27 Jun 1857
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Newspaper
Tipton Advertiser
Location
Tipton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1857
Page
1
The page lists advertising rates for Tipton Iowa offices, lawyers Thayer and Carskadden, and A. Ryan. includes notices on deeds bonds official blanks and insurance from Hartford. Also features a color news item about Mrs. Marble’s rescue story from Spirit Lake and pearl findings in Hannibal with Oswego Pearl Company notes.
A Baltimore paper profiles Crowley Matthias Crowley a Mormon leader age thirty seven with ten Utah wives and his thriving wealth. It notes his crops including eight children four colts eighteen calves six hundred bushels of corn four hundred of wheat and considerable root crops. It claims converts gave him from seventy five thousand to one hundred thousand dollars with fifty thousand to the church or him.
An excerpt contrasts the Ohio River’s vast reach with tributaries and settlements, followed by a discussion on bee communication. It notes bees and ants cross antennae to share information, causing alarm when the queen is removed, then quiet again after restoration. It mentions a gossiping club forming in the East for exchanging news.
Bloomington Pategraph reports a fierce Saturday storm at Pana on the Illinois Central and Terre Haute and Alton lines. Winds toppled homes and a store, damaged a church, threw freight cars off the track, and halted east and west trains as injured baggage handlers and at least three deaths are feared. Eight miles of impact noted with Tacusa also affected.
Uncle Ezra recalls breaking new ground in Maine with heavy oxen and early spring ploughing. The land proved so rocky they needed forty yoke of oxen to pull one plough, a tale of hard labor and perseverance.
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