Local notices and transfers stir Iowa region chatter
A mix of political endorsements, a tragic insane case, local leadership praise, and a batch of real estate transfers for week ending March 31 1900. Notables include a candidate statement for County Attorney and strong praise for Mr Payne, plus a man’s attempted self harm and recovery. Real estate changes list numerous transfers in Cambridge Story City Nevada Ames and surrounding areas.
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Smith & Bricker
Abstractors
Nevada
Iowa
A Upland
Carrie J Upland
Cambridge Town
E G Williams
Hus
AG Larson
Story City
Saran Thurston
Benjamin Belt
Blairs
Cole
Mary Dargen
John Collins
Mills
Alderman
Leonard
Scotts
Fidkpatrick
M A Johnson
Templeton’s
David Dale
Emeline Craver
F Aplin
Carrie J Aplin
Ames
M K Smith
G K Cameron
John H Longsdorf
Sarah R Longsdorf
Bernis
Sarah F McElyen
Adam Deed
Fitchpatrick
Wmlor
Local Notes On People And Places In Ogden And Gilbert
Dr Clark spent Saturday with relatives at Ogden and there is good fishing in the Skunk river east of Gilbert. Alderman of Nevada studied in Ho field here Monday. The Congregational association plans to meet here around May first. L Oliver and wife returned from Chicago after a week with their son studying medicine there. W Dudgeon will relocate after April 6 to the east room of the Bigelow on Smith building in Gilbert Station. The Cumberland Presbyterian Presbytery met here Thursday and Friday with strong attendance and delegates from abroad.
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Lewis Johnson
McCalliburg
Insane Commission
Johnson
Nevada
Skunk River
Gilbert
L. Oliver
Chicago
The
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Messenger of
C. H. Spurgeon
London
Evening Notes From Des Moines and Campus Events
The item outlines visits by Miss Lorena Webber and Miss Sadie Hook to the campus, alums in Council Bluffs, and a return from Marshalltown. It reports on a pneumatic hammer project, honors for the late A V Stout of Parkersburg, the Port Huron Engine trial, a Northwestern R R apprenticeship offer to a mechanical grad, and a chapel address by Harvey Hostetler about student duties.
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Lorena Webber
C. Fred Shaw
Sadie Hook
Port Huron
Lenox
Boutelle
Peice
Pres
Harvey Hostetler
Buena Vista College
Pres Hostetler
General Joubert Esteemed as Great Calamity for Boers
The obituary extols General Joubert as the Boers best leader aside from Kruger praising his liberal approach. At 68 his death is described as a severe blow to the Boer cause and a loss the nation will not soon replace.
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Joubert
Boer Republic
Kruger
Ann Arbor Newsdealer Burns Sapho Volumes
In Ann Arbor a newsdealer burned a stock of Sapho volumes last week. Fourteen volumes were destroyed, selling at 10 cents each, while advertising worth hundreds of dollars was gained. The incident attracted public attention.
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
Ames City Council Holds Fall Meeting Votes and Appoints Officials
Attendance declined at Monday night session as bonds for Mayor Thompson and Treasurer Needham were approved. Jas Hale won the street commissioner post on the second ballot and may receive a $50 monthly salary plus police duties. Committees were named, reports deferred, and talks with railroad officials extended. Sidewalks will be built in north Ames as work continues on the Northwestern tracks. News travels fast as a crowd learns of remote events through whispered chatter in venues.
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Thompson
Needham
Cal Giddings
Jas. Hale
Hale
Kyle
Kellogg Street
North
Ames
van Chamberlain
Perry Bower
J. F. Cavell
Reputation of jolly fellows clashes with bank paying teller
A Chicago News note remarks some men known as jolly good fellows clash with the duties of a paying teller at a bank, implying a contrast between public wit and financial trust.
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Chicago News
Shirts all safe as six shirts hide in suitcase
A satirical tale from a southern wife and a carefree Carolina husband ends with a punny twist. The wife packed six shirts for a trip and promised a fresh one daily. On return the shirts are not missing but were found worn by the husband as he boasts they stayed safe, all six worn at once.
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John
Kansas City Independent
Cake Walk Cake Confuses Memphis Street Car Crowd
A crowd on an afternoon Memphis street car stares at a huge frosted cake carried by a negro lad. The cake, decorated with flowers and lace, represents a cake walk scene rather than a wedding. Passengers learn it is for a cake walk event, not a wedding, and the car resumes its chatter.
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East End
Memphis Scimitar
Red Dinner at Savoy Featured as World’s Costliest Banquet
A millionaire who later died hosted a lavish Savoy London dinner known as the red dinner. The room, lamps, chairs, napkins, and waiters wore red, reflecting the winner’s luck with red on roulette. The 18 course menu cost over $65 per guest for forty attendees.
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Savoy Hotel
London
Monte Carlo
Everybody's Magazine
Can't Leave Wall Street The magnet of finance draws brokers back
A newspaper man recalls a Wall Street broker who quit after going broke, then notes few truly retire. He tells of a man who made a fortune and swore off the street but soon returns, and one who stayed away only as far as Fourteenth Street, unable to resist the lure.
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Wall Street
Fourteenth Street
Princess runs to shed etiquette in Cambridge garden
A visitor asks why the princess runs so fast. She replies she is trying to get rid of etiquette after a visit from the emperor of memory and the Duchess of Teck memorial note in parish matters.
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Miss
Cambridge Cottage
Duchess of Teck
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