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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1909
Page
2
Now is the time and here is the place to get your Christmas Presents. Our furniture line is larger and more complete than ever before. Christmas buying is made easy. We specialize in picture framing and invite you to bring in your pictures to be framed. A new and large line to select from.
Ames readers receive a collage of political and social items from Des Moines and Chicago. The column lampoons politicians like Hinky Dink and Bath House John, references Cummins and Dolliver, notes a Des Moines corn show, a Des Moines bank robbery, and critiques census women enumerators. The piece also covers press attacks on Joe Cannon and Uncle Joe’s calm in Illinois.
Mrs O Rhinevault of Vestal Center New York hails Electric Bitters as a great blessing for women. The tonic purportedly raises spirits, increases vitality, and remedies nervousness sleeplessness melancholy headaches backaches fainting and dizzy spells. Sold for 50 cents at druggists.
The Times urges a Story county vote next Monday on funding a new infirmary for the county farm to care for the indigent poor and incurable insane. It argues relief from a four mill tax is humane and financially sensible, noting current repairs to the old building would keep rising without public approval.
A reader questions why an ordinary broom, once costing 25 to 30 cents, now demands 55 to 60 cents. They speculate on tariff, national prosperity, or corn prices, but admit little concern beyond self preservation and curiosity.
The article notes Harry Thaw seeks court release from Mattewan asylum. He alleges forced dressing before forty patients, no piano, no visitors, risk of assault, and exposure to obscene language, as reasons for his petition.
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