Inaugural Address and Iowa's Semi-Centennial Vision
The text presents a 1806 inaugural speech urging unity, education reform, and state pride amid Iowa’s semi-centennial reflections. It honors veterans, discusses the Soldiers' Monument, and calls for expanding public schools, a robust normal school system, agricultural colleges, and a strengthened state university, while praising leaders like Judge Wright and Samuel Kirkwood and stressing national unity, railroads, canals, and temperance.
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Samuel F. Miller
Tivn
Lincoln
Tie
Iona
Marshall
Congress
Towa
America
Iowa
Amos
Te Ware
Rm Schools
State Normal School
Bits of Knowledge From a Bygone Era
A collection of curious facts on costs of moving cities, a steamship priced at 1,000,000 with 8000 horsepower, large school enrollments and teachers, violent editor histories, child welfare notes, street lengths in Boston and Paris, milkmaid superstitions, Dutch farming sizes, Holland farm patterns, Japan’s ancient wooden storehouse, and telegraph speeds via transatlantic routes and wire clearance.
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United States
Washington Street
Boston
Paris
England
Scotland
Nebraska
Massachusetts
Holland
Japan
Yara
London
New York
Causa
Nova Scotia
Penzance
RAM'S HORNS AND SINS FOR BIBLE LOVERS
A compact devotional piece urges unrepentant sinners to seek salvation and Bible loving life. It asserts Bible promises favor believers who win souls, warns negative sinners risk loss, and emphasizes love among people. The text notes prayer, careful Bible reading, and reliance on God and angels for support.
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Howe
Towaars
Favern
World's Earliest Potato Claim Prompts Mortgage Offer
An early potato claim touts Salzer's Earliest for a 28 day growth cycle with a 4000 bushel yield from 10 acres sold at $1.00 per bushel. The advertisement promising free grain samples and a mammoth feed catalogue follows a dispute over charges and a doctor’s line about cough remedies.
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Salzer
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