Annals of IowaSamuel Storrs Howe, Theodore Sutton Parvin, Frederick Lloyd, Sanford W. Huff, Charles Aldrich, Edgar Rubey Harlan Iowa State Historical Department, Division of Historical Museum and Archives, 1897 |
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Side 4
... miles , but its northern limits are not defi- nitely known . To the eastward a practically continuous ice sheet spread away in cold monotonous desolation until its ragged edge was broken into icebergs by the waves of the wintry Atlantic ...
... miles , but its northern limits are not defi- nitely known . To the eastward a practically continuous ice sheet spread away in cold monotonous desolation until its ragged edge was broken into icebergs by the waves of the wintry Atlantic ...
Side 8
... miles . Some of the layers are so firmly cemented as to form a conglomerate hard and compact as the basal ... mile and a half below Afton June- tion ; the same relation is seen at Thayer ; while less than half a mile north of the ...
... miles . Some of the layers are so firmly cemented as to form a conglomerate hard and compact as the basal ... mile and a half below Afton June- tion ; the same relation is seen at Thayer ; while less than half a mile north of the ...
Side 11
... miles , and a gradient of 30 feet to the mile would make the surface of the ice at Des Moines 7,500 feet higher than at the margin . The present difference in elevation between Saint Louis and Des Moines is about 250 feet . The ...
... miles , and a gradient of 30 feet to the mile would make the surface of the ice at Des Moines 7,500 feet higher than at the margin . The present difference in elevation between Saint Louis and Des Moines is about 250 feet . The ...
Side 12
... miles . An immense amount of detrital material , varying in di- mensions from finest rock flour to bowlders eight or ten feet in diameter , was transported by the Kansan ice and strewn over the whole glaciated area to form the present ...
... miles . An immense amount of detrital material , varying in di- mensions from finest rock flour to bowlders eight or ten feet in diameter , was transported by the Kansan ice and strewn over the whole glaciated area to form the present ...
Side 13
... miles . The Lucas county copper travelled more than 600 miles . The rate of flow of a glacier depends on a number of factors , such as the gradient of the surface , the depth of the ice and the temperature of the air . When the ice has ...
... miles . The Lucas county copper travelled more than 600 miles . The rate of flow of a glacier depends on a number of factors , such as the gradient of the surface , the depth of the ice and the temperature of the air . When the ice has ...
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Side 45 - No bill shall be passed, unless by the assent of a majority of all the members elected to each branch of the legislature, and the question upon the final passage, shall be taken immediately upon its last reading, and the yeas and nays entered on the journal.
Side 276 - So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of Death, Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy...
Side 276 - Why weep ye then for him, who, having won The bound of man's appointed years, at last, Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, Serenely to his final rest has passed ; While the soft memory of his virtues, yet, Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun is set...
Side 61 - This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character. The true point of view in the history of this nation is not the Atlantic coast, it is the Great West.
Side 636 - The Legislature shall not in any manner create any debt or debts, liability or liabilities which shall, singly or in the aggregate, with any previous debts or liabilities, exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, except...
Side 139 - In a Republic like ours, where the citizen is the sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign — the people — should possess intelligence. The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us a free nation...
Side 453 - His youth was innocent ; his riper age, Marked with some act of goodness, every day ; And watched by eyes that loved him, calm, and sage, Faded his late declining years away. Cheerful he gave his being up, and went To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent.
Side 43 - ... performance of any of his public or private duties, or rendered incompetent to give evidence in any court of law or equity, in consequence of his opinions on the subject of religion; and any party to any judicial proceeding shall have the right to use as a witness, or take the testimony of, any other person not disqualified on account of interest, who may be cognizant of any fact material to the case; and parties to suits may be witnesses, as provided by law.
Side 631 - The State may contract debts to supply casual deficits or failures in revenues, or to meet expenses not otherwise provided for; but the aggregate amount of such debts, direct and contingent, whether contracted by virtue of one or more acts of the General Assembly, or at different periods of time, shall never exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars...
Side 125 - Cedar of the loway, forty miles from the Mississippi river ; thence, in a right line to a point in the northern boundary line of the State of Missouri, fifty miles, measured on said boundary, from the Mississippi river ; thence, by the last mentioned boundary to the Mississippi river, and by the •western shore of said river to the place of beginning.