24 Nov 1898
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1898
Page
1
A verse poem contrasts virtue and sin with daylight and night. It laments society’s attraction to debonair wrongdoings over cold right. The piece notes how crowds pursue folly at night, seeking forgetfulness until dawn, describing the queer old world as immutable.
A Perry blaze Monday leveled structures, inflicting an estimated 300000 dollars in damage. The report notes the town’s loss as firefighters battled the flames and secured the scene.
Twe good roads national convention met in St. Louis. County roads have improved substantially in recent years, showing how road work has become a science. The Des Moines Ministerial Association attacked the annual charity ball, but supporters say it aids the poor and is not immoral, noting Des Moines’ history of freak ideas.
The item mix reports a failed proposed Iowa constitutional amendment, weather at a Harvard Yale game, and notes on St. Louis world expositions. It covers election results, tax lists, postal work, and county board proceedings in Story and surrounding counties with multiple officials named and dates from 1898.
S. M. Clark, after four years in Congress, argues that the real issue is not corrupt passage of bad laws but the loss of good laws to lack of time. He says Congress is morally sensitive, not immune to corruption, and rejects the idea that money corrupts lawmaking.
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