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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1911
Page
2
The Ames Times notes a weary Iowa legislature after a week of suffrage debate and political sniping. It cites Lorimer in Congress, Chicago strikes, and prospects of Canadian reciprocity influencing state politics.
Advertisers cultivate the paper’s strong farmer audience and should stay in that lane rather than chase new ventures. The editorial argues the advertising pages are the paper’s golden asset due to wide circulation among rural readers.
Dorothy Donnelly shares a vignette about a friend whose wife discovers her husband by the crib gazing at their newborn. He murmurs that it is unbelievable how such a crib could cost only 99 cents, a moment of tender astonishment at new parenthood.
The state board of education exonerates Prof Kennedy from charges raised by Homestead Wallace's Farmer and other muckraking farm papers. The column notes Kennedy receives a clean bill while criticizing farm papers for muckraking against him and the Iowa State College animal husbandry department.
Billy Thompson, ex councilman, recalls a January day in which a man on his street jokes about a robin in February. The tale unfolds with a misheard line about robins and a wife’s misinterpretation, ending as a humorous street anecdote from Cleveland.
A lively verse captures a newsroom rush to press as printers, proofreaders, and staff clash in a chaotic print shop. The poem traces the last minute scramble to fix dates and deliver the issue, amid noisy machinery, cursing foremen, and a peevish office dog.
A promotional note claims Kol ey's Honey and Tar expels the cold and checks lagrippe to prevent pneumonia. Describes the medicine as prompt, reliable and narcotic free and safe for children as well as adults. Sold by all druggists.
Representative W. P. George, chair of the house committee on intemperance suppression, asks to postpone one five mile limit bill and push another covering state institutions. He also introduces a joint resolution to amend the constitution to prohibit manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors and directs the journals to record the yeas and nays and refer the measure to the legislature.
A proposed three state legislative steps aim to ban liquor sales and place an amendment before voters. With the recess ending, the joint resolution awaits introduction and must pass both houses in two consecutive assemblies, then appear on the general election ballot. Local ads promote Dr Shoop rheumatic remedy and free samples.
Loughran Machine Company marks 25 years in Ames with four day Gasoline Engine Carnival and Demonstration. From next Wednesday through weekend, open house with live demonstrations of labor saving machinery including an electric light plant for farm homes. Ladies invited, open to friends and neighbors.
An advertisement touts Foley's Kidney Remedy as a quick relief and lasting benefit for kidney and bladder ailments and urinary irregularities of aging. Isaac N. Regan of Farmer, Missouri, reports a complete cure and recommends the remedy for others. For sale by all druggists.
Isaac Ernest Hirsh died February 22 1911 in Westmoreland N H at age 73 funeral set for Saturday evening from Boardmans Chapel Clinton St Brooklyn with fraternal orders invited including Anglo-Saxon Lodge 137 F and A M Kismet Temple Mystic Shrine Confederate Veteran Camp Philadelphos Council Royal Arcanum attendance requested
Advertises Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets as safe and reliable with thousands of women praising their health benefits. Claims gentle aid and curative properties and notes they are sold by all dealers.
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