11 Mar 1897
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1897
Page
1
A reader questions a $4000 teachers fund levy for 1897 while noting $697.20 surplus from 1896. The response explains projected funds from 1897 taxes, current balances, and annual outlays, arguing changes to tax rates should be gradual and predictable.
The publication bills itself as the official paper of Story County with a yearly price of one dollar.
The piece notes Boone’s election of city officers, mentions the groundhog’s failure to see a shadow on February 2, and recalls various political opinions about Greece Turkey and Crete while touching Iowa legislature events and city politics in Collins.
The piece notes Crete as a strategic Crete and Cuba focus, with population, size, and historic contention between Greece and Turkey. It mentions a Washington note on Tam a Jim and a Boone resident Juper Hindman recovering from lung congestion.
A historical note lists President McKinley’s cabinet members with their positions and home states. Sec State John Sherman Ohio Sec Treasury Lyman J Gage Illinois Sec War Russell A Alger Michigan Sec Navy John D Long Massachusetts Sec Interior Cornelius N Bliss New York Sec Agriculture James Wilson Iowa Attorney General Joseph McKenna California Postmaster General James A Gary Maryland.
Mrs Phoebe Thomas of Junction City Indiana was told she had consumption and given no hope yet two bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery cured her. Thomas Eggers of 139 Florida Street San Francisco was near consumption but one bottle cured him in two weeks. Free trial bottles at L M Bosworth's Drugstore. Also Plymouth Rock cockerels and a jack for exchange by J J Kegley.
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