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| VI |
George W. McCrary in the Cabinet—Financial Condition of Iowa—An Important Decision of the Supreme Court—The Political Conventions of 1877—The Southern Policy of President Hayes—John H. Gear Elected Governor—A Terrible Railroad Disaster—The Seventeenth General Assembly—Repeal of the “Granger Railroad Law”—Interesting Statistics—Political Conventions of 1878—Election of the Republican Candidates—Conventions and Platforms of 1879—Governor Gear Re-elected—The Eighteenth General Assembly—National Conventions of 1880
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85-100
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| VII |
Fencing Prairie Farms—The Invention of Barbed Wire—Formation of the First “Trust”—A Monopoly to Control the Manufacture and Sale of Wire Fencing—Farmers of Iowa Organize to Resist the Monopoly—A Free Factory Established—A Legal and Commercial Conflict—The State Aids the Farmers—Their Final Victory—The Farmers’ Alliance—Kirkwood in the Cabinet—Assassination of President Garfield—Political Conventions of 1881—The First Woman Nominated for a State Office—Buren R. Sherman Elected Governor—An Important Decision—Heroic Deed of Kate Shelly—The Nineteenth General Assembly—Election of United States Senators—Free Passes for Public Officials—Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution Adopted—Declared Void by the Supreme Court
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101-117
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| VIII |
The Great Tornado of 1882—Destruction of Life and Property in its Track—Scenes in the City of Grinnell—Iowa College in Ruins—Seventy Persons Killed and Hundreds Wounded—Political Conventions of 1882—A Rehearing of the Validity of the Constitutional Amendment—Former Decision Affirmed—Conventions and Elections of 1883—Serious Damage to Orchards—The Twentieth General Assembly Meets in the New State House—The Dedication—Amendments to the Prohibitory Liquor Laws—Elections of 1884—Removal of the Auditor of State
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119-133
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