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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1901
Page
4
Local items list groceries at Grove's with 20 lbs good rice for 1.00 and fruit deals, plus coffee and soap promotions. Community notes cover marriages, lectures by Dr Koehne, accidents, club meetings, tourism and local business moves, with various city residents and visitors and a schedule for Maccabee and church events.
Crop conditions improved across Iowa with rainfall from early June. Temperatures ran 1 to 3 degrees below normal while showers on the 4th 5th 6th and again on the 9th supplied moisture. Small grains pastures and meadows benefited though hay yields will be light except in clover meadows. Corn cultivation progressed with generally clean fields but cold nights slowed growth and cutworms damaged stands in many areas.
The Iowa Engineer announces its quarterly launch by the four ISU engineering department heads. It features articles on Boone viaduct by Engineer Armstrong, unsolved problems in engineering by W S Franklin, Pupin long distance telephony by L J Spinney, and other technical pieces. The Kenyon press at Des Moines prints it, signaling high quality.
Advertisement claims Buck Len's Amica Salve eases cuts sprains and bruises from accidents and is a cyclers friend. It also purports to cure chafing chapped hands sore lips burns ulcers and piles with a 25 cent price. Sold by L M Bosworth druggist and Painz and brushes at Tilden and Loughran's.
A richly illustrated 115 page cloth bound volume from the Chicago and North Western Railway covers the settlement of the Northwest with half tone engravings of Black Hawk Sitting Bull Red Cloud and other chiefs Custer battleground and ten colored map plates dating to 1600. The review calls it a valued contribution to pioneer history and recommends libraries acquire it. Price 50 cents postpaid to W. B. Kiskern 22 Fifth Avenue Chicago Illinois.
An advertisement fragment lists Dr Hesses stock food Dr Hesses poultry panacea and Instant mite killer with Ty J Miluer and Son as likely advertisers or distributors.
Taken up by J T Hoover of Washing Township Story County two estray horses described as one sorrel with W brand star on forehead and one iron gray mare about three years old. J Q Burgess Auditor Story County Nevada June 1901.
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