27 Nov 1902
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1902
Page
1
A reading of a 1902 Iowa scene notes Ames as unaffected by a winter chill and poker faced with a lighthearted reference to Thanksgiving feasts. The column adds a quirky wedding anecdote from Kansas about a father and an embarrassing embrace during a kiss moment.
The Iowa delegation captured first prize in apples at the St Louis Apple Growers Convention. Carriet Nation attended a New York horse show last week and stirred up a sensation. Harvey Logham, editor of the Register and Leader, faces stress and overreach concerns.
In a nostalgic note dated thirty one years ago tomorrow a father boasted his son was the only boy ever born to him. The piece playfully notes the father’s frequent change of mind and a bet of four dollars and eighty cents on the certainty of the claim.
Walter Hellen, once a bright mind on Iowa's weekly press, is compelled to dispose of his newspaper the Williams Wasp due to continued ill health. The community recalls him as a good fellow despite his incapacitation.
The Iowa City Republican reports fifty students at the State university implicated in a recent campus outbreak that destroyed city property. They allegedly staged a skunk party with rotten eggs to disrupt a banquet. The piece urges instant dismissal and prosecutions, noting prior hazing injuries and urging firm College authority action.
C O Reep sold his 100 acre Hodgkins farm last Friday to Prof. C F Curtiss for 98 dollars per acre. Curtiss trades his town residence valued at 5000 dollars and takes possession March 1. The property lies about three quarters of a mile from the college and remains suitable for farming as a retirement hobby for the professor.
The text reflects on how Thanksgiving evolved from a solemn national observance to a busy holiday marked by loud bleachers and modern life's rush. It contrasts the Pilgrim origins with a shifting center of learning and influence moving westward, suggesting progress and change come with movement and noise rather than quiet contemplation.
The piece critiques Mary MacLane as a sensational confessor and calls her a possible genius or fool. It then extols farming, urging rural youth to study soils and breeding, and praises a livestock show innovation admitting farmers' sons to judging contests to boost agricultural education.
A column tethers a drug ad praising Dr King’s New Life Pills and a farmer’s cheer for farm life. It contrasts a city cousin with farm living, touts farming as safer and more permanent, and cites long‑term farmers in Ida Grove Battle Creek Holstein and Galva as proof of stability.
Two men in a Chinese laundry caused a gun blast when a shotgun discharged. George, unaware of gun danger, dropped the weapon and froze as fragments shattered the storefront. His partner panicked, ripping the room with a desperate escape attempt. Local patrons rushed in to witness the bizarre scene.
A female teacher confronted boys ascending stairs in her classroom to stop their loud puffing. She warned them to leave their puffs and pants downstairs, insisting on quieter entry.
General and Mrs Lincoln hosted a Thursday night reception at their home for about 150 friends. Guests included Dr. and Mrs Lincoln and other relatives with out of town attendees from Clinton and Des Moines. Japanese drawn work and Philippine curios adorned the rooms as the Lincolns and family were all together.
The notice promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tonic for dull appetite, poor taste, torpid liver, constipation, headaches, and general reviving of stomach and liver function. Sold at all druggists.
Story County Bank promotes flexible real estate loans allowing payments on any interest day. Clients may pay any amount on any day with no commission charged on such loans.
The first district meeting of List No. 3 was at the high school Saturday afternoon with broad attendance from across the county. Presentations covered reading methods, pupil engagement, early grade work, science in country schools, civic laboratory methods, and talks on encouraging beginning teachers and visiting homes.
A Vermont man, Wm Spirey of Waiton Furnace, Vermont, reports Bucklen's Anica Salve fully cured a severe fever sore on his leg after other remedies failed. The advertisement claims it cures bruises felons ulcers eruptions boils burns corns and piles for 25 cents supervised by L M Bosworth, druggist.
The Brotherhood of American Yeomen hosts a social in the Red Men's hall on Tuesday evening December 2. A drill by the degree staff and a musical program will be offered. Refreshments will be served. Admission is 15 cents at the door.
H. T. McIntyre of St. Paul Minnesota reports his stomach and liver trouble improved by Chamberlain's stomach and liver tablets and says they do him more good than anything he has taken. Sold by all druggists.
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