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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1898
Page
7
The article applauds motherhood and urges safe childbirth, noting the expectant mother faces dangers and should avoid fear. It claims proper support enables a smoother, safer confinement and a stronger mother after birth, advocating a natural and easy childbirth with trusted assistance.
A testimonial from a Carmi Illinois customer praises Mother’s Friend as a blessing to expectant mothers. The notice promotes Druggists price one dollar and express delivery, inviting readers to write for a free book of testimonials and information for all Mothers.
Wheat futures surged as news ships were ordered to Havana causing shorts to cover. May closed at 91/2 cents higher, July up to 84 1/2 cents, with corn and oats modestly firmer and provisions firm. Cash quotes list specific grain grades and prices for No 2 red wheat and other futures.
Cattle receipts total 1,700 with steady prices for native beef westerns and Texas steers. Hogs receipts 2,700 with higher bias. heavy 6.46 to 6.65, light 5.65 to 8.75. bulk 3.65 to 5.80. Sheep receipts 2,600 with natives 3.70 to 4.40 and lambs 4.25 to 5.50.
Kansas City live stock price report notes cattle receipts around 6.00 with steady tone and hog receipts near 6.50 with strength. Texas steers and cows show varied bids, native cattle and calves traded across several price points, and bulls and stockers also listed. Pigs and packers prices appear, with mixed reader totals and regional terminology.
Speaker Funk revealed the legislature's House committee assignments in Des Moines on January 13. The line up signals influence on the upcoming senatorial battle with Cummins supporters claiming gains over the Gear faction. Key chairs include Ways and Means Porter Pottawattamie, Judiciary Carr Polk, Appropriations Merriam Delaware, Railroads and Commerce Johnston Franklin, Municipal Corporations Brighton Jefferson, Banks Netters Linn, Insurance Ladd Butler, Schools Lavender Calhoun, Constitutional Amendments Whaien Emmet.
The Pail Mall Gazette reports Gladstone's condition remains grave with no improvement since Wednesday. The note asserts the newspaper stands by its information and holds responsibility for the report.
District of Columbia day in the house yielded only three local impedance bills. The rest of the session focused on further consideration of the army appropriation bill. Debate centered on military funding and related policy issues.
Edwin Hurd Conger of Iowa is named the new minister to China transferring from Brazil where he served a second term. Charles Page Bryan will fill Conger’s Rio Janeiro post. Conger, born 1843 in Knox county Illinois, has a diverse career including farming banking and three terms in Congress. Ignatius Donnelly’s fiancée Marion Olive Hanson, a Norwegian woman under 21, is described as tall fair haired and handsome.
The document includes a treasurer's semi annual report certifying receipts and disbursements from June 1 to January 1, with notes on an examined balance. It then presents a jumble of unrelated items: a testimonial about a stenographer with Norwegian origins, a brief tale of a tramp in Topeka selling soap, and several small notices and medical endorsements from 1898.
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop criticizes English satirists and American papers for exposing poverty through charity works. She argues editors parody great men’s legacies by visiting the poor, revealing the offensiveness of rich calls and small 25 cent donations that degrade dignity in starving families.
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