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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1902
Page
2
The Agn intelligencer reports 7 700 acres in grass yielding 10 per acre and 1 700 acres tilled yielding 45 per acre. Total Irish income cited as 200 million with 160 million from land. Population about 4.5 million implies average income near 44 50 and 222 50 per family of five.
The final session featured veteran lawmakers led by senators Hoar with 23 years and Platt 27, Hawley 23, Aldrich 27, Gallinger 15, Allison 37, Frye 33, Hall 31. In the House, Cannon and Hitt held 14 and 10 terms. Speaker Henderson 10. Grosvenor 8. Grow 10, Bingham 12. Dalzell 8.
The article recalls how Buffalo Bill and Senator William A. Clark met during the Kansas Pacific railroad era when Clark sold clocks and Cody supplied buffalo meat for laborers. Within eighteen months Cody killed over four thousand buffalo and earned his famous sobriquet.
King Victor Emanuel has donated 29000 and urged reconstruction of the Campanile. City council members fear funds may be needed for other public buildings, possibly including the basilica and ducal palace, beyond the bell tower repairs.
John D. Rockefeller prohibits cars on his Boxwood property at Pocantico Hills. He has posted signs reading Automobiles are not allowed on these grounds to prevent trespassing on his expansive private domain with fifty miles of driveways.
A Madrid correspondent based in Puerto Real near Cadiz denies sensational reports about Admiral Cervera's poverty and neglect by the Spanish government. He is respected, has no political ambitions, and relies on vice admiral’s half pay plus private funds for simple needs.
Massachusetts runs a well established sanitarium at Rutland, Vermont considers a similar project, New York appropriates 15000 for Adirondack sanitarium, and New Jersey votes 50000 for a comparable facility.
A South African baboon trained by Wylde acts as signalman at Uitenhage Station. The trained animal pulls levers and points under Wylde’s guidance, leaving his former monkey peers behind for human companionship.
Miss Mary Dorothy Bassett aged 20 and a male companion rode a large bucket to the top of a new smokestack in Kansas City. She displayed an American flag and planted a flagstaff atop the tower, impressing onlookers with her nerve.
Last year French deputies used up £2400 of note paper amid flood of letters seeking help. Demands covered finding a wet nurse, buying fresh fish, and bonnets for voters' wives. One deputy even received an artificial arm from a child that died, with a request to sell it at best price.
A Paris school thrives by teaching French youths to speak with a pronounced English accent. Pupils come from clerks and valets classes as shopkeepers seek to attract British styled trade. The trend reflects Parisian demand for English fashion influence.
Weather and crime items fill the page with notes on fires in Oregon’s Cascade range along the Columbia, a deadly church lightning strike in Georgia, various political appointments, and a stream of imperial and domestic incidents across the United States.
A compact weekly digest covers industrial field developments political items and notable happenings at home and abroad. The column highlights broad themes and key events shaping public life during the period.
The Republicans renominated Alvin Evans in the Nineteenth Pennsylvania district and James E. Davidson in Wisconsin's Eighth. E. B. Minor is renominated in Wisconsin Ninth. Alabama nominates Rev. W. A. Day for governor. Illinois Sixteenth district nominee J. M. Nichalls (Dem) and Ohio Thirteenth district A. H. Jackson (Rep) named. Charles F. Joy renominated in Missouri Eleventh. Mrs. Louisa Wells dies at 96 in LaPorte Indiana. Bryan says he will not run for president next campaign. Engagement announced between Vivian Sartoris and Frederick Roosevelt Scovel.
Official war office reports indicate a drop in cholera cases in the Philippines. Other items note U S harbor fraud fugitives Gaynor and Greene released in Quebec, royal visits by Gens Botha De Wet and Delarey, Venezuelan attacks on Cumana, Cincinnati cruiser at Barcelona, and debates on Haiti and Santo Domingo annexation. Paraguay recognizes Cuba. New South Wales passes woman franchise bill.
A string of brief items reports deaths of Charles H. Smith and Captain C O Connor, a post office robbery at East Palestine, and a Hamilton fire. It notes naval trials of the Chauncey, labor campaigns for eight hours, and various international tensions in Panama and the Philippines. Also listed are athletic, political and criminal incidents across cities including Detroit, Chicago, and New York with multiple casualty and financial figures.
Mrs Oldcastle notes Josiah writes a good plain hand and is the grammaticalest man she knows. He tried two verses for Marguerite's birthday but failed, so he has not attempted verse since. She believes he is cut out for business and that versatility is rare in one with business sense.
Travelers East or West will find the line offers the lowest rates with full comfort. Uniformed colored porters attend to passengers regardless of ticket class, with care for women traveling alone or with children. Modern day coaches, all sleeping cars, and dining service of high order. Meals 35 cents to 1.00 at American club slams. no excess fare. Read tickets read via Nickel Plate Road.
A witty aside from the Milwaukee Sentinel notes that while beauty often pushes limits, the wisest choice may be talking less to avoid wrinkles. It humorously frames restraint as a beauty secret rather than cosmetics.
A $100 cash prize is offered for naming the new Daily Limited train to California to be placed in service November 1, 1902 by the Rock Island System and Southern Pacific, via the El Paso Short Line. Open to the public with no fees. For instructions write Sebastian, Pass Traffic Manager, Rock Island System, Chicago.
A brief humor item notes a quip about fluency in a tongue with a playful jab at a mother in law. The exchange evokes a light, era-appropriate joke style typical of the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Travel offer for a $20 voyage from Chicago to New York via Virginia mountain and seashore resorts to Norfolk Virginia with the Old Dominion Line Steamers. Meals and berths free from Norfolk. Address N W P Agent Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 234 Clark Street Chicago IL.
A pithy Seneca maxim about virtue and reciprocity, emphasizing that failing to confer a benefit is a deeper fault than refusing one. The quote frames moral duty as communal obligation and ethical restraint.
An old time remedy ad touts Allen's Foot-Ease for swollen sore sweaty feet and easy wear of new shoes. It claims cure and comfort with claims of retail availability at reggists and shoe stores and includes a street address for A. B. Olmsted in Le Roy.
Short clippings record moral sayings and testimonials from 1900. Notable lines include a caution about bad company and a claim praising Piso's Cure as medicine for throat and lung affections attributed to Wm. O. Endsley of Van Buren Indiana with a date of February 10, 1900.
An old ad promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets priced at 25 cents. The jingle ends with a Whittier quotation about faith and honor, reflecting a historical product and era.
A collection of vignettes about famous partners and marital tensions. Fielding married a maid, More's wife scolded him before execution, Moliere wed a 17 year old actress who fled. Catherine II ruled alone after arranging her husband’s death. Ben Jonson’s wife chided him on long hangs. Hazlitt’s wife was temperamental. Napoleon praised Josephine yet mocked her crying, while remaining a towering figure.
Charles Back of Paris describes lifelong kidney disease cured after two days with Dodd's Kidney Pills in Montreal. He reports prior ineffective treatment in Paris and Hamburg and says a week of use eliminated all pain, declaring the pills essential to his life.
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