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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
1
Subscription price remains one dollar yearly in advance. The Mason City Times-Herald questions electoral certainty for this year. Agricultural implement demand tops records and prosperity signals. Wright county sees 307 births to 93 deaths last year, stork ahead of scythe. Boys slight margin over girls in sex ratio.
A Manson Democrat warns that Iowa may finally give its electoral vote to a Democrat this year. The note reflects cautious optimism and a joking fear that a wrong outcome could be fatal for a weak heart.
The Webster City Freeman-Tribune argues that Scott County Savings Bank in a saloon-heavy community holds Iowa's largest deposits. It contends this shows saloon keepers choose this bank, not that saloons prove prosperity.
The Spirit Lake Beacon recounts a playful political sketch where a candidate kisses a babe and compliments twins, asks about corn bread, and slips away behind the barn with a drink, noting that these moments count in humor but not as decisive actions.
The piece argues that the nation has not seen such demand for skilled, educated young men in business. It cites vast capital, fierce competition, and the value of time, saying success now requires direct training for modern business conditions.
A Harper’s Weekly writer asks what happens if a party’s presidential nominee dies from disease or accident after electoral votes are counted but before March 4. The piece notes no explicit president elect term in the Constitution and argues a Supreme Court ruling would be needed without federal law to resolve succession.
The text argues English is the world’s dominant language ahead of French and German. It claims Spanish wanes while English is spoken by three major nationalities and widely across the British Isles United States Canada Australia New Zealand and to a large extent in China India Africa. It notes English as the de facto official and commercial language in many regions and hotels worldwide.
In Harper’s Weekly a decade after the Santiago surrender, the piece notes the uneasy moment for any American entering Havana harbor as silence falls on the wrecked waters and teeming birds hover over the damaged scene. The historic context ties to Gen. Toral’s surrender to Gen. Shafter.
A narrator recalls the February explosion that sparked a war and the Maine wreck in Havana harbor. Ten years later the watcher wonders why the government has not raised the ship while reflecting on national memory and the old cry Remember the Maine.
The piece describes summer outdoor pageants in England and Boston illustrating national history and education progress. It notes London’s five week exhibit on foreign missions featuring Winston Churchill and Hamish MacCunn, plus Shanghai officials praising mission schools as essential to modern learning and culture.
Secretary Taft in Carnegie Hall urges Americans to confront foreign missions and shed provincialism. W T Ellis of the Philadelphia Press tests the world and urges business leaders to engage in China’s emerging Christian future. Other travelers like Churchill and Bryce echo the push for practical mission work.
The Chautauqua Grounds Committee met Thursday at Campbell and Graves to arrange early work for the coming session. Two member committees were named for each division including police Gate Keepers and Ticket Sellers Concessions Telephones and Seating Tent and Erection of Tent with members named.
Shannon reports that applications for department posts must be filed by July 20 with reports from each division going to the Grounds Committee for approval. Edwin Rex was elected superintendent of grounds.
The Story County Normal Institute at Nevada opened Monday with good attendance. Enrollment reached 150 yesterday morning with about a third new teachers. Instructors include F. B. King I. J. Scott Nims Welty Morse and county officials. City school attendees list several teachers and Ames high graduates among others from Ames.
Governor Hanly receives a great ovation in Des Moines while opening the Ames Chautauqua on August 2. The Indiana governor, a noted temperance worker and potential Presidential candidate, is praised for principle over politics. He plans to lecture on "The Patriotism of Peace" in Ames.
In Iowa farm town Frank Kooser laments lack of alternative crops to oats and notes rust may threaten the season. A neighbor’s white dog, turned yellow by rust, highlights the rust issue in oats.
Season tickets for the Chautauqua are available at drug stores, banks, and grocery stores. Price two dollars with advance sale of one fifty through August eighth. Innes Band single admission fifty cents, both concerts seventy five cents. Regular single admission twenty five cents per session.
A marriage license was issued yesterday in Nevada to Frank Hall and Leona Fisk, both residents of Ames.
H E Slattery sold his residence on North Dougass avenue to Mr Baily the Interurban ticket agent and will give possession in Montes. The Slatterys will store their goods until they buy elsewhere in the city.
James Bates born February 4 1823 in Richland County Ohio died July 10 1908 at his Ames area farm aged 85 years 5 months 6 days. Survived by wives Matilda Culver Susan Whited and Orvilla Mary Crafford and by children from two marriages. Funeral held at Evergreen Church with Rev A Pruitt officiating. interment Walnut Grove Cemetery.
Campbell is described as a mark of quality in photography, noting six frequent features or identifiers related to the brand.
An ordinance sets the datum plane for Ames Iowa as a horizontal plane one hundred feet below a top iron rod in a city park and defines the standard bench mark. It details Onondaga Street grade points from station 0.00 to 26, with elevations and line connections across Clark Burnett Kellogg Douglass and Duff avenues, plus related intersections and blocks. The ordinance references a 1908 plat filed with the City Clerk.
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