Assessors Instructions for Tax Rolls and Exemptions
State board of review issues detailed guidance for assessors including proper name and address collection, reporting road and homestead exemptions, avoiding double counting cattle, omitting exempt property, using inventories, and ensuring inked books with alphabetical listings. It emphasizes accuracy, signed forms, and strict record keeping per code sections.
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Lie Dsale Board of Review
State Board of Review
Board of Review
Board of Supervisors
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Promoted For Rheumatism
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for rheumatism by cleansing the blood of uric acid and poisons. It cites a testimonial from R J McKnight of Cade s William County South Carolina who claims twelve years of suffering ended after five bottles and four pellets. The offer includes a free medical adviser in paper binding with 21 one cent stamps.
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Pierce
R. J. McKnight
Cades
William County
S. C
Boers In Cape Colony Reach Kaapdal and Capture Detail
Dispatches report Boer forces crossing from Orange River Colony into Cape Colony near Allwal North reaching Kaap dal and capturing a detachment of Pr ha nt s Horse near Zastron with 107 men taken prisoner. Indiana Grange closes annual convention backing fewer schools and township high schools. Resolutions favor discharge of tru ant officers and repeal of enumeration law, opposing Roby race track.
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Cape Town
Orange River Colony
Cape Colony
Allwal North
Kaapdal
London
Kitchener
War Office
Associated Press
Aliwal
Prahant
Zastron
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
Roby
Ruhlin and Maher Engage in Fast Six Round Heavyweight Bout
In Philadelphia at the Penn Art Athletic club Gus Ruhlin faced Peter Maher in a six round contest. Under local boxing laws no decision was allowed and spectators ruled the outcome. Most observers believed Ruhlin dominated the bout.
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Philadelphia
Gus Ruhlin
Peter Maher
Penn Art Athletic Club
Ruhlin
Health board denies smallpox case at Northwestern hotel
The Bessemer board of health says no smallpox case was found at the Northwestern hotel. A man became ill, the attending physician diagnosed smallpox and reported it, but the diagnosis was incorrect.
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Bessemer, Mich
Board of Health
Northwestern Hotel
Wagner and Hambright Seek Assembly Roles in New Session
Racine Wisconsin December 18 John C Wagner a former assemblyman and Charles M Hambright who served one term as sergeant at arms of the assembly are candidates for the latter position at the coming session of the legislature.
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Racine, Wis
John C. Wagner
Charles M. Hambright
Carnegie weighs gift to endow Winona librarian school
Richmond Indiana December 18 reports Andrew Carnegie may give a sum to endow a librarian school at Winona Indiana and is said to look on the plan with favor. Washington December 18 delegate Wilcox of Hawaii arrived in Washington and was sworn in as a delegate to the house.
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Richmond
Ind
Andrew Carnegie
Winona
Washington
Wilcox
Hawaii
Bes
Grand Island
Neb
M. Hansen
Exposition Express Train Note to Buffalo Route
A fragment notes the Exposition Express leaving at 8:90 P M for Buffalo via Lehigh Valley Railroad with Luxurions sleeping CSS likely a timetable snippet.
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Lehigh Valley Railroad
Exposition Express
Wluxurions
Rumored Washington Visit Sparks Iowa Appointment Talk
Des Moines Capital reports Gov. Shaw's Washington trip fuels speculation on possible Iowa appointments. The piece notes the governor may be eyed for a cabinet post or other position, with Dobson and Milliman also discussed as potential successors or interim leaders if vacancies arise.
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Des Moines
Shaw
Washington
State House
Iowan Appointed to Ways and Means Committee
Cedar Falls December 18 Hon J W Babcock recently appointed to the ways and means committee by Speaker Henderson visited Cedar Falls He had previously resided here He has been elected to Congress for the fourth time and has chaired the Republican district committee four times He now chairs the committee governing the District of Columbia an office comparable to a city mayor.
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Cedar Falls
J. W. Babcock
Ways and Means
Henderson
J. P. Dolliver
Republican District Committee
District of Columbia
Cure a Cold in One Day Patent Remedy Ad
An old advertisement promises to cure a cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It offers a full refund if it fails and notes that E. W. Grove’s signature appears on each packet.
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E. W. Grove
Mob after lynching two men in Rockport Indiana
Bud Rowland and Jim Henderson, both African American, were lynched by a mob after Rowland gave a partial confession implicating Henderson in the murder of Hollie Simons a barber who was found robbed and clubbed near the main street. Simons carried $42 50 in a shotbag. Two bystanders scared off the attackers.
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Rockport
Ind
Bud Rowland
Jim Henderson
Hollie Simons
Rowland
Henderson
Gladiatorial Duel Breaks Out at New Albany Theatre
At the New Albany Opera House matinee John Griffiths' company stage Spartacus the Gladiator. John Fay Palmer assaulted Griffiths after his wife cried for help. Palmer struck Griffiths with a cane and drew a sword, but Griffiths wrested the weapon and subdued him before Palmer’s arrest.
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New Albany
Ind
New Albany Opera House
John Griffiths
John Fay Palmer
Cleveland, O
Griffiths
Palmers
Palmer
Boutelle Nearing End, Confined by Illness in Massachusetts
Washington report states that Charles A. Boutelle of Maine cannot return to active life and may live only a few years. Doctor Edward Cowles, superintendent of the Walter Reed hospital at Worcester, Mass., says the statesman is under treatment in a hospital there.
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Washington
Charles A. Boutelle
Maine
Edward Cowles
Waverley
Mass
Statesman
Railroads offer 1-cent fare for Grand Army encampment
Western Passenger association to provide a 1-cent rate for the Grand Army encampment in Denver next year if the Grand Army executive committee in Denver agrees to move the encampment to September.
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Chicago
Western Passenger Association
Grand Army
Denver
Methodist preacher’s ad draws sixty eight women in Austin suburb
An Austin suburb preacher advertised 500 Girls Wanted to hear a sermon and drew an audience of sixty eight young women. The report notes multiple unrelated events including fires, lawsuits, and international news.
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Chicago
Norfolk Navy Yard
Miles Novotny
New York
Bound Brook
N. J
Parker
London City Temple
London Sun
Cleveland
Brown
William de Borden Pas
John Alexander Dowle
Peking
Li Hung Chang
White Star
Queenstown Harbor
Crosby
Doan’s Kidney Pills Endorsement From Iowa Clerksman
J. G. Brum chief clerk of the B C and N R R in Iowa City reports severe back pain and kidney trouble that eased after using Doan’s Kidney Pills. He says two boxes cured him and spring colds no longer trigger pain. Read about his experience at Haverkamp’s drug store. 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Doan’s.
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Muscatine
J. G. Brum
C. R
Iowa City
Dean
Havercamp's
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Doan'’s
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