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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1906
Page
6
A Detroit Free Press item recalls Adamoff an Armenian oil magnate and hero who defended his Armauskia street palace during a three day siege in Baku. He shot forty Tartars, was wounded, and died on his balcony while defending his home with courage and resolve.
In Paris yesterday a duel between Gomez Carrillo and Austin de Croze collapsed when Croze refused to fight. Carrillo then proposed fencing master George Dubois as substitute, who suggested pistols but swords were used. Dubois in the second round pierced Croze’s arm, yielding Carrillo a perceived satisfaction per the report.
A tourist recalls a Berlin rule says beer may not be served with fruit with a waiter claiming licenses hinge on the prohibition. The visitor notes the law as strange and imagines broader bans like ice cream with lobster or mince pie with plum pudding drawing protests.
The piece portrays a ten year old boy living amid a broken home and alimony, drifting amid strangers and distant guardians. It laments sleepless hours, absent parental affection, and the harsh toll of family strife on a young child in a city setting. Horace Seymour Keller comments through the New York Press excerpt.
The New York Sun notes enormous earrings dominate this season with turquoise and diamond clusters. It recalls earlier disdain for nose rings and cites a prominent social figure who wore half-inch diameter earrings before mourning.
A historic notice cites Britain urging better marksmen as cigarettes and pipe smoking spread among soldiers. The Wellington era order condemns pipe cigar and cheroot use, linking tobacco fumes to intoxication and increased drinking among officers and junior ranks.
A public demand to know food contents grows as samples show products labeled pure may still contain harmful additives. The Postum Cereal Co proposes a national pure food bill to standardize ingredient disclosure, urging citizens to lobby Congress and hold representatives accountable.
Instructions urge readers to cut out the bill text if approved, sign with name and address, and mail to their congressional representative. Citizens are asked to buy two publications, keep one for reference, and send the other to a state U S Senator, then recruit friends to boost chances for passage.
A congressional bill mandates clear ingredient labeling on all foods sold in the United States. It requires makers to print complete ingredient lists and maker addresses on each package and bars removal or alteration with penalties up to two hundred dollars for first offenses and higher for repeat violations. The act also outlines government testing, enforcement by district attorneys, and sets an effective date of October first, nineteen hundred and six.
The undersigned respectfully asks Representatives from his district and Senators from his state to back this measure.
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