Iowa State Fair Opens With Wide Exhibits Amid Busy Display
The Sixth Annual Iowa State Agricultural Society fair opens as entries top twelve hundred with many pantry stores and small articles on display. Exhibitors travel from Davenport Oskaloosa and Cedar Rapids to showcase threshing machines cattle hogs and sheep while notable displays include stuffed birds books seeds and a French Marine ram. Senator Harlan attends and will speak as editors plan a convention.
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Dubuque
Oaxitoon
Montesuma
Keit
Davis, Watson & Co
Davenport
Martin Emmert
Cedar Rapids
Luce, Lane & Co
C. Basset
Oskaloosa
State Agricultural Society
Needham House
Iowa State Agricultural Society
Mark Miller
P. Kirby
Senator Harlan
Letter from Dunven Carr on westward gold rush and dangers
A 1859 letter from a former resident in Colorado describing others opening claims and harsh conditions. He notes early miners prosper, late arrivals struggle, Indians and Mormons block new work, weather and hunger looming, mobs and executions in Golden City, high prices for game and flour, and a bleak winter ahead as emigrants seek diggings and provisions dwindle.
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Hopkinton
Delaware County
Colorado
E. Vanaver
Golden City
Sal Terwards
Journey by prairie to Grinnell from Tama County
The narrator describes leaving Toledo for Grinnell via Columbia and open prairie. They stay with a Maryland farmer and a New Hampshire settler, note Yankee thrift, and travel with saddle horses while encountering prairie wildlife. The brisk ride covers six miles in about forty minutes with playful animal interactions.
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Tama
Toledo
Grinsell
J. Cady
Columbia Village
Ols
Iowa River
Columbia
Grinnell
Maryland
New Hampshire
Solomon
Gen. Dodge
Kirkwood
Iowa
Fremont
Grinnell Iowa grows as railroad plans unfold
Grinnell in Poweshiek county shows rapid growth with wide streets and planned college, town plot funds, and early schools. Leaders and settlers from New England form a prosperous community as rail and road projects connect to Des Moines and St. Louis.
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Grinnell
Poweshiek County
Jasper County
Tama County
Montezuma
Hamilton Avenue
Villace
Josiah P. Grinnell
H. M. Hamilton
Congregational College
Davenport
Grinnell Institution
Town College
L. F. Parker
A. M
Thomas Holyoke
A. Bixby
Homer Hamlin
Henry Lawrence
A. F. Gillett
New England
State of
New York
Iowa
F. W. Morrison
Rickerson
S. L. Herrick
Edmund Burke
Congregational Church
Thos. Holyoke
KE. H. Harris
W. Robinson
A. Bixvy
S. F. Cooper
C. G. Adams
Town City
Des Moines
Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
Iowa City
Poweshiek
J. B. Grinnell
St. Louis, Iowa & St. Paul
St. Louis
Iowa and St. Paul
Cedar Falls
Minnesota
St. Paul
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Xn Literary
O. H. ‘Midway
Dunleith
Hhis
Waar
Nottingham
Dubuque and Pacific
New Wine Township
Clarendon House
Dyersville
Manchester
Golden Era
Galena
Galena and
Chicago Railroad
Northwest
Revert
Cascade
Ben
Waisky
Henry Clay Dean
John W. Markle
Pike’s Peak
John Goldsberry
Missouri
State Arsennal
Capt. Robinson
J. F. Bates
C. H. 8. Jones
8. M. Pollock
Delhi
Peters
Senate
Delaware
Buchanan
Freeap
Indiana
C. J. Cumings
Cascage
Whitewater
Court House
Doubtlces McNutt
Tus Herald
Mewart
Dean
C. C. Hewitt
Mississippi
Hewitt
Cherseb
Baylice
R Gill
Mir
George Bago
Lents
Sears
White Street
Lews State
Pats
Osxaoola
Picken & English
Mahaska County
F. H. Hutchinson
Clay
Washington County
Iage
Chester White
J. H. Warner
Cedar Township
John Slaton
Hardin County
F. Kimball
Lewis F. Allen
Grand Island
Buffalo
N.Y
Duke
Lancaster
Mr. K
Jake
Devon
Timothy Day
van Buren County
Robert Brown
J. G. Jones
Dorkings
Poland
Manny
J. ©. Keck
Fairfield
Kirby
American Harvester
Saally Pere
Traly, BP. A
Jones County
Rome
Messrs
Sans
Lerriewet
Lyers
Jexts
Jonce County
Anamosa
Henace Gassray
Mowe Tuyter
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