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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1911
Page
4
Des Moines reports reveal patent medicines barred by Iowa investigators show high alcohol content and opium in cough tonics. Officials warn vendors and manufacturers to halt sales or face prosecutions amid price gouging and unsafe formulations.
Des Moines reports negotiations between Agar Packing Co and J H Kerr of Chicago, president of the Missouri River Dispatch Refrigerator line, ending with a sale of seventy five refrigerator cars while the Agars retain option to use them if the plant reopens. The scene signals a possible reopening of the Agar plant in Jefferson.
A spark from a threshing engine destroyed the Reidel Brothers outfit and burned a barn and cribs with grain belonging to George Albers near Swaledale. The loss is estimated at 3000 dollars and evidence was damaged badly.
Muscatine August 2 robbers broke a plate glass window at Barnard Jewelry, gaining entry last evening and escaping with hundreds of dollars worth of goods.
Des Moines reports the state treasury collected 111,292.65 from June and July auto tax under the new law. June yielded 21,266.12 and July 90,026.53. In Boone Otto Snedeker was shot by cousin Curtis Lamb at Rockwell City and taken for medical treatment.
The National Federation of Postoffice Clerks will hold its next annual convention in Des Moines on September 4 5 and 6 1911. About 300 delegates from across the nation are expected to attend the gathering.
In Clinton on August 2 Peter Strites aged 31 swallowed a fatal dose of carbolic acid and, begging his wife for a doctor, received medical help too late to save him.
A concise proverb noting that beauty does not guarantee productivity in egg laying and that appearances can mislead regarding performance. The saying emphasizes practical value over looks in farming.
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