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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
2
The piece satirically examines etiquette as a rigid guide to conduct at table and in dress. It notes absurdities such as avoiding soup with a knife and never inspecting mishaps while urging simple manners and self control despite social pressures.
D P Kingsley in the American Monthly Review of Reviews argues the value of spending 26 percent of income on growth, 18 percent on small or erratic business, and warns that spending ten percent signals a decline toward obsolescence. Sound organization drives economy, growth, and insured returns surpassing conservative investments. The piece notes higher ratios in the US than abroad and increases over 30 years due to more active companies and new business.
Henry J. Allen of Ottawa Kansas runs a novel campaign for the Republican nomination. He travels house to house with the state champion corn husker who dies during the canvass, leaving Allen to speak for himself to farmers busy with harvest.
Reports from Moscow and St Petersburg describe a widescale general strike spreading rapidly. Factories and railways shut. martial law declared. thousands of workers seize towns as troops fire on crowds. casualty figures cited include hundreds killed in Lithuania Courland and Tukum districts.
The jury in Washington found William G. Crawford former deputy auditor for the post office department guilty of conspiracy with August W. Machen and George E. Lorenz to defraud the United States over a contract for supplying letter carriers satchels and straps.
On December 18 two highwaymen robbed the State Bank of Colby of 4500 dollars at gunpoint. The cashier surrendered the money and the pair was captured in Wausau hours later, with the stolen funds recovered.
President Roosevelt signed the measure appropriating 11 million dollars for the Panama Canal. It is the first bill enacted by Congress in the current session.
An explosion during dynamite excavation for the Altman building at Fifth Ave and Thirty-fourth St kills three and injures seven. Workers, including Italians, were scattered by the blast as fragments and debris covered hundreds of feet.
Former Gov. B B Odell charges President Roosevelt and Gov. Higgins with deliberate efforts to wreck the New York Republican party for their own ambitions over the speakership contest in the state assembly. Odell supports EB Merrill Jr and calls for harmony if needed.
Gov. La Follette sent his resignation to the legislature at noon Tuesday effective the first Monday in January as he leaves to become U.S. senator. The special session adjourned sine die after approving seventeen bills including capi tol modifications. A committee to probe insurance companies will be led by Senators rear Roehr and Rummell with members Exern Braddock Beedle and Potter. A separate panel will investigate the state university led by Senators Patten Kreutzner with McGregor Donald and Fred Peterson.
Abraham H. Hummel, New York lawyer, was convicted of conspiracy in the Dodge Morse divorce case. He received one year in prison and a $500 fine, the maximum for the misdemeanor, then was taken to the Tombs and later released on $10,000 bail. The case aimed to invalidate Mrs Morse divorce to block her marriage to Morse, a wealthy banker and steamship owner.
Mr Jenkins of Wisconsin introduced in the house a resolution fixing the last Thursday in April as the date for presidential inaugurations. Senator Clark of Wyoming offered a similar resolution in the senate.
John A. Burbank aged 78 a former territorial governor of Dakota died at his Richmond Indiana home after a brief illness. He was stricken with paralysis Saturday afternoon and died Sunday night.
In New York on December 21 a seat on the stock exchange sold for 90 000 dollars setting a new record. The transaction marks the highest price ever paid for a seat on the exchange.
Two letters from readers describe severe monthly pain and ovarian trouble, then claim success after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. One woman credits surgery avoidance and full recovery, urging others to seek the remedy and write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
Chicago December 22. George Feszler was killed when a bull charged him on the farm of Charles Kauiz, two and a half miles west of West Chicago. A horn penetrated his left lung and another entered the brain.
Clinton Illinois December 22 Dr John Warner aged 86 died suddenly Thursday afternoon Born Virginia 1819 he came to Clinton sixty years ago He was father of Pension Commissioner Vespasian Warner.
Kalamazoo Mich Dec 22 David and Thomas Fuller brothers about 70 years old died Thursday in Thomas home at Bronson from poisoning due to tainted meat that had stood on a tin plate.
The Mariposa arrived from Tahiti with word of a circulating rumor that the United States government has offered France four million dollars for Tahiti.
Springfield reports the Illinois Supreme Court reversed a murder conviction of Jocko Briggs and remanded the case to Cook County Criminal Court for a new trial. Briggs was sentenced to death.
Dialogue from the Chicago Record Herald shows Mr Henpeck visiting a long time patient in a lunatic asylum. The patient recalls seven years inside, says he is harmless, describes his wife who throws things, and mentions her rich bachelor brother helping yet never giving up a cent. The visitor asks how the patient got sent there.
A Westfield Illinois minister reports Bright's disease relief after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He says six years of illness with multiple doctors failed until the pills produced instant relief and weight gain from 105 to about 120 pounds, and he now urges others to try the remedy.
An old quip notes money moves cars as buyers face high prices and lenders demand large down payments. The line from Puck reflects sentiment on affordability and financing hurdles in acquiring autos.
William A. Franklin of Franklin & Palmer Chemical Co Rochester New York reports seven years ago severe kidney failure caused back pain languor and irregular kidney secretions. After using three boxes of Deans Kidney Pills he found prompt relief and was cured. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Ey Buffalo New York.
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