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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1893
Page
5
Physiologists claim active arm and chest exercise boosts mental activity. The remark suggests boxers talk a lot, possibly due to intensified physical exertion and its perceived link to sharper thinking.
A Senoon district in Hopkinton New Hampshire relies on a single scholar this year and the board of education has engaged the student's mother to teach.
Davip 8 Patterson of Nebraska has patented an improvement in locomotive driving gear. He is seventy five years old and has been totally blind from infancy.
Hulda Graser, a 21 year old woman from Cincinnati, is described as probably the only woman customs broker in the country and already controls a large and profitable business.
Down Jost Galindo mayor of Valencia Spain receives sixteen hundred and eighty four years across 217 charges for falsifying public documents. The report notes potential adjustments removing thirty eight years.
Officials report over three billion cigarettes sold in the country last year. The data suggests an average consumption of fifty cigarettes per person for every man, woman, and child in the United States.
A German chemist reports the discovery of a gaseous compound of oxygen and hydrogen that dissolves metal and forms powerful explosives with silver and mercury.
Prov. Denton states express trains cannot significantly exceed current speeds due to resistance rising faster than velocity, implying a speed limit governed by physics.
A New York man was arrested for kissing another man’s wife. The court sentenced him to kiss his own wife present in the courtroom, and he complied and was discharged. The report notes the judge joked that if penalties continued he might marry a chromo himself.
A recent imperial edict forbids women from serving as editors on Japanese newspapers including cooking and household journals. The remark suggests a royal influence behind the move, hinting at a possible gaffe linked to a popular recipe column.
Juper Jjomn F. Paines of the United States court in Kansas City carries the peculiar middle name Finis given by his parents for being born on the last minute hour day week month and year. He was the youngest of a large family.
The Rochester Union recalls Sam Patch as an itinerant vagabond whose companions included a bear and who drank heavily and performed foolhardy feats. His life ended in the Genesee river, a fate the paper says is fittingly reflected in his neglected grave.
An Ohio Congregational clergyman sent to the patent office a model for individual communion cups. The cups stand about two inches high and one inch at the mouth, tapering to five-eighths inch at the base. A frame could hold up to forty cups and be replenished in seconds.
A New York state bride was kissed by many friends at her wedding and fell ill with diphtheria the next morning. Several friends who shared the celebration soon developed the disease, prompting calls for medical guidance on even affectionate gestures.
The Woman's Journal cites 1880 figures: 2.7 million bread winning women and girls employed outside homes, including 110 lawyers 165 ministers 20 authors 58 percent journalists 2 061 artists 2 136 architects chemists pharmacists 5 155 government clerks 2 438 physicians and surgeons 13 182 professional musicians 56 800 farmers and planters 21 071 clerks and bookkeepers 14 465 heads of commercial houses and 155 000 public school teachers based on the census.
For the first time in Methodism, a woman gains conference membership in Nova Scotia. Mary Dapphini is granted equal rights with male members and will take her seat. Frances E. Willard’s similar 3 year old US case was refused. A spring Nova Scotia suffrage bill nearly became law.
A sensational claim in Rahway New Jersey followed bequest to John Hough a poor man living with his daughter. Two lawyers produced letters testamentary and documents from a California surrogate, convincing Hough of a fortune from a benefactor he nursed, and he prepares to collect.
Ebenezer Burgess Ball, 76, lives in Washington and runs a small cigar stand in the pension office rotunda. The Sons of the American Revolution investigated his claim of kinship and largely support it. Ball resembles Washington closely, with photos in continental uniform confusingly similar to the president.
The article notes Molly Stark survived the Bennington battle and became a respected mother in Israel. It recalls that at one district school in New Hampshire, thirty of forty students bore the Stark name, all descendants of Molly and the four Stark children from the hero of Bennington. Now Stark is nearly extinct in New Hampshire with only a few bearers remaining in Manchester.
The piece reviews a string of legislative and political events from August including Reed and Cochran speeches supporting repeal of the Sherman silver law, the Senate and House actions on bank circulation and the silver policy, and the Voorhees amendment seeking to preserve parity between gold and silver. It also notes a run of disasters and other events across states, including wrecks, storms, and crop damages, plus regional bank reopenings and a Sunday school convention report.
The report notes a week’s standard silver dollar issue totaling 656704, grain visible supplies by type, 154 national banks suspended since January, with 1 voluntary liquidation, 57 receivers, 62 under examiners, 34 reopened. Treasury cash counted at 740817419782 dollars with no missing, weight near 5000 tons. Pension suspensions limited to non entitled soldiers. Treasury deficits of 10 to 11 million and daily revenue shortfalls around 390000.
