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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
8
The Ames Chautauqua opens on Wednesday with tickets selling as season passes the only option, no day tickets. Sylvester Long headlines as a top lecturer while Mrs Maybrick recounts her fourteen year English prison ordeal in Maybrick's Own Story on August 12.
The Ames Chautauqua lists Wednesday August 11 events with 2:00 Cleveland Ladies Orchestra and 7:30 concert by the same group. Thursday August 12 features 9:00 Idle Hour discussion Ethics of the Beautitudes with Dr Kirk Waldo Robbins and 10:20 Educational Hour The New Citizenship Lectures with Samuel Zane Batten of Lincoln Neb. The program includes music solos and duets.
The Chautauqua program at Ames faces criticism over high priced favorites while Ed Amherst Ott is praised as a premier attraction. Secretary Fowle notes rival clubs claim Ott deserves fifty cents, but Ames keeps twenty five cent pricing to favor overall talent. Ott, famed for Sour Grapes and the Drake School of Oratory, headlines with a strong Pedigree lecture Saturday evening August 14th.
Dr Frank Crane opens the Ames Chautauqua with Mes Maybricks own story I Swear to You I Am Innocent Aug 11. The program notes Mrs Florence Maybrick born trials in Liverpool 1889 and calls her a notable lecturer. Key events include schedules for August 11 to 18 with lectures concerts and demonstrations by Mabelle Wagner Shank Dr Kirk Robbins and the Royal Hungarian Orchestra.
Ames hosts a multi day chautauqua with programs led by Dr. Van Kirk and the Dunbar Quartet. Recitals, lectures, and children hours run August 19 and 20, with the Ernest Gamble Concert Party and special numbers by Bryan Maybrick and Dawson. Season tickets sold. tent rentals listed with prices. Walter I. Fowle is secretary and J. J. Grove president.
Testimonial notes from Mrs. D. Baker of Cleveland and Mrs. C. G. Bennett of Alma claim Dr Miles Nervine cured severe epilepsy and St Vitus Dance in four months. The ad asserts nervous diseases improve with Nervine, encourages letters from users, and offers money back if no benefit.
The operator announces severance from the Depot Restaurant on October 1 and shifts focus to a photography business. With 22 years in Ames and over a decade in photography, the owner offers ready service and invites calls for any photographic needs.
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