Tree Timers Official Paper of Story County
The small town weekly, serving Story County readers, highlights local notices and community updates for residents and businesses.
23 May 1901
Page 1
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1901
Page
1
The small town weekly, serving Story County readers, highlights local notices and community updates for residents and businesses.
The column touches on a Buffalo travel note, a Scotlands free education grant by Carnegie, and political district favors. It mentions a Sioux City Journal strike timing, Spencer Iowa paper changes, hypnotism hoax with a fatal outcome, and police arrest of the hypnotism pair while criticizing imitators.
The death of Mrs. Lyman Gage removes a major figure in state society. Machinists demand a nine hour day in a nationwide strike. Nebraska fusionists discuss Bryan for 1902 governor. Cummins defeats anti-Cummins foes in Dallas County and the party braces for internal rifts.
The article hints Cum mins may secure a center rush position as Ames Cy clones dominate coverage. It notes DouBeE and Auguinaldo as dated subjects fading from press memory along with Coxey’s monuments that soon die out.
Multiple papers including the Boone Standard report that the train boy system is ending soon with several roads already removing him and others expressing agreement.
A brief report notes the Buffalo exposition opened Monday with a good crowd. Other clippings question centuries of darkness, claim a Norfolk Nebraska paper asks if Christ is alive, and Major Conger may withdraw. The Sioux City Journal mocks sensational claims about women speculators crying in Wall Street.
The Times seeks Harry Hazlett to translate a Dutch note from the Orange City Deurije into English. The Des Moines Leader reports Cummins is named with near certainty and Perkins had decided to withdraw weeks ago. observers say he foresaw it.
A Washington dispatch reports Secretary Wilson will implement a national tree distribution program next year. Seedlings will be grown at the Agriculture Department and varieties chosen for local suitability. Nut bearing, shade and lawn trees, plus oaks, ash and lindens, will be featured to bolster dwindling forest reserves.
The Denver Times warns against the inordinate love of money calling it an abomination to its victim and a ruin to nations. It urges earning and saving, avoiding dishonest acts, and making money a servant not a master to aid progress. It stresses teaching sensible economy in youth.
A collage of commentary and ads appears praising the Chicago Record-Herald as a premier source of news, humor, and society features. It highlights its Washington dispatches, foreign service, markets, sports, books, fashion, and entertainment sections, plus a note on an Naples grave diggers strike and church sermon tips.
Civil War veteran M. M. Austin of Winchester Indiana reports his wife recovered after Dr King's New Life Pills. The ad promises wonders from a 25 cent remedy and mentions local druggists L. M. Bosworth J. B. Kooser & Co and a note seeking poutt tries.
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