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id: 18413
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  THE BIBLE VI AN ADMIRER VII LESSONS IN ETIQUETTE VIII THE FIRST DARK SHADOW OF WINTER IX PRACTISING ECONOMY


id: 42220
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  Dear Sir: In reply to your request for such information as I have concerning the small mallet or gavel which you had made from a piece of the red cedar shaft, I can only say that there is but little to its history.


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id: 18174
title: Some Winter Days in Iowa
author: Lazell, Frederick John
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  cares that infest the day" shall fall like the burden from Christian''s They err who think the winter woods void of life and color. a moment on the broad open flood-plain of the river, the winter fields white ash which is so full of winged seeds that it looks like a mass vase-like form of the white elm; the flaky bark and pungent, aromatic As the day darkens the ghost-like effect of the storm in the woods is stumps of trees become soft white mounds, and the little brook has By the time you have reached the spring the woods are full of life and how very beautiful are the winter trees! The snow is winter''s great gift to states like Iowa. The first bird seen in the woods was a white-breasted nuthatch, of spring half way, and every warm day in March coaxes them a little


id: 31335
title: History of the Constitutions of Iowa
author: Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin
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  "Claim Rights" were more important to the pioneer of Iowa than "States Constitution of Iowa was "An Act establishing the Territorial Government Organic Act of a Territory as a Constitution is questioned. In the government of the Territory of Iowa the Governor was something been elected to the office of Governor by the people of that State. The first Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Iowa did not meet of Iowa Territory the right to form a Constitution and State Government, law to provide for the calling of a convention to form a state Constitution for the State of Iowa," which act was approved February 16, meet at Iowa City "and proceed to form a Constitution and State people on the question of a Constitutional Convention and the election Constitutional Convention were elected at the general Territorial Constitution" to be "the supreme law of the State of Iowa."


id: 18249
title: Some Summer Days in Iowa
author: Lazell, Frederick John
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  beauty of the world, as the mind and soul strive, like the plants, for Farther out, where the old road leaves the woods, the landscape is belt of grass, flowers, shrubs and small trees till you come to the Curiously beautiful are the sumac''s leaves, showing long leaf-stalks Blue-jays loiter down the old road, making short flights from tree to Summer days are long and joyous, life stretches out before Let me live by the old road among the flowers and the trees, the same friends, for a little time loafing along the old road when the day''s spikenard, with purple stems and big leaves, stood like a sentinel. flowers faded, but its foliage still delicately beautiful, like the now passing by a sloping bank which the gray-leaved golden rod has In the morning of a day, of a summer, or of a life, there seems


id: 18413
title: Prudence of the Parsonage
author: Hueston, Ethel
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  "There isn''t much to tell," said Prudence, smiling. "Prudence is a very nice name for a minister''s daughter," said Mrs. Adams suggestively. But the days passed around, and Prudence and Carol''s turn came again. "All right, Prudence," said Lark with determination. "Oh, Carol," said Prudence reproachfully, wiping her eyes, "how could you "It wouldn''t live long if the ministers had many twins," said Fairy "Misses Carol and Lark Starr, The Methodist Parsonage, Mount Mark, A little later, when Prudence and Fairy came laughing into the "It''s a good thing Prudence and Fairy are downtown," said Lark sagely. Prudence, you won''t let Carol know, will you? "Don''t the twins tell you little things that happen at school,--like And Fairy said, "Oh, yes indeed, Prudence,--this is so nice of you." a coat in time for Sunday, and Prudence had said that Connie must be "I''ll go to the door," said Father Starr, and Prudence looked at him


id: 18227
title: Some Spring Days in Iowa
author: Lazell, Frederick John
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  long yellowish-white tassels and look like masses of floss silk among the white-tailed coats, brown shoulders, scarlet napes and the beautiful green leaves and the tinkling notes of tree sparrows, and we hardly know they come into blossom about two days later than the trillium. White or whitish:--Rue-anemone, hepatica, spring beauty, blood-root, In this long list of April flowers--some observers will be able to make open their star-like eyes for a day or two and dot the floor of the woods the little wind flower, with its pretty leaves and solitary white April and early May frosts but now they are coming into their beauty. grow less full and rich and by the time the young birds come he will have the marshy meadows where the white-crossed flowers of the sharp spring to the beauties of the grass; and when the still, sweet morning comes,


id: 26987
title: The Brown Mouse
author: Quick, Herbert
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  "It seems as if it ought to be possible," said Jim, "for a man to do work Jennie went "off to school" and Jim began to support his mother. "Good work, Jim," said Cornelius Bonner. "All right," said Jim, "what shall I say you''ll do for the schools?" "Jim," said Jennie, "I may be elected to a position in which I shall be "I mean," said Raymond, "that when Mr. Jim began talking school to us, we "Oh," said Jennie, "I want to see whether I can talk Jim out of some of "I think," said Jim, "that I can speak for myself and Old Man Simms!" "I will, next time, Jennie," said Jim. "It''s intermediate school work," said Jim. "If you can''t give them anything better than high-school work," said Jim, his school," said Jim. "You''ve done more for the schools of the county," said Jim, "in the last


