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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1909
Page
4
A testimonial from Mrs G Davenport of Roycefield New Jersey says Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills relieve rheumatic pains and nervous irritation that disturbs sleep. The ad promises relief without stomach upset or habit formation and offers a money back guarantee if no benefit.
Admission 35 cents with seats on sale at Kooser's grocery. Reserved seats available at no extra charge.
The contract for building the new school house at Collins was awarded to Eastman of Newton Ia. Work will start soon and the building should be ready for occupancy by the middle of August.
Statement of the condition of Union Savings Bank Ames Story county Iowa as of February 20 1909 sworn by Vice-president Geo Judisch and Cashier H Westerman before Notary Co L Siverly. It lists assets including discounts deposits and bills and notes and liabilities such as capital stock and profits with directors attestation.
John T. Lynch leads the Holyoke fire department for twenty four years. Isaac Rash of Dover wears boots for thirty eight years. Stanley Field of Chicago becomes president of the Field Museum. William H. Harrington at eighty one cuts a third set of teeth with no dentist aid. Dr. John A. Douglass of Newburyport repeats as BE P Wallace post officer for the fortieth time. Mene Wallace, Eskimo student in Manhattan college. Hon. John Sinclair elevated to Scottish peerage. Daniel F. Bradley, ninety, leaves Charles Street jail after long service as keeper and deputy sheriff.
A collection notes ship tonnage, a disability badge for deaf cyclists, a Grimsby pensioner bedbound sixty five years, Cambridge slang origins for spread, and a parliament bill after 172 years to abolish the play censor. The reform targets Henry Fielding’s era shift from plays to novels.
Practical kitchen hints on selecting chickens for rich stews and preserving moisture in bread. Use hot water to soften knives for cutting icing and add five or six potatoes to sponge for longer keeping bread. Use whole eggs or whites for croquettes, grease tins with sweet lard, dust with dry flour, and melt butter for basting with one tablespoon per cup of hot water. Keep hot during use.
Railway fares in India are described as the lowest in the world. The note highlights affordable travel costs and compares them with international rates, suggesting widespread accessibility and public transport affordability.
The Amur railway project calls for a 2915 yard viaduct over the river with a seven mile tunnel through the Sierras to ease the main line. Southern Pacific surveyors map the crest route while travelers are advised to note wheel clicks to gauge speed, estimating 176 clicks per minute equals sixty miles per hour.
Idaho leads in land open for settlement while Illinois plans a state spanning Lincoln highway. Louisiana sulfur exports surged cutting imports by 75 percent and reshaping trade. New York saw 20 000 fewer marriages last year after the new license law.
The royal box notes Kaiser William rarely travels incognito. King George of Greece is described as the poorest European monarch. King Edward when Prince of Wales never voted on political questions, but supported the deceased wife's sister bill, a social issue rather than political.
Mrs Harriet Paul is appointed clerk of the Colorado assembly committee on corporations and railroads. Mrs Frederick W Upham, Chicago society figure, elected president of the Women's Athletic Club. Lettie Baldwin of North Carolina seeks a fourth marriage license and cites religious conversion before the Civil War. Mrs Mary McGeehan, 106, longtime oatmeal eater, farms in Ireland with family. Mme Guadalupe de Haro, Mexican descendant of the Moctezumas, studies domestic science in New York to bring home. Selma Fredeen of Aurora Nebraska wins Champion pants patcher title at the National Corn Exposition with $50 prize. she is seventeen.
William K. Vanderbilt has won nearly $700 000 on the French turf in four years. H T Blackstaffe the Olympic sculling champion has 215 prizes in twenty two years of river work. Five Georges on the Detroit American league team Mullin Suggs Winter Cockill Mortality. Major Delmar retired from the turf by owner William Bradley Ardmaier farm Raritan N J. Oiseau sold for $20. The race horse bought by Diamond Jim Brady for 30000 dollars was sold at auction in Kentucky for a small sum. Tim Murnane has invented a rubber batter’s box to erase chalk lines, easing umpire duties.
A survey notes only fifty five female physicians in the German empire and that nine tenths of Germany’s population could be fed by domestic agriculture. It mentions ongoing iron removal experiments for drinking water and a German exhibition display of a gelatin and meat extract landscape formed by colored bacterial colonies.
Conversation captures a light didactic exchange about patience and hesitation between two speakers in a Minneapolis Journal style fragment. The dialogue humorously notes the slow departure of a person named Stoopid as Belle comments on the lingering nature of the delay.
The Baltimore American notes the Nell and George affair hinges on George's income, leaving the outcome in question. The comment frames the situation as dependent on financial status rather than public opinion.
Dialogue notes a courtroom moment where a judge jokes about a man claiming his success came from his pen. The man replies humorously that he earned it by pig.
In a Depression era parable set in Bayside and the levee district, Sidewheel Dawson shares how killing Snapper Griffin under claimed self defense leads to a dramatic pardon from Governor Van Ahren after Van’s election. Dawson recounts gas trap rescue, a girl, and a life turned by luck and loyalty.
A West Side college teacher notes a visitor’s remark about a country girl who is the brightest student. The observer identifies the country origin by habit of frequent hand washing, contrasting urban and rural routines and suggesting city life alters country manners.
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