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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
2
Crop Director Chappel estimates the 1908 Iowa farm product value at almost four million dollars. The Ames Times notes the Daily Capital Friday edition was forty pages with ample reading matter and ads. It critiques Roosevelt for calling people liars and highlights 105,000 responses to the country life survey.
A Des Moines daily feature promotes kemquat as an appealing holiday menu item. The writer recalls seeing them in an Ames fruit store two years earlier and, after tasting one then, feels confident describing them as a promising autumn dish.
A blustery remark on Des Moines Trumpeting its independent spirit while describing a kemquat as a cross between orange and lemon, walnut sized and only mildly palatable.
Nebraska Governor elect Shallenberger names Furse as private secretary amid local political reshaping. The move follows broader shifts in the state’s party leadership during the transition period.
An elderly St Louis woman, seventy seven, declares she has not drunk water in forty years and suggests Boone as a place where many men share the same claim.
A Missouri man known as Inch and a woman named Sinch recently married after a two year courtship. The playful line notes she “got him inch by inch” and he is now “sinched.”
A Munich woman wearing a wide three foot diameter merry widow hat fainted on the street and was carried into a drug store. A physician attributed the faint to the hat’s weight though the remark notes such conclusions may be no more sensible than guessing who can wear the biggest hat.
The inquiry asks who can endure the longest in a six day go 45 bicycle race and suggests the assertion that the former contest may see no more deaths than the latter. The wording implies a speculative comparison of endurance outcomes between two long running events.
Story County representative White announces candidacy for speaker of the house. He has been a house leader since entering the legislature and would be an admirable presiding officer.
Local youths complain Bill Taft did not wait to January first to stop drinking, calling it an unfair edge as they begin their annual water wagon ride, arguing his early move gives him an advantage over them.
The Evening Tribune of Des Moines promotes its modern, trustworthy image with metropolitan features and a special $2.00 subscription rate for December. Send remittance to Des Moines Iowa or through the editor for home delivery.
Mrs A C Williams of Backy credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving her from a graveyard cough. She states the first dose helped and her weight increased by 58 pounds, restoring her health after doctors failed. The medicine, claimed to hold the world’s healing record for coughs and lung diseases, prevents pneumonia and is sold with a guarantee. Trial bottle free.
The Sunday Record-Herald notes a hen worth 10 000 in New York that must live long and prosper to cover its cost and interest. It also reports a New York proposal to build a Hudson River bridge to New Jersey and Manhattan with a 2900 foot main span and a 75 million dollar price tag.
The Duke and Duchess de Chaulnes of Paris announce their newborn son. The Duchess is described as the daughter of T P Shants of New York, once Panama Canal superintendent. The baby’s full title appears as Emanuel Theodore Bernart Marie Luynes dAilly Due de Chaulnes et Picquing.
The Times reports Gov. Carroll appoints C. C. Nye, known as Bill, as private secretary. Nye has editorial experience with the Council Bluffs Nonpareil and Des Moines papers and served as political reporter on the Capital. He is son of Rev. Chas. Lyman, former Ames Methodist pastor.
The New York World tabulates 1908 presidential votes with Taft 7,659,688 Roosevelt 7,623,486, Democratic 6,450,690, Socialist 401,506 and Prohibition 228,014, noting losses for both socialist and prohibition groups and a comparative drop from 1904. The column also wanders into personal reminiscences about grip and a parade of real estate transfers in Story County.
The Capital announces a 50 cent yearly price increase from $2.00 to $2.50 to fund improvements. Highlights include a market and financial editor, Miss Emilie Blackmore Stapp on the weekly book and club pages, George H. Carter as Washington correspondent, and a new weekly short story page. The newspaper is expanding in size and scope, aiming to be bigger and better in 1909.
Des Moines Evening Tribune announces new management since December and a December offer of one year for $2.00 versus the regular $3.00. New readers receive the balance of the current year free with the offer.
An offer promotes Dr Shoop Health Coffee in a 25c package with a coupon for a silvered No Drip coffee strainer. The seller, J. J. Grove, claims high satisfaction and best quality.
Rural mail routes make the Des Moines Register and Leader the only daily paper deliverable on the day it is printed. The paper serves the area with timely editions and local news coverage.
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