Ames City Schools Annual Report 1910 Highlights
The Ames City Schools report shows 1 001 students enrolled across Bearshear Welch South Side Central Grades and High School with improving attendance and health. It notes high school accreditation, stronger promotion standards, expanded departments, new bench work hopes, and facility upgrades including cement walks improved heating and added Welch property. Nonresident attendance rises, tax rate falls, and contest successes bolster district vitality.
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Bearshear
Welch
South Side
Central
Oklahoma City
Finances and Improvements Of Mason City School District
The report details a Beardshear building roof replacement and South Side furnace, with extensive room renovations funded by voluntary pupil contributions for 18 motto banners and silk flags. Bonded debt totalled 60,000 with 31,557 warrants, all promptly paid. tax rate and improvements funded without increasing debt. Welch building added 9,000 in bonds at 4 percent. potential bond issue up to 40,000 due to higher valuation. Superintendent F. Be. King notes careful financial management and paid bills.
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Welch
Beardshear
Mason City
Real Estate Transfers Record From Iowa Towns
A. A. Logan to Nannie Epperson for $2000 transfers lot 1 in J H Jacobson add Gilbert. A L Kloster to A W Larson for $2500 transfers lots 1 and 2 bik 8 Huxley. Nellie Grace Davis to Citizens Lumber Co for $1000 transfers lot 8 bik 16 Borns add Ames. Ida F Hinds to Nellie Grace Davis for $25 transfers lot 8 bik 16 Borns add Ames. Mabel I Shannon to Earl C Shannon for $400 transfers lot 10 bik 7 Duffs add Ames. B A Lockwood Grain Co to J S Doggett for $45 transfers lot 11 Lockwood's add. C G Lee and wife to J W Nowlin for $1 transfers shf sw nw sec 9 83 24. E E Little and wife to Car L Little for $1 transfers lot B block 1 and lots C and D block 2 of George & Little's subdivision of n % n % nw nw sec 9 83 24.
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A. A. Logan
Nannie Epperson
J H Jacobson
Gilbert
A. L. Kloster
A W
Larson
Huxley
Nellie Grace Davis
Hus
Citizens Lumber Co
Borns
Ames
Ida F Hinds
Mabel I Shannon
Earl C Shannon
Lockwood Grain Co
Daily tours offered on Chicago Union Pacific Northwest Line
Daily from March 1 to April 15 tours are personally conducted in tourist sleeping cars via the Chicago Union Pacific Northwest Line. For full particulars write A Hutchison Manager Tours Department 212 Clark St Chicago or contact ticket agents North Western Line 4612.
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Chicago
Union Pacific & Northwestern
A. Hutchison
Mgr. Tours Dept
Clark St
North-Western Line
Winslow will case reversed by Iowa Supreme Court
In Newton Iowa on February 16 the Iowa Supreme Court reversed a district court ruling in the Winslow will case. Mrs Sarah F E Winslow left about 30 000 three fourths to her son George and small bequests to other heirs. The district court initially refused to break the will but the supreme court later set it aside.
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Newton
Supreme Court
District Court
Winslow
Sarah FE. Winslow
Iowa Clothiers Meet in Cedar Rapids Convention
Iowa State Retail Clothiers association reports memberships more than doubled in the past year. Two hundred of eight hundred clothiers in the state are now members. The group will join the State Manufacturers association to oppose discriminations in express rates. Ben R. Vardaman of Detroit spoke on salesmanship.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Retail Clothiers’ Association
State Manufacturers’ Association
Ben R. Vardaman
Detroit
Train Wreck Kills Fireman Near Lake Mills Iowa
Fireman William Ericson died and three others injured when Northwestern passenger No. 15 crashed into a freight train north of Lake Mills during a February blizzard. Injuries listed include engineer William Pyson with arm and leg broken, passenger E A Graves cut and bruised, and passenger John Wilson slightly hurt. Many shaken but expected to recover.
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Mason City
William Ericson
Lake Millis
William Pyson
E. A. Graves
John Wilson
Lake Mills
Pyson
Veterinarians Gather in Des Moines for Tuberculosis Fight
The Iowa Veterinary association opens a three day convention at the Savery in Des Moines with plans for stricter cattle and horse inspection. Tubercular tests and demonstrations will be held as part of efforts to curb contagious animal diseases. H E B Talbot presides, with A L Ward, A L Birdie and Hal C Simpson in key posts.
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Des Moines
Iowa Veterinary Association
Savery
H. E B. Talbot
A. L. Ward
Hampton
A. L. Birdie
Cedar Falls
Hal C. Simpson
Denison
Oliver Typewriter pushes 17c daily plan to masses
The firm promotes a new sales plan offering a small cash payment then 17 cents a day for the Oliver Typewriter. The response is a flood of applications from diverse buyers signaling broad appeal and belief in universal typewriting now within reach.
Oliver Typewriter Promises Easy Money and Home Use
The Oliver Typewriter is presented as a money making machine for beginners and experts alike with high salaries in demand. It emphasizes home use for training youths and calls readers to request details and a free catalog, promising an easy selling plan and national reach from Omaha Nebraska.
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Oliver Typewriter
Oliver
America
$100 Typewriter For 17c a Day
An Oliver Typewriter advertised as the $100 machine, famed for its innovations and features, is offered for 17 cents a day. The copy promotes the model as highly perfected with numerous conveniences and a balance of advanced writing tools.
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Oliver
Didessearieg
Farmer Shot by Accident Near Goose Lake
John Meyers aged twenty six from near Goose Lake, Iowa, was brought to Clinton with a bullet wound in the head. Surgeons removed part of the bullet and a skull fragment remains embedded in his brain. Authorities believe the wound occurred when a rifle fell from a shelf and discharged.
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Farmer
Clinton
John Meyers
Goose Lake
Scarlet Fever Epidemic Hits Fenton Rural Districts
An outbreak of scarlet fever in rural areas north and east of Fenton Iowa leads to quarantines in several families and the temporary closure of one school on February 16.
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Fenton
Reformatory Population Tops Five-Year Peak
Anamosa Iowa February 16 The Reformatory Press reports the count at the High Market Reformatory is 496 the highest in five or six years signaling an upward trend in inmate numbers across the facility.
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High Market Reformatory
Anamosa
Reformatory
Grand jury indicts Austrian for murder in Seevers case
Newton Iowa reports that Millavan Travich an Austrian was indicted by the grand jury for the murder of Dan Kar uga at Seevers on January 3.
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Newton, Ia
Millavan Travich
Dan Karuga
Seevers
Lincoln Reflects on Death and Life’s Impact
A quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln laments the difficulty of dying and the wish to leave the world improved by one’s life. The remark expresses a somber view of legacy and meaning.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Iowa Clothiers
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Oliver Typewriter Company
Omaha
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Brockton
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W.L. Douglas
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W. H. Jameson & Co
Ames, Iowa
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