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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1904
Page
2
The Carroll Herald weighs in that campaign speeches fail to secure votes and questions whether the good brother has finally recognized this reality. It frames the issue as a political insight about persuasion and voter behavior.
The Iowa City episode hastens the board of control notion in the state with the prairie chicken season three weeks old and little stir noted, likely due to the birds’ scarcity in the area.
Critics claim Republican officials use state central committee pressure to demand voluntary campaign subscriptions. They allege officials exploit the gravel service law to dodge penalties and reveal the plan, arguing civil service is misused.
The reorganizers of the defunct bank in Grinnell Iowa select the Congregational church pastor as bank president, signaling cautious leadership after closure.
An Italian man attacked the Webster CityGraphic Herald editor after taking offense at a local article. The incident occurred at the newspaper office and the assailant defeated the editor in the ensuing confrontation.
The city argues that owning public utilities lowers overall taxes, a claim used to support public ownership as a means to reduce levies.
A Rock Island railway abandons Whiskey Hollow, a remote Iowa stretch noted as the most isolated place. The twenty five mile marshland route with rushes and cane breaks is said to be so vanishingly dense that an elephant could be lost beyond recovery.
A local commentary notes how rumors of delays in good weather faded as warm days prompted belief Iowa will harvest a strong corn crop. The piece contrasts past fears with current talk of wealth and state prosperity tied to corn yields.
The Anita Tribune relays a Des Moines brewery proposal amid anti-saloon opposition. The writer argues brewing in Des Moines could boost local business and farm products, while noting many saloons operate despite laws, and claims no added drunkenness would result if production stays local.
The dispatches headline Platt is Downed signaling Odell allies won at New York state convention. The writer notes Tom Platt, a longtime leader now aged in his seventies, appears diminished and unlikely to lead a large state again, reflecting on time and decline.
The article notes widespread tattooing among African natives, though inferior to Maori practice. It describes slitting the skin and rubbing coal, and highlights feminine ornaments such as the Wa Yao nose buttons and the Anyanja peble lip ring, whose progressive plugs create a protruding, scarcely human appearance.
Basque peasants favored trinquet a long standing court game with ancient roots. Bayonne and St. Jean de Luz courts are cited as very old. Louis XIV reportedly saw Basques playing trinquet and brought the idea to Paris where it influenced tennis, using a leather glove instead of a racket.
Ira Mackey of Nevada opens a bowling alley in Boone. The Watchman notes rising Sunday drunks in Nevada, and W A Devendorf sells a Story City drug store and moves to Webster City. Roland public schools plan Monday opening with Ira J Scott as principal and a staff including Nelson Osmundson Evenson Hanson. A Norwegian supper in Roland features fattigmansbakkelse. Boone County Mortgage filed for 50 000, affecting multiple counties. Retail Grocers Association formed in Nevada with officers Mackey Grove Best Burroughs.
The week showed variable temperatures with several frost events from the 12th to the 15th. Damage to late planted corn is greatest in the Iowa River valley low lands, but overall state wide frost impact on corn quality appears limited. Potatoes and apples are being harvested as fall plowing advances.
Franz von Lenbach, famed portraitist, painted three portraits of poet Adolph Wilbrandt. Sessions ranged from three to five hours, with one sitting spanning the entire day. As light faded, Lenbach urged Wilbrandt to sit on, claiming the light was still the best.
On Katie’s last day with the B family a sudden whisper from the rear hall reveals the ex maid in disheveled state. She tells Mrs B to say she is out if someone comes to the front door, prompting the family to assume duties the maid had neglected.
Mrs Ferguson George admits she handed $7.50 for pocket money and was pickpocketed in a downtown street car crush. The incident, reported in the Chicago Tribune, blends domestic humor with a small misfortune.
A reflective meditation asserts happiness comes from contentment with reasonable limits rather than indulgence. Time and strength should be reserved for cultivating one’s nobler nature.
Magistrate confronts a prisoner accused of stealing six reams of paper three gallons of ink and five gross of pens. The prisoner claims he was gathering material for a new story and offers no admission of guilt.
In Brooklyn Life a dialogue features Lovelli arguing against revealing past indiscretions to a fiancée while Cynicus contends honesty would spare marriage to a man with secrets. The exchange hints at relationship trust and social expectations.
A Utica Herald item shows a trolley car conductor asking for fare and a passenger replying that about 30 cents was paid but that the conductor did not ring it up for the company. The exchange highlights a common transit dispute recorded in the era.
The Chicago Record Herald delights readers with humor on every issue. Ralph Wilder provides a cartoon on the first page while a humorous short story appears on the editorial page and S. E. Kizer writes the Alternating Currents column. The Sunday issue also includes a comic section guaranteed to evoke laughter.
The October Smart Set features Anna A. Rogers moored a naval wife tale, Gouverneur Morris The Lady of Moods, Guy Wetmore Carryl A Title in the Affairs of Stephen Girdler, Richard Le Gallienne The Two Ghosts, Beatrix Demarest Lloyd When Delos Drifted, Iona Gale A Land a Great Way Off, Theodore Waters The Passing of Gon Out, Willard French The Mastiff, and Barry Pain The Rewards of Perseverance, among others in a rich selection of stories and verse.
The issue features exclusive Lish author pieces for The Smart Set by Agnes Repplier and F J Knight Adkin. It includes poems by Joaquin Miller Ernest Mc Gaffey Theodosia Garrison Madeline Bridges P McArthur Frank Little Pollock Thomas Walsh and Arthur Macy.
A newly circulated home song titled Your Mother by J. T. Rider is praised as beautiful and widely worth buying. Readers may obtain a copy mailed postpaid by sending 25 cents to Theatrical Music Supply Co. at 44 West 28th Street, New York.
The Chicago Great Western will sell excursion tickets to Texas Oklahoma Indian Territory and New Mexico on September 20 October 4 and 18 at very low rates. Information available from any Great Western agent or J P Eimer G P A Chicago Ill. 21 4
One fare plus for the round trip to St Paul and Minneapolis. The Chicago Great Western will on Sept 28 29 and 30 sell tickets at above low rates. For further information apply to J P Elmer or any Great Western agent. Optical work and jewelry repairing of all kinds at I S Jewelry Store. Judge and Major proprietors. 4tf
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