Leap Year Proposal and Social Highlights
A lively appeal invites proposals from ladies as a bachelor seeks marriage in a humorous verse. The item notes a picnic, readings by Miss Van Duzer, and social events featuring the D. A. R. chapters, Rebekah lodge, porch parties, and campus gatherings. Notable mentions include Miss Listemann praised as a soloist for Innes Band Day at the Ames Chautauqua festival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Listemann
Worcester
Dieh Theare
Tanhauser
Saint Saens
Priscila Club Meeting Noted on Campus
The Priscilla Club will meet Wednesday afternoon July 22 with Mrs. S A Beach on the campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priscilla Club
S. A. Beach
Queen Esther Picnic on Campus This Friday
Queen Esther circle holds annual picnic on campus Friday afternoon. Members may invite a girlfriend and depart on the four o clock interurban. For lunch details contact Miss Maud Shea.
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Membrs
Queen Esther Circle
Epworth League Picnic At Van Duzer Home
Sixty or more people gathered Tuesday evening at the Van Duzer home near Ontario for a picnic. The crowd left around five and enjoyed a supper on the front lawn about eight. Gas lights illuminated the gathering until moonlight appeared. The hosts had prepared a bountiful supply of ice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Duzer
Ontario
van Duzer's
Churches Sunday Services at Odd Fellows Hall
Christian Science services Sunday at 11 a m at Odd Fellows hall with the lesson subject Life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odd Fellows Hall
Church Bible School and Park Union Service
The Church of Christ holds Bible school at 9 45 a m and preaching at 11 a m by Pastor C E after a union service in the park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E
Methodist Episcopal Church Services at the Rink
Andrew M. Shea, Pastor, conducts services at the Rink with 9 45 a m Sunday School led by F M Cupps and 11 a m sermon by the Pastor. A 6 p m Union Park Service features Pastor Shea and 7 15 p m Epworth League with the topic From Doubt to Devotion led by Harry Caldwell and Earl Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Cupps
Union Park Service
Andrew M. Shea
Epworth League
Harry Caldwell
Earl Smith
U B Church Prayer and Evergreen Sermon Schedule
Pastor J W Stiverson preaches at 11:00 and 3:00 at Evergreen. Y P C U meets after the park service.
Snakes Hear and See Sharp in Ancient Belief
Snakes lack external ears but hear by sensing vibrations through their skin and tongue. They possess keen sight for detecting moving objects, according to a brief note from St. Nich Ua.
Twain Meets Guthrie in Vienna A Lawyer’s Smokers Reply
Mark Twain encounters Charles Guthrie in Vienna and asks if he smokes. Guthrie replies that he does so only in bad company. A follow up questions Guthrie’s profession, and he confirms he is a lawyer, prompting Twain to remark on heavy smoking.
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Mark Twain
Charles Guthrie
Vienna
Mr. Guthrie
Mr. Clemens
Man would feel lighter on Jupiter’s equator due to rapid spin
A man of ordinary size on Jupiter’s equator would feel much lighter than on Earth as the planet’s swift rotation would nearly lift him from his feet and fling him toward the sky, explains Caussell’s Saturday Journal.
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Jupiter
Earth
Caussell
Saturday Journal
Card Table Romance in London Ends in Marriage
A rich man and a pretty London girl played ecarte. She gambled away her funds to the limit and faced ruin. When the offer came to quit she asked if he would marry her. He nodded, won the game, and they began a celebrated English union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Grant's Piety and Moral Fortitude as President
The passage praises Ulysses S. Grant for his consistent respect for religion and high morals. It notes he was never profane, kept his word to his mother about oaths, and avoided vulgar or questionable stories in company, illustrating his disciplined private character.
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Grant
United States
Dr. Shrady
Century
Watch Papers and the Watchmaker Label Custom
The piece explains watch papers placed in watch cases with engravings by watchmakers and the later trend of including verses and tokens. It also cites a John Donne funeral sermon about inwardly turned thoughts during prayer, linking personal introspection to a puzzling career path.
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St. Augustine
John Donne
God
Pembroke College Cambridge and its notable alumni
Pembroke College Cambridge founded in the fourteenth century by the widow of Aymer de Valence. The college helped revive learning and the reformation and produced distinguished alumni. Edmund Spenser published poems as an undergraduate there and Gray moved from Peterhouse to Pembroke. William Pitt studied with the dons at Pembroke and reportedly learned a taste for port wine from them.
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Pitt
Pembroke College
Cambridge
Aymer de Valence
Earl of Pembroke
England
Edmund Spenser
Gray
Pembroke
Peterhouse
William Pitt
Dons
Westminster Gazette
Father and sons lose Gourdon boat in sea tragedy
A Gourdon fishing boat sinks with a father and four sons aboard. Three sons perish, the father survives after enduring great suffering. The surviving son sacrifices himself, telling his father he must let him go, a moment of tragic, stoic farewell cited by the Westminster Gazette.
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Gourdon
Westminster Gazette
Mayor’s Ordeal: Ceremony Declared Invalid After Omission
Paris correspondent reports a mayor in Paris completed a marriage with the phrase you are united but forgot part of the formula. He then shouted from a window that the union stands in the name of the law, making the ceremony invalid until corrected.
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Paris
The Head Hunters in New Guinea Villages
In Tupuselel New Guinea houses float on piles over the sea to avoid head hunters who raid for heads. Other villages are built high in trees for the same protection against attacks and death.
