Gates City Iowa a Center of Agriculture Education
Gates sits at the junction of the Chicago and North Western and the Des Moines and Minneapolis lines, thirty six miles north of Des Moines. It hosts the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with hundreds of students, a well equipped public school, and surrounding fertile lands yielding abundant crops and orchards.
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Chicago and North- Western Railroad
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Iowa
Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Sunday Services and Prayer Meetings at Local Church
The church holds Sunday worship every morning at 10 45 and evening at 7 30 with Sunday School after the morning service. A Wednesday evening prayer meeting is also conducted at 7 30 led by Pastor E C Moulton.
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H. J. Everly
Ben
H. W. Wilson
Recipe for Cheerfulness Brewed With Courage and Hope
A poetic guide urges washing selfishness from the heart and adding patience humor wit and self confidence to a cup of cheerfulness. It advises calm endurance with Lethe to ease pain and ends with faith in heaven and a hopeful world brightening others.
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Heaven
The Hermit of Misery Grove and Buffalo Bill Tale
A colorful monologue blends memoir and frontier lore from William F. Cody. He recalls love mishaps in Germany and America, a medical school misadventure, and travels as a sharpshooter. He also reflects on Native American relations, trust, and the role of “medicine” in tribal dealings.
Miserly recluse reflects on life and love in Misery Grove
An elderly hermit recalls years of poverty and charity to widows, bragging of frugal living and a string of loves. He dismisses gossip from a local paper that mocked his miserliness while he laments lacking happiness yet claims peerless severity in his section.
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Misery Grove
Peter
The Arab Hunter Horse in India and England
The account cites Capt Shakespeare and Capt Upton praising the Arab horse for courage and endurance in India. It recounts spearings of game, tiger anecdotes, and steeplechase feats, noting the Forbes Radar Cup context and horse Jurham's half mile sprint in challenging grass.
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India
Shakespeare
Capt
Upton
Newmarket
Arabia
Hindustan
England
Durham
Jurham
London Times
Best quail dog tips toward restaurant dining bet
Rambier notes a famed quail dog and predicts someone eating quail on toast inside a restaurant, wagering $100 on the guess. The exchange highlights a vivid scene of anticipation and a culinary quail reference in a casual boast.
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America
Women of influence in society and education cited
A collection of humorous and sober extracts on feminine character and public service. It contrasts scenes from a Scottish wedding toast with notes on Clara Barton Dorothea Dix and Mary Lyon. The piece praises women teachers and charitable workers shaping national civility and growth.
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War Department
Clara Barton
Dorothea Dix
Mary Livermore
Jean Lander
Mother Bickerdyke
Associated Charities
Lincoln
Cape Cod
Golden Gate
Mary Lyon
Alice Freeman
Col
T. W. Higginson
Harper's Bazar
The Count Waltz
A wife chides her husband after a failed wheat deal that cost him $20,000. She notes their daughter Nellie plans to marry Count Italiani who seeks $20,000 for his title. The husband dismisses the concern, claiming his daughter's happiness does not influence his losses.
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Nellie
Count Italiani
Cincinnati Socialite Mrs. Nichols Heads Pottery Empire
In East Walnut Hills Cincinnati, Mrs. George Ward Nichols, widow of a rich Longworth heir, is said to be Ohio's wealthiest woman with an estimated income of 200000. She runs Rockwood Pottery daily from 8 to 1, guiding its crafts for a market that includes Tiffany’s New York.
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Cincinnati
New York World
George Ward Nichols
Grandin Road
East Walnut Hills
Joseph Longworth
Nichols
Ohio
Nicholas Longworth
Long Longworth
Rockwood Pottery
Europe
America
The Rise of Women in Letters and Public Life
A survey of literary fame and female influence, citing Mrs Hemans as a lasting example and noting the enduring pull of poetry beyond death. Also includes anecdotes on public figures, hydrophobia, and social customs in the era.
Rulers face grim fates across history
A statistical historian counts 2 549 monarchs across 74 nations and finds 300 were overthrown 64 abdicated 28 died by self harm 23 went mad 100 slain in battle 120 captured 25 tortured 150 assassinated and 108 executed. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
A Husband's Love Question Returns in Quiet Domestic Scene
Mrs. Smith, a young wife, asks her husband Charles if he loves her as much as at their wedding. He gruffly replies he has said it many times and warns against asking again, as he sits at his desk with a skeptical air.
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Gen. Beale
California
Grim
Beale
Turkey
Sunset Cox
Cox
Constantinople
Hoboken
Ottoman Empire
Salemlik
Fifth Avenue
Belle
Eve
Adam
Solomon
Pauline
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
New York
New York Herald
San Francisco Chronicle
Happy Camp
Lookout
Modoc County
Jim
Michigan
United States
Oregon
San Francisco
Oakland
Bay
San Francisco Post
Sybil
la Cruche
Tory
Cesar
Clovis
Edith
Harold
Countess of Salisbury
Order of the Garter
Mile. de Fontange
Dutchess
Henry IV
Ivry
Mary Stuart
Leicester
Elizabeth
Fingham
Anne of Austria
Mlle. de la Valliere
Agnes
Amolphe
Candia
Louis
Steinkirk
Terlitz
Las
Massena
Mme. Recamier
Mime
Recamier
Paris
Mussett
Mimi Pluson
Crimea
Italy
Legion of Keaal
Charles
Nonsense Scientific Claim On Perception Of Faint Sounds
A fragment questions a so called Italian scientist who reports intervals of silence from seven to twenty two seconds and sound perception from seven to eleven seconds. The piece argues such claims resemble puffed science in newspapers and notes practical limits in timing watches and clocks.
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J.E. Duncan
J& AN
Ames
Official Directory
C. G. McCareny
L. Smith
Ois
Orien
Elite
Siaeccacces
O. Roz
Board OF Supervisors
J. Q. Bourgess
Anthony HaAtg
R. Ballard
Howard
FONME
Cess
E. R. Chamberlain
W. C. Smocking
L. van Dusen
A. Richmond
van Chamberlain
Methodist Episcopal
Baptist
United Workmen
G. A. Meredith
M. Soper
Ames Lodge
G. A. Allsworth
G. A. R. Hall
Geo. G. Tilden
Ateeal H. Wilson, Jr
Jr. Tm. Klanii
Harley Stuckslager
O. S
M. J. Smith
Mrs. Daniel’s
Geo. A. Underwood
U. S
District of Iowa
Union National Bank
D. McCarthy
J. L. Stevens
A & Fitchpatrick
Nevana
A. H. Thayer
CE OF the Peace
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Palace Drug Store
MM. Templeton, N
City Drug Store
P. G. A. Meredith
South Side
Story County
Chas. E. Hunt
West House
H. L. Carrell
Nevada
M. Sopier
John Glidden
Dray Man
Hutchinson Bros
Job Offigg
Hermit OF
Peter Hickum
Rhine
Bushdevil
Beadle
Seat of Learning
Cain
Abel
Calaboose
Sand Hill
Oak Hill
Fulton County
Buffalo Bill
Washington
Willliam F
Jeanie
the Woman of Influence
George Eliot
Rufus Choate
Routledge
Longfellow
Scott
Byron
Moore
Burns
Hemans
Milton
Hood
Cowper
Shelley
Keats
Xene
Chester Harding
Daniel Webster
Harding
Webster
Mr. Harding
Mr. Webster
Boston
Vichy
Carlsbad
Frederick
Prussia
Heinrich Mattoni
Lobeleh Sottlander
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