Settlers' Low Rates West via the North Western Line
Colonist one way tickets offered at very low rates daily during March and April to Colorado Utah Montana Nevada Idaho Oregon Washington California Victoria New Westminster Nelson Rossland and other Kootenay District points. Special round trip Home seekers tickets on first and third Tuesdays in March April and May. For full particulars to agents Chicago and North Western Ry. 49-61.
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Colorado
Utah
Montana
Nevada
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
California
Victoria
New Westminster
Nelson
Rossland
Kootenay
Chicago and
North- Western Ry
Winter tourists offered low round trip fares to California
Winter travelers may take advantage of low round trip rates via the Iowa Central route to California and Pacific coast points. A four day trip from St Paul Mason City Marshalltown Oska loosa Hedrick Peoria and nearby points is highlighted. The Pullman Tourist Car service is reintroduced for the season with Iowa Central routing. For details and pamphlets contact Iowa Central agents or G. S. ty G. P. & T. A. Marshalltown Iowa.
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California
Pacific Coast
St Paul
Mason City
Marshalltown
Oskaloosa
Hedrick
Peoria
Pullman
Iowa Central
Iowa
Dr W E Harriman Practice in Ames Iowa
Dr W E Harriman physician and surgeon offers special attention to surgical cases and eye fitting. Office over Thurs ton hardware store in Ames Iowa with residence near Story County Bank. Telephone numbers for office and home provided.
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Thurston’s Hardware
Ames
Iowa
Story County Bank
Auctioneer Posegate Offers Farms For Sale Ames IA
Ames Iowa auctioneer EPFE Posegate lists farms for sale with day or small commission options and a satisfaction guarantee. Contact Box582.
Landowners in Story County Abstract Books Sell Lands
Property owners listed in Story County abstracts move to sell parcels and settle non residents taxes. Officials warn of tax obligations and asset transfers as records reflect ownership changes. Proceedings indicate anticipated payments and coordinated notices for affected parcels.
Farmers' Cooperative Offers Broad Farm Services
The Farmers' Cooperative Association operates a farmer's exchange and conducts general real estate business. It negotiates farm loans writes insurance handles grain farm produce coal and farm supplies Chautauquan literature chemical fire extinguishers and places electrical conductors on buildings.
Memorial portrait and hymns offered to subscribers
Publishers announce a memorial portrait of the President with likenesses of his wife and mother, birthplace and Canton home, sized 22 by 28 inches on coated paper. Each copy includes memorial sheet music featuring two favorite hymns, with a life sketch on the reverse. The set valued at $2.00 in art stores.
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Interligender
The
Illinois
Cage
Canton
Origin of the Word Cuba and Its Indian Roots
Cubas name traces to the Lucayan Indians who lived with Columbus. Their village Cubanacan yielded the similarity that led Columbus to imagine a city of Kublai Khan. He later named the island Juana Fernandina Santiago Ave Maria before the native name persisted.
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Cuba
Columbus
Asia
Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
Juana
Prince John
Ferdinand and
Isabella
Ferdinand
Fernandina
Santiago
St. James
Spain
Ave Maria
Cornered Tilden in a Witty Wine Tale
The New York World recounts how Samuel J. Tilden, famed Sage of Greystone, mixed humor with sharp appetite for wine. Colonel John R. Fellows observed his guest’s trait of ordering two bottles and cleverly swapped them. Tilden detected the ruse, prompting a witty correction at table.
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Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden
John R. Fellows
Mr. Tilden
Sage of
Greystone
Colonel Fellows
New York World
Music in the Barber Shop of the Sixteenth Century
The article notes barber shops in the sixteenth century offering music to entertain waiting customers. Virginals, early keyboard instruments, used quills to strike strings, predating the piano. A virginal from Elizabethan times is preserved at the South Kensington museum.
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Elizabeth
South Kensington
England
Lippincott’s
Government Clocks and Chronometers in Washington
The article notes the federal government's hundreds of clocks and chronometers costing thousands annually. Chronometers, the most expensive timepieces, sit aboard every warship and cost about 400 dollars each. The marble room in the Senate and the House Speaker's lobby house the most consulted clocks used by hundreds to correct their watches daily.
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Washington
United States
Senate
House
Driftwood from Asia coats Alaska shores in ancient current
The Japan current carries huge driftwood to Alaska from camphor mango and mahogany trees. Logs up to 150 feet long and eight feet wide wash ashore between Kakatag and Kyak islands, piling high and burying beaches as they fossilize into coal or petrify.
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Japan
America
Asiatic
Pacific
Hawaii
Kakatag
Kyak Islands
Seattle
Greenland
Nansen
Polar Sea
Spitzbergen
Nova Zembia
Why is it that workers face extra tasks after hours
In this excerpt a modest breadwinner questions why supervisory staff pile on more work after hours. He recalls vowing to credit subordinates for what they do and avoid overburdening them, noting the paradox of the hardest workers being the most “worked.”
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de Witt & Co
Chicago
Ee Bottie
New York Mail and Express
Pompeii Casts Preserve Last Moments of Fated City
In Pompeii a plaster cast reveals a human form from a lava burial after 1800 years. The preserved outline shows the victim in boiling lava, with several bodies reproduced, including two women in an embrace dubbed The Mother and Daughter, noted for touching despair.
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Pompeii
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W E Harriman
Posegate
Ames,Iowa
Daniel McCarthy
C. G. Lee
McCarthy & Lee, L
Allee
College Park
Stevens’ Block
A. Fitchpatrick
Lowxter
Story County Abstract Books
Per
George Beall
Capitol Police
Des Moines
Capt. Beall
Beall
McLean
Captain Beall
C. M. McLean
George
H.C. Harris
Harris, Emery. Dry Goods Co
Wirt
St. John's Luaseran Church
Copeland Medical Institute
de. C. M. McLean
Walnut &T
D. M. Garisr
Jenniz G. Garis
Drs. Ghrist
Ghrist
the Farmers’ Cooperative
Loughran & Bauer
Canier, Bros. & Herman’s
Canier Bros. & Herman
Jessy Sess
Cal Tae
Post Office
Iltivois Art Co
St. Charles, Ii
Alaska
Kellogg St
Bell
Judisch Bros
Ush
IL. M. Bosworth
Fellows & Fellows
DRS
4Th and
Walnut Sts
Iowa National Bank
Rector
L. M. Bosworth
Frank Morris
Feed Stable
Wight
John P. Petersen
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