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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1902
Page
2
Elizabeth Cady Stanton renowned advocate for women's rights died at her New York home on Sunday due to old age. The pioneer figure in the suffrage movement passed surrounded by family after a long career shaping reform.
The state suffrage convention is in session this week in Des Moines. Carrie Chapman Catt national president is in attendance.
Party leaders call GOP supporters to vote next Tuesday to protect the party’s reputation ahead of county and state conventions. The message emphasizes turnout and unity among Republicans.
Mrs. Jennie Webber of Cherokee was elected grand worthy matron of the Eastern Star last week in Oskaloosa. The next grand chapter meeting will be in Iowa City on October 13, 1903.
A quirky fact notes a Kansas town shares its name with a local figure, Jake Jones, highlighting the playful oddities within the state. The remark contrasts famous groups with a small place having a similar name in a lighthearted way.
A stock company led by Charley Hellen has bought the Journal at Webster City. Hellen plans to use the paper as an organ and revive the long running county feud. The change follows Hellen being rejected for a second term as postmaster, believed to trigger the renewed conflict.
U S Army Sanitarian reports Congress authorized a sanitarium for disabled soldiers at Slat Springs South Dakota named Battle Mountain Sanitarium. A survey favored the site on main street near two springs, noting long known healing waters used by Sioux since 1617 and linking the project to regional Black Hills development and a Chicago Northwestern line.
A party of Alaska citizens met President Roosevelt and presented a large moose head from the Cook Inlet region. The antlers span 54 inches and the inscription credits Roosevelt with friendship on his 44th birthday, October 27, 1902, signed by Valdez residents.
A young man arrested for kissing a young woman in the park was fined ten dollars plus costs, while the speaker wondered why he did not kiss in the mouth as others do and suggested a harsher hundred dollar fine.
A large company presents Porter Sake with a rich supply of special scenery. It will be offered at popular prices and, from all angles, should prove a highly satisfactory engagement of the season.
A reader from Bagwell Missouri credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with curing three years of bronchitis and sleepless nights after trying doctors and patent medicines. The letter notes relief and states the product is sold by all druggists.
The Boone Daily News introduces O type machines and plans further machinery improvements aimed at transforming the paper into a metropolitan sheet.
The 1751 notice recounts Richard Carson of Hay Herefordshire believed dead, a doctor’s order to halt burial ignored by relatives, and the grave opened after a passerby heard sounds. The supposed corpse was found sweating and bleeding, but he died soon after.
In Bolivia the llama is a vital pack animal in La Paz at 12000 feet. It travels farther with less food than a burro but cannot carry more than 150 pounds. The animal kneels to load and will not rise if the weight exceeds 150 pounds, requiring even distribution.
A doctor extols grape juice as a remedy that dissolves gravel cleanses the digestive tract and improves overall health. It purportedly restores appetite aids digestion nourishes tissues and renews strength even for consumption victims who should drink it daily.
The piece notes lightning’s extreme speed, claiming a flash lasts under one millionth of a second. It explains that the eye needs about one tenth of a second to perceive light, leaving readers with only a faint impression of the flash’s brilliance.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton a pioneer in the woman suffrage movement and ally of Susan B Anthony died last Sunday at her New York City home. For six decades she pressed for equal rights and helped lead calls for the first women rights convention. Her life spanned abolitionism, reform, and the passage of the New York married women property law.
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