Perry Oklahoma A Rapid Growing Boom Town Story
Perry Oklahoma marks fifteen years of steady growth after a wild Cherokee Strip land rush. Iowa transplants fuel expansion, with brick businesses, churches, a large school, and prohibition keeping saloons out. Indians and blacks present, crops mix of cotton corn and oats, with thriving hogs and mules. Banks gain by state guarantees drawing eastern funds.
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OkLahoma
Perry
Okla
Iowa
Cherokee Strip
Guthrie
Okahoma City
Orlando
Here
South
South Carolina
Haskell
Supreme Court
Law and Order
Otoes
Ponecas
Hawkeye
Arkansas
Missouri
Africa
Spain
Seaboard
Illinois
Oldest Gazette Published for Washington Death
Mrs J B Campbell preserved an 1800 Ulster County Gazette from Kingston New York. The four page issue dated January 4 1800 includes Congress London news messages from John Adams and a long funeral description of George Washington with a poem on page three. The paper is intact despite 109 years aging.
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J. B. Campbell
Ames
Washington
Kingston
New York
Samuel Freer & Son
American Congress
John Adams
House of Representatives
Falmouth
London
Ramsay
Lord Greenville
Schaffhausen
Congress
George Washington
General Washington
Easter Supper Sponsored by Ames Civic Improvement Society
Under the auspices of the Ames Civic Improvement Society an Easter supper will be given next Wednesday April 7 in Odd Fellows Hall. Proceeds to be used in securing drinking fountain for Onondaga street. Menu includes roast pork pickles gravy mashed potatoes baked beans relish brown bread bread and butter egg and lettuce salad pie. All for twenty five cents. Coffee.
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Ames Civic Improvement Society
Odd Fellows Hall
Onondaga Street
Ames High School Class Play Set For April Seventeen
The Ames high school seniors chose April 17 for their annual class play a four act comedy titled Just For Fun. Miss Oberman of Des Moines will train the cast and remain with them the last two weeks before performance. Cast includes George Miler Dean Corlette Faith Clark Francis George Viva Shephard and Dela Keltner.
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Ames High School
Miss Oberman
Des Moines
George Miler
Dean Corlette
Faith Clark
Francis George
Viva Shepherd
Dela Keltner
Millers Begin Texas and Mexico Tour After Union Meet
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Miller of Des Moines formerly of Ames started Saturday for a tour through Texas and Mexico. They attended the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers union meeting in San Antonio from Monday through Wednesday. They plan to visit Old Mexico and return to Des Moines via New Orleans and Chicago.
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T. C. Miller
Des Moines
Ames
Texas
Mexico
Union
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
San Antonio
Miller
Old Mexico
New Orleans
Chicago
Ricketts Starts for Dakota with Furniture Car
Mr W A Ricketts left today for Dallas South Dakota with his car of furniture and stock. He will be informed on April 28 at four o clock which quarter section of Dakota land is his. After he builds a house around June 1 Mrs Ricketts and the children will join him on the claim. Mr and Mrs Robert Ricketts will occupy the Ricketts home during their parents absence.
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Noble County
Adelaide Straight Leg
Robert Little Done
Julia Snake
Martha
Dennis Rough Face
Dave Fire Shaker
Lizzie Makes Cloud
Ruth White Tail
Mamie L
Nellie Shines White
Moses Horragarra
George Pipertem
Ida Hortico
Charlie Sixbits
Belle Crazy Arrow
Susie Cries For
Mary Given Water
Fred Big Soldier
William Iron Thunder
Millie Little Dance
Antoinette Hairy Bear
Henry First Moon
Willie Walking Sky
Josie Buffalo Bull
Crazy Bear
Jess Mean Bear
Good Boy
Jim Little Voice
Rosetta Black Tongue
Vaushta Four Eyes
Rosey Blue Buck
Little Standing Buffalo
George Washington
Perry
Bowles
W. A. Ricketts
Dallas
South Dakota
Ricketts
Dakota
Oak Grove Dairy Sold to Emmett Carr
Emmett Carr has purchased the Oak Grove Dairy from F. FE. Gunder and took possession of the route today. The change is welcomed by patrons who trust Carr will maintain the sanitary dairy policy started by Gunder and continue to give good service to customers.
