Widow Shapes Joseph Brown's Bold Christmas Proposal
A bachelor overcome by fear of women agrees to visit his brother and the widow Mrs Parks. After a dinner, a ride, and a doll for Rosie, Joseph declares love and asks to be Rosie’s father, winning a fiancé and family at last.
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Deaar
Melissa
William Brown
P. S
Joseph
Joseph Brown
William
M’lissy
Settie
Mr. Brown
Leora
Papa
Mrs. Parks
China
Rosie
Fatherhood Trials and Mountain Tales in Old News
A Chicago Tribune piece recites a father's sleepless nightly chores with a newborn, detailing the unending two-week vigil and the humor and weariness that frame early parenthood. It shifts to a dramatic mountain avalanche description and then a blend of colonial humor and sharp witticisms from various clippings.
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Tom
Adolphus
Chicago Tribune
One Copy Rates Listed for Subscriptions
One Copy one year in advance two dollars per annum if not paid in advance. One Copy six months in advance. One Copy four months in advance. Ca 1590 in 50. Two Dollars in advance if sent out of county.
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Spain
America
Senate
United States
State Department
England
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
John Jay
Carp
Cleveland
Cee Vaig
Ames Locals Describe City and College setting
Ames lies on the Chicago and North Western line at the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road junction thirty six miles north of Des Moines. The city hosts Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with hundreds of students, a well appointed public school, a large school building, and productive surrounding farmland and orchards.
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Ames
Chicago and North- Western Railroad
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Iowa
Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Local Officials Listing From County Postings
County level offices include Auditor J. L. Smrrs Clerk J. A. MILLA Treasurer H. H. Bowes Recorder A. K. BANKS Sheriff Ore O. Rox Dup’t of Schools R. H. Mercreny Surveyor Joan I. Hosterrer Coroner Board of Supervisors Union Township Lincoln Township Collins Township
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McCartmt
J. L. Smrrs
J. A. Milla
H. H. Bowes
A. K. Banks
Ore O. Rox
Dup’t of Schools
R. H. Mercreny
Joan I. Hosterrer
Board OF
Methodist and Masonic Notices for Arcadia Area
Methodist Episcopal schedules list services every alternate Sunday morning and weekly Sunday evening with Sabbath School at noon and midweek prayer. Two pastors, H J Everly and G H Starring, preside with Wednesday prayer meetings. Arcadia Lodge No 249 Masons meet on or before full moon. W M A B H Duckworth and Sec L Q Honearr sign.
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Methodist Episcopal
H.J. Everly
G. H. Starring
Masonic
Arcadia Lodge No
A. F. and
A. Masons
Tworaday
A. BH. Duckworth
W. M. L. Q. Honearr
United Workmen Ames Lodge Meet Twice Monthly
Ames lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen No 6 holds regular meetings on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings each month. Recorder C. M. Soren and Master Workman J. S. Brooks listed.
G A R Post 30 Meets on First and Third Saturdays
The G A R Post 30 meets at 7 30 PM on the first and third Saturdays in Masonic Hall. J F Duncan is master Henry Wilson Jr is a discharged soldier or sailor. T D Miller invites eligible comrades to join. Initiation fee 2 0 0 dollars. Dues 25 cents.
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A.R
Masonic Hall
Henry Wilson, Jr
Local Professionals Advertised in Ames Directory
The listing names attorneys Stevens Hays McCarthy Underwood and Geo A Underwood. Physicians H M Templeton G A Meredith C A Beverly E B Cramb lit, Vet E Cramb lit. Dentists Chas E Hunt with address details in Ames Story County Iowa.
Temple of Bosh and the Arcane Doctrines Feast in Verse
A satirical poem portrays a Temple of Bosh where fantasy replaces reason. It targets pseudoscience, mythic ideas, and eccentric theories, mocking phonetic spelling, anti vaccination talk, and extremist notions as the remnant aesthetic.
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Bosh
Temple of Bosh
Artist Missing a Hanging Honor
An artist laments that while he completed a portrait of Smith the Academy committee refuses to hang it. The brief exchange highlights the fragile path to recognition in the art world.
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Smith
Academy
Literary heroine sews buttons before writing
A husband advises his wife to shape a heroine with unique traits by first inspecting his wardrobe and sewing on buttons before beginning a new novel. The exchange appears in the Richmond Virginia Religious Herald.
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New York
Richmond
Religious Herald
Brash Union Soldier Steals Sumter Brick Tale
General Rosecrans recalls a Union soldier on Morris Island who sailed under darkness to Fort Sumter, grabbed a brick, and escaped after a brief, drunken night raid. The tale ends with a boast of one man’s lone action against forty rebels and a wounded fort return.
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Sumter
General Rosecrans
Morris Island
Yank
Johnnie
Fort Sumter
Bismarck Praises Fleury With a Daring Tale
In a Rochester Democrat note, Bismarck admires the French critic M Cuvillier Fleury by recounting a 1848 Paris riot episode. Fleury, then Duchess of Orleans secretary, calmed a mob by masking his face and guiding them from Palais Royal to the kitchen, earning praise from the crowd for leading pillage away from prized art.
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Fleury
Paris
Varsailles
M Cuvillier Fleury
French Academy
M. Fleury
Duc d’Aumais
Duchess of Orleans
Palais Royal
Royal
Rochester Democra
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