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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1911
Page
3
A collage of items covers Taft era politics and Canadian reciprocity debate, a Des Moines Capital note on adjournment, and community news from Ames. It mentions theater and band memories, local residents, subscriptions, and a forthcoming opera house performance on August 28.
Social news from Ames describes Mrs. Sarin and Mrs. Willwins visiting the Nore home and other locals meeting on Tuesday. Names include Miss Siguege, Frank Oortnachrent, and Mrs. Ed Sawyer among gathered friends. several families plan trips to Nebraska and Nevada with discussions of fairs and stock movement.
The Maxwell baseball team routed the traveling team named the College Bloomers with a 14 to 1 score on Friday. Reportedly the Bloomers consist of a few girls acting as batters and fielders while the main players prefer traveling in auburn wigs and baggy pants rather than playing.
A brief verse pleads for cleansing of Democratic souls of vanity and empty rhetoric as political winds shift. The speaker invokes a higher power to purge pride and hollow talk in the current moment.
Analysis of Lockwood poultry feed shows crude protein 32.20 percent crude fat 2.29 percent crude fiber 3.85 percent carbohydrates 67.12 percent, identifying the feed as best on the market. Scott Lyall of Town Falls was in Ames earlier in the week.
An old advertising sketch extols Electric Bitters as a blood purifier that cleanses the stomach liver and kidneys and expels poisons. A testimonial from Co. T Budahn of Tracy California claims the product makes rich red blood strengthens nerves and rebuilds health. Priced 600 at druggists.
S L Akin opens a fresh vegetable market on Kellogg avenue in the Su ilsing district, occupying space recently vacated by Haverivy Transfers. Promises low prices from the man who brought prices down.
The text extols Greater Iowa as a prosperous, progressive effort driven by loyal Iowans. It highlights the State Fair as a cornerstone of the movement and urges all Iowans to join the booster process, claiming Iowa leads and improves through collective effort.
Iowa dominates the livestock and poultry show at the State Fair with premiums totaling 40000 dollars. The state hosts top horses cattle sheep hogs and poultry attracting breeders from other states seeking exposure to Iowa markets. Thousands of Iowa residents attend the fair reflecting a strong state fair tradition.
Jersey cattle draw attention as Iowa develops fine herds boosting butter output. The best of these dairy animals will be on display at the State Fair during the last week of August.
A dramatist sharply condemns two melodramas praised by the less cultivated audience. He calls one nil blend and thunder and the other a tawdry tale of platter and plunder, in epigrammatic fashion.
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