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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1911
Page
3
A brief plea urges quick home treatment for croup with Chamberlains Cough Remedy and notes delays can be dangerous. It also includes proverbs about honesty, politics, and self belief with encouragement not to yield to discouragement.
Washington is warned by Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith that a lumber monopoly concentrates control over standing timber, land and railroads. The 38 page report to Congress cites vast land holdings, rising timber values, and looming monopolistic conditions endangering public policy and future supplies.
Senator Hammill introduces bills to place orphans from the state homes into foster care via state agents and adjust industrial school age limits to ten through sixteen for girls and ten through eighteen for boys. Other measures include converting Tabor College to a state normal school and raises for wolf lynx and wild cat bounties.
New York reports the referee in Nat C. Goodwin's divorce suit recommended an unconditional divorce for Mrs Edna Goodrich Goodwin. The comedian, famed for matrimonial wit, is about to publish a book on matrimony from his 35 years of wedlock experience titled I Wonder.
Reports that former Governor Henry T. Gage would not return to Lisbon as United States minister to Portugal have resurfaced. The minister declined to comment when approached for an interview.
A bill introduced by Representative Stipe of Page county would ban unfair price discrimination for all commodities across communities. It adds to existing law which already bars discrimination in butter cream grain and petroleum products while allowing transportation and storage costs to factor into prices.
A senate bill by Chapman of Cedar proposes building permanent roads radiating from county seats to nearby cities. It covers macadam gravel oil pave and other roadbeds for streets boulevards avenues lanes and rural roads outside towns with any desired distance. The plan includes county bond issues to fund road building establish road districts and create a county engineer office.
Iowa Senator Dunnegan urges a $50,000 appropriation to Fremont County for six miles of macadamized road as a test project to gauge public demand for improved roads.
Representative Newell of Plymouth County retains his seat as the special committee reports a 23 vote majority in his favor. Allamakee's Fourt presents a petition signed by 105 citizens opposing the four year term bill for county officials. Keokuk’s Petterson submits two petitions urging resubmission of the prohibition question.
Petition filed April 7 1910 to establish a drainage district and main tile and open overflow ditches to drain lands near Section 26 and 36 Township 84 Range 24. Estimated cost 5961 dollars. Hearing set March 17 1911 before Story County Board of Supervisors in Nevada Iowa.
An attack of the grip is often followed by a persistent cough and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is advertised as a relief and cure. The ad claims many cases have been cured after other remedies failed and lists it as sold by all dealers.
A lively scene describes a healthy youngster refusing to leave the table while any dessert remains in sight, showcasing a playful chase for sweets. The narration captures the child’s determined appetite and the family’s lighthearted response.
Message touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a preventive and cure for croup. It advises using it at first signs of hoarseness or croupy cough and asserts failure has never occurred. Sold by all dealers.
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