13 Nov 1902
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1902
Page
1
Priced out beef buyers will find solace in a bountiful Maine lobster catch as market conditions shift. Officials report a robust harvest boosting supply and potential relief for dinner budgets.
A jumble of local notes reports turkey prices at 40c a pound dressed due to a cold wet spring. It cites widespread hard times after a prosperous period, rail car shortages, and political shifts, including few Democrats elected. Dispatches from Council Bluffs say a dentist was arrested for counterfeiting five dollar gold pieces.
A Colorado senator left a St. Louis convention in tears over the Republican stand on honesty in defail and reacts to Colorado’s return to Republican leaders. The piece notes printer warnings and recounts local Roland items. It also announces an Ames Iowa conference on Perodicity in Forming Character with Rev. Gilbert and Rev. Heard attending.
The Denver Republican notes that appointing a receiver for the American Bicycle company, dubbed the bicycle trust, effectively ends the wheel craze. It explains manufacturing consolidation came after the fad, with demand shrinking to support only lower grade wheels, making a large capitalized wheel trust unlikely to survive.
A November gathering at the State University in Iowa City formed the Iowa fellowship of the American Society of Religious Education and named officers. A second conference will meet in Ames starting Friday night December 5 1902 with fellows presidents professors teachers and pastors invited.
A predicted cold wave Saturday night failed to arrive for Clara Morris at the college. The forecast weather was lost in transit as a warm front interfered with the pattern. We note snowfall occurred in Nebraska despite the forecast.
H. T. McIntyre of St. Paul Minnesota reports his disordered stomach has improved with Chamberlain's stomach and liver tablets and recommends them as the best remedy he has tried. available from all druggists.
Edwin B. Howard donated a new Unity church for Bangor with three town lots and evergreen trees. The dedication, led by Rev. Mary A. Safford, honored local groups including the W C T U and Friends Meeting. Howard’s gift, linked to Iowa State College, was praised for community welfare and temperance aims.
It is the opinion that the Hurst Sims controversy moves toward better roads. The press drives reform and public roads benefit. Mr Sims argues township trustees must hold road supervisors responsible, with capacity to discharge them regularly.
The piece notes Democratic trends in Iowa’s second district and southern states, mentions a trust issue, and cites Theodore Roosevelt’s La Vie Intense. It reports W. J. Bryan’s assurance of better days for democracy and Speaker Henderson denying resignation rumors. It also covers Rush Medical College joining Chicago University with an $8 million endowment and Milford township’s flag award.
A football team in the eastern region disbands following the fatality of one member during a game. The decision is presented as excessive given the circumstances, with debate over whether a larger number of casualties would justify such action.
Excitement at St Anthony as Clemens buyers take part of the Tribune outfit to the town. Geo Hollingsworth to operate the relocated equipment. J E McMuhen relocates the rest of the plant to Lovilla Monroe County to start a paper.
A bare footed, ragged group of Doukhobors marches frantically in winter cold near the US border under a sunless empire, a dramatic episode of religious fanaticism with a young woman in white claiming a second virgin.
President Roosevelt's Strenuous Life has been translated into French. The French extol him as the virile champion of a nation powerful enough to shape world destinies.
At Lake Mohonk Mrs. Amelia 8 Quinton of the Minneapolis Times urges abolition of Indian agencies and tribal funds to push assimilation. Senator Dawes proposes Indian Territory become a state making Indians citizens and subject to law and property responsibilities. Also advertised are low fares for the International Live Stock Exposition from Chicago via the North-Western Line with return options through December 8.
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