Mrs B D Shepherd stage name Marie Prescott dies after surgical operation in New York. Nicaragua Canal Construction Co receiver appointed. Pennsylvania Republicans nominate D Newlin Fell for supreme judge and Col Samuel Jackson for state treasurer at Harrisburg. William M Evarts and wife celebrate golden wedding near Windsor Vermont. Oliver Wendell Holmes reaches 84 at Beverly Farms Massachusetts. Free destroys Old Guard armory in New York causing 100000 loss. Nancy Hanks runs mile in 206 at Fleetwood Park New York with 12000 spectators. New York Republicans plan state convention in Syracuse October 6. Boston & Albany Chicago limited express derails near Chester Massachusetts. bridge collapse kills 14 and wounds 28. Three children struck dead by lightning at Petersham Massachusetts.
A cyclone in Kernesville North Carolina killed four and leveled hundreds of homes. Chicago faced a mob at Siegel Cooper Co with police intervention. A Polish mob clash followed on Milwaukee Avenue. First National Bank York Nebraska closed its doors. A meteor fire at S W Barlow’s Delavan Wisconsin livery barn destroyed eleven buildings. North America crops damaged by hurricane in western New York and eastern Ohio. In New Orleans Nathan Friedlander shot his wife and killed himself. South Carolina tornadoes at Port Royal Beaufort and nearby caused over 100 deaths. In Savannah Georgia fifteen killed.
Weekly cholera cases reach 4325 across 21 Russian provinces with 1692 deaths. Jacksonville bank shuts doors with 360000 asset and 320000 liabilities. A Mexican dance leads to Pedro Martinez stabbing Miss Maria Gonzales and lethal stones from a crowd. Poison mushrooms claim ten lives in Lichtenstein. Branfort marriage reveals sibling pair Epward Vezzy and Briole Buckingham. London factory fires cause 400000 in losses. Welsh miners return to old prices after strikes. Honolulu royalists plot but fail. Hokchang faces starvation as cholera spreads.
The U S senate debates repeal of the silver law with Senator Wolcott of Colorado opposing. Amid disaster news a Boston and Albany train wreck near Chester Massachusetts kills fourteen and injures twenty eight. New York Republicans set Syracuse convention for October six. Headlines note storms wrecks and wartime finance.
The Senate debates the Sherman act and silver policy with Hill and Gordon urging repeal of the Sherman purchasing clause and support for bimetallism. Sherman and Teller defend existing law while discussing balance of trade, gold and silver standards, and banking reforms amid a national financial anxiety.
Desolate Savannah and coastal towns report great property damage and multiple fatalities as the hurricane rages Sunday night. Vessels, wharves, and a fumigation plant are ruined. numerous crews and residents are missing or dead across Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, and North Carolina.
Judge Ricks approves settlement between the Ann Arbor Railroad receiver and Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Arthur agrees to pay 2500 plus costs in the 300000 damage suit and the costs in related suits with Pennsylvania and connecting lines. Also, a man named M Jagerson was found dead by gunshot at his camp near Arkansas City Kansas after coming from Iowa to claim land.
Oakland Lil August 29 A thrashing machine boiler exploded at Hamerick killing George Noble a prominent farmer and fatally wounding Alexander Litton and John Thomas hired hands The blast follows local reporting on other injuries from accidental gunshot in Torexa Kansas where five year old Frank Oliver Jr accidentally fired a buckshot loaded gun wounding Mrs Oliver and a baby with uncertain outcomes.
Helena Aug 28 John Daugherty 27 and Peter Hamill 32 killed crossing a railroad track in a buggy struck by an ore train in Anaconda. Daugherty instantly died Hamill died Sunday night from injuries.
The Philadelphia Press reports confirmation from Boston of President Cleveland's operation on the yacht Oneida to remove cancer in the upper jawbone. Doctors say the diseased tissue was excised, recovery hopeful, though his condition remains serious and he was urged to rest away from work.
Foreign commissioners touring Elk Valley Farming company near Larmore North Dakota witnessed a display of 42 harvesters and a 160 acre grain field. M G Larimore and sons Walter and Clay led the operation with teams of mules and laborers. Afternoon thrashing used four machines while guests enjoyed a prairie chicken lunch.
A meteor struck the livery barn of S. W. Barlow in Delavan Wisconsin on Monday night igniting a fire. Wind swept the flames through a row of wooden buildings and into the main business block on Walworth avenue destroying eleven structures. Loss tops twenty eight thousand dollars with seventeen thousand dollars insured.
Ten people in Lichtenstein Germany died after eating poisonous fungi they mistook for edible mushrooms. The deaths occurred in the town as authorities investigated the incident and advised caution in identifying mushrooms.
Arcola in the broom corn district sees widespread labor from across the country as cutting begins. About two thirds of the crop is ready and harvesters report the brush quality the finest yet with prices starting near eighty dollars.
Paris reports the French government will convene a Paris conference of Latin union members to decide on the nationalization of fractional silver currency. A separate item notes a fatal landslide near Newcastle Junction on the Pittsburgh and Western railroad, with two killed and cars derailed. In Michigan, Homer Bears and his wife were injured in a wagon accident near Cedar Springs, Mrs. Bears fatally.
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