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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1898
Page
5
Ames Intelligencer reports on political fates for congressmen Updegraff and Hager, the Board of Trustees’ choice to replace Prof Budd, and the Story County press scene. It notes North-Western railway aid to Ames, winter wheat trials, and a Siberian prison travelogue.
The ad touts Yellowstone Park as an unparalleled summer destination at 7000 feet with geysers canyons lakes and four modern hotels. It urges patriotic Americans to visit or, if unaffordable, Leech Lake Minnesota as a budget alternative. Send Charles S Fee six cents for Wonderland 98 description.
Prof Curtiss writes that winter wheat proves more profitable than spring wheat in many Iowa sections with proper methods. Turkish Red is the sole hardy variety surviving Iowa winters, tested eight years with one winter kill during 1896 97. Yields range from twenty to over fifty bushels per acre. twelve acres at the college farm produced 440 bushels this year.
The Chicago Great Western launches two Pullman palace trains between Chicago and Minneapolis in green and gold with red roofs. interiors feature mahogany inlays and rich carpets. club cars imitate metropolitan luxury with conspicuous conductor’s room and prismatic glass windows.
A fragment notes that people once feared the pestilence more than cholera and yellow fever, yet common constipation causes more misery and deaths. It praises Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a gentle laxative, warning readers not to buy inferior drugs from unscrupulous merchants.
The article explains a chronograph that captures microsecond events in metal compression. A 83 pound weight dropping 15 inches causes 0.1658 inch permanent copper compression in 0.0080817 seconds, recorded by a rotating cylinder camera and a light pencil passing through a vibrating tuning fork hole. The device outperforms smoke coated chronographs in sensitivity.
Robert J. Burdette laments relying on mantel clocks during travel in The Ladies' Home Journal. He notes hotel clocks are trustworthy but household clocks mislead, recounting missed trains and lecture fees as lessons from quoting his experience with expensive timing errors.
A man steps from a London train and is greeted by a young woman who dubs him papa, then reveals she is his long lost daughter. The scene ends with the elderly man clinging to her until a policeman arrives, finding the diamond pin in the girl’s hand.
The violinist recalls his Detroit reception and a newspaper description that puzzled him. He explains how that moment spurred his lifelong study of slang, noting a misunderstanding over the phrase sakes alive and the citizen’s teasing reply. Detroit Free Press.
A tale recalls a short memory English bishop who chats with a familiar officer at a train station. The station master reveals the officer is the Duke of Connaught, prompting the bishop to puzzle over identities and royal titles in a humorous vignette.
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