Iowa
Old Press
Maquoketa Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa
July 10, 1856
While some young men were bathing in Mill Creek one day last
week, a young man by the name of Jacob Griffin, recently from
Ohio, ventured too far, and unobserved by his companions was
drowned. Boys cannot be too cautious in venturing beyond their
depth when they cannot swim. Mr. Griffin was about 17 years old
and much esteemed.
[transcribed by K.W., May 2009]
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Maquoketa Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa
July 24, 1856
Excerpt from letter to editor in Maquoketa Sentinel,
July 24, 1856, signed “A. L. O.”, regarding Know
Nothing candidates for 1856 election in Jackson County.
"J. W. JENKINS is a man wholly unfit to fill the dignified
office of State Senator. Of impudence, bigotry and vanity, he can
scarcely be excelled; but that he possesses a just and equitable
judgment, a true discernment or sagacity so essential to so high
a trust, I leave with you voters to determine.”
“WM. MORDEN, one of their candidates for State
Representative, has long since been politically dead and buried;
at the last election his requiem was sung. That this
conglomerate, heterogeneous, mass convention should attempt to
resuscitate one who has so long been consigned to oblivion, is an
insult to the intelligent voters of Jackson County.”
NEW PHYSICIAN
We would call especial attention to the card of Dr. J. Hollister,
who has permanently located in Maquoketa, and will wait upon all
who favor him with a call, with punctuality and promptness. We
are well assured that the Doctor is a graduate of a first class
Medical School, and carries the “Parchment”-evidence
sufficient that he is thorough in the art of Aesculapius, and
that
Advice will be given from eight to four.
Patients attended (for nothing if poor)
Prescriptions prepared with care and ability,
And the suffering attended with skill and civility
Tonic, narcotics, and anti-splenetics,
With cures for all diseases, by a clever pathologist,
Dispensed with great care by a young anthropologist.
Business card:
J. Hollister, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Office No. 3, Union
Block, 3rd floor.
[transcribed by K.W., May 2009]
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Maquoketa Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa
July 31, 1856
FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
JOSEPH KELSO, of Bellevue, is an old citizen,
and essentially a Western man, having an extensive practice in
Jackson and adjoining counties, and gifted with extraordinary
energy of character, which governs his political action, and bids
fair to render his stability and firmness of principle efficient
helps to the Democracy in time of need. We know him of old, and
his antecedents are national and untarnished. His legal
experience is a sufficient guaranty that he will fill the office
with marked ability.
FREDERICK BANGS, of Bellevue, affiliates with
the Black Republican party, has allowed his name to be used as a
candidate and consequently endorses their platform. Show him in
the election of Mr. Kelso that Nationality is a part of our
Constitution. That the leaders of the Black Republican alias the
Abolition party, have no political existence outside of the
agitation of a sectional question, and that this loud-mouthed
sympathy for “human freedom” is bounded by the
patronage of the General Government.
Keep it before the People
That Wm. Morden, also a candidate for the office of
Representative, is a political trickster, professes to have been
a Democrat, was an Anti-Nebraska man, a rampant Know-Nothing, and
now for the sake of office and the spoils has accepted the
nomination of this amalgamating, Negro-loving party. He is an
office seeker, an aspirant and will sacrifice his principles at
any time for the spoils of a little County office. He was
defeated on the Anti-Nebraska Ticket by Mr. Kinert at the last
election. Administer to him, voters, another such rebuke, and he
will doubtless leave the political arena, and for the future will
confine himself more closely to Astronomy, Necromancy and the
study of spiritualism.
COUNTY TICKET FOR SENATOR
R. B. WYKOFF, an old resident of Jackson County,
has represented this county in the Legislature with marked
ability, is a consummate hater of Fusionism and its subordinate
branches; and will not yield a hair to its threats, enticements
or braggadocio; in a word, he is “sound,” is opposed to
arbitrary and stringent laws, is a strong temperance man,
believes that moral suasion, example & c., can do far more to
cure the evils of intemperance than strong legislative
enactments; as a farmer, can act for the farmer, the laboring man
and the mechanic; can express his views in a candid, straight
forward manner. That he will guard and protect the interests of
old Jackson; if elected cannot for a moment be doubted. Farmers,
Mechanics, and Working men, he is the very man to vote for. Give
him your support and influence with a hearty good will.
[Transcription note: Results of the 1856 election for State
Senator: J. W. Jenkins-1007 & R. B. Wyckoff-985. Transcribed
by K.W., May 2009]