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10 Nov 1904
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1904
Page
1
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Rates listed for notices and announcements include five cents per line per insertion for most notices. Cards of thanks cost twenty five cents. Public gatherings may be free once. subsequent publications cost five cents per line. Display rates available on application. Changes must be furnished by Tuesday evening. One dollar per year option mentioned.
A fragment notes snowfall and remarks on Iowa weather this fall. It mentions a Des Moines resident who died by suicide after a lover did not marry her. It calls out Ames for having many nice young men and advertises business locations along the Chicago Great Western Railway with an industrial map offer from W. J. Reed in Saint Paul Minnesota.
The piece laments murder and racial tension in Des Moines and notes editor deaths in the Western Publisher. It discusses rural labor fears over new machinery replacing workers, comparing bicycles and printing presses to horses and printers, and warns against populist alarm over labor-saving devices.
At a Des Moines meeting of agricultural colleges and experiment stations presidents voiced uniform opposition to a proposed state board of control. They warned it would hamper school usefulness and suppress individuality, make presidents figureheads, and allow dismissal of teachers at will. They argued high salaries and multiple appointees are needed to maintain unbiased leadership.
A Western editor rebukes the phrase peek a boo for 1904 shirt waist garments calling them low and behold. A contemporary counters that meaning depends on perspective. A Western Publisher recounts a country editor who sold his cow to attend the world’s fair and plans to fatten the calf to fund his girl’s trip.
Prof. A. Marston of Iowa State College receives the Western Society of Engineers gold medal for his Civil engineering paper on Sewerage Disposal in Iowa. The work summarizes state plants, analyses, and operation data from six years of college investigations and will be distributed as Bulletin No. 7.
The December Delineator offers festive cheer with attractive fashion pages and rare literary and pictorial features. It highlights Love Songs from Wagner operas, a Cosima romance, Court Circles of the Republic, stories by noted authors, Christmas needlework ideas, and cookery sections plus women’s topics inside and beyond the home.
An advertisement touts Barney’s elegant Java and Mocha Coffee in one pound air tight cans at 25 cents per pound. It promotes Wisconsin Fall Cream Cheese shipment to Story county retailers, priced at sixteen cents per pound, and markets Washburne-Crosby Gold Medal and Sleepy Eye Flour. The copy asserts value and quality over free gift schemes.
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