11 Aug 1898
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1898
Page
1
The Ames Intelligencer reports Congressman Dolliver in a Friday interview stating that the objective is to keep Manila and the entire Luzon area and nothing more. Sagasta faces a difficult task balancing Spanish and American interests as diplomacy to secure peace and preserve Spain's honor proceeds.
The piece notes flags supplied for conquered peoples and the Porto Ricans using Miles' surplus flags for holiday rejoicing. It parodies a tramp printer blamed on a type setting machine and argues machinery challenges temperance efforts beyond law and White Ribbon influence.
Frederick A. Oder discusses Puerto Rico in the August Century tracing discovery by Columbus in 1493 and the early settlement including Aguadilla and San Juan. He recounts Ponce de Leon’s 1510 moves, Indian resistance led by Agueynaba, and the brutal consequences of colonization with mass death and African slave labor.
The piece debates ending Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines through a treaty with Spain and reassessing the US victory at Manila. It notes Dewey’s ties to Aguinaldo and hints at Aguinaldo’s campaigns against Spanish forces in May to July around Manila.
The piece argues Congress and the American public will favor the insurgents under Aguinaldo over Spaniards in postwar settlement. It credits the Philippine resistance and cites Dewey’s early 1898 actions, suggesting liberty and chivalry favor keeping the islands away from return to Spain.
Wallace Cumming writes in the August Century about Manila's holiday culture. Processions at saint days feature lit candles, religious images, and bands, with rockets and home made bombs. The piece notes attire, social customs, and cross cultural tensions between natives, mestizos, and Chinese servants.
The English writer James Bryce spoke in London on July 4 asserting mutual respect between English and American nations. He repudiated British policies that sparked the American Revolution and noted improved cross ocean contact enhancing understanding between the two peoples.
Mr. Stephen Bonsal discusses Holy Week in Seville noting gypsy gardens and Gaditan dancers linked to Martial era imagery. He praises archaic performances as practiced by Pasar and flamenco girls with brown skin, describing their grace, hidden feet, and late serenades under banana trees in a mournful gypsy tongue.
A young boy babysits a baby in a ribbing tale adapted from Pearson’s Weekly. The child uses a bassinet cradle on a sloped floor to rock the infant to sleep while reading a story paper. The sister asks why the baby cries and the boy jokes that talk would not help since girls always cry for no reason.
The Iowa Central Railway seeks interested grain and stockmen to locate along its line. Desiring parties should correspond with J. N. Tremmore, General Freight Agent, 155 Marshalltown, Iowa.
The cockatoos form a branch of the parrot family native to Australasia except Philippine species. Leadbeater's cockatoo is praised for beauty with rose tinged white plumage described as rasp berry and cream. It is shy in Australia, often wild in Europe, and not a favorite of farmers due to crop damage. Nesting occurs in hollow trees with two white eggs.
A New York Commercial Advertiser anecdote recounts an independent woman sharing a tale of a cat that keeps a mouse hidden in an old shoe to prolong its game. The man and domesticated wife observe the mice’s captivity and the cat’s clever sport before the wife releases the mouse.
A passage argues sport shapes character more than ruling elites. It asserts cultured rulers would not guarantee virtue and that boxing can temper or harden, while well-run sport teaches fortitude gentleness meekness and fair play for most men, though not all.
A vain inn guest mistakes a warming pan handle for a bed warming device and pulls it free. An awakened traveler yells to protect his wooden leg, causing embarrassment and laughter in London Fun.
The New York Sun reports a cemetery in a neighboring state where the Rose family graves bear a flower emblem broken at the stem and a bud on the infant’s stone. Nearby the Fish family, noting the Roses, also have a small specimen of the same emblem on their gravestones.
A historical skin remedy blends liquid refined honey one ounce alcohol two ounces cucumber emulsion one ounce elder flower water four ounces and strained juice of two lemons. Use twice daily with a soft rag or sponge for application.
The Sheffield club is the oldest football organization in the United Kingdom. It began in 1855 and its minute book for 1857 still exists.
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