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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1909
Page
5
A string of quips and brief items touches Ames weather snow melt, renumbering London houses, a Clinton hotel robbery of signet rings, Des Moines preacher jokes about a presidential bath,Standard Oil dissolved, sidewalks debate, a Des Moines cellar accident, Port of New York cleaner Loeb purge, and Winnipeg’s Christ dispatches forecasting a brutal Canadian winter.
A drowning near Dows Iowa prompts a weather forecaster note. The piece urges parental caution for children skating before the first frost and reflects on recent forecast uncertainty from Doc Chappel’s assistant.
A farmer near Ottumwa feared banks and now mentions hiding twenty hundred dollars in his attic. The blaze yesterday destroyed the residence, wiping out the two thousand dollars concealed there. The Story City Herald notes editor meeting misses and advice on future gatherings. The Story county plans a thirty thousand dollar hospital and county farm house addition, debating the need to keep care local to reduce state charges.
The piece argues county residents pay sixteen dollars monthly for state institution care plus ten for home care, urges building county hospitals, and critiques Iowa and national political talk. It covers suffragette protests, local personalities, Des Moines events, and upcoming Ames theater prospects.
Old men are expected to remain with Grinnell football next season. The fall record suggests some new players may contribute modestly to the team.
A Des Moines Commercial Club figure named Geese Botsford offers to adjust train timetables to fit customer needs. The playful note suggests Geese is reliable at arranging shipping times and improving service.
Local witnesses in Alleman recall the bank looting incident with wartime sterner resolve. They remember the motto about preferring living cowards to dead heroes as they face the aftermath and the community’s reaction.
Donald Robertson known as America's greatest play producer arrived from Chicago with his company to perform before 75 attendees at the Armory in Ames. The show previously packed the Art Institute in Chicago and filled a city of 5 000 residents with 75 spectators.
In Lockport a minister at a pastor’s installation urges the congregation to resist turning the church into a network of worldly clubs. He cautions that more clubs and social functions mean less spirituality and closer drift from God, urging focus on faith over sensationalism.
The Iowa State Agricultural College appoints a State Dairy Expert to oversee educational dairy work under the Iowa State Dairy Association. Prof. VanPelt relocates to Waterloo with main offices at Kimball's Dairy Farmer. Monthly cow contest reports and pictures are featured, with a $25 monthly prize for the best record. the magazine Kimball's Dairy Farmer has a 40,000 plus circulation and publishes twice monthly as the state’s leading dairy publication.
Letters from readers nationwide praise Kimball's Dairy Farmer for usefulness and up to date dairy guidance. Subscribers from Illinois Maine Ohio Michigan Iowa Maine endorse the paper, report building dairy operations, expanding herds, and extending subscriptions.
A subscriber praises the newspaper for two years as indispensable to dairymen and farmers seeking to improve herds and grow income, calling it essential agricultural literature. F K Dildine of New Jersey endorses its impact and usefulness.
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