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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1911
Page
3
A special Wabash train was halted by five masked robbers who placed ties on the track between Napokei and Granite City Indiana. They forced about twenty passengers including women and girls to disembark and surrender valuables while armed with shotguns.
Des Moines Iowa officials consider funding a state health train to tour Iowa this winter modeled after successful corn gospel trips. Dr Guilford H Sumner and fellow experts would cover dairy public health livestock sanitation tuberculosis and general health topics with a possible addition of a National Red Cross first aid car.
New York report on Ottoman subjects in the city shows about 50 000 residents unlikely to return to Turkey to avoid military service. Nine tenths are non Mohammedans and Vahan Cardashian of the Ottoman chamber of commerce predicts the dispute with Italy could lead to gradual dismemberment of the empire with tacit European approval.
Mrs Alexis B Jeffries mother of heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries died of cancer in Los Angeles after long illness. She urged for a sign from Jim as her sons left Alaska for the road to the coast. Rev Alexis B Jeffries, the father, was with her at the end.
Bird-men of note arrive for a three day aviation meet in Canton Ohio directed by the Aero Club of Ohio. Early arrivals include Walter Brookins Dayton Andrew Drew St Louis and Harry N Atwood. More expected Tom Stopwith England Jesse Seigelman Eugene Ely and Lieut Frank Lahm of the US Army may also fly. Lahm serves as a meet judge.
The ad touts Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with castor oil as a cure for bowel complaints in children and claims it is pleasant when mixed with water and sugar. It also hints a married woman saving 360 leads to oppression as she funds a second wife while Alaska is described with the word Alas.
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