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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1903
Page
2
A long list of varied events reports deaths from accidents and lynchings, embezzlement, political and naval developments, weather damage, strikes, and court actions across the United States and abroad, including rail crashes, fires, and metropolitan investigations.
A compact digest highlights casualties and fires, political notes, business failures and resumptions, and a weather record. It surveys global events, noting incidents of conflict, economic shifts, and notable climate figures from the week.
A wide summary of diverse events including a death in Holyoke Massachusetts a tax suit in Grand Rapids against Michigan 1903 convention openings in Washington DC and 315 delegates textile workers returning to work in Philadelphia and multiple local incidents across the country. Major crop and export notes from crops in the Dakotas and Minnesota plus the St Louis Olympian games dates.
Eaton Stone, famed circus performer, died in Hurley New Jersey aged 86, first to somersault on a galloping horse. Gen. E B Bryant ex‑dean of Wisconsin law school died on a train near Toronto. B L Woodward trap shooter died in Brockton at 38. Ex Governor Lubbock aged 87 and Miss Lou Scott aged 40 wed at Abilene. Maria Letitia Lish oldest Baltimore woman died at 102. John and Mrs Wayne died within hours of each other and were buried together in Albany. USA.
News briefs report Bulgar revolts burning fifteen Turkish villages in Okheida vilayet and casualties from the same region. Martinique hurricane wrecks hundreds of buildings. Jamaica hurricane causes fifty deaths and massive damage. Paris underground wreck death toll reaches ninety four. Pius X fainted during mass but recovered. Irondequoit wins Canadian Cup race in Toronto. Pius X ordered to rest by physicians. Macedonia unrest and calls for a Christian governor. Vesuvius eruptions intensify.
The Board of Control awarded coal contracts for state institutions starting October 1, with an average price rise of about 60 cents per ton. Awards include Anamosa 5,000 tons to G. E. Frackel of Oskaloosa, Cherokee 5,000 tons to Thomas J. Mulgrew of Dubuque, Council Bluffs 2,600 tons, Independence 9,500 tons, Mitchellville 3,500 tons to The Colfax Consolidated Coal Company, Davenport 2,500 tons to J. B. Frahm Company, Eldora 5,000 tons to Miller Creek Coal Company, Glenwood 7,000 tons to Hocking Coal Company of Oskaloosa, and Marshalltown 6,400 tons to Gregory Coke Fuel & Lime Company of Marshalltown.
The United States Weather Bureau reports Iowa July conditions with temperatures below normal and rainfall about 0.91 inches above July normal. The state’s mean temperature was 72.9 degrees, highest 100 at Thurman and Sigourney on July 9 and 27, and lowest 40 at Chester on July 31. The greatest daily temperature range reached 39 degrees at Lansing, Clarinda and Eldon.
M A Raney of Marengo elected grand patriarch of the Odd Fellows Patriarchs Militant encampment in this state. He also serves as general of the encampment nationwide by appointment of the Sovereign Grand Lodge and edits the Marengo Republican.
The next legislature may appropriate a small sum for a monument to Timothy Brown a revolutionary soldier and Washington era troop member buried in a pasture in Washington county. Brown an early pioneer arrived in the state over fifty years ago and his grave’s location may soon be forgotten. The legislature previously granted one or two such appropriations and may extend the same kindness again.
The board of control will likely delay examining the financial condition of state educational institutions until after the fall term opens and the new school year begins. The law requires a biennial report to the governor, but the institutions are not to be examined until autumn.
Case testimonies from Philadelphia and Millersville describe severe female troubles with dizziness irregular menstruation and fatigue. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound both Mrs Florence Holland and Mrs Maria Bowers report substantial relief enabling them to resume daily work and activities.
A fragment from the Sommerville Journal shows Mrs Youngwife asking an applicant about ponies of cook and a laconic reply from a cop, with a claim I could write a book. The text is garbled and provides few concrete facts.
Many brief items promote profitable investments in sections along the M K and T lines. A stamp offer invites readers to prepay postage to Katy Suite B St Louis Missouri. Odd quotes and jokes fill the page from Downer and Ram’s Horn.
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