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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1898
Page
15
The Keokuk Gate City notes that some menu of candidates were born lucky while others escaped nomination through vigorous campaigning on the Democratic ticket in Iowa this year.
Over the past year the number of sugar beet factories in the United States has doubled from eight to sixteen, despite wartime strains. The expansion stems from the Agricultural Department under Secretary James Wilson of Iowa, who advocates beet sugar as highly profitable for farmers. New plants have opened in Minneapolis Bay City Rome Binghamton Ogden Lagrange Salinas and Oxnard, and capacity has more than doubled.
The article notes Salinas California hosts a massive beet sugar plant with 3000 tons daily capacity and 330 tons of sugar output. It highlights Iowa as a potential sugar beet belt aiming for two or three factories and cites Des Moines Mason City Waterloo Cedar Falls as sites for experiments and possible future mills. It stresses farmers must grow beets properly for sugar and praises American machinery. It also mentions Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women's headaches.
A call invites women to send 21 one cent stamps to cover mailing costs for Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. The pamphlet reportedly contains plain, clear information about all human body organs and their functions.
Miss Watkins announces a humorous serial about an up to date city woman attempting to reform a quiet village and educate the townspeople. The Jamesons in the Country will begin in the next Ladies Home Journal with illustrations by Mrs. Alice Barber Stephens.
A compact advertisement list features tales on one thousand miles of lakes and mountains in Minnesota and Alaska. It highlights The Lake of the Leech in central Minnesota The Park Region a deep journey Yellowstone National Park and Around Mt Rainier with two weeks of glacier and forest travel. Send six cents in stamps to Chaffee at Northern Pacific St Paul Minn for the illustrated volume.
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