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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1909
Page
2
A snakery owner promotes furry snake scarfs for women and notes he has more orders than he can fill. An Indiana dancing master advertises barn dance lessons claiming talent from a former chamber maid role. A man who brings sun shine home may be surprised by the pleasant home he finds.
Historic inauguration marked by a blizzard at the Capitol. Taft took the oath as president with Sherman as vice president. A huge Pennsylvania Avenue parade followed a fireworks display and a grand ball at the pension office.
The rivers and harbors bill appoints Senators Gallinger Burton Piles Smith Simmons and Clarke and Representatives Alexander Lorimer Stevens Wagner Sparksman and Moon to the Water Ways Commission. The Sixtieth Congress ends as the Sixty first begins with the Senate meeting to consider Taft nominators and the House set for March 15 extra session. Speaker Payne succeeds retiring speaker as Mr Cannon reflects on duty and future private life duties.
Six cabinet members in the Taft administration were sworn in the White House cabinet room by Chief Justice Fuller. The oath to uphold the constitution was administered to Knox Hitchcock Meyer Ballinger Wilson and Nagel, with witnesses including President Taft and officials from the Bureau of American Republics. A special session of Congress was called for March 15 to address tariff revision.
Citizen Roosevelt rests at his Sagamore Hill home after a long trip from Washington. The former president appeared weary yet in good spirits, greeted by 200 to 300 neighbors as his special train arrived past midnight at Oyster Bay. He spent over fifteen minutes exchanging handclasps and greetings while the village band played.
A violent storm swept western eastern and southern Arkansas killing eight people in Brinkley and injuring many others. A cyclone near Fourche Dam killed a negro boy, and a Methodist church in Malvern was destroyed costing about $6,000. Train windows shattered between Gordon and Bester as the disaster unfolded.
President Taft submitted a slate of nominations including Philander Knox for secretary of state Franklin MacVeagh for secretary of the treasury Jacob Dickerson for secretary of war George Meyer for secretary of the navy George Wickersham for attorney general Frank Hitchcock for postmaster general James Wilson for secretary of agriculture Richard Ballinger for secretary of the interior and Charles Nagel for secretary of commerce and labor Additional nominees include Huntington Wilson Beekman Winthrop and William Loeb Jr Frederick Carpenter named as secretary to the president with no Senate action needed.
The secretary of the interior announces a settlement in the U S government suit against Union Pacific over coal lands in Wyoming valued at about 1.5 million dollars. The land totaling 4560 acres was linked to dummy entries. Union Pacific did not defend and reconveyed the lands to the government while paying nearly 83000 dollars for mined coal.
A Cleveland woman Mrs D I Jones reports recovery after using Dr Miles Nervine for nervous prostration. The ad claims nervous origin for many illnesses and promotes the product as a nerve remedy with money back guarantee.
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