item: #1 of 12 id: 12049 author: Wilson, Jennie L. (Jennie Lansley) title: Legal Status of Women in Iowa date: None words: 24169 flesch: 60 summary: 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 [§§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. keywords: child; children; court; divorce; estate; family; guardian; homestead; husband; law; marriage; person; property; right; sidenote; wife cache: 12049.txt plain text: 12049.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 12179 author: Quick, Herbert title: Vandemark's Folly date: None words: 129877 flesch: 84 summary: 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. keywords: black; boat; boy; canal; captain; centre; county; course; cows; day; days; elder; eyes; face; family; farm; fewkes; fire; getting; girl; good; gowdy; grandma; grass; hand; head; history; home; horses; house; iowa; jake; judge; land; left; life; little; look; magnus; man; matter; men; mind; money; monterey; mother; mrs; new; night; people; place; prairie; road; rowena; rucker; saw; sort; stone; tell; things; thorndyke; thought; time; township; vandemark; virginia; wade; wagon; water; way; west; wife; woman; work; world; years cache: 12179.txt plain text: 12179.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 18174 author: Lazell, Frederick John title: Some Winter Days in Iowa date: None words: 14865 flesch: 82 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. keywords: beauty; black; blue; buds; color; day; downy; earth; feet; forest; gray; green; ice; iowa; leaves; life; march; nature; red; river; snow; spring; time; tree; white; winter; woods cache: 18174.txt plain text: 18174.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 18227 author: Lazell, Frederick John title: Some Spring Days in Iowa date: None words: 11208 flesch: 80 summary: 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. keywords: april; beauty; bird; blossoms; blue; day; flowers; grass; green; june; leaves; nest; red; river; song; spring; white; wind; woods; year; yellow cache: 18227.txt plain text: 18227.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 18249 author: Lazell, Frederick John title: Some Summer Days in Iowa date: None words: 18877 flesch: 80 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. keywords: beauty; blossoms; blue; creek; day; days; fence; flowers; golden; green; leaves; life; light; morning; nest; red; river; road; summer; time; trees; water; way; white; woods; world; year; yellow cache: 18249.txt plain text: 18249.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 18413 author: Hueston, Ethel title: Prudence of the Parsonage date: None words: 68920 flesch: 92 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. keywords: bed; carol; connie; course; day; door; eyes; face; fairy; family; father; girls; good; hands; home; house; jerry; know; lark; little; look; love; miss; morning; mrs; parsonage; professor; prudence; right; room; school; stairs; starr; table; things; thought; time; twins; way cache: 18413.txt plain text: 18413.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 26987 author: Quick, Herbert title: The Brown Mouse date: None words: 55839 flesch: 80 summary: 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. keywords: bettina; board; bonner; boys; bronson; brown; children; colonel; colonel woodruff; corn; county; day; district; fact; farm; father; good; hand; home; jennie; jennie woodruff; jim; jim irwin; life; man; matter; mind; mother; mrs; newton; people; peterson; place; professor; raymond; right; road; room; school; simms; sort; superintendent; teacher; things; thought; time; want; way; woodruff; work; young cache: 26987.txt plain text: 26987.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 31335 author: Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin title: History of the Constitutions of Iowa date: None words: 43357 flesch: 57 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. keywords: act; assembly; bill; boundaries; committee; congress; constitution; convention; election; general; government; governor; house; iowa; iowa convention; law; members; new; people; power; said; shall; state; state constitution; state government; territorial; territory; time; union; united; west; years cache: 31335.txt plain text: 31335.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 39957 author: Iowa Press and Authors' Club title: Prairie Gold date: None words: 70777 flesch: 85 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. keywords: away; belinda; bill; boy; boys; bread; child; children; country; day; days; dead; dog; door; eyes; face; father; friends; girl; god; good; half; hamilton; hands; head; heart; home; house; iowa; jean; john; king; left; life; like; long; look; love; man; margaret; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; music; nasrulla; new; night; nourmahal; people; place; red; roger; room; rose; spring; sun; sweet; thee; thing; thought; time; town; voice; want; war; water; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; young; yuki cache: 39957.txt plain text: 39957.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 40477 author: Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall) title: With Fire and Sword date: None words: 45242 flesch: 82 summary: 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. keywords: army; battle; city; close; colonel; day; days; dead; enemy; feet; fire; general; grant; half; hour; left; line; march; miles; mississippi; moment; morning; night; prisoners; rebel; regiment; river; saw; sherman; shot; soldiers; south; time; town; union; vicksburg; war; way; woods cache: 40477.txt plain text: 40477.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 40777 author: Nourse, Charles Clinton title: Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family date: None words: 84859 flesch: 55 summary: 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? keywords: act; amendment; assembly; attorney; bill; brown; business; case; city; committee; company; county; court; day; des; des moines; district; district court; dollars; general; good; governor; great; home; house; iowa; iowa state; judge; jury; kasson; know; lands; law; life; liquors; man; moines; money; new; office; opinion; party; people; place; public; purpose; question; railroad; republican state; said; sale; state; state convention; suit; supreme court; time; united; wife; years; young cache: 40777.txt plain text: 40777.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 42220 author: Brewer, Luther Albertus title: History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] date: None words: 316597 flesch: 69 summary: 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. keywords: a. a.; a. b.; a. c.; a. d.; a. h.; a. j.; a. m.; a. p.; a. s.; abbe; account; age; april; attorney; august; avenue; bank; bever; block; board; bohemian; brick; bridge; brown; building; business; c. c.; c. h.; c. m.; c. w.; carpenter; cashier; cedar county; cedar rapids; cedar river; cedar valley; center; central; chapter; character; charge; charles; chicago; chief; church; citizens; city; claim; clark; co.; coe; college; community; company; cook; cornell; corner; council; county; county judge; court; creek; d. w.; daniels; david; day; days; death; december; district; dollars; dubuque; e. a.; e. w.; early; east; election; elizabeth; ellis; ely; f. w.; fact; family; farm; father; february; feet; fire; following; friends; general; george; george w.; good; government; gray; greene; grove; h. g.; h. h.; half; hall; henry; history; home; hotel; house; hubbard; illustration; indians; interest; iowa; iowa city; isaac; j. b.; j. c.; j. d.; j. e.; j. f.; j. g.; j. h.; j. j.; j. l.; j. m.; j. mckean; j. p.; j. r.; j. s.; j. snouffer; j. w.; james; james w.; january; john; john j.; john w.; johnson; jones; joseph; judge; july; june; justice; king; l. m.; land; large; later; law; lawyer; left; life; line; linn county; lisbon; little; living; long; lot; lots; m. p.; making; man; march; marion; marion j.; mary; mary j.; mayor; meeting; members; men; miles; mill; mississippi; missouri; mitchell; money; mrs; n. w.; national; near; new; night; north; november; number; october; office; officers; organization; p. w.; paper; party; pastor; people; pioneer; place; point; present; president; property; public; railroad; railway; rapids j.; recorder; republican; rev; robert; rock; s. c.; s. h.; s. w.; samuel; sarah; saw; school; second; secretary; section; september; service; settlers; shepherd; smith; south; springville; state; stock; store; street; strong; summer; t. j.; term; territory; thomas; thomas j.; thompson; till; time; town; township; treasurer; union; united; value; vernon; w. a.; w. b.; w. g.; w. h.; w. l.; w. m.; w. w.; war; way; weare; west; western; white; william; wilson; work; years; young cache: 42220.txt plain text: 42220.txt