Memorial Day Observances Highlight Ames Community
Memorial Day events in Ames featured extensive tributes to Civil War soldiers with a large procession, cemetery rites, and a special Opera Hall service. Prof Barrows of the state agricultural college delivered a stirring Memorial Day sermon, while local lodges and auxiliary groups decorated graves and honored veterans with music and speeches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Shelton
Kansas Agricultural College
Ontario
Dick Jordan
Boone
G. A. R. Sons OF Veterans
M. C. Jones
Ellsworth Post
Woman’s Relief Corps
Masonic Order
Orrin T. Fuller
Des Moines
L. L. Smullen
Jefferson
F. B. Garvin
Marshalltown
W. W. Chamberlain
J. H. Queal
J. W. Maxwell
Maxwell
Cambridge
Nevada
A. F
A. M
Ellsworth
Jones
Northwestern
Ky Co
J. B. Duncan
C. BE. Haverly
Opera Hall
Barrows
State Agricultural College
18Th Regular Infantry
Geddes
United States
Sons of Veterans
Grand Army
Agricultural College
G. A. Hall
Lincoln
A. R
Ieee
Wilson
Maggie Bigelow
Judge Stevens
America
Our Home Correspondence Local News Across Towns
Weather and decorations mark the week with notes from Boone Ames Gilbert and Story City. Decoratives, personal moves, visits, and small-town updates cover social events, business shifts, and local happenings including a lost jacket.
Headstones for unmarked soldiers graves urged for Ames Iowa
A letter from the Washington Quartermaster General promises September headstone requisitions for unmarked soldiers graves at Ellsworth Post Ames Iowa asks residents to send name company regiment and death date for inclusion. A stray newspaper fragment follows about animals and flowers in a woodland scene.
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John Hussong
Tennessee
Jackson
Ontario
Simeone
Ohio
Harrison
Proctor and Tecumseh
Canada
Oliver Scott
Iowa Infantry
Charles M. Banning
Missouri
Pilot Nob
Powhatten Zonor
Kenerville
Louisiana
William J. Deal
Iowa Cavalry
George W. Smiley
Vicksburg
Port Gibson
Mississippi
Milliken’s Bend
James Bevington
Hood
Pierson Brown
Black River
Charles P. Miller
Jacob A. Grove
Millikin’s Bend
Haine’s Bluff
Harry J. Heistand
Keokuk
Iowa
Abraham Hiestand
Comany
Uly
New Orleans
Albert G. Briley
Newman
Georgia
Atlanta
William Keltner
Adolphus Kintzly
Camp Patterson
James P. Jenkins
Arcadia
Chaplain Miller
Bloomington
Elisha B. Craig
3Rd Town Infantry
Benjamin F. Craig
Anthony Banning
W. D. Colter
Indiana Regiment
Hemstreet
Walnut Grove
Samuel Kelley
10Th
Lowa Infantry
Geo P. Youkem
Comany C 23d
John Hawks
Elbert Brown
Wisconsin Infantry
Joseph N. Gaston
Jenks Company
Light Artillery
Capt O'Brien
Quartermaster General
Washington
Ellsworth Post
Capt O’brien
Ames
College Notes and Local Activities Report
J A Baker spent Sunday at State Centre and Captain Sturtz with Dr Osborn visited Boone Friday and Saturday. The Junior baseball club drew the Sophomores 18 to 14. President Chamberlain preached at Mon ticello. Dr Streets operated on a horse in Madrid. The Bachelor and Clio Societies joined a Decoration Day session. A lab accident left C L Spencer with eye irritation after an acid splash. Seniors beat Juniors 26 to 25 in a tense baseball game.
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C. W. Allen
Story City
Our City
E. B. Stewart
Professor Barrows
J. A. College
Congregational Church
H. J. Everly
Delia
Bertha Child
Sophia Needham
G. A. R. Post
A. B. Kibbee
J. A. Baker
State Centre
Captain Sturtz
Doctor Osborn
Boone
L. G. Patty
Carroll
Iowa
Chamberlain
Monticello
Dr. Streets
Madrid
Henry Graves
Bachelor and
Clio
Chemical Laboratory
C. L. Spencer
Visit to Dr Green's Laboratory Influences Views on Patent Medicines
A physician visits Dr Green's Laboratory in Woodbury New Jersey and doubts about standard patent medicines are challenged. The account praises the Aucust Frower for Dyspepsia and Liver Complaints and Boschees German Syrup for Throat and Lung troubles, noting long sales and strong letters of cures. The piece suggests government licensing to protect inventors, citing testimonials from lawyers ministers and doctors.
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Dr. Green
N. Y
Real Estate Transfers Weekly Report Nevada Ames Zearing
Real estate transfers filed in Nevada Ames and surrounding towns include T C McCall selling to Jonas Larson and several lot transfers in Zearing Blair and Cole. Amounts range from 15 to 1600 dollars with dates given as wd or w d and deeds recorded.
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J. A. Forchpatrick
Nevada
Iowa
T. C. McCall
Jonas T. Larson
Story County
A. J. Reed
Stark
T. P. Child
Frank Curtis
Farmer's Mutual Insurance Initiative Beginnings in Story County
The movement to form a Farmer's Mutual Insurance Association progresses with a county alliance meeting on Saturday March 28 uniting eight subordinate alliances and two granges. Farmers show broad support, aiming to insure 100 members with 75000 dollars in insured property and require incorporation with directors and officers. J B Herriman West Union Iowa is the circular contact. D M Hayden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer’s Mutual Insurance
Farmer’s Mutual Insurance Association
Story County
J. B. Herriman
West Union
Iowa
D. M. Hayden
Prairie Flower Varieties Bloom Across Iowa Months
In May seventy seven prairie flower varieties bloom in Iowa with one hundred thirty one in June and one hundred sixty five in July. The total Iowa flora now lists one thousand one hundred seventy six species.
