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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1886
Page
2
The text recalls an October 1871 disaster with vast destruction and many lost buildings, then shifts to January reforms expanding district court clerks authority. It mentions burned districts and rebuilt cities, alongside new duties for clerks regarding administrators and guardians and accounts.
The text notes the distribution of new Silver certificates began and will continue given large demand. It states a national bank is entitled to certificates and that a dollar is deposited in the Treasury of the United States with the bearer able to demand payment.
The State Register depicts St John supporters as a party driven by organized spite and bitter envy toward those once favored. It argues leaders hate most the people who aided them and punish perceived slights with lifelong vendettas. The piece asserts rewards halt and resentment grows when favors end.
The Patriotic Order of Sons of America completed the mortgage payoff for Washington's headquarters at Valley Forge. The final arrangements occurred September 30 with a large gathering at Valley Forge. Frank L. Murphy of Norristown gave an address and Wallace Bruce served as the day’s orator.
Peter Henderson notes a leap in cut flower sales from 200 dollars on New Year’s Day 1884 to 100 000 dollars on New Year’s Day 1886 in New York City. The public’s love of flowers is rising across classes.
The Hebrew holidays began last week with Rosh Hashanah on September 30 and Yom Kippur on October 9. Hashanah Rabba falls October 20 and Succoth on October 14 marking the New Year ushered in at sundown September 30.
Two dry days leave thirsty voters seeking saloons as candidates buy beer to court voters. The stale weather and parched air set a backdrop for political campaigning and public sentiment in the town.
Gov. Stone spoke in Nevada on tariffs and the link between labor and capital, stressing national development and shared prosperity. In Ames he gave a two hour and twenty minute talk, calm and factual, praised by locals. GOP rally in Opera Hall marked a strong political event with Geddes presiding and Stone delivering a detailed tariff outline.
A brief report on B F Wright speaking at Opera Hall about enforcing the prohibitory law. The reviewer found the talk lacking substance and urged practical action, calling for honest officials and stronger measures to eliminate the saloon, even suggesting woman suffrage as a possible avenue.
The publication cites Appletons Cyclopaedia an American authority defining the best baking powders as a combination of bitartrate of potash cream of tartar tartaric acid carbonate of ammonia and soda bi carbon ate bound with a little starch.
Con Clark, among the ablest speakers on the Democratic Committee list, stirred the Marshalltown crowd by denouncing whisky traffic and advocating a high license. He urged drastic action to curb the saloon, declaring the need to take the saloon by the throat and make it behave.
Carrain Herman D. Busch, a hotel keeper in Hoboken New Jersey, died last Sunday. Once weighing 525 pounds he had a custom chair at his desk and an aisle widened for access while serving in the State Legislature. He had reduced his weight to 425 pounds before his death.
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