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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1895
Page
9
A fragmented piece blends a romantic skit with military critique. It recalls Private Will Stokes in a moonlit escape over posts, then shifts to the Nation’s militia force numbers and funding. It argues Congress underfunds militia, urges broader state adoption, and criticizes southern resistance to reform.
The narrative recalls Abraham Lincoln’s penetration of hardship on January 1, 1864. A penniless widow pleads for shelter as a blizzard and war rage. Lincoln, moved, authorizes a grocery bill for her, while a separate Illinois suit seeks $5,000 for twelve enslaved people sold decades earlier.
Fragmented items report shipping of cypress shingles to Ohio and Pennsylvania and the Detroit and Mackinac Railroad reaching Cheboygan. Other items mention opium sales in England, Florida land purchases by Mount Lebanon Shakers, a 13 foot water moccasin caught near Clinton Missouri, a fragrant vine in Savannah, wes Michigan closing an event near Belleville, Stanford University enrollment, a Chippewa Falls man dreaming of swimming, and changes in language use at the Russian court.
A roundup of snippets notes Indiana property taxes rising by 11.9 million dollars and a fifteen story building planned by the San Francisco Call. A Washington paper urges aggressive action, while Charles Reed’s Tennessee stock farm is praised. Oshkosh counts population by wards. A New York plumber touts a silk hat with a beer receptacle. Upland game birds per day rule tightens for sportsmen. A New York ferry line owes annual rent of twenty two thousand five hundred dollars. Peanut acreage in several states falls 10 to 15 percent from prior years. Zanesville landlord sues tenant for five hundred dollars over alleged damages to a rented house.
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