08 Aug 1901
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1901
Page
1
The Times reports ongoing factional fights in Iowa after the state convention. Congressmen Hull expected back from the Philippines around September 10. Sioux City and Governor prospects are discussed amid Republican party tensions and local baseball defeat explanations.
Tuk notes that daily papers and mail reports on the great lottery at E Reno seem humorous. It condemns non government lotteries as frauds and denounces papers printing drawings from other lotteries as demoralizing and not allowed through the mails.
Phillips of Chicago who recently cornered corn faces tightened finances as his firm narrowly missed a financial collapse last week. The board of trade scene shows fortunes rising and falling rapidly among dealers.
Excursion tickets to Colorado Utah destinations and a Modern Woodmen Picnic trip to Webster City Iowa are offered by the Chicago North Western Railway. Rates vary by date and destination with limited return deadlines and stop overs. Tickets available through agents with details on Denver Glenwood Springs Ogden Salt Lake City and Utah points.
The article traces a Quebec to Beaupre trip by electric railway visiting Montmorency Falls, the St. Anne de Beaupre shrine, and a 17th to 19th century church history. It describes pilgrim rituals, crutches left as cures, relics, and the basilica, plus a Notre Dame visit in Montreal and Mount Royal views before returning to Toronto.
The department weighs establishing branch dead letter offices nationwide to allow letters to be returned from the dead letter office possibly in the same summer they are sent.
The Capital columnist writes two and a half columns defending his interview, asserting leaders and news editors may publish fake dispatches as truth. He questions why readers pay for a paper filled with imagined reports and laments alleged editor deception.
Mystic flour noted as none better at 1 dollar 10 cents. Ralston Eagle breakfast items advertised per package 8 cents at T. J. Miller and Son.
Sadieville residents report Dr King’s New Discovery cured Mrs S P Whitaker of chronic bronchial trouble and a grand-daughter’s severe whooping cough. The ad touts cures for coughs colds lagrippe bronchitis and throat lung troubles with trial bottles free at Bosworth’s drug store and prices 50c and 1.00. Also mentions seals of Minnesota flour and Fern soap at J B Kooser & Co.
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