24 Dec 1868
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Newspaper
Tipton Advertiser
Location
Tipton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1868
Page
1
The notice outlines a grand celebration of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on January 1 1865 with dinners speeches and songs at Dean's Hall. Committees include Ridgan Meryweather and Edward Hatch plus a table committee with Mrs Jefferson Miss Wake and others. Local items report sales removal notices and ads from Ham monds building and other scattered civic notices in the area.
The Anamosa Eureka reports a jury awarded $1000 damages in a case involving Granger Via Lemprion and the president of the Jones County Agricultural Society. The paper mocks the jury’s wisdom while noting the case will proceed in Clinton County court. It also includes local notices about holiday goods and a musical convention, praising Prof Perkins and urging music in schools.
The Hearth and Home announces 1869 terms and sample pages with Nast engravings and bright paper. It promotes value for families and requests communications to Pettengill Bates & Co at 37 Park Row New York. Young America highlights truthful sketches for children at 838 Broadway New York. Demorest's Magazine touts progress and new features including Ladies’ club fashions at 838 Broadway.
The item mentions The Towa Mutual Insurance Company of Wyoming winding up its business and notes on local criminal sentences in Clinton County. It summarizes local reports from Muscatine and Adel about land settlement, farming yields, and bankers restructuring in Oskaloosa. It also notes cattle deaths in Jasper County and a building stone found in Anamosa with long-lasting durability. The fragment ends discussing a stone in Burlington area.
A clerk mispackaged medicine by substituting opium for rhubarb, leading to the death of a man the next morning. The deceased left a wife and two children. Separate note reports a Montrose fish haul on the River with 12 to 15 tons of buff alo, drawn by Skinner and Harris after a long effort, vouched by many residents.
A long Parliamentary drawing of House seats followed a failed bid for a new arrangement. Leaders like Thad Stevens old seat and ex Governor Thomas old seats were assigned, with many notable members in poor or strategic spots. The maneuver drew laughter and a scattered seating pattern among Republicans and Democrats.
An anecdote recalls Grant and Sherman meeting a private in the city and sharing a handshake while a railroad merger links five large lines into a single Pittsburgh based system valued at about three hundred million dollars. A telegraph mishap adds a vivid social scene of bridal trousseau anxieties among New York social circles.
Notices record marriages by Rev G M Scott at the bride’s father’s home near Tipton. John M. Miller wed Sarah Bradley, with others including Luke Pratt and Silas Hype arparemter listed. The fragment mentions a green back and payments or pence, plus Maggip Heezuson of Redivals.
Obituary notes Mc Jagor Wolf age 63 in Cedar County died November 17 from Consumption. The passage then shifts to a lengthy promotional fragment praising female health issues and endorsing Plantation Bitters as a rescue for the young and lovely, a curious digression within the notice.
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