25 Jan 1906
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1906
Page
1
Rates for notices and ads are 5 cents per line per insertion with one free publication for non revenue public gatherings. Cards of thanks and condolences 25 cents. Church services meetings and non profit events published once free. display ads priced on application. Changes for display ads due by Tuesday evening. Annual subscription one dollar.
Ogden Messenger quotes John Thompson noting a change after last week’s forecast. Des Moines readers react with optimism as the mayoral nomination battle heats up. Colfax Clipper weighs in on a green goods scam, calling out dishonesty.
CoLFAxX reports a natural gas well and mentions Ham Robinson of the Colfax Clipper as positioned to help if another court house fight arises in Jasper County.
The Officee of Jasper county introduces a bill in the Iowa legislature to ban fire-crackers of certain dimensions. The measure is presented as a precautionary public safety step.
The Chicago city council appears to have weakened the municipal ownership proposition and will bring the measure to a public vote. If approved, Chicago would face municipal ownership within the next two years.
The story teller and writer Poutney Bigelow is in the limelight after his outspoken attack on the Panama canal proposition draws public attention and comment from readers and peers.
An Ogden Messenger note reports a cheerful old man named John, recently proposed to a lady for marriage, described as gay and festive.
A fierce contest at the annual meeting pitted candidates for secretary treasurer of the Iowa State Traveling Men’s Association. Joan Thompson of the Ogden Messenger notes a backache in a recent issue and cites a quirky claim that removing a poorly stuck porous plaster cures stammering.
Report from Des Moines says the Iowa State Traveling Men's Association last Saturday outshone all republican state conventions in politics and surpassed the 1904 Iowa democratic convention in noise and scraps.
CutcaGo laments the loss within two weeks of two eminent men, Marshall Field and President Harper of the Chicago University. Field is praised for worldly wealth honestly earned while Harper is esteemed for educational contributions despite limited riches.
Two Webster City papers quarrel over a rented No. 3 two letter typesetting machine. One paper cites the contract filed in the county recorder’s office and mocks the rival shop’s upcoming purchase as superior to the current model.
Patchy 19th century notes cover heat and blizzards from Pittsburg to Devil's Lake while reporting graft trials in New York. Obituaries include Mrs. Susan Poffenberger Welty of Colo Iowa and family details. City commentary questions propriety of long skirts and praise for Emory English and Ed Chasse state appointments. A modern miracle tale from Tennessee and cold remedy ads close the column.
A Colfax Clipper item recalls a Kansas City clairvoyant reading a Yates Center youth about his late father a coal shoveler. Sioux City Journal reporter Gro D Perkins seeks the Republican gubernatorial nomination and Uncle Geo is praised as a clean capable Iowa public figure who nearly missed a Senate seat. Perkins is expected to run strongly.
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