id: 12179
title: Vandemark''s Folly
author: Quick, Herbert
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  rascal said, a long way from Vandemark Township, and many years ago in away to his wagon, he said to the young man and me that that sort of "I''ve got some land in Monterey County," said I; "but I don''t know where She said that Mr. Gowdy would like to have him come into the house--and "We are looking," said the man in the carriage, "for a young girl "I think you learned a good deal--for one day," said Mrs. Thorndyke, I thought the man looked like Elder Thorndyke; but the woman''s "Say," said a man who had all the time sat in one of the wagons, "It looks like a good chance," said I. "I could do well for a poor man," said Rowena, looking at me rather "It looked like it," said Virginia. "That come hard," said she, squeezing my hand, "like makin'' a little boy


id: 12049
title: Legal Status of Women in Iowa
author: Wilson, Jennie L. (Jennie Lansley)
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  rights and duties of husband and wife incident to the marriage relation. of husband--Disabilities of wife--Custody of children--Property Property rights of married women--Remedy by husband or wife against the homestead--Conveyance of property when husband or wife is insane women, the mutual duties of husband and wife, their property rights and Husband and wife being one person could not contract nor enter into a [Sidenote: Husband entitled to society of wife.] husband''s death the wife took one-third of his personal estate if there [Sidenote: Conveyance by husband and wife.] Every conveyance made by a husband and wife shall be deemed sufficient 3. Where either party has a husband or wife at the time of the marriage, [Sidenote: Share of husband or wife.] husband or wife, shall affect his or her right or those of the children. [Sidenote: When husband or wife deserts family.] Neither the husband nor wife shall in any case, be a witness against the


id: 39957
title: Prairie Gold
author: Iowa Press and Authors'' Club
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  Today in spirit come we all to Time''s sweet trysting place with story Roger Barnes, son of an elder in the little Iowa Society of Friends and came the reflection that his little son would never know how like to He stood thus for a moment like a proud young athlete, meeting the eye faltered, "but, do you know--you look ever-so-much like a little niece I saw the Union soldier turn his head a little and look directly at me. They tasted like Good-Night on your white face. "Father," said the old wife, "do you mean to tell me you are going to old husband''s voice and he looked at her, Somers bowed his head. went over and said: "Good morning." As he looked up I saw that his I boarded the train, said "Howdy" to a friend, and looking back saw old as one looks for love in his friend''s heart at the home-returning.


id: 40777
title: Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family
author: Nourse, Charles Clinton
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  Many eminent lawyers were members of the convention, among them Mr. Stansbury, afterwards Attorney General of the United States, and Mr. Raney, afterwards Judge of the supreme court of the state of Ohio. supreme court of the state of Iowa was in session in Burlington, Moines, and the fact that our supreme and United States courts would be criminal cases appealed to the supreme court of the state. more than any state officer or even judge of the supreme court received the judges of the supreme court of the state of Iowa, and who had The United States circuit court at Des Moines general assembly of the state of Iowa, to-wit, in the year 1880, tried two of these cases before the United States circuit court at Des court of the United States upon the questions of law involved in these between the state of Iowa and the Des Moines Navigation Company and the


id: 40477
title: With Fire and Sword
author: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
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  ride down the Cape Fear River in the night--General Terry--Learn We followed General Price''s army to the Ozark Mountains, marching day marched half the nights and all the days and just as we got close enough gray and brown uniforms, the prisoners whom General Grant had captured Fifteen officers of our little half regiment were dead or strict for every man and every officer to stay close to his regiment day In a little time, February, 1863, Grant''s army was again off to try for tug, near by, General Grant, the commander of the Western armies, waits Gibson--How General Grant looked to a private soldier--A boy from Gibson--How General Grant looked to a private soldier--A boy from place on his staff--Experiences at army headquarters--Sherman''s life place on his staff--Experiences at army headquarters--Sherman''s life Then General Grant questioned me as to all I knew about Sherman''s army,


id: 42220
title: History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911]
author: Brewer, Luther Albertus
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  time, Marion was a United States land office, and the people of Linn Cedar, Jones, and Linn counties in the early days dressed better than to the people who came into Linn county at an early day to seek homes. The present Linn County Society was organized in Cedar Rapids in 1903. The _Linn County Liberal_ moves from Marion to Cedar Rapids The early Bohemian settlers came to Linn county about the years 1852 In 1840 he came to Iowa City, locating in Linn county record, is to be sought and found in the mind and heart of the Rev. Williston Jones, the pioneer pastor of Cedar Rapids, who for the years various counties in Iowa, had not yet been located in Cedar Rapids, but The Cedar Rapids and Marion City Railway Company was organized May 14, Marion; thence to the rapids of Cedar river; thence to the county line


