15 Feb 1872
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Newspaper
Ottumwa Democrat
Location
Ottumwa, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1872
Page
1
Governor Brown and Hon. Voorhees present campaign remarks and political items amid obituaries of Benj. and Senator Grimes. Includes economic notes, customs house topics, and local incidents with market updates and society items.
Archbishop Spaulding dies and Sherman with the Government’s son in Rome. Spotted Tail’s band perishes in a snow storm after entertaining the Grand Duke who is in New Orleans. Illinois Democrats push Passive Policy. Michigan calls extra session March 13 to redraw congressional districts. Senate and House debates on civil rights, reform, and pensions. Horace Greeley declines statue. Forney resigns Philadelphia collectorship. Smallpox cases rise. calls for nitre trials and vaccination notes. WV Journal of Commerce report confirms multiple facts as received.
Ottumwa Encampment No 22 of I O C F meets on the first and third Friday evenings each month at Odd Fellows Hall corner Main and Green streets Patriarch invited to attend C P A F Honpy C B Hendershott Scribe
A middle aged mother of six exposed to a smallpox outbreak reportedly found relief using saltpeter and brandy. After a physician doubted the illness, she self treated with a crushed nitre dose and slept, waking cured. Her husband and sixty others later showed fever and head pain, prompting more use of the same remedy.
A summary of US claims against Great Britain in the Geneva Conference case lists seven items: damages from destruction of US government vessels and property totaling 25 million dollars. destruction of merchant ships and US-flag property totaling 317.9 million. additional damages to persons tied to such losses. national expenditures to pursue cruisers totaling 7.08 million. losses from transferring US commerce to the British flag. increased insurance costs borne by US citizens totaling 1.12 million. costs from prolongation of civil war and related expenses. and interest on all claims up to award, with US proposing interest from July 1 1862 at seven percent per year. The note also says the US cannot yet detail item III but estimates hundreds of thousands to millions for seamen and families, and that the arbitration should estimate item V after presenting tonnage statistics.
A boy about ten or twelve offers his seat to an infirm old man in a crowded railway carriage. The man asks why, and the boy replies that the man is old and he is a boy. Passengers praise the gesture as kind and wholesome, though the scene ends with a note of dampened mood over a wet seat and a stuck window.
Orrumwa Lodge No 9 meets Tuesdays in Odd Fellows Hall Main and Green streets Visiting Brothers invited N G T R Bixt e y Secy EK Thompson Laramie Lodge No 230 meets Mondays N G J Proem D W Tower Secy Quote on brotherly love and badge bearing spirit remains.
A speaker urges Odd Fellows wives to ensure their husbands keep dues paid and maintain good standing in the lodge. The address argues family protection hinges on timely dues, attendance, and adherence to lodge laws, noting the widow and orphan funds remain protected when members fulfill obligations. It emphasizes family loyalty to the order as essential to mutual aid and social responsibility.
During the year past the I O of O F has been introduced in Europe with lodges established in Wirtemberg Stuttgart Germania Berlin Prussia Saxonia Dresden Saxony Helvetia Zurich Switzerland and Farnsworth Encampment No 1 at Berlin A dispensation was issued for a lodge to be established at Lima Peru
The decisions of the Grand Lodge in recess, confirmed as law, bind subordinates. Initiation completes only when the candidate is introduced to the act. An A N G cannot refuse to pose legitimate questions to his lodge. A brother forming a new lodge and missing the visit cannot be counted as a charter member. To join again, his card must be presented and he must be balloted per law.
A clipped note asks what great sin the people of Ottumwa have committed while announcing the arrival of Matilda Fletcher. The fragment hints at curiosity and the impending visit without detailing specifics.
Citizens of Ot tarowa convened October 10 to form a relief drive for the Chicago fire victims. A committee collected and forwarded donations, with Receipts showing 1,638.25 and a shipment of provisions to Chicago on October 12 under J. & Meek Es. Gen. Hardee then oversaw contributions. A delayed cash disbursement followed, with a letter of acknowledgment from the Relief and Aid Society of Chicago. W. B. Lowrieron chaired the committee. Cons. F. Braun attested.
Hon W B Livrstrom mayor of Ottumwa Iowa receives thanks for a 1003.29 dollar donation and 600 dollars worth of provisions for fire victims. Committee members Geo M Puniaan and G Hammon acknowledge the generosity and gratitude is expressed to the donors and doctors.
An advertisement praising the Ottumwa Democrat notes its large circulation, crisp articles, and usefulness for farmers, politicians, women, and youth, claiming every reader profits from the paper at a yearly advance price of $2.00 plus taxes.
A shark caught off Charleston carried a pair of boots a scalp and Sunday School tickets in its stomach. The tale serves as a caution to boys to leave scalp boots and Sunday School tickets at home when playing in the water.
A Warren County woman reports the Des Moines Register ran a triplet tale about a litter of three with different hair colors red auburn and black The piece mocks the paper claiming its right to publish sensational items and parodies local printing and spelling errors in a dated city column
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