Death of Iowa's former lieutenant governor Samuel Bestow
Samuel L. Bestow former Iowa lieutenant governor 1892 1894 died at his Chariton home aged 83 He was reportedly the only Democrat to hold the office The item references other local matters including a Floyd county grand jury and a Charles City lynching note and several unrelated editorials and remarks from regional papers
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Samuel L. Bestow
Iowa
Chariton
Floyd
Charles City
Nearest town Brock in Holland famed for Edam cheese
The Colfax Clipper notes Brock Holland population 2700 with tidy streets banning horses. A St Louis strike end featured a mother’s slipper used to calm a girl leader at a factory. A nearby daily paper mocks treatment of bottled babies and a nurse ad seeks night duty for bottle babies.
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Chronicle
Political and Moral Debates Sparked in County Offices
A reader notes that if all were in one party and one church, both would collapse. The Polk County superintendent race faced legal delay as the retiring official used a law about teacher certificates to delay the new appointee, who was eventually upheld by court. In Jasper County two men vie for a sheriff's job left vacant by a death, amid public squabbling and self-interest.
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Polk County
Jasper County
Dammed river may power interurbans and mills
The Bussey Press notes a north Harvey river dam could supply about 250000 house power for interurbans factories corn crackers printing presses and coffee mills if dammed. The piece critiques long-standing dam schemes by farmers and taxpayers and cautions Bro. Johnson to proceed slowly given uncertain benefits.
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Inoxville Express
Smoke Meat the Modern Smoke Meat the Modern
The article explains that smoking meat preserves and lightly flavors it. It contrasts old-fashioned methods, which were long and tedious, with modern smoking. It notes that smoking deposits preservative elements but also soot and other undesired components, and that slow smoking can dry meat and reduce weight by about one fifth in some cases.
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