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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1907
Page
4
Reports from Nevada and surrounding towns cover horse sales by A. K. Banks, injuries to a Maxwell swine breeder, a Cambridge restaurant change, a Story City drive for a commercial club, and fires in Roland and Cambridge. Additional items include a letter carriers meeting, a Nevadan widow's death, and multiple property transactions and local notices.
Charles Walters of Alleghany Sierra County testifies he has searched 20 years in California for a remedy and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve heals burns sores wounds and even piles. The ad guarantees relief and notes 25 cents at all druggists.
The Protective Insurance Association will hold its annual meeting at city hall in Ames Iowa at 2 p m on Thursday March 7 for officer elections and other business. The discussion focuses on methods to stop losses from fire lightning and wind and on reducing insurance expenses.
Mrs Eva Uncaper of Grover Town Stark County Ind recounts a severe cough and weakness that left her bedridden. She credits Dr King’s New Discovery with a complete recovery after four one dollar bottles. The ad promises a king of cough and cold cures guaranteed by druggists with 50c and 1.00 prices and a trial bottle free.
The Story County Rural Letter Carriers Association met in the Nevada court room with 17 of 32 carriers present. Bert Child was re-elected president and O. K. Helwig secretary. Prof. T. H. McDonald spoke on the Good Roads Problem. ex-county auditor Petersen also spoke. Resolutions urged use of King drag and attention to road issues. The group was entertained at dinner by the Nevada Business Men's League.
A reader recalls a train encounter with a polite stranger who pressed for press affiliation. The exchange shows social friction over newspaper identity and purchase choices in a brief, pointed exchange from the London Chronicle.
F. V. Skelley of Iowa State College won honors at the inter-collegiate oratorical contest in Indianola with the speech Americas Right to Live. He delivered with clarity, won a first for delivery and three firsts for composition, earning a $100 prize and becoming delegate to the inter-state contest. Lost Nation resident and senior engineering student Skelley is praised by the college as a bright, genial figure amid seven competitors.
A Boston Transcript reprint presents a poem titled with the above subject from Mrs. Lillian Barker Beede. It notes her loss of husband Mr. Charles Gould Beede last year in this place and observes Mrs Beetle shared in the artistically sympathetic response due to their similar poetic sensibilities.
The Hogwallow Kentuckian from Mayfield Kentucky bills itself as the nation’s funniest weekly. It claims rapid popularity after a year and a half, with subscribers across more than thirty states and sales on trains and newsstands. Subscription is 75 cents a year, with a three month trial for two.
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