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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1913
Page
4
The board of education revokes its previous order altering state college curricula, removing a controversial issue from dispute and restoring normal governance. The article notes funding strains, interschool rivalries, and the push toward coordinated curricula as a prudent long term policy.
The article praises the recent road law as a step forward despite overblown agitation. It notes education will deepen public support, predicts rapid progress, and argues that durable roads improve future development under competent supervision and proper drainage.
The English militant suffrage leader Mrs Pankhurst receives a three year penal servitude sentence for inciting damage. The court found her an agitator and counsellor of force, though it did not prove her knowledge of recent dynamiting acts or personal involvement in other disturbances.
The passage condemns destruction and personal assaults for political ends while opposing punishing a innocent leader. It discusses suffrage activism led by Mrs. Pankhurst against injustices, the use of bricks and dynamite, and the parole release of a prisoner as indicating a broader struggle for concessions.
A rough estimate of Des Moines loose change will be possible after the planned series of Sunday meetings ends. Community organizers hope the totals reveal spending patterns and fundraising progress.
Ames residents urged to participate in general clean up day on April 26 and to remove all garbage manure and waste from yards streets and alleys throughout the summer. The mayor vows relentless war on the house fly and praises sanitary city measures.
A Des Moines legislator from the local group reads a home letter to reporters. The letter mentions Sallie with two lambs, one of them leek, reflecting a rural, humorous moment amid the legislature.
Local pastor Billy Sunday plans a Des Moines appearance despite dire weather forecasts. He warned he would rather see the city struck by a storm than endure a Sunday season, urging parishioners to seek shelter and prepare basements.
Legislature shows little progress as committees hold up bills and speeches are capped at five minutes, leaving business leaders awaiting concrete action.
City council writes ordinance 268 regulating construction within Ames Iowa fire limits. Specifies footings brick stone or cement with dimensions for 2 and 4 story buildings, non combustible walls, three foot rise of rear fire walls, and metal shutters for exposed roofs. Repeals conflicting ordinances. Effective upon publication per law. Parley Sheldon, City Clerk. Passed April 12 1913. published April 14 1918.
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