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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1911
Page
2
The Ames Times reports the senate defeated the anti-treating bill the five mile limit bill the daylight bill and the bill shortening license terms from five years to three Andrew Goodfellow of Cedar Rapids made three failed suicide attempts this week The piece notes common April fool pranks and ends with a blunt ego remark about the writer’s own luck.
Judge James O Gorman, a Tammany leader, won the United States Senate seat for New York on the 64th ballot after a winter deadlock. The item notes his Tammany ties and the long political impasse. The rest mentions Profitable Breeding and Farming, a new Nevada agricultural paper, its 16 pages, and College faculty contributors, seen as promising.
Chicago Record-Herald writer H. H. Kohlsaar says he knows where $100,000 was spent in Lorimer’s U.S. Senate campaign but refuses to disclose the source, citing a confidence. He denounces the investigations as pointless.
The text argues no convictions have resulted from hearings on the Lorimer deal and questions why prosecutions continue. It notes a clean bill of health for Lorimer and suggests courts and investigations should proceed without bias.
A newspaper writer critiques newspaper conventions in Fort Dodge and McCallsburg for suppressing ad prices. He shows ads priced eight cents per inch, less thirty percent agent commission, costing about five and a half cents per inch, and notes editors reluctantly accepting such rates. He refuses to publish under starvation pricing.
The piece argues licensing saloons and billiard halls will shape Nebraska elections with local option and prohibition measures. It cites a Woman's National Daily critique, urging that true action lies in stopping government from making and selling liquor, noting revenue royalties fund destruction and comparing to historical slavery’s end when people act. It closes with a Chicago breach of promise case reference.
In a bustling kitchen scene Lizzie the Hasher and Cynical Sue mock a stylish university fellow with velvet cuffs. The NY American Custom Cutters club showcase of velvet cuff trousers draws little local excitement as Tailors in St Paul report minimal interest.
A long list of property transfers from Henry Sunde to Charles Menzel and numerous others shows sales across McCallsburg Story City Nevada and Slater. Amounts range from 200 to 2520 dollars with parcels including lots and blocks in multiple additions. An advertising note promotes Dr Shoop Health Coffee and stork cards at the Times office.
A letter introduced in evidence contains a closing line from D. H. to a beloved, saying good night by proxy and kissing sleep away by absent treatment. The personal missive ends with Yours forever.
A Life magazine story recounts a Black Hand extortion threat against a lady who rode with Count de Galeigh in a 1908 automobile. The woman resists paying hush money, insisting the Count, a gentleman and future son-in-law, warrants no scandal.
Arthur learns his sister Ethel is engaged to the mous tached benefactor who gives nickels. He wonders what engaged means and if the suitor will give Ethel everything she wants. Mother explains, and Arthur sighs at the nerve of the young man.
Mahlon Ivins Jr of Merchantville is praised as an actor in local shows. After a performance a mysterious elderly man told him he should act with Mansfield Booth Irving or Joe Jefferson, then left remarking those actors are dead.
Townsfolk discuss a bold new coat style drawing concern from clothiers and police, while a local tailor jokes that no one is plump enough to wear a sixteen pleat Canadian crash Nor folk aviation motoring coat, fearing fashion may push boundaries.
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