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Iowa
Free trial bottles boost sales at Bosworth’s Drug Store
L. M. Bosworth’s Drug Store reports a huge rise in trade as customers receive free trial bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. The ad claims the remedy cures coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and all throat and lung diseases with a free trial and a large $1 bottle option. All bottles are warranted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. M. Bosworth
Dr. King
Shiloh's Vitalizer advertised for Constipation and Dyspepsia
An advertisement for Shiloh's Vitalizer claims it treats Constipation Loss of Appetite Dizziness and all symptoms of Dyspepsia priced at 10 and 75 cents per bottle sold by J H Pickett Co. The rest of the text reviews The American Magazine June issue with summaries of articles by Ernest Bre- son Richmond Walker J McDonald Oxley and Harriet Taylor Upton.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Shiloh
J. H. Pickett & Co
Ernest [Xeerson
American Magazine
Northern Pacific Railroad
New York Society
Knickerbocker
Edgar Fawcett
Oliva Delaplaine
Hoase of Representatives
Z. L. White
Richmond Walker
J. McDonald Oxley
Ottawa
Logan
Harriet Taylor Upton
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the Intelligencer
Great Family Weekly
Curt A. Wood
Wood
Intelligencer
Turner McLain
Legion
Ames Intelligencer
May Matines
J. W. Dawson
Zella Harris
F. J. West
Mary T. Rockwell
S. S. Giddings
Jennie B. A. Jones
Wm. E. Botheras
Maggie Jackson
J. L. Armstrong
Lucy Williams
Sam T. Larson
Randy M. Dobbs
John 0. Enes
Julia J. Johnson
and. A. Tufton
Julia Hanson
A. B. Kipper
Kansas
Chicago
Tay
Ance
Merrill C. Jones
Mother Earth
Christ
Capt. Jones
Florida
South
Northfield
Vermont
Vt. V. I
Ship Island
Fort Fisher
North Carolina
Mechanicsville
Patmos Lodge
Zeradeth Lodge
Arcadia Lodge
W M
W. M
Masonic
Arcadia Lodge No. 249
Merrill
Cotta
Joan L. Stevens
Gro
A. Underwood
E. B
Christman
Cory Burying Ground
Aaron Smith
Ohio Infantry
A. J. Cody
Illinois Infantry
W. W. Lindsay
John Kannarr
Llinois
Louis. DeLorme
New York
D.S. Bosworth
United States Heavy Artillery
B. F. Gregory
Joshua Harris
M. Johnson
Con Infantry
Thomas N. Rainbolt
Indiana Infantry
J. M. Rainbolt
A. H. Dobler
Clark Elliott
S. J. Starr
Richard Jones
Ontario Decorating Committee
T. R. Thurman
Army of the West
Hlon
Oleg Nelson
Wynn
Omaha
Lutheran Synod
Giddings
Calaveras
Guthrie Center
Welch
Sonquist
Col. Hoggatt
Bertha Soper
la Fayette Township
Martha McFarlan
Frankie Bunce
Bertha Bunce
Addie McFarlan
Luella Liddle
Bessie Spencer
Richard Jordan
Effie Shueman
Hattie Coffeit
L. R. Jones
Harvey Baughman
Mr. Jenkins
Woodbury County
Mrs. Freed
Mapleton
Sheldahs
Sanford Giddings
M. P. Webb
W. B. Miller
W. H. H. Myers
Jennie Snider
Kelley
George
Paddy
Main Street
Frank
Lie
Gilbert
Geo. G. Tilden
N. G. Cook
W. G. Wright
Brad Paxton
Springfield
Minnesota
Sumachim
Phoenix Insurance Co
The
Phoenix
E. A. Crane
College Notes
Belknap
Ottumwa
Blake, Bruce & Co
Chamberlain’s Co
J. H. Heriche
Merchant
H. Westerman & Co
Dr. E. Dix
Nertice Meredith
Loughran’s
Loughran
Brapo Paxton
Person & McLain
Slater
Kuxley
Mr. Borror
Huxley
Great Crossing
Sun. Urs
Jon
Palace Drug Store
Heath & Milligan
H. & M. Climax
Chicago & North-Western Railway
de Kalb
Janesville
Waukesha
Milwaukee
Watertown
Fon du Lac
Oshkosh
Ft Howard
Madison
Eau Claire
Duluth
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Davis
Brinenam & Co
Atchison Globe
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Congress
Supreme Court
Democratic Party
Harter
Clarke
Papillon Company
Publisher's Department
Maxwell, Iowa
W. H. Stevens
Smith & Son
Owners Story Co
Louse
Lot
I. B. Prazer
Albert Richmond
Pierson & McLain
Timothy
Cwagae
Vanes
Cannnasaes We Wien Oes
WAG
Sesciet
Castoria
Miss
J. HL. Pickett & Co
Deacon McClelland
Cedar Rapids
Pacific Expresa
Mail
Osee Weer
Night Express
M. C. Jonms
OR. Harter Medicine Company
St. Louis
Iown
Ore &c
Grand Rapida
Mich
Sette Grand
Howard County
Robert Cairns, Jr
Rhis
Pereheon
France
Major
D. L. Lang
F. T. McLain
Child's Barn
W. B. Wylie
Boone Co
Mer
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