26 Jul 1906
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
1
Rates for notices in the Ames Times are listed: six cents per line per insertion for notices. five cents per line for entertainments concerts lectures and ads with monetary interest. cards of thanks and condolence twenty five cents. one time free for church and society notices. additional publications five cents per line. All changes for display ads due by Tuesday evening. Subscriptions one dollar per year.
Democrats near their state convention name Dennison of Dubuque Wade of Johnson and Selis of Benton as leading potential governors while Roosevelt supporters push STaNDPA? The Idaho exam news adds a dental board remark about Doctor Stiffier’s creditable result.
The Elks parade in Denver during their national convention last week was hailed as the greatest ever on the streets of the city. Nervous and excitable folks should avoid fishing. A man fishing for Michigan recently slipped and drowned after a bite spooked him. The First National Bank of Sioux City was the sole Iowa lender to canal bond issues, securing fifty thousand dollars of Panama bonds priced at 10.60.
A St Louis woman dies after drinking excessive vinegar to slim down. The column mocks Russians and notes a looming revolution. Iowa figures muddle through politics with Dolliver mistaken for a hack driver and tariff talk coloring 1908 race. Des Moines alderman Hamerly faces bribery charges amid a car company investigation.
The Oyster Bay conference this week united behind a strong protection platform for American industries. Secretary Shaw will speak alongside other champions of protection who will campaign actively.
The passage mocks political prevaricators in the campaign. Ora Williams of the Marshalltown T.A. and Cummins bureau is said to have them faded to a dark brown finish. Brown of the Register and Leader is described as outclassed by more than four city blocks.
An exchange editor recalls seeing a storefront bulletin inviting customers to “Buy Pants Come in and See Ours.” Inside the store no clerk was found, so he bought a fan and departed.
Webster City considers a curfew ordinance while Ames already has one that is functional. The city may adopt Ames style rules, and also contemplates dog and house numbering ordinances to be added if needed along the Boone River banks.
The Register and Leader boasted of two conventions and assumed both would occur. It claims the Cummins group plans to run the convention to suit themselves or quit it, and labels the R. and L. as the machine’s mouthpiece, questioning its behind the scenes stance.
Russert Sage, prominent financier, died at his New York home Sunday evening at age ninety. He was famed for giving vacations to clerks and staff under his charge and now is said to be taking his own vacation.
The Hartje divorce case has drawn nationwide attention, following prior Thaw era sensationalism. Residents of the coal city face salacious reports as editors and readers discuss the unfolding events and implications for public morals.
In Marion Indiana last week a revival preacher named Best was interrupted by a disruptive man who climbed down from the pulpit and assaulted him in the church. The minister then resumed his sermon from the pulpit and completed the service.
The Charles City Intelligencer outlines August weather with storms in Polk county for three days followed by calmer central portions and western Iowa's inclement spell. It predicts a mild period around the fifteenth, then a statewide storm wave, and finally clear skies with record crops as the month ends. The column also mentions road taxes in Iowa for 1904 and includes editorials on journalism and virtues.
The Nevada Journal lists current market prices with oats at 32, butter 16 to 18, eggs 12 to 14, hogs 6.00 to 6.25, cattle 4.50 to 5.00, while a twenty year prior report shows corn 18 to 20, oats 22 to 23, eggs 7 to 8, hogs 3.00 to 3.25, cattle 3.25 to 4.00. The piece argues those figures prove it wise to avoid tariff changes.
A historic music column notes the rise of a new song by Cole and Johnson titled Fathers Got A Job. It contrasts it with Everybody Works But Father, describing the catchy chorus about the mother, sister, and the now employed father and the public’s appetite for upbeat family tunes.
The Perry Iowa rally features Congressman Hull praising the Dingley era prosperity while attacking tariff reformers. Delegates endorse the 1904 Republican tariff stance, and local editorials condemn social vice, segregation schemes, and police methods as Des Moines debates licensing and public order.
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