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Iowa News from across the
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- 1879 -
Westfield News
Westfield, Hampden co. Mass.
January 22, 1879
Married.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dec. 24, by Rev. H. W. Bonnett, William G.
Mallory formerly of Russell and Dillie E. Farrier.
[transcribed by S.B., August 2005]
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Winona Daily
Republican
Winona, Minnesota
March 14, 1879
Punishment by Teachers In Public Schools.
Miss Ada Buemer was a pupil in a school in Allamakee county,
Iowa. Her health was not good, and her father sent a request to
the teacher, Mr. Migner, that she be excused from school
afternoons and from studying algebra. He refused to excuse her
from algebra. A few days after she was present in the morning,
when Migner called for her excuse for absence the previous
afternoon, to which Ada replied she had brought an excuse for all
afternoons. He replied that she must bring an excuse. She
responded: "I brought you an excuse for all afternoons from
my father." He replied: "None of your sass, or I will
take the hickory to you," reaching for it. She said:
"Don't strike me." He thereupon gave her severe
punishment, producing marks which remained two months. He sent
her to her seat, saying: "Do you understand me now?"
She replied: "No, Sir, I do not," not knowing for what
she was punished. On the day previous he compelled her to appear
in the algebra class. She said she supposed she supposed she was
excused from algebra, and had not prepared for the lesson. He
told her she was not excused. Migner was arrested for assault and
battery, and before a Justice of the Peace was fined. He appealed
to the District Court, where the decision of the Justice was
affirmed. He appealed to the Supreme Court, where the cause was
determined at the December term, 1878, and remanded for
rehearing. It came back to the Supreme Court, at the recent term,
where the decision of the lower courts was affirmed. The Court
holds:
That punishment with a rod, which leaves marks or welts on the person of the pupil two months, or much less time, is immoderate and excessive.
In no case can the punishment be justifiable unless it is inflicted for some definite offense which the pupil has committed, and the pupil must understand for what the punishment is inflicted.
If the rules of school require certain studies at particular hours, and the parent may not excuse therefrom, the teacher can not resort to whipping for failure of a pupil to pursue such studies at the hours fixed.
The remedy is by expulsion. Flogging girls 21 years old by big men veated with a little brief authority will not find much favor in the Supreme Court of Iowa, or any other Court. A big whip hung up in a school-room is the best evidence in the world that the teacher is not fit to teach school and govern pupils. The time has passed for attempting to educate the mind by brute force.
[transcribed by S.F., November 2005]
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New York Times
New York, New York
April 28, 1879
Chicago, April 27- An indictment has been found against Mark
Gray, the young man who attempted to kill Edwin Booth. Mrs. Gray,
his mother, who lives in Keokuk, Iowa, says she was never on the
stage and never say Mr. Booth. She said she had been 32 years in
this kounthry and niver was I inside a thayater or circus."
The mother utterly repudiates the insinuation in regard to the
existence of any relationship between Mr. Booth and his would be
murderer. As for her son, she pronounces him crazy.
[transcribed by S.Y., June 2009]
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Freeborn Standard
Albert Lea, Freeborn co. Minnesota
June 19, 1879
-Ole Lee, who owns, and used to run a blacksmith shop in our
midst, returned a few days ago from Emmetsburgh, Iowa, where he
has been the past few months. We are glad to see him back, and we
understand he will again open his shop for business here.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Oct. 2003]
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Freeborn County
Standard
Albert Lea, Minnesota
August 7, 1879
- There was a big wedding at Northwood the other day when Elling
G. Mellem was tied to Gertrude Thompson. Numerous presents ere
made, among the list of which we notice "a silver butter
dish by Mr. and
Mrs. Ole Knudson, of Albert Lea."
- A. Kemmerer is going to Postville to buy wheat.
[transcribed by S.F., Nov. 2003]
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Phelps County New
Era
Rolla, Missouri
October 11, 1879
Local & Personal
-Miss Anna L. Burkitt, of Lake Springs, was married on Monday
last in Salem to Mr. Henry C. Stephens, of Washington, Iowa.
[transcribed by S.F., December 2005]
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San Francisco
Morning Call
San Francisco, California
October 19, 1879
p.7
Married.
WHITE/CORNEPS -- n this city, October 16, by the Rev. Mr.
Anthony, Byron B. WHITE of Iowa, to Emma J. CORNEPS, of San
Francisco, daughter of the late B. F. CORNEPS.
[transcribed by R.F., August 2005]
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Phelps County New
Era
Rolla, Missouri
October 25, 1879
Last week we received a letter from Capt. T.G. Northrop, formerly
of this place, but now of Guthrie county, Iowa, in which he says:
"Please find a greenback dollar for subscription to the New
Era. We are in the midst of plenty. Our wheat crop is fine,
never any better, berry; corn good and ready to be cribbed; no
frost yet to kill tomato vines. Hogs plenty and fat, and worth 3
cents. Cattle way up out of sight, spring calves $10 to 14 per
head, 2 to 3 year olds, 3 to 3 1/4 cents and wheat $1.00, oats 20
cents, corn 20 to 23 cents, butter 20 cents, eggs 10 cents, Your
humble servant had the good luck to buy two calves for $15, my
neighbors think I can make fortune on them. Remember me to my old
friends. Should like to see many of the Rollaites."
[transcribed by S.F., December 2005]
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Winona Daily
Republican
Winona, Minnesota
November 14, 1879
At Waukon, Iowa, the grand jury being in session, Lucius, White
and Woods, known as the "Kid," the burglars who broke
open the safe of Hemmenway, Barclay & Co., at Lansing, on the
24th of August, were brought before them and indicted. The two
first pleaded not guilty, and the "Kid," desiring to go
to the Reform School, put ina plea of guilty, but he failed to
attain his object, as Judge Noble sentenced him to the State
Prison. On Wednesday evening the prisoners attempted to break out
of jail, but the discovery was made in time to frustrate them. A
gun barrel had been passed in to them by some person unknown, and
with it they made a hole through the oak floor large enough for
the "Kid" to squeeze himself through into the basement.
He had succeeded in breaking his irons and was almost a free man
when discovered. They will be brought to trial in a day or two,
and if convicted, which is almost certain, they will undoubtedly
get the full benefit of the law, which is twenty years.
[transcribed by S.F., November 2005]