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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
5
A compact weekly digest covering home and foreign affairs, industry developments, notable personal and political items, and global happenings. This summary highlights key events from the past seven days across domestic and international spheres.
Senate adopts $3,000 appropriation for a bronze bust of McKinley and debates the Matehood bill until January 6. House passes a livestock disease regulation transfer and approves the legislative, executive and judicial appropriations. Rockefeller donates $1,226,000 to the University of Chicago. Dewey’s fleet ordered toward Trinidad. Also noted are Venezuela tensions, a Pennsylvania child labor proposal, a fatal shooting in St. Joseph, fire at Huron opera house, and various fiscal and transportation items.
The report surveys a slate of events including coal price tensions, a Fort Lee fatal gas explosion, Roosevelt naming A B Anderson as Indiana district judge, Columbus Day bill in Congress, U S Spain treaty ratification, a Bedford Township murder confession, a Clarence bank robbery, a deadly Cleveland waterworks blast, Christmas ban in Hamilton churches, anthracite strike hearings, Michigan election results, Durke fatalities in Peilston, a note on blockade interference, Pullman car workers’ Sunday work ban, New York bank panic safeguards, John Mitchell speech, Supreme Court recess, a Washington Indian warpath, rising food costs in Chicago, Illinois tax voter movement, Vanderbilt illness update.
Solomon Hirsch former minister to Turkey died in Portland at 63. Benjamin F. Dennison longtime ABP Society treasurer died in Philadelphia at 67. John W. Ela Chicago civil service chief died in Philadelphia from an apoplectic stroke at 62. Barnum and Forepaugh clown Gen Peanuts found dead in bed in New York. Gen Wagner Swayne died in New York from multiple diseases. Charles P. Griffin Ohio politician and former state house speaker died of heart disease in Toledo.
Reports indicate Rome selected Bishop Quigley of Buffalo as Chicago’s archbishop while Britain hints at arbitration over Venezuela and Colombia’s St Vincent tensions. Germany planned Margarita island seizure and Cold in Hungary leaves 63 frozen deaths. Premonitory Soufriere signs flash on St Vincent. Nicaragua invasion rumors persist and Mosquito Isthmus routes stay contested. Caracas leaders press for US mediation as Parliament adjourns to February 17.
An earthquake devastates Andijan in Russian Central Asia on Tuesday. Officials report at least three deaths, over 300 injuries, and more than 9,000 buildings destroyed as the population faces starvation threats.
The senate was out on the nineteenth while the house approved the pure food bill 72 to 21. Germany agreed to arbitration with payment guaranteed and will present demands to a commission, with Britain Italy also accepting. France seeks equal treatment over Venezuela but says coercion not intended. Several former St Louis delegates were jailed for bribery.
A Cranach portrait of Martin Luther is found in Wittenberg church. Dennis Kilbride ex MP in Ireland gets eight months for incitement to murder. Jean de Rydzewski’s Paris murder trial demanded by American residents in Paris. Mayor Seth Low may retire from mayoralty. ambassador role to France anticipated. Sir Hiram Maxim to begin two year flight experiments in the U S. Amos J. Cummings library to be given to Colorado Springs home founded by the International Typographical Union. Louisiana Purchase centennial transfer commemorated in St Louis. Court-martial verdicts Lieut Owen upheld. dismissed from navy. Gov Odell proposes a canal for 1000 ton boats to save 20 million. route 338 miles. Judge Grosscup argues trusts are economic necessities but should be regulated. Sherman Act should be repealed. Western National bank formed in New York with 10 million capital.
The Cleveland Pisin Dealer recounts a tale of secret police catching Skoopsky as he posted a card on the czar’s palace doors. He is taken to the mines without a trial for a fatal note reading Girl wanted. A traitor may lurk within camps and the czar Nicholas faces the crisis.
Harpers question whether she shops for bargains and eggs, asking why she would buy eggs cheaply. The fragment hints at consumer curiosity and casual inquiry about spending habits.
