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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1905
Page
1
A wave of growth in Ames follows census returns as residents mobilize for summer events. The town promotes the mid-summer festival In the Good Old Summer Time set for July 3 to 5 and invites attendance while noting broader regional conversations.
The Chicago strike shows no end as strikers plan a July 5 demonstration. Reports note express companies staffing with non union workers and resuming normal business, while Gov Cummins draws free advertising amid varied press coverage.
A fellow in Illinois reportedly shot himself after his wife died while he faced harsh realities of earning a living. A reader notes the era's frenzied pace with automatic lunch rooms and coin operated gumballs. Hink Edwards says Secretary Shaw will run for president. the governor has a strong public record.
Crepe de chine proposed as a favored bridal gown fabric for the June bride. A Cincinnati woman seeks a court order declaring she is not pretty, which the judge granted. Iowa State Fair premiums are rising to nearly 40 000 dollars, with new milk test prize and broader cattle, horse, and hog classes. Also notes on Madame Alice Myron performing Verdi and Shiras works with acclaim in London and Creston Gazette praise for her contralto voice.
A rambling travelogue from a midnight trip to Pierre with anecdotes of brutal wind, hair blown from cattle, bucking bottles, and rugged punchy imagery. It blends humor about prairie life, cattle, and rough hotel sleep with notes on Ames population gain and a Chicago bankers club remark about Roosevelt.
Complete set of furniture and household goods offered at reduced prices due to departure. Inquiries at 608 Story Street.
In Farish’s Gold Hunters of California a gambler named Moore bets his entire safe contents on a single hand. The dealer asks the amount. Moore says the sum is unknown but large and that if he wins the dealer must split the money with him. Moore wins about $47,000.
Pearson's Weekly recalls the Mohocks a ruffian class of early 1700s London youths known for drunken street marauding wielding leaded clubs. Swift likened them to a race of rakes as they attacked passersby and guards, with legends of barrels rolling matrons down Snow Hill and overturned coaches.
A Philadelphia Ledger item quotes Ma scolding Willie and his brother as Willie resists learning while Ma recalls taking his candy and showing him how to eat it. The brief reflects a domestic scene with a humorous voice from the period.
Major Lomax of the U S Army visiting Canada after the War of 1812 responds to a British toast by proposing The Prince Regent, Drunk or Sober. The British officer says it insults him, but Lomax clarifies it is a reply to the earlier toast, not an insult.
Law Notes recounts Sergeant Ballantine telling of Piccadilly encounter where a drunkenness dispute drew in Lord Chief Justice Cockburn who joked arrest for many things. A sharp quip and a separate joke about expression close the piece.
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