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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1906
Page
2
The New York legislature approved a bill prohibiting tail docking and the importation of docked horses. The measure, praised by the New York Evening Mail, argues the practice is cruel and unnecessary and notes that control issues with docked tails can be avoided with skilled driving and proper handling.
Two Boston women at the University of Chicago analyze census data in the Journal of Political Economy to examine women’s gainful employment in the United States. They question the assumed impact of female entry on competition and intensity of work, noting limited material and awaiting fuller study.
The piece notes English spreading south from the United States into Mexico and Spanish moving north, with 4000 Americans resident in Mexico City and many tourists. It observes English phrases in border towns and even in Mexico City, as locals learn basic terms and police or shop clerks respond in English when asked about the United States and important buildings.
Six red haired talesmen chosen for a Derby Conn jury to try Sabine Perielle were excused by attorney Jacob B. Goodhart. He argued the jurors would not receive impartial judgment due to their swarthy hue and darker features.
Fifty years ago painted homes were rare and costly while today ready made paints flood the market. Prepared paints save time and money, are widely available, and offered by trusted brands with consistent quality. A tale about riveters wasting a meal shows everyday thrift matters too.
New York report shows the operators’ subcommittee refusing to modify their stance. They argue the miners proposed sliding scale would raise coal prices 36 cents a ton, leaving operators with a 20 cent per ton profit. They urge arbitration if their three year conditions are not accepted and warn a strike if rejected.
R G Dun reports America shows strength after earthquake aid with San Francisco expected to rebound and no national setback. Weather favors retail and building, crop prospects bright overall though planting delayed by moisture and labor shortages. Factories run at full capacity across leading industries.
Thirteen persons are killed and many injured when a tornado plowed through Bellevue Texas on Thursday night. The storm razed all business buildings and started fires, with only four houses reportedly spared. The eight mile wide funnel destroyed farms and crops, with property losses around $200,000. Stoneburg reports damage to a cotton gin and several residences but no injuries.
An underground cave caused by an abandoned mine collapsed over an acre, taking several buildings and crippling the city water system in Quinnisec. The ground dropped about 100 feet, threatening more of the town as mine workings extend beneath much of it.
Col. R. Harrison of Lake Charles Louisiana reports his back and kidney pain improved after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He states kidney secretions increased, pain left, and a second box completed his cure, with two years of good health since. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY for 50 cents a box.
A wife wakes in fright with a dream of a warehouse displaying a placard offering husbands for sale. The sale lists beautiful husbands for 1500 dollars and nicer ones for much less, with women crying over the vision of dozens of husbands tied in bundles and sold by the bunch.
An advertisement claims deafness results from an inflamed Eustachian tube and mucous catarrh. It offers one hundred dollars for any case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation, urging readers to send for circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co.
A patched page shows quips about aging pride work and talk. The exchange includes lines on miners and a binder cigar and remarks on conversation and grudges. The tone resembles a compact society page snippet with terse humor.
A former Episcopal bishop of Indiana preached to a black congregation. After the talk, worshippers crowded around praising the sermon as the best they had heard. One shout claimed the bishop revealed new knowledge about Sodom and Gomorrah. The bishop asked what was new, and a reader quipped about the biblical couple.
A Western Kansas publisher records a student description of a goat butting a boy from the front yard. The girl uses ornate imagery to claim the goat’s weight and momentum propelled the boy through the yard and beyond the animal’s jurisdiction.
They traced earth and her myriad children in rocks and nature s own writing, yet the genius has yet to state the laws governing the gyrations of a collar button dropped by an angry man and found a week later by his wife among rubbish under the grate.
Reports from Athens note growing ill feeling among Greeks over American athletic success at the Olympic games while spectators and competitors mostly maintain good temper.
J. F. Good, an engineman, was killed and C. H. Le Fever fireman with J. J. Wallower brake man were fatally injured when a locomotive exploded at Duckton Tower Steelton on the Pennsylvania line.
Washington senate committee on privileges and elections by unanimous vote Friday authorized Senator Foraker to report favorably the Tillman bill to prohibit corporations from contributing campaign funds.
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