Local notices and events from Story County Iowa
Autie Suara joins Thayers as clerk. Miss Cena Tuarer visits Denison. J J Juve builds a new dam in Boone. Bing Pepper tours Carroll County for racing. Hog buyers pay 2.50 to 3.75 per hundred. A Chicago corner affects park land. Dr Geo A Meredith elected city health officer. Ames beats Nevada 22 to 16 in ball. Tuer plans a Kelly beer saloon. Lightning hits D W Johns barn in Indian Creek. C N W repairs locomotives and cars at Chicago shops. A serious farm fire, a public meeting, and a county association meeting announced. Population total and township splits noted. Masox Moroux Uncle Tom’s Cabin played to a full house. Artesian well drilling under way with deep prospecting. County candidates discussed for next convention.
Bad Runaway Injures No One On College Road
Wm Crank's buggy toppled after his horses balked at a top wagon near the college on the turnpike. No injuries reported. Separately, about fifteen alley-cleaning violations were filed in the Mayor's court with notices given for compliance to improve city health and comfort.
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Wm Crank
College
Mr. C
How He Got Rich And The Moonlit Trains Of Ames
A tale contrasts a rich man crediting habit and work ethic with local humor about a Marshalltown family misnavigating to State Centre and Ames. The piece jokes that whisky at State Centre disorients travelers and notes a mistaken road trip ending in Ames.
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Marshalltown
State Centre
Charles Drum
Ames
Nevada
Sheldahl Sought Move Across County Lines Vote Denied
The Standard notes Sheldahl cannot secure a Boone county vote to detach part of its taxable property. The move would sever the town from Gardena township and faces strong Republican opposition. The piece argues the town should switch to Democratic support or remain in place, predicting few votes outside Sheldahl and Garden township.
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Boone
Sheldahl
Boone County
Story County
Gardena Township
Sheidahl
Garden Township
Standard
What Educates a Child and Rural Politicians Clash
An educator cautions that a child learns from example and environment more than schooling, noting parental conduct and home life shape character as education. The Marshall Times comments on Republican politics, Marshalltown influence, and politicians using self interest, likening local tactics to a hunter and Indian exchange.
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Massachusetts
H.C. Henderson
Republican Party
Marshall Times
Henderson
Marshalltown
Story
Grundy
Hardin
Idora Ledger
Sunday School Hymns and Literary Supplements in Review
The August Haerens Magazine issue surveys church music alignment with worship and highlights poetry and fiction from Phillips O Sullivan Longfellow and Newport pastoral scenes. It notes illustrations by Miss Oakley Rebecca Harding Davis Nora Perry and Fredericks Wm Black as well as Emily Huntington Miller Henry James Jr Blackmore and John Esten Cooke contributing fiction poetry and reviews.
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Haerens Magazine
Ayr
Longfellow
Burns
Phillip O Sullivan
Newport
Arcady
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Conway
Touraine
Garden of France
St. Martin
Davis
Mr Conway
Nora Perry
Henry of
Navarre
Paris
Fredericks
Wm Black
Mr. Tolman
Frank R. Stockton
John Esten Cooke
Emily Huntington Miller
Henry James, Jr
Washington Square
Spiritual Songs for the Sunday School listed for issue
A new volume in the series to be published by Scribner & Co titled Spiritual Songs for the Sunday School promises sensible and attractive work. Dr. Robinson and Mr. Sherwin are noted contributors with W W F Sherwin’s leadership. The 128 page quarto offers over 100 illustrations and cost 25 cents per copy or $3 per year postpaid. Frank Leslie's Publishing House in New York provides the edition.
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Charles 8. Robinson
W.W. F. Sherwin
Robinson
Robinson and Mr. Sherwin
Scribner & Co
St. Paul
Athens
Sunray Magazine
Augusta Browne Garrett
Frank Leslie
Park Place
New York
Diep Fredric Albert Dies After Long Illness at Eighty
Obituary notes the death of Fredric Albert in Ames at age eighty, after eighteen years of heart disease and decade of severe illness. Born in Secoharie County New York, he married twice and leaves two children from the first marriage plus his wife Miss Louise Cook. A Baptist church member from Summit then Worcester he joined the Ames church by letter and was regarded as a pillar in the faith. Funeral services were held last Sabbath afternoon with Rev. Amos Robinson preaching.
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Diep
Ames
Loth
Fredric Albert
Secoharie County
New York
Better Land
Loussa Cook
Worcester
Otsego County
Albert
Baptist Church
Amos Robinson
Polk County Farmers Alliance Forms and Health Law Notes
A Polk County farmers alliance forms to raise agriculture and oppose unfair legislation while promoting cash transactions and county unity. The piece also explains the State Board of Health birth, death, and marriage reporting requirements, with sample questions for attestants and couples planning to wed in 1880.
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Story County
Palk County
State Board of Health
Ankeny
Farnk Leslies Popular Monthly August Issue Highlights
The August number showcases a thoughtful life sketch of Sister Dora the devoted nurse, an earnest piece on Missionary Effort in Patagonia, and a compelling article on Venice its Past and Present, all described as exceedingly brilliant and attractive.
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Farnk Leslie
Dora
Christain
Patagonia
Venice
New French Laver Pad Promises Liver and Fever Relief
If troubled with fever ague jaundice or liver stomach or blood diseases try Prof Guilmette's French Laver Pad. Ask your druggist or mail $1.50 to French Pad Co Toledo Ohio to receive one by return mail.
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Guilmette
Toledo
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Iowa College Grinnell
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London
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