An advertisement touts Dr August Koenig’s Hamburg Breast Tea and Hamburg Drops as remedies for chronic coughs and chest complaints. It recommends nightly consumption, coupled with St Jacobs Oil therapy, fresh air, open windows, and daily sponge baths. A package of all three remedies costs $1.25 from a druggist.
A brief proverb notes that arrival comes to the man who waits, echoing a Ram's Horn sentiment about patient anticipation and steady steps paying off in time.
A 50 cent calendar advertisement offers a 10 by 20 inch, 12 color calendar from the Boston Rubber Shoe Co calendar department at 9 Murray Street New York. It promises a handsome design and notes many cheaper calendars are less attractive.
A brief aphorism from the Chicago Daily News notes that men of leisure rarely find time to act, reflecting a humorous take on idle life.
An old advertisement promises that the product cures two cold symptoms in one day and offers a money back guarantee if it fails. The tag line credits imagination without learning as wings with no feet attributed to Joubert.
Agricultural advertisement from Sioux City listing cash price of 84 per acre for a crop until paid. Includes a note aboutMulhall Ta Whisky straights make crooked paths and references Chicago Daily News.
Customs officers examine a passenger who brings ten shovels of Irish soil shipped to Washington. The soil rests in a box at a groggery where Irish immigrants are welcomed, with the traveler waving the Irish flag and singing Wearing of the Green. The piece notes foreign soil as a fact in Washington.
Dialogue snippets reveal a fugitive mood as a suspect recalls London and New York avoidance. One side notes exposure in London while the other prefers New York where anonymity remains possible.
Fragmentary Detroit Free article notes a burglary involving chloroform that sickened a man and allegedly cured his wife’s neuralgia. Names and full details are unclear in the readable text.
The Galesburg Sanitarium advertises curing cancers, tumors, and malignant growths without plasters or operation. It promises relief without papers or payment until cured and claims treatment for piles, ruptures, goitre, enlarged prostates, strictures, rheumatism, dropsy, sciatica, paralysis, kidney and nerve diseases with hydro electrotherapy massage Swedish movements X-ray and other baths.
Mrs Bouncer visits Mrs Grace and praises her delightful company while noting she is no talker. The Boston Transcript records the brief social exchange as a light anecdote from local life.
Frisco System adds handsome Observation Cafe Cars to its through chair car and Pullman Sleeper service. Cars operate on trains from Saint Louis and Kansas City under Fred Harvey management with library, writing materials, newspapers, electric lights and fans for passenger comfort. Trains depart Saint Louis and Kansas City daily.
A Punch cartoon captures a passenger asking when the Cork train starts and a porter replying that it has just gone. The humor hinges on brisk railway delay and local station banter.
An Indianapolis News advertisement touts Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar as a quick throat remedy for coughs and sore throats. The pitch contrasts Pike's Toothache Drops and emphasizes fast relief from discomfort.
An OCR fragment reports a claim about Piso's Cure with praise and negative reception, mentioning J O'Brien of Third Ave Minnesota and a dated note January 6, 1900, with unspecified names and towns.
A Georgia woman recounts three years of ovarian pain and a near operation. After reading an advertisement she used Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, improved after two bottles, and gained eighteen pounds to reach good health.
The text outlines ovarian inflammation with dull throbbing pain and tenderness in the lower abdomen, a sense of heat, occasional shooting pains, and possible swelling in the affected region.
A narrator praises Dr Bowler as a skilled symptomatologist and keen observer of human nature. He recounts using Bowler for his wife who was advised to avoid medicine and to breathe through the nose, emphasizing a no-medicine approach.
Government report for 1902 asserts Texas holds the world record for rice reduction with prime rice lands along the M K T Railway line. James Barker, General Passenger Agent of the M K T Ry in St. Louis, notes an interesting Texas book available on request.
A humorous exchange reports Miss Sere claiming she is 24 years old and Tess teasing her about the timing. Jess notes no doubt but highlights the playful back and forth between friends.
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