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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1898
Page
5
Homeless workers in Chicago confront hunger and cold as they search for scarce labor. Tom Clark and a partner recount sleeping in a station house after a 10 cent breakfast, noting snow as a fragile beacon of potential work and the grim realism of urban survival.
Grover Cleveland bought the farm of John Snook after a sheriff sale to Captain Samuel Van Kirk. The former president told the farmer he would remain tenant, though he had purchased the land for his own use. The incident fueled reports of a larger game preserve near Trenton.
A New Jersey farmer J Hart Larowe near Lambertville and two hired men faced a mad bull that escaped the stable yard after slaughtering hogs. The bull charged the men driving them into the house. Larowe and George Lewis protected themselves with a shotgun and pitchfork then drove the beast back to the barnyard. The two Larowe sons fled to a peach orchard climbing trees as the bull attacked a tree before the men escaped safely.
Rev J H Kelly a colored pastor of Friendship church in Pasadena recounts swallowing a mouse after it clung to his throat during sleep and clawed its way into his stomach. After emetics failed a bicycle ride home helped eject the animal about two hours later leaving his throat sore from the ordeal.
At a Lebanon Indiana banquet honoring President Lincoln a guest note recounts General Lew Wallace describing Lincoln’s sadness during the Civil War. Wallace recalls Lincoln’s anxious wish to visit Harrison's Landing and urge General McClellan not to surrender to General Lee.
Edward smith a motorman on the Spaulding avenue division of the Lin dell railway in St. Louis was criticized for near accident as rear tracks tore from under a car during a switch. He kept a tedious record at Finney and Taylor avenues and earned reinstatement after a discipline school lesson. Superintendent Baumhoff praised the lesson and expects improved care.
The Countess Marie de la Conception de la Cantesa y Clark de Gobel y Fernandez has secured a divorce from Juan C. Gobel y Fernandez in Fargo North Dakota. The Dakota divorce courts are granted a month’s vacation for this notable case.
A Denver girl kidnapped a man, tied and marred him to a depot, then bought two tickets with money stolen from her brother. The pair married, but the man escaped after all was gone.
A dramatic passage describes a great vessel torn apart by fury and disaster at sea. The scene depicts a doomed voyage, ominous oceanic forces, and a grim tomb for the dead as waves guard the silent coast.
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