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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1904
Page
2
A concise summary of notable industrial, political, and social items from both domestic and international sources. Includes brief notes on events at home and abroad, reflecting the week’s key developments across business, politics, and public life.
A whale estimated at eighty feet was blown ashore at Pennville Maine and killed by a rifle shot as it lay stranded unable to return to deep water. The gale also sparked other disasters and notable events across the country including political resignations and notable deaths.
The American Federation of Labor met in San Francisco with delegates from across the United States and from Porto Rico England and Canada. Gompers defended the closed shop as membership gained by 210400 while Vermont presidential returns show a Republican plurality of 30682. The National Association of Railroad Commissioners began its sixteenth annual Birmingham Alabama convention. Higgins certifies 22189.53 election expenses. Ex Judge Parker opens a New York law office. Philippines legislation tops agenda for Congress.
Henry Wallon life senator and "father of the French constitution" dies in Paris aged nearly 92. Other items report Tokyo denying Gen Kuroki death, Gen Stoessel wounded and refusing to surrender, earthquakes in Jalisco, Hull inquiry into North Sea attack, and Chinese rebels repelling imperial forces in Liu Chow Enu with gains in five towns.
The official county count excluding Denver Pueblo and Arapahoe shows Gov Peabody over Roosevelt by more than forty thousand votes with Roosevelt holding a 31 419 plurality and Adams 10 106 ahead of Peabody. Secretary Shaw calls banks to deposit 25 percent to raise about 25 million for the treasury.
State Secretary Jacobson challenges published figures on the socialist party in Iowa. He cites 15 counties with votes exceeding the state's allotment and alleges reports of judges denying party representation during counting and depriving the party of legally entitled votes in several localities. The reported total is not finalized.
A survey of oddities and near-misses spans California to Kentucky and Washington. An earthquake twists a San Diego shaft. Paonia reports record apples and giant strawberries. Crescent City records a sea lion fight with an octopus. a Prairie du Chien telegraph operator averts disaster. Kentucky houses the Mammoth Beehive cave. Gen. Prescott is saved by rival Kennedy in San Bernardino. a live toad is found in Newton coal mines near Seattle.
The Upper Mississippi Improvements association elected officers in Dubuque with Thomas Wilkinson as president and L. B. Boswell as secretary. At a convention they urged Congress to fund a six foot channel from St. Louis to St. Paul and set La Crosse as next meeting site.
At Ames the Iowa State College board cleared fall business and elected Prof. H A Beach of Geneva New York as chair of horticulture to start September 1 1905 He is with the New York state experiment station at Geneva where a promology project costs illustrations alone 20000 Prof Beach is a leading figure and Prof A T Erwin becomes associate professor to horticulture The board also appointed a committee to purchase a dairy farm for the college The new creamery is nearing completion and will support the dairy farm program.
Mrs. Matt McDermott, visiting the world’s fair, reunites with her husband who vanished over a year and a half ago. Farmer McDermott left Clare for Fort Dodge on May 10, 1903, after which searches of fields, woods, ponds, and streams found no trace, leading to general belief he was dead.
Gov Albert B Cummins, in a Dubuque speech, favors a government tribunal to fix adjust revise and recreate interstate freight rates and argues the current adjustments show vicious inequalities.
State officers for the Mutual Insurance Company of the Iowa Implement Dealers association may be opened in Des Moines. The notice outlines potential opening of state offices and leadership changes in Des Moines.
The article urges using Japanese and Indian cottons in blue and white or blue and yellow for curtains, highlights pineapple silk for autumn window hangings, and suggests dwarf evergreens for winter. It promotes ingrain floor edge coverings, simple sturdy chairs, and a plain frieze as a contemporary compromise. It also notes door panels favor plain brussels net with lace insertions and a sheer curtain for night use.
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