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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1906
Page
2
A correspondent argues that official cost of living figures mislead by counting luxuries as necessities. He says households have shifted items from luxury to essential, making incomes feel tighter despite price changes. Wholesale declines rarely reach retail, while small wholesale gains hit consumers hard. The piece doubts returning to past simplicity, noting comforts have become necessities.
The National Education Association lists ten reform words as study items while Andrew Carnegie funds a simplified spelling board. Experts warn real change remains unlikely as English spans two nations with no governing authority. Even now Americans and Brits clash over spellings like humor.
The piece urges respect for the flag and national songs like the Star Spangled Banner and America. It recounts a Navy Yard witnessed incident where two people remained seated and the commandant questioned them, while a theater audience rose during a performance. It asserts all states should stand when a national song is played.
By unanimous vote the judges award first prize in the Columbia annual public speaking contest to Pka Isaka Seme an African prince. Seme a Columbia senior spoke on The Regeneration of Africa and will earn a bachelor of arts degree at year end. He plans to study law at Oxford and then return to Zululand where a government appointment awaits him.
A London court heard a witness admit he did not always tell the truth in a banquet speech. He said he was regarded as a humorist at the event and that one cannot be a humorist and always speak the truth.
A woman waiter quips that managing a husband is simple by letting him have his way all the time. The remark implies a lighthearted, humorous view of domestic dynamics.
The White House in Washington recently underwent renovation and repainting. Officials chose a high grade ready mixed paint rather than traditional white lead, a decision showcased as setting an example for private homeowners among the eighty million owners broadly linked to public buildings.
Rev Edward Everett Hale 84 credits serene living and nine hours sleep as keys to health in Boston. John D Rockefeller to spend two months yearly in Pasadena and owns Carmelita once linked to Helen Hunt Jackson. Mrs Virginia Bland prospers as a leading agriculturist in Lebanon Missouri. Theodore A Cook builds three cars in Callicoon New York for a south pole expedition due 1907. Esther Whitiman marries Herman Hyams and bears strong swimming feats. Dr Fridtjof Nansen named Norwegian ambassador to Britain and advocates women rights. Nora Stanton Blatch joins the American Society of Civil Engineers as Cornell’s first woman engineer with a Chinese mission under consideration.
Analysis claims brain work wastes phosphate of potash and albumen, harming gray matter. It recommends daily mineral restoration through food rather than drugs. Grape-Nuts, made by Postum Co., Bat tle Creek, Mich, urged for ten days or two weeks by brain workers.
In St. Petersburg on May 11 the Russian parliament opened with Emperor Nicholas II delivering a brief throne speech. The crowd praised the scene at the Winter Palace while members lingered silent, angered by the omission of amnesty for prisoners of liberty. Petrunkevitch urged concern for those jailed, and constitutional democrats pressed for a reply stressing constitution and amnesty. The lower house adjourned to allow imperial ceremonies and further deliberation. Dispatches across Russia noted widespread celebration of the opening.
An unidentified man who trampled an American flag on Hoboken main street was mobbed by citizens, clubbed by a police officer, and sentenced by a court to six months in a penitentiary for flag abuse. He claimed to be from Nowhere and called himself the King of Bums as Recorder Stanton lectured him.
The ashes of Helen Peabody founder of the Western College for Women were buried at the college in Hamilton after arriving from Pasadena. Three hundred students formed the funeral procession as the copper box, nearly lost in the San Francisco disaster, finally arrived ten days late.
J C Lightner of 703 South Cedar Street Abilene Kansas suffered chronic back pain gravel attacks and frequent urination from daily work. After using Dean's Kidney Pills the pain disappeared entirely and has not returned. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
In New York on May 8 negotiators for eastern Pennsylvania coal operators and miners agreed to extend the strike commission award for three more years. All nonviolent miners will be reemployed, with no discrimination for strike activity. Scranton and Wilkesbarre report aggressive firms importing workers easing as operations wind down, and leaders praise the deal led by John Mitchell with broad miner confidence.
Milan plans eight brass street signs at crossings. Britain may appoint consuls in Siberia and an agent at Vladivostok. King Sisowath of Cambodia visits Paris with 100 dancers. UK leads colonies in livestock with 47.0 million head. Sir Patrick Keith Murray lends Edinburgh crown cushion. Rosebery eyes Booth on London's unemployment. British election candidate declares bankruptcy with assets at 8.4 thousand dollars. A new House of Commons party aims to cut parliamentary barber shop prices.
An odd collection notes how small quirks altered history. Grant would have failed West Point without a rival's six toes, Cromwell missed a voyage and became England’s great leader, Lincoln lost a clerkship and later became president.
General Funston defends his morning earthquake response marching troops into the city to aid police and fire services. He admits acting without legal warrant but credits swift army work during three days of disaster with restoring order and communications for patrolling downtown streets.
The article notes Essen rises 93 percent in five years. Cologne hosts 426 020 people with astonishing growth. Any city over 100 000 is a great city. Germany has 41 such cities, more than any other country. Great Britain and the United States have 39 each. Russia 16, France 15, Italy 12, Japan and Austria Hungary eight each.
An 1900s style advertisement claims Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery nourishes nerves with pure blood and strengthens body function. It criticizes alcohol in tonics, touts no alcohol, and lists natural ingredients like Golden Seal Stone root and Black Cherrybark. Also promotes a medical book offer via stamps.
In Menominee on May 8 a miner named Bragini Giacoma, temporarily deranged, snatched a four month old child from Mrs Enrico Montenatto and dashed its brains. He chased the mother. six men were injured in the ensuing fight before Giacoma was jailed.
A Swede named William Jacob entered a Tenderloin district house in Denver at dawn and killed Leona Flament, 35, before shooting himself. Neighbors say Flament had feared a former associate, whom authorities identify as Jacob.
In Steubenville Ohio on May 8 William Cox and his son in law William Carney both coal miners from Smithfield quarreled over two cats. Cox seized a shotgun and killed Carney then shot himself. He died almost instantly.
A heavy snowstorm coated Albert Lea Minnesota in white at dawn Tuesday following a severe thunderstorm. The rapid temperature drop ruined fruit and tender garden vegetables across the area.
A list of famed trees tied to pivotal events and figures from Burgoyne’s capture at Albany to Washington’s Continental Army start, William Penn’s treaty under his Philadelphia tree, Connecticut’s Charter Oak, Fox and Quaker roots, Lincoln’s emancipation, and Wayne’s Stony Point muster, spanning multiple states.
Liverpool abandoned penny-in-the-slot service while London with 80 000 telephones has fewer than New York. The first long distance line linked Liverpool and Manchester in 1880. Wireless telephony by Thomas Gladwell claims ten mile success. The NY to Chicago line spans 950 miles and the London to Marseilles route 650 miles. A moving train can ring a nearby station and reach any subscriber via that station. Highland railway hosted a successful test.
A cautionary note on feminine conduct urging restraint in posing in public, clothing display, showing envy, and pursing extravagant social expenditures. It condemns drawing unwanted attention, using forcible language, and misusing gifts as signs of affection.
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