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id: 18227
author: Lazell, Frederick John
title: Some Spring Days in Iowa
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  The drooping racemes of white blossoms, with the ruby and early-falling bracts among them look like gala decorations to fringe the way of Flora as she travels up the valley. In this long list of April flowers--some observers will be able to make it still longer--there are many favorites.


id: 18174
author: Lazell, Frederick John
title: Some Winter Days in Iowa
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sentence: 742
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summary:
  There are but few trees, but they have had room for full development and are noble specimens. A flock of tree sparrows were busy in and around a big thicket of wild gooseberry bushes on the upland.


id: 18249
author: Lazell, Frederick John
title: Some Summer Days in Iowa
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sentence: 832
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summary:
  The old tree seems to bend its branches down to listen as he says: I know you, old tree, and I love you. Others of your ancestors, old tree, formed the sacred grove of Dodona, where the oracles spake to minds as yet in darkness.


id: 12049
author: Wilson, Jennie L. (Jennie Lansley)
title: Legal Status of Women in Iowa
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sentence: 951
flesch: 60
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  If the court is satisfied that the petition is made in good faith, and that the petitioner is the proper person to exercise the power and make the conveyance, and that such power is necessary and proper, said court shall enter up a decree authorizing the execution of all such conveyances, for and in the name of such husband or wife, by such person as the court may appoint [Â§Â§3408-3409.] The husband may obtain a divorce from his wife for like causes, and also when the wife at the time of the marriage was pregnant by another than her husband, unless such husband had an illegitimate child or children then living, which was unknown to the wife at the time of the marriage.


id: 40477
author: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall)
title: With Fire and Sword
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  If I wanted to see great men, notorious men, men making history, all kinds of men, I had only to step into the corridors of the National. The army in the Carolinas--General Sherman sends for me--Gives me a place on his staff--Experiences at army headquarters--Sherman's life on the march--Music at headquarters--Logan's violin--The General's false friend--The army wades, swims, and fights through the Carolinas--I am sent as despatch bearer to General Grant--A strange ride down the Cape Fear River in the night--General Terry--Learn that my song The March to the Sea is sung through the North, and has given the campaign its name--I bring the first news of Sherman's success to the North--An interview with General Grant. CHAPTER XV 198 Washington City in the last three days of the war--Look, the President!--_The last man of the regiment.


id: 31335
author: Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin
title: History of the Constitutions of Iowa
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summary:
  So he earnestly recommended to the Legislative Assembly the early passage of a memorial to Congress, respectfully asking of that body the passage of an Act, at their ensuing session, granting to the inhabitants of Iowa Territory the right to form a Constitution and State Government, and to provide for their admission into the Union upon an equal footing with the original States. Prosperity and improvement result from the establishment of State government.


id: 26987
author: Quick, Herbert
title: The Brown Mouse
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  Mr. Prisidint, said he, we have wid us t'night, a young man who nades no introduction to an audience in this place, Mr. Jim Irwin. You know, said Raymond, that you'd think mahgty small of me, if I'd desert Mr. Jim Irwin.


id: 18413
author: Hueston, Ethel
title: Prudence of the Parsonage
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summary:
  Keep Prudence quiet a few days,--that's all. Oh, I am sure Miss Prudence will give me a pencil and paper, and I'll copy them in the book as soon as ever I get home.


id: 39957
author: Iowa Press and Authors' Club
title: Prairie Gold
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sentence: 4369
flesch: 85
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summary:
  William B. Allison, Gen. James B. Weaver, and many other men prominent in the public life of Iowa contributed articles of permanent value. This causes many young men to seek some employment which will not soil their hands.


id: 40777
author: Nourse, Charles Clinton
title: Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family
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flesch: 55
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  The truth is, and all who have watched the progress of this contest know that it was never intended to make this amendment aim to do more than it was possible to do, namely, to exercise police power in its own state, and not aim to attempt to stop inter-state commerce, nor try and prohibit the use of liquor in other states. Above all things, have we, as prohibitionists, anything to gain by entering into an alliance with the distillers of other states who are making war upon a productive industry in our own state, for the sole purpose of promoting their own pecuniary interests in destroying competition in their business?


id: 12179
author: Quick, Herbert
title: Vandemark's Folly
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  It is hereby understood that if any of said animals are ever returned to me at Blue-grass Manor or elsewhere they will be hamstrung by the undersigned and turned out to die. You bane a dam good-for-nothing rascal, but you bane best man for captain.


id: 42220
author: Brewer, Luther Albertus
title: History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911]
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  W., Walker Scott, David, Mt. Vernon Strite, Mary C., Springville *Thomas, Jeremiah, Mt. Vernon *Travis, Daniel, Mt. Vernon *Wallace, D. R., Marion Wallace, John C., Marion *Wilson, John, Marion *Weare, Charles, Cedar Rapids Wilson, Mrs. C. M., Troy Mills 1849 *Anderson, J. S., Cedar Rapids *Bolton, A., Paralta Bryan, Mrs. Louisa, Center Point Clark, Margaret J., Marion *Cooper, Wm., Marion *Dean, Preston S., Marion *Dorwart, David, Cedar Rapids Ford, E. P., Central City *Fullerton, Geo. E., Marion *Gillilan, D. C., Central City Grove, S. N., Marion Hence, Mary, Lafayette Hahn, E., Mt. Vernon James, Mehitable, Viola Jordan, Mrs. E. A., Springville Keyes, A. J., Marion Kyle, Isaac, Mt. Vernon *Kyle, John, Mt. Vernon *Kyle, L. B., Mt. Vernon Langsdale, Wm. I., Center Point Langsdale, Julia A., Center Point *Martin, Almira, St. Paul Milner, Sarah A., Marion Miller, Mrs. C. L., Cedar Rapids McFarland, J. G., Mt. Vernon Null, Mary E., Cedar Rapids *Nugent, J. J., Coggon *Oxley, Wm., Delta, Idaho Parker, Mrs. B. F., Cedar Rapids Quass, Barbara, Cedar Rapids Quass, Godfried, Cedar Rapids Shanklin, Mary A., Viola Swan, John P., Marion Taylor, John, Toddville Taylor, M. V., Marion *Vannote, B., Cedar Rapids White, Elizabeth, Springville *White, Hosea, Springville *Wickham, B. P., Marion Wilson, Mrs. Eva, Marion 1850 *Andrews, C. C., Marion *Andrews, Geo. H., Coggon *Alderman, E. B., Riverside, Calif. Beall, Mrs. James M., Cedar Rapids Beall, Wm. B., Cedar Rapids Fleming, James, Marion Hale, Mary S., Cedar Rapids Hall, Mrs. Ida, Marion Hall, J. J., Cedar Rapids Hazeltine, E. D., Center Point Hendryxson, F. M., Marion Hill, Mrs. A. T., Cedar Rapids Shinn, Joab R., Marion Slife, James, Martelle Smith, Wm. A., Mt. Vernon *Smith, C. G., Springville Smyth, Wm., Cedar Rapids Sprague, Mrs. R. C., Cedar Rapids Stinger, Eliza E., Mt. Vernon Strawn, N. P., Shellsburg Stuart, Geo.


