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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1912
Page
3
The noisy weekly column rails at Roosevelt, Taft and the Democratic push in Iowa. It cites Van Ness at Central Village, F. F. Faville in Storm Lake, and Cummins/Cummins links while railing against Harvester Trust influence and party dissension in the Mississippi Valley.
A Venice California circus mule loses a tooth and is fitted with a gold molar by a dentist. An exchange notes Editor Payne at Nevada reports Taft 34 Roosevelt 86 Wilson 74 non committal 46. An alligator farm planned for Okoboji. Dickinson county goes dry replacing a long standing saloon. Roosevelt reacts to Lorimer firing saying it was his fight.
The senate passed fifty five to twenty four to oust Lorimer ending a long investigation. A successor will be appointed by Gov. Deneen and the seat remains temporarily vacant.
The Bull Moose party leader Roose velt is coming west to campaign and spread his familiar fertilizer of reform. The note warns farmers to be ready for his arrival and the policy push he represents.
A fragment lists crude verse about Old Kentucky and its people while lampooning Ottumwa during a prohibition era debate. The piece criticizes the progressive movement and its leaders, attacking trusts like International Harvester and the steel trust, and questions the direction of reform. The tone mixes satire with political frustration and references to Roosevelts era debates.
A Boer War veteran in St. Joseph Missouri begs with severe injuries. An Irishman initially gives a dime, then a quarter, then all his change, explaining he preferred a beggar who looked like an Englishman. The Irishman remarks he has never seen an Englishman trimmed to suit him.
Robertson Hale presents a satirical suffrage piece in which a negro woman argues with her husband. He retorts that her words affect him like a flea bite. She replies I am going to keep you scratching.
LaFollette accuses Roosevelt of dishonesty and power seeking at Chicago and Baltimore. The LaFollette Weekly criticizes Roosevelt for manipulating delegates, delaying a genuine progressive platform, and pursuing a third term while harming the Republican and progressive movements.
A farmer fired a Swedish youth for arriving late after the man found a cockroach inside the alarm clock. The worker, blaming the clock, discovered the bug with the ironic remark that the clock could not run because an engineer had sabotaged it. The note ends with an open invitation to OPENING DAY at the Music Store next Saturday with special music.
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