Ames Man Heads to India Post With High Salary
E A Parr of Iowa State College earns director of agriculture in British India. He will supervise about 150 experiment stations in Calcutta with a ten thousand dollar yearly salary, pension after five years, and five thousand for the following five. Parr, quiet and capable, leaves Ames for Calcutta after brief study in Ames.
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Parr
Edinburgh
Leipzig
British India
Ashley
Staffordshire
England
Ames
Calcutta
India
United States
Two Prominent Citizens Plan Long September Trips
Thursday morning Van Chamberlain and A L Potter depart Ames for extended travels with varied itineraries. Chamberlain heads west to Portland then north toward Nome Alaska, learning reindeer tricks and snowshoeing, avoiding swimming. Potter tours Kentucky Jamestown Expo to study tobacco and cotton, then travels to Washington New York Boston Montreal and the St Lawrence by ship, aiming to return in three to four weeks with extensive cotton statistics and southern information.
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van Chamberlain
A. L. Potter
Ames
Mr. Chamberlain
Portland
Nome
Alaska
British
America
Potter
Jamestown
Washington
New York
Boston
Montreal
St. Lawrence
Lee
Bishop Potter
Competition for Bill Thompson in Ames depot park beds
Jerry Sexton to beautify the Ames west depot park with flower beds sparking rivalry for Bill Thompson. Julius Erdmann, renowned college greenhouse gardener, was hired to design and plant the beds along the Northwestern line, highlighting Ames pride in depot landscape improvements.
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Bill Thompson
Jerry Sexton
West Depot Park
Ames
Northwestern
Mr. Sexton
Julius Erdmann
Gardner
Mr. Erdmann
Sextun
Pleasant Vacation Ahead for Hoffmans Trio on Skunk River
Prof. A H Hoffman of the college physics and electrical engineering department plans a summer boating and camping trip with two former schoolmates along the lower Skunk River and the Mississippi near its mouth. The Ames circle notes Hoffmans bass and his companions tenor and baritone voices. They humorously speculate about further family misfortunes amid recent business moves.
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A. H. Hoffman
Sigourney
Iowa Wesleyan University
Skunk
Mississippi
Mr. Hoffman
Ames
Hoffman
Robertson presents top entertainment at Armory Opera House
D. W. Robertson and his company of entertainers return with illustrated songs sung by N. L. Willard and Claude V. Lewis and W. F. Coan. The program arrives in Ames Iowa on Tuesday evening June 25 at the Armory Opera House.
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D. W. Robertson
N. L. Willard
America
Claude V. Lewis
W. F. Coan
Robertson
Ames
Iowa
Armory Opera House
Story County Soldiers Reunion at Cambridge This August
The Story County Soldiers Reunion will be held in Cambridge on Wednesday and Thursday August 21 and 22. A splendid program is being prepared to entertain the old soldiers and a general invitation is extended to all to enjoy two days of Cambridge hospitality.
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Story County
Cambridge
Rockwell Phonograph Hypes Times-Republican News Reach
The Rockwell Phonograph asserts its newspaper is the sole source of complete up-to-date news, claiming state and world coverage through its Times-Republican service. It proclaims editorial harmony with public interests and local readership without competitor.
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Times-Republican
Rockwell Phonograph
T.R
More Sins Are Slain by Smiles Than by Scowls
A brief aphoristic note suggests that kindness and friendly behavior can defuse conflicts more effectively than anger. It underscores the power of positive interaction over hostile reactions in social situations.
Chicago In Brief News Clippings From The Era
Mrs. Caroline Howell dies by her own hand in Chicago as a Boston crowd questions the Brownsville shooting trials. Chicago telegraphers face a looming strike while Adams Express plans 24 million bonds to stockholders. Five deaths linked to a brutal Chicago heat wave. George Bronson Howard defends himself at home against accusations from his wife. Rock Island Railway reports a sharp rise in earnings over last year.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Ames
Senator Foraker
Ohio
Brownsville
Tex
Chicago
Adams Express Company
George Bronson Howard
Baltimore
Rock Island Railway Company
Do Not Neglect the Children This Season
A vintage health notice advises immediate attention to a child’s bowel issues and recommends Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with castor oil. It also promotes Pucks soap as the original mechanic’s soap sold by grocers for home use.
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Chamberlain
Loughran
Bauer
Joel C. Cagwin
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Scott
Queensware
Darner Grocery
Emporium of Music
W. G. Stockwell
Lown
Lockwood Building
A. E. Parr
E. A. Parr
Des Moines
Chamberlain’s
Kentucky
Caroline Howell
Chica
J. B. Kooser & Company
Cooley & Sones
D. B. Cooley
Cooley
Cooley and Sones
Chas
Hamilton
Charles Hamilton
Register Life
State Insurance Examiner
Register Life Insurance Co
the Register Life
Davenport
A. W. van Houten
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