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Readable text is minimal and fragments mention a name and a poor state. No clear event date place or organization is identifiable. Ambiguous content prevents confident summary.
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
1
Readable text is minimal and fragments mention a name and a poor state. No clear event date place or organization is identifiable. Ambiguous content prevents confident summary.
A mosaic of notes on Roman London built centuries earlier, Sahara size, and Iowa political chatter. It covers court views on insular cases, Tom Way and Gardener Cowles in the House, Sen Collins as presidential hopeful, and a feud between South Carolina senators reflected by a governor’s blunt verdict. It ends with corn value data and local Iowa gossip about Cummins candidacy and Marion county’s Loren Hays remark.
The article by George H. Phillips extols Iowa as the great corn state and notes corn's prominence in American life. It cites two billion bushels produced since 1880s, eighty percent of world corn, and rising uses and exports.
The Cedar Rapids Republican predicts Republicans east and west will align in Congress against tariff tinkering. It notes past costs in 1897 and favors caution, proposing reciprocity treaties and limited action beyond simplification.
The Des Moines Daily News offers a yearly mail subscription for $1 and six months for 75 cents. It is a family paper free from abuse, with a valued children's department and unmatched literary features. Address The News Des Moines Iowa 10-2.
Having decided not to release the Ames Steam Laundry plant, our work in that line will cease Saturday June 15. All parties knowing themselves in our debt will please call at C. W. Dudgeon's store and make settlement. Also promotional lines reference Loughran & Bauer and Snowflake flour with local business mentions.
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