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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1904
Page
2
The weekly digest covers home and foreign items, industrial field updates, and notable personal political happenings. It surveys domestic events and international affairs with concise summaries, highlighting key developments and people involved.
Resolutions at the Boston peace congress urge Russia and Japan to end the war and call on The Hague powers to intervene. Also noted are a steamer bringing 156 Percheron horses and 2,900 birds to New York, a balloonist's crash in Kentucky, and a flood of other national and international events from politics to crime and industry.
Roosevelt names Julius G Lay consul general at Canton succeeding McWade. Ridgely named consul general at Barcelona after Nantes post. Althoff nominated for Congress in Ninth Ohio. League of American Municipalities meets in St Louis on reform. Tuberculosis congress calls global crusade. Wisconsin court favors La Follette ticket. Episcopal convention opens in Boston. National Republican League meets in Indianapolis. Morse nominated for Connecticut seat. Vanderbilt line noted. Cook withdraws. Scofield to lead Wisconsin ticket. National Republican banner adopted. Peace congress in Boston backs disarmament and troop cuts.
Emmet county eyes draining Swan Lake east portion and nearby Cheever and Four Mile lakes under the lake bed law. A proposed seven to eight mile ditch to Jack Creek would reclaim about 1500 acres of marsh and boost land drained by irrigation and drainage ditches. If approved next year, the project could yield substantial countywide benefits.
Carrie Nation again draws the limelight over a dispute between Iowa prohibitionists and the Iowa Anti-Saloon league. An interview in the Commonwealth spurs editor Hostetter to editorialize and print more material. Dr. McCash, anti-saloon league head, confronts former editor Campbell in a warm exchange as Oliver Stewart weighs in from Illinois. The clash centers on party versus non-partisan strategy to defeat liquor traffic. Nation meanwhile tours Kansas, recalling Waterloo Chautauqua earnings.
Tommy Westrop and Roy Gregory, young Shelby county farm sons, captured first and second prizes in a county fair stock judging contest. Scores show both boys demonstrated advanced knowledge in embryo live stock evaluation, under a new event promoted by Iowa’s agricultural college at Ames, with more events planned.
A survey of royal households notes varying ranks and titles among rulers. It mentions imperial highnesses among cousins, Spain’s king testing roads in a 40 horsepower car, and empires vying for prizes in maneuvers. It also highlights Morocco’s sultan with many wives and live lions, plus multi titled rulers across Europe.
An Arab woman doctor is appointed house surgeon at the newly established hospital in Constantine Algeria. The piece notes global progress of women in medicine and mentions other prominent women including Gertrude Farrar and Mary A Booth, with commentary on seasickness and fashions in ancient Crete.
The article notes an expected fifty five to sixty million bushels of wheat from Manitoba and the Northwest Territories with high average yields. It cites Clifford Sifton's telegram to Lord Strathcona and Frank H. Spearman’s reflection on Canada becoming a bread basket as the United States eyes Canadian wheat potential.
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