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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1903
Page
6
Local rates for notices and ads are listed with 5c per line for standard notices and entertainment listings, 25c for cards of thanks, $1.00 for resolutions. Free one time publication for lodge society and club meetings not run for revenue, others at 5c per line per insertion. Various Ames social, business, and travel notes accompany the ad text.
The play Way Down East presented Tuesday night by the Ladies of the W R C assisted by the G A R and others under Jack Daniels direction was a success in every respect. Receipts totaled 172.90 with the W A receiving half. The performance featured fine staging scenery and period furnishings and earned high praise for the cast and Mr Daniels guiding of the production.
Special gospel meetings draw nightly audiences at the Christian church with a large chorus and the Sun beams group of about thirty children. The revival continues nightly through the coming week with Children’s Night Friday and ongoing special services announced periodically. Richelieu canned goods advertised by T. J. Miller & Son.
George Yazel a pioneer citizen died March 14 1908 at his daughter Mary Horner's home aged 88 years 5 months 4 days. A brief funeral was held March 16 at 9 a.m. at the Horner home conducted by F D Ferrall. Survived by his wife and eleven children with seven living at home the family listed. Interment at Center Grove Cemetery eight miles east of Cambridge Iowa.
Mr and Mrs Claude Zenor arrived from Jefferson Oklahoma on Sunday for a short visit in the city.
Blaine Van Viete, a college student, tried to board a westbound freight to Boone. He was struck by wheels as he grabbed the ladder, limbs crushed, and he was taken to Elmore Hospital for amputation. After three days in critical condition, a slim hope for recovery remained.
The junior class will stage a play in the opera house on Friday night March 27. Proceeds support class activities and student programs.
Rev. Wickersham visited between trains Thursday with Rev and Mrs Charles Lyman Nye. Frank Corbin served as Nevada caller Wednesday evening.
A witty exchange quoted from the Baltimore Herald notes the difficulty of preempting legal moves as one party jokes about obtaining an injunction against another person trying to obtain an injunction. The quip highlights courtroom procedural cleverness in a compact legal pun.
A dialog fragment from a Cincinnati newspaper page includes a quip about a small world and a sharp retort about the people in it. It features characters Smithers Ada Miss Pickles and Master Pickles in a stage scene style dialogue.
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