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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1902
Page
3
The piece lampoons or lightly satirizes George Washington's birthday and American patriotism. It contrasts joyous bells with political restraint, urges dignified conduct, and comments on taxes and representation while invoking Washington as a fatherly figure and national ideal. It suggests skepticism about taxes and public office, urging honesty and humility.
Iowa mine operators propose a cast iron rule requiring miners to cut coal before firing to curb explosions. The practice of drilling and blasting with excessive powder is blamed for blasts. Shot firers may be required. some mines already employ them at miners' expense. Gov Cummins names a committee including Stout Phillips Reese and White to investigate.
A commission from the Twenty fifth general assembly located Iowa troop positions at Chattanooga battlefield. They report hard times hindered monument funding and seek 135000 for Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge memorials amid Vicksburg funds shortfall.
State Geologist Samuel Calvin asserts Iowa oil fields are independent of Standard Oil. He notes samples from Frederika in Bremer County show high grade kerosene ready for lamp use, and that Iowa discoveries avoid refining and reliance on Standard Oil.
F. F. Sabo of Badger Township choked his wife and shooed five children into the snow at midnight. They walked barefoot a half mile to a neighbor’s home. oldest child 13. Sabo arrested in Fort Dodge and fined heavily. Community outrage and threats of violence if repeated follow. He was intoxicated.
A stock company in formation will incorporate to build a half mile racing track in Mason City. Principal promoters include J. E. Moore N. C. Kotchell Cliff Baker Sime Keeney CC. B. Savage and Charles Smith. Upon completion Mason City will join the Cedar Valley Racing association circuit.
Resolutions adopted in Ames urge Congress to pass laws for guarding national forests. Proposals include setting aside Leachlake Indian reservation timber tract for park and forestry use and withdrawing government timber land from settlement entry.
A Black man from southern Alabama has been in Mills county obtaining options on large tracts in Nishne bottom White Cloud township five miles east of Tabor. The aim is to buy vast land to colonize negroes for farming and gardening purposes.
The Iowa State Board of Health proposed a bill giving it authority to manage local quarantine and vaccination where communities fail to control smallpox and other diseases. After investigation, conditions were not as dire as feared in Des Moines, yet vaccination and fumigation drives were planned, with post offices urged to be vaccinated and mail fumigated, risking millions in damages.
The list of Iowa women selected as delegates to the National Mothers Congress in Washington includes Mrs. Adelaide Ballard Hull Mrs. M J Coggeshall Des Moines Mrs. Evelyn H Belden Sioux City Mrs. Kate Powers Sheldon Mrs. Marion E Kemp Waverly Mrs. Eunice Barnett Independence Mrs. M A Emsley Mason City Mrs C W Reynolds Panora Mrs Irene G Adams Cresco Mrs M M Clark Des Moines Dr A D King Des Moines Mrs Siddie F Richards Waterloo Mrs Anna Steinberg Hull Mrs Mary Clements West Union Mrs Alice Glass Mason City Mrs Mary C Hickman Sioux City Mrs Emily Phillips Ottumwa Mrs M W Eldredge Sheldon Carrie Curtis Waverly Ella Stevenson Waterloo J J Booth Cresco Clara M Ritchie Des Moines L Swindler Yale Mary Collins Superior E E Ulm Perry T L Green West Union Dr M Townsend Marshalltown Mabel J Smith Paton
The Iowa Supreme Court決decides that when a city funds public improvements and issues certificates against abutting property, the city may be liable if later proceedings are illegal and certificates invalid. The Fort Dodge Electric Power Co. v Fort Dodge holds certificates against contractors invalid with the city absorbing the loss.
A delinquent taxpayer owing 1200 dollars sought to offset taxes due to the county against his money and credits. The county treasurer refused the deduction, prompting a lawsuit to settle whether taxes can be offset as a debt. No prior case in the law books addresses this issue.
A $5,000 defamation case brought by Jerry Lynch of Rock Valley against Rev. Father J. M. Phelan was settled out of court. Phelan agreed to retract his statements read from the pulpit and admitted the charges that he had claimed Lynch said saloon keepers run homes and that Lynch was unfit to be in town.
At a Des Moines meeting the Iowa Humane Society rejected a proposed amendment to empower humane officers to remove children from mothers in houses of ill fame and place them in institutions. Rabbi Sonneschein and Mayer Quick of Sioux City opposed the measure, arguing maternal love protects the child despite the mother's degradation.
Letters of commendation pour in for Pe-ru-na as the catarrh remedy of the age. Dr. Hartman receives hundreds daily from all classes, including the Governor of Oregon who endorses its use for his family. The ad urges keeping Peruna in every home to prevent and cure colds and winter ailments.
Venice hosts a German school with more Italian students. Paris Milan Stuttgart and Zurich ratios show small schools per population. Mrs Oliver Ames funds a brass band at Oliver Ames High North Easton. Harvard's Hugo Munsterberg plans a philosophy hall to be named Emerson Hall.
W H Ketchum of Erie Kansas suffered a back pain lasting five months in 1900. After trying doctors without relief he used six Dodd's Kidney Pills daily, felt better in a week, and after a second box has had no recurrence for over a year.
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