01 Feb 1900
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1900
Page
1
The FTIMES presents a single annual rate of one dollar for stories in Story County. Subscribers receive local news, notices, and editorials from the official paper.
Bryan struggles to keep free silver alive as city and school election interest wanes. In the tenth district Shaw and Dolliver quarrel for influence. Senator Fitchpatrick proposes a liquor sale ban in prohibition counties, opposed as unconstitutional. The era’s presidential race draws little attention in 1900. A butterfly saved from freezing highlights odd local notes.
The article notes real zero weather with 12 below at 9 am and 0 by 2 30 pm as a northwest wind drives frost bite risk. It also reports Helen Gould donating 125000 and real estate to the Brooklyn Y M C A naval branch for a mission hotel and gymnasium for sailors following Anna Gould’s return and bankruptcy.
The British suffered a disastrous repulse on the 26th at Spion Kop with about fifteen hundred killed or wounded. In Kentucky a long running trouble has avoided fatalities so far but the outlook remains tense and uncertain.
The speaker hopes the current legislature will resist passing more board of control bills unless they are aimed at weakening the board so it can cause minimal damage for the time being.
J. W. Blythe traveled to Washington to influence a federal judgeship vacancy left by Judge Woolson. A spirited race for the Agricultural College board of trustees in the district pits W. K. Boardman of Nevada against Charley Ballriech of Des Moines, with Boardman favored.
The present legislature meets at 10 a m and adjourns at 11 a m until the next morning at 10, then adjourns Friday until Tuesday. Some members, used to early rising and long farm days, find the routine more taxing on nerves than on muscles.
Des Moines evening papers report that the supreme court declares the 1894 petition allowing the saloons to open null and void. The ruling halts alcohol sales and prompts talk of infrastructure like a belt line to bypass the city when traveling south.
The piece muses on vice presidential prospects and notes several political skirmishes. It mentions Lafe Young, La Fayette, and echoes a tense senatorial atmosphere tied to the Clark circle. It covers the Des Moines post, a Kentucky shooting, and a looming Des Moines military post bill.
The Times Republican notes rumors that C. G. McCarthy or A. B. Cummins may challenge Capt. Hall’s renomination in Iowa’s Seventh district. It adds that if a Des Moines army post bill passes, Capt. Hall would be hard to defeat, given his popularity and recent political wins.
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