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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1895
Page
1
The announcement, hailed with statewide delight in Illinois, signals Governor Atgeld’s exit from political life. A New York Advertiser quote criticizes current price quality in a one cent versus five cent item.
Railroads face a lurching timetable shift with dissatisfaction across the line and a promised new time card. Debates on tuberculosis cures mix with political gossip about Senator Hill and Reed of Maine planning committee actions for the coming session.
Judge Hindman rules the Soldiers Home commissioners may not keep inmates pension money for support. The funds must be returned on leaving the home or to heirs upon death. The decision aligns with sufficiency of state appropriations and calls for disciplined governance of the home.
Lafe Young of Capital doubts Stanley should be pardoned. He notes the deliberate killing of a kind man and recalls Judge Chase sentencing to hang. Governor Carpenter resisted but later supported life imprisonment after Quaker lobbying and legislative action.
The North Western Line now offers a three day Chicago to California trans continental trip. Palace drawing room sleeping cars run daily from Chicago to San Francisco and Los Angeles with meals in dining cars. Tourist sleeping car service between Chicago and the Pacific coast is available with $6.00 upholstered sleeper berths. For rates and routes contact Chicago & Northwestern Railway ticket agents.
The Daily Capital will be sent during the legislative session for one dollar. Subscribers will receive the best report of the congress and state assembly plus a daily newspaper of unequaled merit. Subscriptions will be received here.
Elias Ballard of Grant township told an INTELLIGENCER reporter on Saturday of a record breaking cornfield yield. Two and one half rows eighty rows long husked weighing 28 bushels and 0 pounds. Addison Kingsbury estimates over 120 bushels per acre on rich new land. Mike Marony reportedly husked and cribbed 120 bushels in nine hours after one day last week.
Tailor made gowns become daily wear for well dressed women with plain full skirts and short ripple back jackets. Velvet blouses and velveteen fabrics in stripes and plaids trend, with fur trim and ornate passementerie on outer garments. Rich linings, antique lace collars, and opera mantles feature in winter styles from La Mode Paris collections. Subscriptions to Fashion Magazines from A McDowell & Co offer extensive guidance. If unavailable locally, mail orders are advised.
Three weeks after a start six miles south of town the Goose Lake fire continues burning peat formed from two decades of vegetation. Strong winds Sunday spread flames to edge grasses near cornfields, but local residents fought the blaze to prevent major damage as smoke covered wide areas.
Mrs. Jemima Noble of Ames died Sunday morning after a series of strokes, aged 83. Born June 7, 1827 in Guernsey County Ohio, she married James Noble in 1846 and moved to Marion Indiana then to Story County in 1869. Survived by her husband and six of eight children, funeral at Pleasant Grove chapel conducted by Rev J K Hester.
The North Western Line offers greatly reduced excursion tickets to California Florida Texas Mexico New Mexico Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee and Alabama. For tickets and full information apply to Agents Chicago & North Western Ry. 3iw3.
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