Tipton Ad-Advertiser: Prize Banner Awards Report
An 1869 report from the Iowa Republican Union committees assigns banners to Linn County for largest Grant and Colfax majority, Clay County for largest proportional Republican voting, and congressional districts for largest gains. Details note Sixth District banner and staff plates, with inscriptions citing 1868 results and gains.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Peter Melendy
Iowa Republican Union State Central Committees
Linn County
Grant
Colfax
Clay County
Congress
Sth
N. B. Baker
Wo. H. Fleming
T. F. Withrow
Melendy
Sixth
United States
Republican Union State Central Committee
Grane
State Register
Queen Victoria's Model Farm and Crete History
A long miscellany blends Queen Victoria’s model farm dairy described in ornate detail with a sweeping history of Crete from ancient piracy to modern rule. The piece braids travelogue style notes, literary quotes, and scattered social commentary across a collage of topics and eras.
Dreamed murder leads to years old well discovery
In 1861 at Argentiere France a young man dreams of finding a cottage and well where a murdered peddler lies. Investigations reveal an old couple killed the man, hid the body in a chest sunk in a long-buried well. The couple confesses and dies on the scaffold six weeks later.
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Argentiere
Cevennes Mountains
France
Get a Single Higher Quality Cow for Profitable Dairying
Va'ay Farmer argues that keeping a single high quality cow yields greater immediate profit and long term herd improvement than mixed herds. He urges reducing concentrates, focusing on quality, and expanding from one well-kept cow to a larger dairy while maintaining care and bloodline quality.
Enormous Kitchen on Urue Gua River South America
An immense Liebig's Extract of Meat factory on the Urue gua river in South America claims the world’s largest kitchen. The plant spans 20,000 square feet about half an acre. Four meat cutters work in one hall, processing 200 bullocks hourly. Twelve steam digesters hold 144,000 pounds of beef. about eighty oxen are slaughtered each hour.
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Uruegua
South America
Liebig
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Dumas
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