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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1909
Page
6
The installation of new laboratories in Agricultural Hall is advancing rapidly with most furniture awaiting placement. The Soil Bacteriology lab will seat about a dozen students and include advanced equipment for soil study, while the general soil, farm crops, and horticultural labs will be state of the art. It is hoped some labs open soon and all by Easter vacation.
Under guidance of Mr Bickam Y M C A secretary the college fraternities plan weekly half hour Bible study discussions led by a faculty member. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Phi Gamma Delta Beta Theta Pi Sigma Nu Kappa Sigma Alpha Tau Omega Zeta Sigma Zeta and Coronades have elected leaders and started the program. The move aims to balance intellectual social and physical life with moral and religious growth.
Prof. C V Gregory returns from Lawrence Kansas where he attended the first National Conference of Schools of Journalism. Represented were Kansas University Missouri Kansas Agricultural College Emporia Ottawa Iowa State. Out of town editors included Arthur Brisbane Henry J Allen William White Sessions and Wm Southern. Brisbane urged yellow journalism and Missouri's Dean Williams spoke on practical school organization. White criticized journalism schools. Next year’s meeting planned for Missouri.
Warning against using catarrh ointments containing mercury. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo is mercury free and taken internally. Sold by druggists at 75 cents per bottle. Also Hall's Family Pills advertised for constipation.
The article outlines the nebula hypothesis, tracing matter from a uniform spacefilled mist to rotating nebulas forming suns and rings that become planets and moons. It notes the difficulty of proving the theory yet cites observational support from nebulae and rings near Saturn.
W D Elwell of Ames visited Grinnell to organize the prohibition party statewide. He reported a $7200 fundraising record since May 1, with chairmen in eighty counties and plans for March conventions including Poweshiek. A temperance champagne proposed as a summer educatory tour follows a model used in Illinois.
W H Pew assistant professor of animal husbandry at Iowa State College has declined an offer from New Hampshire State College to become director of its Agricultural Experiment Station. The position would increase his pay by about $1000 annually, but Pew chose to remain at Ames where he is a popular and active instructor. He graduated from Iowa State in 1907, returned as a professor in 1909, and has since been valued for his enthusiasm and leadership in the department.
The article notes cement's wide uses from bee-hives to Panama Canal and street pavements. The Third Annual Cement Show in Chicago runs February 1826 with over three hundred exhibits. Last year the event drew more than seventy five thousand attendees from across the United States.
The Madrid Register-News notes Master Taylor Longworth and Hug are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Spence, Ames confectioner. Mrs. Spence, daughter of Dorus Blaine, taught in local schools, and readers recall the Spence hospitality. The Eastern Star Lodge elected Mrs. Spence Grand Worthy Matron by a large majority, a noted decision.
Van Tassel Sutphen profiles the Shinnecock Hills Club on Peconic Bay with Charles Blair MacDonald driving the plan for an eighteen hole course. He seeks to improve nature with a complete hydraulic system and expert input for a premier golfing paradise near the coast. Sidewalks are repurposed as skating rinks in winter.
An old advertisement promotes ZEMO as a external medicine that draws out and destroys germ life to cure eczema pimples blackheads dandruff and scalp diseases. Mr Cagwin the druggist endorses it and offers a sample bottle.
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