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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1900
Page
6
A compact digest of industrial news, personal items, political notes, and assorted events from home and abroad. Highlights cover market trends, notable visits, policy developments, and notable public actions across regions and nations.
The report details multiple disasters and conflicts including deaths from railway accidents and cloudbursts in Indiana and Texas, fires in Trafalgar and Salem, Illinois, and a massive China crisis with 10,000 troops ordered or en route. It notes political moves, naval actions, and international diplomacy surrounding China and Cuba.
Reports detail ongoing fighting in China with allied forces repelling Chinese defenses at Tientsin and capturing the city. Gen MacArthur sends 1200 soldiers from Manila while US casualties and transport arrivals are reported amid talks of mediation and potential extra sessions of Congress.
At an adjourned Iowa City meeting the State University of Iowa regents approved lectureship appointments, new chairs, and several staff postings. They refused salary increases but approved about 30000 dollars for equipment, 2500 dollars for libraries, and funds for science and Scandinavian departments. A military instructor position was referred to the president for later announcement.
The state library commission plans full work starting in October with Miss Alice Tyler of Cleveland Ohio chosen as secretary for a salary of 1200 dollars a year. Johnson Brigham was elected president and the secretary will operate from the state library rooms. The October meeting will outline her responsibilities.
A letter from Victor Heylan of Brus sels Belgium to the Sioux City burgomaster sought news of brother Joseph Heylan who allegedly inherited an estate. The letter described a Belgian scion who wasted wealth, drifted to Sioux City twenty years ago, worked in menial jobs, became a helpless, diseased pauper and died at the poor farm two years prior.
The piece notes extreme heat across the country on a hot day and jokes about cooling methods. It jokes that ice cold drinks do not guarantee calm behavior and imagines an iceberg or a Boston girl to rest against. It also suggests dabbing a sponge on a horse’s head to help endure the heat.
A farmer in Clay County left about 800 bushels of wheat in a bin to honor a nesting hen. He delayed marketing the grain to avoid disturbing the hen, and as prices rose he realized a gain of over $100 by letting the hen hatch the chicks.
Sioux City business leaders organize a fall festival and street fair modeled on Elks fairs in St. Paul and Milwaukee. The event may run two weeks in September. A corn palace is ruled out for this year and W. H. Beck is named association president.
Des Moines relatives publish Mrs Conger letter dated April 29 from Peking describing a visit at Li Hung Chang’s home. American women met Li’s wife Lady Li and daughters, with escorts, tea service, and fine dress while noting Chinese customs and reluctance of foreign men at gatherings.
Labor Commissioner Wennerstrom traveled to Milwaukee for the national convention of the chiefs of labor in the United States. Iowa earns its first representation in the organization as he works to improve the office. Reports from employers show rising business, higher wages, and more labor, with some strikes and no property damage. Factory inspections will start after lists are checked, focusing on labor centers due to a $500 annual budget. Sanitary regulation remains a key challenge for Iowa factories.
Workmen uncover a glass jar sealed under the 1859 Webster County Courthouse cornerstone in Fort Dodge. It held a history of Webster County by Maj. Williams, plus early Fort Dodge newspaper editions. The history copy is too faded to read, a loss to early northwest Iowa history.
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