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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1911
Page
2
J B Sullivan longtime Union Station agent for 43 years with Chicago, Burlington and Quincy resigns and plans to make Ames home. He had one brief vacation, moves with wife to near west gate. Also contains ads for chopped feed and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
Mr and Mrs John Worths spent a year in Germany witnessing the consecration of a seven archbishop of Speir Dr Folhaber the eightieth bishop of Speir. They may alter plans for a trip to the Orient due to plague but expect to visit the north cape and spend the fourth of July in the land of the midnight sun. If plague ends by fall they will travel home via St Petersburg Moscow and continue through India China Japan and Phil.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy follows a nature aiding approach. It loosens the cough relieves the lungs opens secretions and aids nature in restoring the system to health. Sold by all dealers.
The leading article recounts Mrs Stowe writing Uncle Tom's Cabin told by her son Charles Edward Stowe with letters from that era. Mary A Hopkins profiles the Newark Factory Fire disaster last November where 25 girls died and safety improvements are urged.
J. B. of Cagwin announces a Miss Carrie Pikes millinery opening on Friday and Saturday March 24 and 25. The ad promotes Trollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a tonic to soothe and refresh the nervous system from worry.
Miss Carolyn Laird a librarian at the engineering library mourns the death of her sister Miss Daisy Laird at the family home in Des Moines. Daisy Laird suffered for years and was cared for by her sisters. The funeral was held Saturday in Des Moines.
A group of twelve to fifteen students will take an inspection trip to Chicago and surrounding areas guided by Pross Hodson Williams and Barr. The itinerary includes visits to Gary Steel plant mining and metallurgical facilities and ore smelting operations. Ceramists and chemists will tour cement mills glass factories and clay works with a Milwaukee side trip to inspect Allis-Chalmers mining and clay machinery.
The county board of supervisors held hearings Friday on drainage ditches Howard 27 Milford 30 and Franklin 39. Due to publication errors for Franklin No 40 the hearing moves to April 12. The Milford ditch No 82 hearing is set for next Saturday, as this is the largest…
Ditch proposition has not yet been projected in the county. a considerable number of objectors have been developed and a lively time is anticipated. There are on file damage claims to the amount of 34350 dollars.
Mrs Fred A Smith of Milford township remains bedbound recovering from a fall weeks ago. The ligaments around her hip were wrenched and loosened, and doctors say the injury will require a long time to heal.
The east half of the Spring building formerly occupied by C. B. Nelson Construction is being repapered and prepared as an office for W. H. Graves.
Ames High School alumni are urged to attend a Thursday March 23 gathering at 8 p m in the high school building. Every alumnus may speak in the association business, and this will likely be the sole meeting before the banquet. Be on time.
Mrs. L. D. Williams, injured in the college car crash before Christmas, remains seriously ill at home on Hyland Avenue. Dr. Proctor oversees care with a nurse from the Nevada sanitarium, and friends hope for a quicker recovery.
The sophomore class in animal husbandry, about 150 students, traveled to State Center on Saturday for a mule judging workout at the Hudson farm.
J G Spielman civil engineer for United States Steel lectured to the civil engineering society on the new steel plant at Gary Indiana noting progress and technical insight from the college lecture Saturday.
Rayness Who, who has operated a bake shop in Story City, recently purchased the building that houses the shop, gaining ownership of the storefront and its facilities.
The H. L. Carroll residence on Oakland Avenue in Des Moines was nearly destroyed by a Thursday fire. Mrs. T. L. Rice of Ames, sister to Mrs. Carroll, had just left Mercy hospital the day before to recover at home and was with the family when the fire occurred. She later returned to Ames after the event, unharmed by the shock.
The Capital proclaims an Iowa electrical show in Des Moines for April 1912, but this clashes with a past major General Electric event at Ames College that outshone any Des Moines plans. Meanwhile, Mining Engineering seniors and juniors have accepted an invitation to join the American Institute of Mining Engineering.
Full particulars about the San Luis Valley are available from W D Rich, the appointed agent. The notice invites inquiries for further information and directs interested parties to contact Rich for specifics.
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