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Emmett Carr
F. FE. Gunder
Oak Grove
Mr. Gunder
Mr. Carr
What College Women Are Doing in Settlements
Mary McDowell and Jane Addams are highlighted as settlement pioneers influencing college women through Y W C A programs. The piece traces settlement origins from Denison to Toynbee Hall and Hull House, noting Mary McDowells civic creed and her early acts aiding refugees, with Miss Myrtle Dean and Mrs Kilborne narrating McDowells life and visit to the college in May.
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Edward Denison
London
England
Arthur Toynkee
Oxford
Denison
Toynkee Hall
Smith College
Rivington Street
New York
Hull
Jane Addams
Mary McDowell
Chicago
Hull House
United States
Myrtle Dean
Miss McDowell
Roosevelt
University of Chicago
Kilborne
Boys Caught Playing Craps by City Marshal
City Marshal Tom Thompson rounded up a group of nine boys aged fourteen to twenty one for craps games in a Lockwood corn crib south of the tracks. Seven were brought before Mayor Tilden, two escaped, and all received a lecture with a warning of harsher punishment on a second offense. Thompson said the incident reflects on their future influence rather than the act itself.
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Marshall
Tom Thompson
City Marshall
Mayor Tilden
Lockwood Corn
Thompson
Marshal Thompson
Senator Whipple Triumphs In State Education Board Fight
The Des Moines Capital lauds W. P. Whipple of Vinton for winning passage of a state educational board of control bill. Despite prior defeats, he persevered, swayed others, and now his measure rests with the governor to become law. No Iowan legislator has seen a more notable triumph in years.
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Whipple
Des Moines
W. P. Whipple
Vinton
Electric Bell for Farmers in Colfax Clipper
A Fremont firm installs an upright push button by the sidewalk to ring an electric store bell. A clerk then comes out to unload butter eggs poultry and potatoes, a system aimed at simplifying country trade and appealing to farmers.
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Fremont
Local homes rise as builders start on Iowa street
C E Bartholomew begins a clubhouse at the corner of Hoggatt avenue and Iowa street. Kappa Delta Sorority girls will occupy the house next term. Mrs Gilchrist buys a lot on Iowa street to build this spring. Mrs Will Muir is constructing a house on Hodge avenue north of Prof Bell. C A Gamble starts a new home on Iowa street west of the central school.
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C. E. Bartholomew
Hoggatt Avenue
Iowa Street
Kappa Delta Sorority
Gilchrist
Will Muir
Hodge Avenue
Prof. Bell
C. A. Gamble
Tipton man recalls early Boone area changes
G. W. Dutton of Tipton visited Ames on Friday recounting how, when he first traversed the region, only four houses existed from Nevada to Boone and one in Boone, with the railroad five miles away. He notes many changes since then.
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G .W. Dutton
Tipton
Ames
Mr. Dutton
Intelligencer
Boone
Nevada
Schaub Leaves ISU for State Agriculture Post in Raleigh
Prof. I. O. Schaub departed yesterday for Raleigh North Carolina to take a position with the State Board of Agriculture. He has been an assistant professor at Iowa State College since 1904 and his departure is a loss for the college.
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I. O. Schaub
Raleigh
North Carolina
State Board of Agriculture
Schaub
Iowa State College
Buchanan to Speak on Bacteriology for Equality Club
Dr. R. B. Buchanan of the college botany department will travel to Eagle Grove on Saturday and deliver a lecture Monday evening titled Practical Problems Relative to Bacteriology before the Equality Club of Eagle Grove.
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Equality Club
R. B. Buchanan
Botany
College
Eagle Grove
Prof Summers on Crutches After Ankle Sprain
Professor H E Summers injured his ankle by stepping on a railroad tie edge while walking from town to the college. He met his classes again on Monday after several days unable to attend.
