
Methodists to Meet in Marion for Forty Third Annual Session
The Upper Town conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will open its forty third annual session at the First Methodist church in Marion on Tuesday evening October 4. The program includes receptions, Epworth league anniversary, missionary sermons, lectures by Bishop Vincent and other church leaders, and multiple society anniversaries through Sunday. The session closes Monday.
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Omaha Exposition
Clay, Robinson & Co
Iowa Agricultural College
Iowa College
America
Canada
Walnut Street
Manila
Spain
Frank B. Cooper
Des Moines
Shaw
Washington
Iowa
Illinois
Omaha
Upper Town
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Marion
Vincent
Epworth League
W. A. Shanklin
D. D
Dubuque
N. A. Mershon
State Center
Missionary Society
A. J. Palmer
New York
Paul
Timothy
Women
D. A. Hayes
A. J. Kynett
Philadelphia
Bishop Vincent
Women’s Home Missionary Society
Margaret Alspaugh
Anamosa
Freedmen's Aid and Southern Educational Society
W. H. W. Reese
Cincinnati
C. J. Little
Garrett Biblical Institute
Brother shoots brother in farm dispute near Marshalltown
Milo Doud, a farmer seven miles south of Marshalltown, was shot three times by his brother Joe Doud of Ferguson over remarks about scars. Milo suffered a shoulder wound, ear graze, and a hand wound. he is not in danger. Joe was captured after the short range shooting. Frank Doud supports Milo and pledges to settle the matter.
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Milo Doud
Marshalltown
Joe Doud
Ferguson
Milo
Frank Doud
Joe
Clinton officer dies of typhoid in Jacksonville
George M. Michelson first lieutenant of company L Clinton Forty ninth Iowa regiment died in Jacksonville from typhoid fever. The city mourns with flags at half mast on public buildings. He was 24, active in society and business circles connected with the Chicago and Northwestern road storekeepers department in Clinton.
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George M. Michelson
Clinton
Forty Ninth
Iowa Regiment
Jacksonville
Clinton County
Michelson
Chicago & Northwestern
Robbers Jaeger and Delawyer Sentenced in Fort Dodge
Charles Jaeger alias Murray and Ed Delawyer were sentenced by Judge Hirdsall to three years each at Anamosa penitentiary for drugging and robbing William Wiemer, a Greene County farmer, of $60. Burlington King’s Daughters circles unite for a winter sewing school for city children, to be held in the old public library with leadership by Burlington’s young women.
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Charles Jaeger
Murray
Ed Delawyer
Hirdsall
Fort Dodge
William Wiemer
Greene County
Burlington
King’s Daughters
Get There Says Attache on American Language Difficulties
A foreign military attache explains that translating American speech into English and then into his own tongue obscures the spirit of American soldiers. He cites the phrase get there as a stubborn example, noting officers and wounded alike repeatedly say we got there. The Boston Transcript reports his difficulty conveying these tactics to his government.
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Boston Transcript
Woman's heroism highlighted by Civil War legacy
The Register Gazette recalls Civil War era heroine Mrs James Houseweart in Byron Illinois who fought illness with the aid of Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She credits the remedy with eight boxes restoring her health and strength, noting it surpassed physicians and other medicines. The pills cost 50 cents per box, or $2.50 for six, available from druggists or by mail from the Williams Medicine Company.
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Register Gazette
Rockford
Tll
Byron
Ill
James Houseweart
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Mrs Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Helped Woman Recover
Mrs Nell Hurst of Deep Water Missouri credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief from long term womb trouble piles irregular menstruation and leucorrhea after five bottles she regained much of her health and could do her work. She invites inquiries and notes Pinkham’s advice is free from Lynn Massachusetts.
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Mrs. Punxnam
Lydia E. Pinkham
Nell Hurst
Deepwater
Needle causes tailor death in Chicago notice
A Chicago tailor swallowed a needle and died from inflammation it caused. The notice warns against small foreign objects and extols Hosterter's Stomach Bitters for nervousness indigestion and constipation, claiming the tonic can restore strength and health.
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Chicago
Sleep talking keeps a man from marriage says Mr Callipers
A humorous exchange notes the top reason a man who talks in his sleep should not marry is that very trait. Little Clarence asks for more reasons and Mr Callipers delivers the witty punchline. The quip reflects a lighthearted domestic humor tone.
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Clarence
Calico Great in United States With Wash Around Earth Note
In Oswego Daily Palladium the piece extols Simpson's Prints thin calico quality. It claims vast yearly US production for a world circling wash and a bow remaining. It notes fast color, no fading, and cheap pretty fabric used in women and children's dresses.
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United States
Simpson
Puzzling Ad Snippet Begins With Patent Cure Claims
A dated collage of testimonials and quips parodies ads for remedies and punctured wit. The fragment references Laxative Bromo Quinine Tibclota claims, Piso's Cure for Consumption, Hall's Catarrh Cure, and assorted humorous lines attributed to Chicago Daily News and other sources.
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