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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
7
The Iowa state board of control outlines a reform oriented penal code with jail inspections, a juvenile court, suspended sentences for minor offenses, indeterminate terms for serious crimes, and a parole and pardons system. It calls for state supervision of released offenders and employment placement.
Iowa State College Ames schedules a two week January 1904 dairying course for experienced factory operators alongside a one week farmer course. The program features butter manufacture milk testing bacteriology scoring butter and hand separator cream with emphasis on overrun hand separators and cattle care.
Lydia Whitaker, a Cedar Falls Normal School graduate and former teacher, confessed to disguising herself in male clothes to drive a team and earn wages. After her husband deserted her, she used the disguise to support her aging parents, revealing her sex when questioned by a suspicious woman.
Rev Charles Stelzle of St Louis campaigns among Des Moines workers to boost church attendance. He urges affiliation of the Ministerial Association with the Trades Assembly and promotes institutional church ideas to draw laborers to worship. He warns against growing European socialism potentially replacing Christianity.
An advertising appeal urges keeping Peruna in every home with children as a preventive and cure for catarrhal ailments. It includes testimonials from Mrs. Schafer of St. Louis and Mrs. Lietzman of Chicago praising Peruna’s health benefits and its role in their families without doctor visits.
The ad urges Peruna as a safeguard against colds leading to croup, bronchitis, and rheumatism in children. It cites mother’s letters praising cure and health after Peruna use and promises free advice from Dr. Hartman if results are unsatisfactory.
Mrs. 8 M Huffman of Noble Washington county claims to be an heir to 160 acres in Chicago once patented in 1899. She is a descendant of Joduthan Smith who preempted the land in 1834 and died that year. The 47 heirs claim direct title after 1899 with Huffman holding one sixth of the estate.
The Iowa Poultry Association announces its largest show yet in Des Moines January 6 to 13 with 1000 specimens entered for prize competitions. The event aims to establish the capital as a permanent meeting place and includes a new prize for dressed poultry as an innovation. A legislative appropriation will be sought to support poultry raising efforts in Iowa.
A mix of humorous notes and ads: call to ask your druggist for the free Peruna Almanac for 1904. A Bartholdi constituent in Washington found extra charges for gas on his hotel bill. A Count Nottapenni joke and a travelers rates notice for the Sunny South Homes from Jno. M. Beall with Mobile & Ohio R. R. details.
S C Holst a Newcastle woolgrower says back pain began while shearing. After two years of pain and failed treatments he credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with a complete, permanent cure and renewed vigor. He notes a year of health since the remedy.
An excited showman tells Flere to shoot the escaped leopard on the spot. The green circus hand asks where to shoot, highlighting a tense moment at the circus.
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