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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1903
Page
1
Very low excursion fares to Pittsburgh via the North Western Line offered August 1, 2 and 3 with favorable return limits for the O T A U Convention. Applications available from Chicago and North Western agents.
An Iowa newspaper ad offer promotes The Des Moines Daily and Sunday News at $1.50 per year plus options 100 for eight months 80 cents for three months. It details delivery to Des Moines and a Maple City Soap pitch, plus travel specials to California on Chicago and North Western lines with G A R tours and itineraries listed.
The notice asks all parties holding bills against Tilden Bros. and Co. to present them for settlement. It requests favorable terms and urges action to resolve outstanding accounts.
Eastern papers note coal price at 645 dollars a ton rising monthly while strike ends and strike commission adjourns. Minnesota supreme court upholds Ames sentence. ex mayor to serve six years at Stillwater. Sioux City Journal edits out Bob Cousins speech. several Iowa notices about poultry pests and local events follow.
A neighboring town merchant was asked for names of pro prohibitionists to market a whiskey brand and a commission on sales. He jokingly sent a list, and a month later received 16.50 by draft from the distillers as thanks for the list.
The past week brought four or five days of fine weather for haymaking and small grain harvest. Rain on the 17th and 18th aided crops but caused damage in some northern and eastern areas. Corn shows steady improvement though belated portions need favorable weather to mature. Rust hits spring wheat and oats, barley harvest is advancing, potatoes underperform due to blight and rot, while apples and early fruit yields look solid.
Mrs. Alice Miller of Morgan Texas recounts six years of severe diarrhoea with repeated relapses and failed treatments. After trying Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy following an advertisement she recovered fully from a single economical bottle, now sold by all druggists.
Proudfoot and Bird are commissioned to draft plans for a new YMCA building on the Ames college campus with alumni cooperation. Architects will prepare for a $35 000 building, possibly expanded to about $50 000 if alumni back the project. A detailed discussion is expected at the upcoming alumni meeting.
The Iowa Shiloh commission seeks correct history on monuments for the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Iowa regiments. Officials say War Department records conflict with official reports, noting the units entered battle at Shiloh church in the afternoon rather than ten o’clock. Governor Cummins supports the effort to keep history straight.
The fire boys dissolved Saturday evening, selling assets like hats and coats and sharing the cash on hand. The city now lacks a fire department and authorities must act to organize another volunteer unit, likely by creating a maintenance fund through council action.
The article notes Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with castor oil as a proven cure for a highly dangerous infant disease. It also covers a university banquet at Iowa State College with remarks from Dr. O H Cessna and President Storms, praising loyal support and welcoming the new president.
The twenty fifth annual reunion of the Story County Veteran Association will be held in Ames Iowa on Thursday and Friday August 13 and 14 1908. Ex soldiers sailors and Women Relief Corps urged to attend with a full program to be issued. Parley Sheldon Col commanding. Ames Iowa July 15 03.
Mrs Amanda Zenor born September 5 1820 Kentucky, married Milen Zenor about 1840, had seven children. She died July 16 1908 in Clay county Iowa aged 82 years 10 months 1 day. Funeral held July 20 at the Christian church in Ontario. burial details not listed. She moved between Christian United Brethren and Evangelical church memberships. Her cheerful disposition brightened those around her.
Iowa Experiment Station at Ames issues a bulletin by Prof G L McKay and Mr Larson on butter keeping quality. Topics include deterioration causes rancidity defects water content purity wash water and purification methods with tables and cuts. Free upon request to Prof C F Curtiss Ames Iowa.
Slight injuries often disable a man and cause days of time lost and blood poisoning can lead to loss of a hand or limb. Chamberlain's Pain Balm is an antiseptic liniment said to heal cuts bruises and burns quickly without maturation and prevent blood poison.
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