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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1902
Page
2
An Iowa editor lampoons pretensions as Des Moines weighs inviting President Paul Kruger to visit America. The piece mocks editorials, notes Chicago plans to curb bird use in millinery, and laments Iowa boasting to Congress while acknowledging a sizable Washington colony.
In Germany residents plant fruit trees along roads and auction bearing rights with proceeds given to the poor. The piece notes extreme honesty among people who resist stealing fruit near reach, contrasting with common theft of others’ property through locks and safes.
A writer argues that printing offices are tough places and journalists seen as villains, yet Texas penitentiary statistics show no printers among 8,890 inmates. Instead the prison houses ministers, lawyers, teachers, doctors, bankers, cooks, photographers, barkeeps, barbers and others. The printer’s bad reputation stems from detecting shams and despising hypocrites.
Des Moines College purchases Es Moines Medical College from Dr. M. J. Barrett who remains director. The transfer aims to move to a new building within a year to overcome current location disadvantages.
The Times editor is the only figure hinted as considering breaking with the party in Story County. Readers are urged to name nominees for county offices, with committee members and resolutions defended as representing a large majority, while skepticism remains about the Des Moines origin of the resolutions.
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