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Tupuselel
New Guinea
Sensation of Camel Riding Compared by Moors to Degradation
On the Camel described as like a stool on a springless cart over a plowed field. The experience, for Moors, ranks with walking barefoot in chains as the worst degradation for prisoners. From Grey's In Moorish Captivity.
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Grey
If and But Change the Sky Colors in Wilderness Thought
A reflective piece notes how the tiny words if and but subtly shift perception. It argues language shapes mood, perception, and choices, turning ordinary scenes into imagined possibilities.
Floating Eggs of Fish Across Ocean Species
The article describes floating eggs in fish such as cod mackerel and flounders. It highlights two unusual methods the paradise fish of China and the goosefish employ to keep eggs at the surface. The paradise fish uses a frothy buoyant raft of fatty bubbles created by the male and replenished until hatching. Goosefish release a gelatinous ribbon mass containing about 60000 eggs that floats until hatching.
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China
Alfalfa feeding yields high cattle prices at Missouri River market
Joe Sommers of Stanton Nebraska sold four car loads of fat cattle at Omaha for 8.10 per hundred averaging 1572 pounds. He bought the cattle last November at 4.60 per hundred and 1110 pounds, fed them on a balanced ration of corn and alfalfa gaining 462 pounds per animal. The 8.10 price was the highest for a Missouri river market since 1902 as Swift & Company paid. The National Corn Exposition at Omaha December 9 to 19 will feature an alfalfa palace with machinery exhibits and alfalfa meal products to illustrate the benefits of balanced rations.
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Omaha
Joe Sommers
Stanton
Neb
Sommers
Swift & Company
J. W. Jones
Milford and Grant Social News Highlights
Mrs. Maria Pellersell and her daughter visited W. J. Gilmore in Milford for two weeks and returned home. Mrs. Ernest Tripp attended a missionary meeting in Ontario. The War ren siblings and Frank visited relatives near Gilbert. Gladys Bradford from Storm Lake visited grandparents T. Hardcastle and family. Mrs. James Hutchison and daughter from near Kelly visited U. Hy Mills in Grant. Mrs. H. B. Young and daughter from Lincoln Neb. stayed with L. H. Smith. H. B. Erb was in Missouri for fruit farm work. Vera Tripp visited friends near Ontario. S. B. Frey returned from France last Thursday. Mrs. J. W. Bateman is not well again.
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Maria Pellersell
Sac City
W. J. Gilmore
Milford
Ernest Tripp
Ontario
Lettie
Isabel Warren
Frank
Gilbert
Gladys Bradford
Storm Lake
T. Hardcastle
James Hutchison
Kelly
U. Hy
Mills
Grant
H. B. Young
Lincoln, Neb
L. H. Smith
Eugene Smith
H. B. Erb
Missouri
Ladies Cemetery social at Bank hall in Roland
The Ladies Cemetery Association hosts a Saturday social with afternoon and evening sessions offering ice cream cake and coffee. They seek a large turnout. The Roland school board elected Myrtle Kettleson of Clear Lake to teach seventh and eighth grades. O. M. Thompson takes a position in Janesville Wisconsin. Mr and Mrs EB Sheldahl and daughters Martha and Emmy noted in society notices.
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The
Ladies Cemetery Association
Bank Hall
Myrtle Kettleson
Clear Lake
O. M. Thompson
Janesville
Wisconsin
Local residents visit. barbershop sale and moves noted
A list of social visits and moves follows. John P. Alvestad sold his barber shop to C. K. Kirkeby of Randall with possession due around July 20. Alvestad and family plan to move to Minneapolis. Numerous residents travel to Marshalltown and Des Moines for conventions, visits, and vacations, including Kanawha’s Mrs. Lewis and O. M. Amenson’s trip to Norway.
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O. M. Grove
Ing. Eggland
J. F. Bennett
Radcliffe
John P. Alvestad
C. K. Kirkeby
Randall
Kirkeby
Alvestad
Minnapolis
Carrie
Elsie Oleson
Emma B. Sheldahl
Malinda
Carrie Skromme
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Daniel Boone
Boone
Sun Dial
Ames
Merritt Green
Marshalltown
Rebekah
Rebekah Lodge
Ethyl Cessna
Ruth Cessna
Nevada
Ambrose
A. B. Noble
Prof. Summers
Miss Thornberg
K. K’s
Marie Tilden
Vera Kistler Watson
H. Knapp
Lincoln
Innes
Chautauqua
Priscila Club
Club
Douglass Avenue
Mutual
Iowa
Barker
Peurfect
MFGR
Huskers Liniment
Christian Science
Church of Christ
Methodist Episcopal Church
U. B. Church
J. W. Stiverson
Evergreen
Milford and Grant
Roland
EB. R. Sheldahl
Misses Martha and
Emmy
Zephyr Ginghams
Semmons Dry Goods Store
Margaret Jacobson
Bode
Miss Nellie and
Bertha Wauge
Millie Matheson
Tom Holm
Randie
Story City
Rasmus Hovland
J. B. A. Dale
MclIntogh
Minn
E. G. Schlanbusch
John Barke
Fergus Falls
O. J. Barke
Gertrude Schlanbusch
Ashland
Wis
Alice Tendall
Des Moines
Paula Verning
Boyd
H. E. Myrah
Ft. Dodge
Pertes Hadley
M. O. Rod
T. C. Jacobson
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