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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1910
Page
6
Rule about one cent per word for insertions with no charge under ten cents. Additional insertions at half price. Pay with copy to avoid collections. Ads may be addressed to a number care of The Intelligencer. Telephones Mutual 138 and Iowa 46 U.
Property offers 110 acre bottom farm between Cottonwood and Cimarron rivers one mile north of Guthrie Oklahoma adaptable to truck farming or any crop with fair improvements good orchard and vineyard. May be sold as a whole or subdivided into five acre tracts. Address H A McCandless Perry Oklahoma for details.
An old advertisement touts Man Zan as highly effective for blind, bleeding, and itching piles. It claims convenient application via a nozzle attached to the tube in the pack. Sold by C. A. Gamble.
An odd line from an Irish peegar asks a passing woman for water to quell hunger and aid sleep, highlighting hardship and uncertainty about shelter after a long day.
James Linder shot and killed his fourteen year old son Arthur then fatally wounded his wife before shooting himself four miles west of Baxter Iowa. Neighbors noted his irritable state after he claimed coal troubles and a fury led to the deadly spree. Linder formerly lived in Newton and had a past church revival amid a prior bout of typhoid fever and mental strain.
The Marquis de Villalobar, Spanish minister to the United States, is transferred to Lisbon. He expressed surprise at the move and denied a rumor that he led an unhappy episode at a White House diplomatic reception.
Des Moines reports a fight over hunters license funds. The State Game and Fish Protective association plans action after Governor Carroll restricts spending to 36000 dollars, while total license revenue nears 100000 dollars. Lawyers say the law requires all revenue go to fish and game propagation and deputy wardens.
Steam heat for hogs is inaugurated at the Cerro Gordo county farm in Mason City Iowa after completing a 30 by 78 foot building. The new facility includes over 1000 feet of radiator connected to the institution’s heating plant and an apartment for sick animals including young calves colts horses and sheep.
Davenport attorney M V Gannon a prominent Irish American orator and lawyer for years in Chicago and Davenport was arrested for allegedly embezzling 3300 dollars from the estate of James Quinn, for which he acted as administrator. He was released on 2500 dollars bail.
Beda Murphy, ten, was abducted from her adoptive father's home at Twenty Ninth and Crocker streets by an unknown woman on Saturday. Taken by train to a village near Des Moines she escaped and walked back to the city. Found in snow exhausted and partly dressed, she survived the ordeal.
Dubuque Iowa January 12 F T Oldis resigns after fifteen years as superintendent of the Dubuque public schools ending a long tenure and leadership of the district.
Roberta De Janon, heiress, and waiter Frederick Cohen eloped on Dec 29 and head to Philadelphia with Philadelphia detectives. Police report she sought her grandfather’s home, revealing an adoptive fatherly attachment to Cohen. She attended a theatre with detectives. Cohen remained in custody.
The family of G Howland Leavitt confirms that Margaret Howland Leavitt twenty two and heir to a million dollars wed Joseph F Smollen her chauffeur without parental knowledge or consent.
Fourteen striking shirtwaist makers were held in bail in Philadelphia on charges connected to disturbances near factories employing nonunion workers. Several defendants faced inciting to riot counts.
LaGrange Missouri January 12 Westhoff Elges thirteen is dead and Charles Guilfoile thirteen fatally injured after a collision between two bob sleds Several others suffer minor injuries Elges skull crushed and death reported at the scene
Jackson Mississippi January 12 The legislative caucus remains deadlocked on a successor to the late Senator A J McLaurin. Former Governor James K Vardaman slipped seven votes but holds a 41 vote lead over the next closest challenger.
Springfield Mass January 12 John Kirby Jr president National Manufacturers association pins higher living costs on what he calls the labor trust in an address.
Washington January 12 insurgents were further forestalled when Representative Dwight the Republican whip instructed clerks to pair no Republicans without his prior permission.
Glenn H. Curtiss in a Curtiss biplane set a speed record with a passenger at 55 mph and broke the air time record at 625 seconds and the run before leaving ground at 98 feet. Louis Paulhan failed to reach height past 400 feet in the Langley machine. Edgar S. Smith was seriously injured after being struck by a propeller.
Riot reported in Vienna Illinois thirty five miles north of Cairo. Local militia ordered to Vienna on a special train after telephone lines to the city were cut and it was isolated. A mob sought to lynch three Negroes accused of killing a white man. trains halted until militia arrives.
Boston voters in a partyless election under the new charter picked former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald for a four year tenure with 46 698 votes a 1 223 plurality over banker James J. Storrow. Incumbent George A. Hibbard attracted only 1 783 votes as his reform bid faded from two years ago.
Effie Sellberry arrived in New Orleans and was arrested with Henry Corcoran after a Terre Haute death case. Helman was found dead in his hotel and had named Sellberry in a statement accusing her of poisoning him.
Portland jury completes in five hours to try former Congressman Binger Hermann on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government of public land. The rapid selection marks a record for Oregon land fraud trials.
Hamilton Mc Kown Twombly capitalist and railroad man died at his Madison New Jersey home. Twombly married Adele Vanderbilt daughter of W H Vanderbilt and was a long active figure in Vanderbilt railroad directions.
Washington January 12 A pension of five thousand dollars a year is due Mrs Grover Cleveland and Senator Root presented the bill to the senate making the grant. The amount matches what widowed wives of former presidents received.
Impressive funeral rites were conducted for Cardinal Satolli at the Church of St John in Rome on January 12, honoring the late church figure with a solemn service attended by mourners and officials.
Denver delegates to the American National Live Stock Association oppose making the interstate commerce court the final arbiter. They favor restoring the 15 percent duty on hides, argue tariffs hurt consumers, and urge nonpartisan tariff investigation. Vice President McKenzie cites robust beef exports as a defense against shortages.
Mrs Emma B Kennedy widow of John S Kennedy tops personal property tax in New York with 6000000 assessed value while Andrew Carnegie ties with Mrs Russell Sage for second at 5909000 and John D Rockefeller is third with 2500000 in the public assessment figures.
Montreal January 12 The jail warden found that a person jailed as William Dubers sixty five years old is actually a woman. She admitted masquerading as a man for thirty five years most of the time earning a living as a deck hand on lumber barges. William is now in the infirmary of the jail wearing a skirt which she finds awkward.
William Whalen of Blunt South Dakota died in a jail fire that partially destroyed the city jail. The incident occurred January 12.
A witty quip from Puck notes a reader’s critique of a sonnet titled The Charge of the Light Brigade. Rondeau Rimer jokes about a faulty meter while presenting a monthly gas bill.
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