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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
1
Grover Cleveland asserts public office is a public trust in a revised view. He notes the price of news in war reporting has cost twenty two lives of correspondents at the front. He links Chinese forces and Boxers, Dowager Empress, and Russian diplomacy to possible European war amid imperial competition.
The document reports a week of temperatures 2 to 4 degrees below normal with moderately warm days and unusually cool nights aiding field work. Rainfall was uneven yet all districts received moisture from 9th to 17th, some heavy downpours causing floods but also easing drought threats. Corn progress is good and fields are clean while northwestern oats and wheat faltered. hay yields look light though central and southern haying continues. Apples are not promising. potatoes and garden vegetables are thriving.
A North Side woman recalls losing a $3 lace handkerchief while shopping in Chicago. She later learns a light fingered thief swapped it for cash, then a cashier refunded the sale after another woman returned the item and presented a refund ticket.
Week ending June 16 1900 reports transfers in Nevada Iowa Story City and nearby areas including J M Hawthorn W D Gandrap and James W Cook among others. A narrative observes the strain of business life noting Dr Pierces Golden Medical Discovery to strengthen digestion and stamina for exhausted merchants.
A Philadelphia Record reader quotes a man on human nature noting how people in modest means overspend on luxury items like expensive neckwear while skimping on essentials. He contrasts ties, shoes, suits, and costly cigarettes, calling the pattern a sign of mental imbalance.
A New York Sun report says Washington residents attend church while carrying kodaks to photograph ministers and parishioners. The anecdote claims a woman sent notices about a summer home opening to be read from pulpits, sparking debate over libel and photographic zeal in the capital.
A curious puzzle presents placing digits 1 through 9 in reverse order above the same digits in normal order. Each row sums to 45, and subtracting the lower row from the upper yields a striking result, illustrating a neat arithmetic trick using 3543 2 1x45 4567 8 O 45.
A short puzzle note states the sum of the third row equals 45. Subtracting 45 from 45 leaves 45 as the final remainder. The writer confirms the arithmetic result with concise steps.
A Philadelphia Bulletin line states that a census of colored people would show few black Smiths among them. The remark highlights occupational gaps and color-based ethnic distribution in trades as perceived social patterns.
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