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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1900
Page
4
A proofreader recalls a 1889 Chicago incident in a rambling printing house. In darkness and silence a feared face in the next room triggers crippling fright. A drunken printer waking among paper stacks completes the scare, leaving the narrator shaken by the memory.
A telegraph operator recounts a sweeping bucket shop scam in which two rival houses, run by the same organizers, duped investors. A young man with money and friends placed bets on both sides, drawing in new clients each time before the operators skimmed their funds. The scheme exposed the operators as collaborators behind the scenes.
Leslie's Weekly recounts Joseph Jefferson's Indiana tour memory of a 19th century hotel morning in which an Irish porter named Mike awakened him for no reason other than rumor. The porter whispers he believed Jefferson was "shnoring loike a horse" after years of sleep and swiftly dispatched him from the house.
A fragmentary reminiscence traces Daniel C. Pomeroy from stage driving on the Butterfield line to a legal education via on the coach and at station changes. He aided Mrs. McCarthy at Utica in a murder trial, clashing with Judge Doolittle who doubted her guilt. A Philadelphia Call quip and a Youth’s Companion anecdote frame Pomeroy’s assertive style.
A sequence of unreadable time marks appears with department indicators and vague codes. The fragments include times such as 7 45 am 8 05 am 6 40 pm and 10 06 pm. No clear event names or entities are identifiable in the legible text.
Detroit Journal notes a peculiar business claim that no evasion of laws is required, asserting their capital suffices for operations. The quotation suggests a legal but controversial stance on compliance and enterprise.
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