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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1904
Page
2
The column surveys developments in industry politics and daily life at home and abroad. Readers learn about new ventures policy shifts and notable events shaping markets and communities. This concise roundup connects local interests with global trends through brief notices.
George Lehrter of St. Louis pleaded guilty to coloring oleomargarine and selling it unlabeled, with a $1000 fine. Reports cover a wide range of events from strikes, bank closures, and railroad issues to fires, deaths, and international conflicts, including battles near Kinchou and Fxengwangcheng and U S war office updates.
Chairman Stewart names leading presidential hopefuls Tate Manierre Hopkins Wolfenbarger as possible nominees amid party maneuvers. Day resigns as bishop. Baptist Home Mission condemns Mormonism. Illinois and Maryland conventions nominate and elect delegates and officers. Oxford Cambridge challenge Harvard Yale in London. New bishops consecrated at the Methodist conference.
Reports claim Vladivostok squadron captured three Chilean bought cruisers for Japan while cholera decimates Japanese camps with about 100 daily deaths. Japanese land assault on Port Arthur, 15 000 killed or wounded, Russian losses around 3 000. Moros massacre 53 Filipinos in Malabang Mindanao. Korea’s Anju town captured by Russians. continuous fighting with cavalry skirmishes and Cossack pressure. Disturbances and executions tied to War saw Cronstadt and Moscow. Maj Gen Sir John C McNeill reported dead in London.
A sweep of items reports a Nebraskan flood with three deaths and thousands of livestock lost, a murder acquittal in Indiana, a Kansas tornado fatality, Cardinal Satolli leaving Rome for the U S, Illinois opening its Louisiana Purchase pavilion, New England halibut records off British Columbia, a Presbyterian union vote, a Basel congress invitation, French recall of Nisard to the Vatican, Ingraham’s death at a Los Angeles convention, and evolving Russo Japanese war news with Kinchou Nanshan Port Arthur and Haicheng updates.
The period covers gold reserve strains amid rising export, railroad cutbacks, and wage talk in Chicago. Government officials and explorers move across China and New York venues as headlines note expositions, naval bands, and Trinity of political maneuvers. The piece mentions deaths, fires, and local incidents across the nation including Iowa, New York, and Connecticut with a focus on social and economic shifts.
State Dairy Commissioner H R Wright and Prof McKay of Iowa State College at Ames extend the winter lecture course to farmers institutes statewide. About 65 institutes exist. Ames Dairy Department will cooperate and expand the course. A $75 000 appropriation will fund a new creamery at Ames.
The Democratic state convention to nominate presidential electors and candidates for state office will meet in Iowa City on July 19 instead of September 1. It will select its own temporary chairman due to bitter Hearst anti Hearst faction clashes and legal control disputes within the state committee. The convention will also choose all other officers.
John Lowing a 17 year old Chicago boy admitted guilt in a Council Bluffs saloon hold up on April 7. His older brother assisted then committed suicide to flee arrest. The saloon keeper Martin Mortenson was forced to surrender cash as a revolver was leveled at his head.
Herman Shaff, who arrived 67 years ago and settled on a farm in Comanche township, died recently in Clinton. He was the area’s first settler and once lived on corn ground with a mortar and pestle. Isolated by a river, the Knox county line mill was far, yet he built a valuable farm and a fortune of $200,000.
The dealers convention adopted resolutions endorsing properly sealed test weights at grain weighing scales amid claims of great divergencies in weights across localities. Jay A. King of Nevada was proposed for reelection as president of the grain dealers association.
State board of control plans to buy coal land at the new inebriate hospital near Knoxville and place men sent to the institution at work to supply all state institutions with fuel at actual production cost.
In Maple Hill Iowa a five year old boy named Verne Barfoot, long sickly, improved after his mother used Dodd's Kidney Pills. After two boxes he recovered and onlookers note his health and appearance as dramatically better.
A quotation from the New York Press notes a paradoxical woman whose eyes appear tender while she gnashes her teeth, reflecting a dramatic, literary distinction in expression.
An advertisement promises free loan sewing machine catalogue with price lists for Minnesota Singer Wheeler Wilson White Standard and New Home machines. Readers are urged to mail in for the latest book and offers, with a cut out notice to receive details postpaid.
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