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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1912
Page
2
In Ames a harsh election mood surfaces with Roosevelt and Wilson loyalties. Campaign chatter features John Stevens and local supporters debating governance and delegates. Citizens are urged to back Ames as a growing city and Trade in Ames to boost progress.
A terse, unclear fragment discusses voting against the gang losing their son and a bull moose party. It references Mere, Neket, and a single focal figure who is “himself” and central to the note.
Report notes disappointment as George W. Perkus pledged only a thousand dollars to the Bull Moose pot in town, leaving the hungry horde craving more support and funds.
The Times reduces output after Mr. Griffin's gas plant failed to deliver UKA goods this morning. The disruption forces curtailment of type setting to manage the delay and maintain publication.
An exchange notes the Daitei Matus treasury is short of small bills while admitting a long period of using both small and large notes. The statement implies ongoing strain on cash denominations and questions the usefulness of continuing the practice.
The Times editor receives notice of appointment as delegate to the Lakes to the Gilf Deep Waterway Association meeting in Little Rock Arkansas on September 20 24. The piece notes ongoing currency redesign and the slow roll out of smaller bills expected to last a year or more.
The Jefferson Preface agitates about providing public drinking fountains and urges women to lead. Ames sees a major improvement as the City Improvement Association installs fountains, a key public amenity.
The Ames Times boasts its value and ongoing good will toward readers and advertisers. It promises continued delivery of news and service at a dollar and a half for three issues each week, framing the offer as a dream to its audience.
A reader accuses Collier’s of using the franking privilege to send campaign literature from Washington. The letter urges abolishing the privilege and insists the government should pay postage like others. It calls for removing political content and focusing on practical matters.
The Times criticizes shallow politicians who switch labels to gain votes for Roosevelt while identifying as Republicans or democrats, likening them to a peanut bandwagon. The piece mocks those who neglect principles for political advantage.
A fragmented Chicago Record Herald item recounts a chaotic incident with a dog, a washwoman, and a frightened child. The marshal intervenes as a mother threatens legal action over the dog scaring her child and soiled linens.
A Boston Herald report cites a Broadway office boss facing exposure after a head bookkeeper uncovers deception in a wartime style tale. The bookkeeper suggests the boss uses fear and power to mold workers, pushing them up before age forty to join the firm.
A blotchy account recounts Champ Clark speaking on a supposed compromise tale in the Ozarks. It features a boy who wants a watch at age ten, the father’s refusal, and a mother’s plea to keep the boy home with a clock as a compromise.
In Ottawa a accused Irishman McCaslin faced a charge of selling alcohol under the new prohibitory law. His initial plea was guilty but his lawyer urged a defense, leading to testimony by McCaslin. The county attorney questioned him about selling twelve bottles on July Fourth in Scipio, Franklin County, Kansas, amid tense courtroom exchanges.
A Kansas City Journal report quotes a courtroom exchange where the judge questions McCaslin about his guilt while noting a present array of witnesses who claim he did not sell four drops, asserting the evidence against him is overwhelming.
A quote argues that baseball's heart lies in strategy and deception rather than pure athleticism. It suggests a team of untrained players would rely on hitting and walking while subduing signals, shifts, and stolen-base tricks, making runs depend on hits and outs only.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat describes a strange method near Havana where turtles are captured with a device called a reve. Fishermen cast a disked lure into the sea. sleep turtles swim toward it and become held by the device until reeled in.
The article recounts Newton's morning solitary study habits at Woolsthorpe Manor and notes his lasting dedication. It mentions the Pope’s epitaph on a tablet in his birthplace and Newton's claim of thirty years spent gathering material for his Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, written sixteen times.
Harry Macdona recalls polar expeditions and the endless sameness of companions. He notes cold and hardship were manageable, but constant close contact with the same men wore on him and many others, driving some to madness.
The article compares the English word studio with the French atelier noting studio a recent Italian import altering study meaning a room for reading and writing. It contrasts atelier as a carpenter's workshop translation and explains language adoption in the 19th century.
A Wide Wael Magazine contributor describes a daily bathing ritual at Agra jail. Young inmates aged around nine to fifteen, chained and bearing bowls, are led to stone pavement beside a water trough. Warders guide washing, rubbing, and cyclic back massages as inmates rotate in line, ending with a return to their cells amid a communal, orderly routine.
Historical notes recount Elizabethan starching origins from Dutch coachmen and Mme Dinghep, with prices in pounds for collars and the first starched ruff. A London laundry tradition spread starching, teaching daughters of citizens, then move to 10 modern dollars equivalent per piece. Also described are sundews sensing beef scraps but rejecting chalk or pebbles, absorbing meat-like morsels yet turning cheese black.
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