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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1910
Page
4
A public notice lays out the Munger law allowing a county to vote up to 2 mills for 20 years to build a county hospital. It details trustee selection, noncharitable operation, patient charges, tuberculosis retreats, and potential deficits not exceeding 5 percent, urging informed support at the polls.
Ambitious Young Men or Women Offered Telegraph Jobs After 8 Hour Law. Shortage of about 10000 telegraphers as wireless developments grow. Beginners earn 70 to 90 dollars monthly. Graduates guaranteed positions under telegraph officials. For details contact National Telegraph Institute in Cincinnati Philadelphia Memphis Columbia St Paul Enid Portland.
The 2 1/2 year old Rouge 2nd of Brookfield yielded 6778.8 pounds of milk and 362.59 pounds of butter fat in six and a half months starting January 15. She produced $116.92 worth of butter fat with a net profit of $68.20 after feed costs. Imported from Guernsey Island last fall, she was bought from W W Marsh of Waterloo Iowa.
Ames researchers report high yielding varieties for winter and spring wheat oats and barley. Winter wheat yields reach 56 and 63 bushels per acre while Iowa No 14 spring wheat yields 64. Silver Mine oats 92 bushels per acre. Purebred Manchuria barley yields 50 bushels in improved plots. Extensive plots and beds illustrate a large breeding program with 254 corn plots and numerous wheat oats and barley tests.
The grocers sell Dr Shoop Health Coffee a substitute for real coffee made from toasted grains malt and nuts with a convincing taste and aroma. The ad claims it can be prepared in a minute with no long boiling and is marketed by J J Grove.
A 25c box of Dr. Shoop's Pink Pain Tablets promises quick relief for head pains and other aches. The label urges patients to ask a doctor or druggist if the formula is not complete and cites Cagwins Drug Store as a supplier.
Readable note advertises dress trimmings and ornaments and invites customers to see the Semmons line.
A lengthy list details transfers in Nevada Ames McCallsburg and Cambridge with grantees including John Wall Sarah Spencer Nels Christianson Anne Christianson Lars Mathison and others. Amounts range from 1 to 12000 dollars with properties in blocks additions and lots across multiple subdivisions and cities. Data includes deeded parcels such as lots 7 10 in block 18 and several Burris and Blair additions plus a note of clothing ads at Semmons.
A drug store advertises Preventics candy cold cure tablets for adults and feverish children. Take Preventics at the sneeze stage to head off colds. Box of 48 costs 25 cents at Cagwins Drug Store.
The Des Moines Evening Tribune offers a mail subscription from now to January 1, 1912. Price is $2.00 per year, regular price $3.00. The paper promises world coverage, concise editorials, up-to-date market reports, and entertaining features. Subscribe through the Des Moines paper or send to Evening Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa.
In Story County Iowa at the November term 1910 Co H Talley sues Eve R Talley for divorce on desertion over two years. She must answer by the second day of the next term or default and judgment will be entered. Dated September 28 1910.
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