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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1905
Page
1
Advertisement shows Booths Select offering fresh oysters every Thursday morning and Mc Mahons Shell Oyster Crackers with a full line of fresh and smoked meats and a call to place orders.
A long column covers varied items from Boone and Des Moines. It notes deaths from football injuries in five years, a coroner's verdict of murder in the Callahan case, and an obituary for Sadie Kooser born 1881 died 1905. Also references new legal practice and an inventor’s fire extinguishing device.
A man giving Ames as his address became the jail's first occupant on Wednesday night. The piece mentions Sheldahl notes, and compares Marshalltown electric lighting costs, citing 31 dollars per year and Boone's lights at 75 dollars per light with 600 extra hours in 1905.
The International Live Stock Show runs December 2 to 9 in Chicago. The new Coliseum will host its first event and aims to surpass prior years with a complete livestock display. Professor Herbert W Munford of Illinois calls the show a meeting point for breeders and buyers, guiding livestock improvement. Low Northwestern line rates from the West will be announced soon.
George W Catt longtime Iowa State College alumnus and industrialist leaves one half of an estimated 350000 dollar estate to his alma mater contingent on Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt's death. He requests his body be given to a medical school for dissection to advance science and medical education. His wife supports the bequest. his body to be cremated after dissection.
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