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H. E. Summers
Editor’s lost umbrella found and returned
An editor advertised weeks ago offering a reward for a lost umbrella and asked the finder to keep it. The finder has returned the umbrella, confirming the ad “it pays to advertise.”
Resignation of Prof BE T Robbins to take effect May 1
Prof BE T Robbins has handed his resignation to President Storms. The move takes effect May 1 as he joins the editorial staff of the Breeders' Gazette.
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BE T. Robbins
Storms
Professor Robbins
The
Breeders’ Gazette
Commercial Club Holds Busy Ames Meeting
Ames Commercial Club met Tuesday in City Hall. J B Kooser elected to fill executive board vacancy. Dan E Carty motioned to endorse proposed site and push building. Tilden Brothers hold option on Harry Jones building to April 15. July Fourth plans and college approvals discussed. A mass meeting will be called. a faculty committee will cooperate.
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Ames Commercial Club
J. B. Kooser
F. R
DaneCarthy
Tilden Brothers and Company
Harry Jones
Dan McCarthy
Boone County
Imm
Kooser
McCarthy
Ames
Mead and Miss Mead Entertain Old Neighbors in Orange
Mr and Mrs H C Mead of Ames Story county Iowa spent winter in Orange California hosting Nevada Iowa friends. A St Patrick day dinner at Whaley s restaurant featured Irish green decor and playful table settings. The group later returned to Mrs Withey s cottage for social reminiscences and plans to settle in the area someday.
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Orange
California
H. C. Mead
Ames
Story County
Iowa
Abbie Withey
North Orange Street
Nevada
Whaley
St. Patrick
Ireland
Old Town
James Fitton
I. H. Matthews
J. C. Briggs
M. E. Williams
C. A. Briggs
Abbie Dunning
Electrical Show At College On April Fourteen
The local branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will hold an electrical show at the college on April 14. It will feature electric cooking for the ladies, electric signs for business men, wireless telephone and telegraph, singing, arc lamp, and other instructional displays. Everyone is invited. admission is free.
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American Institute of Electrical Engineers
College
Miss Loughran Sets Course for California
Miss Mary Loughran, previously a stenographer in Professor Kennedy's office, left today for Los Angeles. She enjoyed California during a prior visit and will return to work there. Friends hope she will visit Ames at least annually.
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Mary Loughran
Kennedy
Los Angeles
Miss Loughran
California
Ames
Property Transfers From Ames and Nearby Areas
A series of real estate deeds recorded in Ames shows Thomas B Jones transferring parcels to Thomas Jacobson for 11000 with quarter sections. George L Thornton receives 1100 for northwest quarter of section 24 84 24. Totten and Thompson exchange 1200 for two parcels in Gilbert addition. Gilbert transfers 200 for lots 9 and 2-2 in Gilbert. Iowa Business Men's Building and Loan Ass'n sells to Nellie Grace Davis 400 for lot 8 block 16 Borns ad Ames. Multiple tracts in Ames include Taylor wife and others to BE 8S proper Lee Doolittle and Kooser for 5000 at 52 12 ft of e 75 ft of lots 6 7 8 block 14 Ames. Hutchison sells to Sarah Van Epps and Emily F Howard 200 for lot 6 block 5 Harrimans ad Ames. Meirs sells to Jacob Olson 800 for lot 13 block 6 Blacks 3 ad Ames. Budd transfers 2000 to C H Likely for sub lots 5 6 of lot 2 block 41 Bikars ad Ames. Maxwell transfers 1000 to Nina C Allen for lot 25 block 12 Ames.
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Proper
Lee Doolittle
Geo. T. Kooser
Ames
James Hutchison
Sarah van Epps
Emily F Howard
Harrimans
Ad Ames
F. Meirs
Jacob Olson
Etta M Budd
C. H
George H. Maxwell
Nina C. Allen
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Guardian
Iowa Small Grain Growers’ Association
Southwest
Gazette
Millers
Mary M'Dowell
Senator Whipple
Electric Bell
Prof. Summers
Mead
Thomas B Jones
Thomas Jacobson
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