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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1909
Page
3
A vivid depiction of Jaipur, the state capital of Rajputana, famed for its red and violet houses. The city is noted as India’s only metropolis laid out on an American chessboard plan and notable for the maharajah’s palace crocodile feeding and pet panthers wearing red sunbonnets with ringed tails.
Gustavus Myers surveys the tramp issue noting a 50 year failure of law, charity, and railroads to curb vagrancy. He cites a $25,000,000 yearly railroad loss, 23,964 deaths and 25,236 injuries in five years, and estimates 500,000 to 1,000,000 tramps in the United States with youths 16 to 21 common and paths from wanderers to crime.
A poem details a home crowd’s shift after a loss and a visiting team’s win. The umpire endures harsh blame when the home side fails, while a victorious day brings quiet crowds and praise for the official. The verse laments the umpire’s fromulaic burden in a volatile sports arena.
The fragment features dialogue with Miss Askitt asking about a bus and another line about laps behind. The readable text shows a playful or parodic exchange without clear entities, dates, or locations to anchor a fuller report.
A Wilmington Delaware report describes teen men tied to a whipping post in one day receiving 955 lashes, surpassing a prior record. The account notes the previous record as 41 a sequence of lashes and details are sparse in the fragment.
A bull terrier left in charge of the Knickerbocker Hotel baggage room during a guest’s absence defied porters and guarded baggage with a menacing growl and bared teeth until the owner returned, despite attempts to calm the dog.
An Indianapolis audience encounters a wandering performer at a theater door claiming half man half horse acts. He critiques the show and exits, while manager Miss Ophelia Polonius performs a flowered stage scene with a comic water tank fall.
Solomon in the New York Sun laments lack of an Easter necktie as he surveys his many wives and reflects on the mistakes of his marriage policy.
Sir Frederick Treves who served in Natal performed an operation on the horse Colenso to save its life after a neck wound. He used a piece of stair carpet as a tourniquet and kept the horse calm by sitting on its head. Colenso recovered and lived in England.
Rats have invaded the Nos 39 41 Manhattan street apartment building terrorizing 28 families. Mrs Coles was bitten five times on the left cheek. Dr Charles Good treated her wounds after a rat ran across a cat and attacked again. Boy Hyman Kleppert was bitten twice and suffered an eyelid injury. Mrs Reynolds was bitten on the left ear. Many foods and pet cats have been stolen or killed by the rodent outbreak.
On January 1 Canada sheltered 38 258 orientals including 17 239 Chinese 15 848 Japanese and 5 171 Indians. Canada has made British subjects 7 442 orientals.
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