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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1902
Page
6
A compact weekly digest of home and foreign items spans industry news personal politics and daily happenings. Readers obtain brief updates on notable events, developments and personalities shaping the week in review across regions and nations.
Senate favors changing inauguration to late April while voting reforms and pension increases for Mexican war veterans proceed. The House passes the oleomargarine bill with branding, approves war claims, and debates Philippine tariff measures as other nations and states act on trade, governance, and early 1900s reforms.
The news notes a Detroit bank suspension amid a $1.59 million alleged shortfall tied to VP Frank C. Andrews who was arrested. It covers labor hours proposals, mine fatalities in South McAlester, Paterson fire losses, January US fire expenses, Springfield factory fires, robberies at Muskegon vault, a New York customs protest signed by 886 women, Mormon polygamy claims, Chicago law school funded by a $500000 gift, Eva Gilbert’s death in Newport News, and burglaries in Stone Fort. It also mentions reciprocity with Cuba, army post distributions, Gage becoming U S Trust president, New Jersey officials elected, rail consolidations predicted by Henry Clews, and a Chicago wife beater fined.
Obituaries include Nancy Jane Roberts at 109 near Portland Oregon, Thomas Searle aged 105 in Kankakee county Illinois, Mrs Odell mother of Gov Odell at Newburgh New York, and Rear Admiral Sampson’s sister L E Ellis in Detroit. Also Alice Roosevelt's eighteenth birthday in Washington and George Cromer renominated in Indiana Eighth District. Robert Lindsay 78 in Sheffield Alabama, first Alabama governor after Reconstruction, and Henry Fork Mexican War veteran dies near Evansville Indiana at 100.
New owner of the London Daily News says betting or turf content will not be printed. A Manila dispatch reports Edmond A. Dubose and Lewis Russell deserters from the Ninth Cavalry were captured and hanged after joining insurgents.
Throughout the period the senate debated extending civil service rules to the permanent census office. The body adjourned on the 17th as the issue consumed the day, while the house remained in recess.
Iowa senate passes a trolley tax authorizing vote on funds for electric lines and approves hospital funding for Independence and fair aid. Bills target railroad freight cars, passes pass ban for officials, and funds the state capitol as lawmakers push constitutional amendments and reapportionment.
Enid Dickens, granddaughter of Charles Dickens, married Ernest Bourchier Hawksley in London. The bride is noted for her work in literary and art circles. A Nineteenth Century writer laments that until nonsense reading is viewed as drink, the press harms the public.
A Cincinnati Irishman painting a telegraph pole is splashed with paint. Another Irishman asks if Doherty had an hemorrhage, imagining the blood shed in a joke about patriotism. The brief anecdote echoes immigrant loyalty themes from Youth’s Companion.
Great Northern Railway announces limited one way second class settlers' tickets at low rates to points west of St. Paul Minneapolis from March 1962. Fares from St. Paul and Chicago to Montana and Washington range from 15 to 33 dollars with ten day stopovers. Further details available from agent offices and from Max Bass or F I Whitney.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Co issues a six sheet calendar 12 by 14 inches with ten color water color reproductions of a popular actress by Leon Moran. Limited edition calendars priced at 26 cents per six sheet set. Mail orders to F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.
A tramp overheard in Stray Stories explains he sought food but asks a humane act for the bull dog over the wall. He says feeding the dog now shows humanity, even as he requests kindness for the animal.
Travel notice lists Florida excursions via Virginia and Carolina winter resorts and the Charleston Exposition with a hot spin at Old Point Comfort and Southern Pines. For information contact W. E. Conklyn N. W. P. Agt. Chesapeake and Ohio Ry. 234 Clark St. Chicago.
A playful exchange features Rodrick praising arithmetic in the United States and Van Albert asking for confirmation. The dialogue includes a quip about making two one at Niagara and one two in South Dakota.
A lighthearted scene unfolds at Town and Country with a snubbed man declaring goodbye as a coincidental remark mirrors his own line. The playful exchange revolves around a casual telepathy joke and a quick exit amid chatter.
A label warns buyers that Putnam Face Less Dyes should not spot streak or give goods an uneven dyed appearance. The notice emphasizes quality control and consumer guidance for fabric and textile products.
A quip from the Indianapolis News notes that some believe a long tale can be shortened by recounting it again, suggesting a critique of redundancy and storytelling habits.
An Atchison obituaries item mocks a joke about throat remedies and claims Pike's Toothacne Drops cure in one minute. The gag targets excess eating as a humorous aside in a brief readers note.
An advertisement from N. W. Samuel of Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 17 1900 promotes Piso's Cure for Consumption as an infallible medicine for coughs and colds claiming universal efficacy.
Mrs Louise M Gibson praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming kidney trouble backache and headaches disappeared after six bottles plus pills. She credits renewed health and energy to the remedy and urges others to seek confidential free advice from Mrs Pinkham Lynn Mass.
Angora goat breeders sell large numbers of fine stock to the cut over lands of northern Wisconsin along the Soo Line. The wool is superior due to rich herbage and climate. Farmers with timbered land see brush removed, bluegrass and white clover naturally sprouting as土地 improves. For more information, write D. W. Cassedly, Land and Industrial Agent, Soo Line, Minneapolis.
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