08 Jul 1897
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1897
Page
1
The newspaper page proclaims a subscription price of one dollar per year for Story County residents, labeling the paper as the official publication.
Mercury registers ninety six in the shade yesterday at one o clock. Peru works toward a gold standard plan for its currency. Wefers allegedly runs one hundred yards in 93-5 seconds at Lowell Mass this week. Fire crackers grow larger and more dangerous each year. Walsh settles White's fate as far as he can while Bryan plans speeches district by district.
In 1897 the Iowa Agricultural College begins its second term next Tuesday. The gold Democrats oppose the allied party platform and vow to fight it. Nevada hosts the county convention this Saturday to choose delegates and possibly renew the primary system. Local prices show standard bicycles down twenty five percent, a hundred dollar wheel now seventy five.
A reporter visited William Jennings Bryan before dawn and found him wearing a very tony silk night shirt. The discovery is portrayed as reducing his 1900 presidential prospects.
A critical voice charges former Illinois governor AlGELD with four years of corruption. The piece cites alleged looting of Globe Savings Bank and state treasury, plus a Boone county tax treasurer who vanished after a theft. A slaughterhouse theft led to a jail term, used as a warning about thieves and judge.
The Northwestern and Santa Fe ran record numbers of sleeping cars on San Francisco excursions, marking the strongest western railway business since the world’s fair. Minnesota ponders pardoning Younger brothers after 21 years on life terms for the Northfield bank robbery, a historic crime with two deaths. A July Fourth clash of casualties fuels debate on war, heat, and safety. In Boone, Mayor Goodson vetoes an electric railway franchise, but council overrides, keeping a small town’s ambitions restrained.
A Iowa period piece surveys Democratic rifts over the Chicago platform from Des Moines to Ames. It critiques the primary system, laments library delays at the University and advocates consolidating Iowa State University with the Agricultural College at Ames. It ends with a poetic homage to the Iowa hen and a polemic against coal miners strikes and calls for arbitration.
The note argues Frep White is too focused on fiery governance to lead a prosperous peaceful state like Iona. It praises Milwaukee hosting the National Educational Association and mentions frosty talk of a Republican convention endorsing Judge Babb, a Gold Democrat, for governor. The piece ends with a weather quip predicting no fall of snow tonight.
The LOUGHRAN MACHINE Co reports new stock of buggies carriages and spring wagons. They are stylish and high grade with prices right and ready for sale.
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