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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
1
Excursion tickets to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania offered August 1 to 3 with favorable return limits for T. A. U. Convention. Chicago and North Western agents promote the fare, details likely posted by local offices.
An advertisement promotes Des Moines Daily and Sunday News at $1.50 yearly, 80 cents for eight months, and 50 cents for three months, noting it is postage paid and the most complete Iowa newspaper. It also markets Maple City Self Washing Soap and advertises low California travel rates with a G A R special train from Chicago to the West Coast, including itineraries and travel details.
A collage of quotes and snippets covers political jabs, social commentary, and local notices. Topics include accusations aimed at Cleveland, gum trade surpluses, a funeral director in North Carolina, railway safety concerns, and editorial critiques, plus local events from Boone, Maxwell, and Des Moines about fairs, races, and road issues.
At the Savery house in Des Moines on a recent Wednesday Gov. Cummins stated the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Iowa regiments were in the right at Shiloh. He pledged to press the Shiloh commission and war department for justice and noted monuments are nearly finished once inscriptions are settled. New survivor testimony may bolster the claim that the regiments fought from 11 to 12 o clock. Dedication date remains unsettled.
A McCalisburg Tribune note urges residents to back local businesses. It cites Sinclair Tea & Coffee House sales in Marshalltown without a license and warns of fines, urging patrons to keep money at home to support the town and its home industry.
The report from Nevada crossings details near misses with a fast train. A grocer’s wagon crossed Linn street just in time, a countryman’s cart halted by a watchman, and two country women on mules at Linn street caused a balk before the fast mail halted near the Ames freight depot.
A Chicago coroner's jury found that a woman died from blood poisoning caused by tight lacing. The corset squeezed the body, with a harsh editorial note urging moderation and condemning extreme waist reduction as poor taste and folly.
An editorial laments Chicago anarchists and suggests they be kept just restrained to avoid harm, while noting the Kaiser could justify harsh reprisals. The piece endorses rope for the anarchists if pushed too far.
A town farmer recalls past wasteful handling of straw as he now must use it on his sixty to eighty dollar per acre land to extract value. He once backed straw aside and burned it to clear land, but rising costs prompt a shift to straw utilization for farm income.
The week saw favorable harvest conditions across the state with a large hay crop secured mostly without rain damage. Southern districts finish threshing while northern areas advance in small grain. corn gains noted though showers could aid southern and eastern counties. A heavy hail event on the 20th damaged crops along a Lyon Osceola to Taylor Ringgold corridor, affecting several thousand farms but only a small share of total state production. Minor crops and markets for early apples and garden truck are solid.
Mrs. Alice Miller of Morgan Texas recounts six years of severe diarrhoea and failed treatments until she tried Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after seeing an advertisement. One bottle costing a few cents cured her, and she urges others to obtain it from druggists. The piece also notes local quips about social manners and a jab at Elbert Hubbard.
A special election carried a 12500 structure in the First Ward by 39 votes with women backing 99 yes to 7 no and men 123 yes to 146 no. Ward Four favored locating near the college amid debate on effectiveness of downtown schools. A major Saturday fire destroyed the Hutchison barn and threatened neighboring properties as firefighters contained the blaze with a bucket brigade.
A parent states she will not be responsible for any debts contracted by her son Nels Gerbert Lee and disclaims liability. Signed by O. N. Len.
Nevada friends learned Friday of the marriage of Judge Gifford formerly of Nevada now of Des Moines and Miss Emma Whitman of Des Moines. The ceremony occurred June 17 in Adel Indiana and remained secret for about a month. Gifford studied at the State University law program three years and now finishes at Drake University. The couple reside in Des Moines and will be welcomed by Nevada friends. The Nevada Journal notes prices for Platinum Photos at Ames Art Studio.
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