Ames Iowa's Iowa State College and surrounding farmland
Ames sits at the Chicago and North Western junction with the Des Moines road, thirty five miles north of Des Moines. It hosts the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with hundreds of students, a well equipped public school, and a large public school building amid productive surrounding farms and orchards.
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Ames
Chicago and North- Western Railroad
Les Moines
Minneapolis
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Board of Supervisors County Officials Ledger
A fragmented OCR note lists county officials including Auditor Clerk of the Courts Treasurer Recorder Sheriff Superintendent of Schools Surveyor Coroner and references Board of Supervisors with names such as H MITCHELL and J L Hester. The fragmentary file hints at organizational roles in county government.
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K. H. Mitchell
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Local City Officials and Council Members Listed
A fragmented OCR segment lists names including M C Jonges, M Ek Smith, W C ShockkLe, Van Dusen, RichMonp, Van Chambers, EF Haverty, G H Maxwet, Westerman, A Perkins and others. It references mayor treasurer street committee and council members in a city government roster.
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M. C. Jonges
M. Ek Smith
Chamber
W. C. ShockkLehx
van Dusen
A. RichMonp
van Chambers
C. EF. Haverty
G. H. Maxwet
H. Westerman
A. Perkins
Church Services and Pastoral Notice
Church schedule lists Sunday morning and evening services at 10 45 and 7 30 with Sunday School after morning service. Prayer meeting held Wednesday evenings at 7 30 led by EC Moulton with H W Wilson previously noted as pastor in alternate notices.
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Methodist Episcopal
Ervices
HU. J. Everly
H. W. Wilson
EC. Moulton
The Loom Song and Janet’s Silent Grace
In a New England town editor Charles Harris recalls his former lover Janet, author Janet, who remains a casualty of fate. A fire rescue reveals Janet’s selfless act saving a child before dying, while Rosamond Clyde becomes Harris’s wife, and the tale ends with enduring faith in love.
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Janet
Louie
New England
Lily-bud
Ned
Lily
India
Charles Harris
Rosamond Clyde
Rosamond
Chicago Ledger
Inventor of the Circular Saws and a Rich Mond Pioneer
The California Architect recounts Benjamin Cummings born 1772 died 1843 buried in Richmond Kalamazoo County. He invented circular saws and forged early American industry building Erie Canal sections and railroads. He was a Richmond pioneer, Morgan era Mason, slave owner in New York, a war of 1812 captain later made colonel, aided rail and bridge construction, and founded Esperence and Bostonville.
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Kalamazoo County
Mich
Benjamin Cummings
Europe
Burtonville
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Amsterdam
United States
New York State
Morgan
New York
North River
Albany
Esperence
Bostonville
Schoharie
California
A Time to Set Up
A humorous item from National Weekly where Squire Ding brass counsels a friend named Sam on economy in movement. The exchange plays on a man’s frail condition and the notion that someone on his last legs should not be extravagant in any action.
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Squire Dingbrass
National Weekly
Deepest Prussian Coal Shaft at Schladebach Report
A Prussian government shaft at Schladebach is described as the deepest in the world. It reaches 4,560 feet in depth with a bottom bore of two inches and a top bore of eleven inches, while the temperature at the bottom is 118 degrees.
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Schladebach
Pretty Girl Wins Muskets in French Lottery Twist
A lighthearted note recalls a pretty girl winning a musket in a French lottery and asking if a soldier accompanies the prize, adding a humorous insistence on proper matching of weapon and bearer.
Printer's Poem and Humorous Exchange in Dakota Trade Reports
A fragment titled A Dial Man Better Than None presents a playful printer's poem with coded phrases and initials, ending with an exchange where Mrs. Doll comments on her indulgent husband George. The dialogue shifts to Ram bler noting Mrs Spiteful and Mrs Doll discussing marital indulgence.
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Dakota
Mrs. Doll
George
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Rambler
Wit and talk in a cautious mate selection
The Arkansaw Traveler mocks excessive wit in a woman and praises a brave, sincere partner who can converse on daily topics and listen as well as speak. It condemns educated but narrow minded girls who overestimate themselves and prove foolish.
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Arkansaw Traveler
Sprightly Lady Confesses Private Struggles Against Single Life
In a private letter a cultured, well-off woman laments remaining Miss rather than Mistress and the hardships of remaining unmarried. She longs for a home and notes that a man is a household necessity, even if dead, reflecting old norms once praised in society.
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New Orleans Picayune
Satire on springs social dynamics in Patience
The San Francisco Chronicle notes Gilbert’s satire in Patience reveals how a group of fifty women and ten men at a spring gathering creates a triangular social tension. It argues one favored man is overvalued while nine others feel overlooked, exposing a universal glimpse into female human nature.
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Lowell
Gilbert
San Francisco Chronicle
Dakota Brides Advertisements Spark Territorial Matrimonial Trade
Repro appears on Dakota papers with ads from the East and South seeking spouses for pioneer men. Listings include seven Pennsylvanians seeking Dakota husbands, a 30-year-old widow skilled in housework, and a Connecticut woman seeking a sober, industrious man. The piece notes the growing dating market as settlers move west.
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Dakota
Prairies
Fargo Argus
Connecticut
Rare Capuchin tombs and grisly Rome burial rooms
A detailed tour of the Capuchin burial crypts in Rome describes rooms built from human bones, bone chandeliers, and niches for monks. The process rotates bodies, bones are redistributed, and fresh graves are filled with hundreds of coffins, with holy ground from Jerusalem absorbing odors. A small fee is asked at the door.
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Rome
St. Michael
Guido
Cemetery of the Brethren
Jerusalem
High-school student's blunt approach to AEstheticism
The Boston Record quotes a high-school girl who admits she has nothing to say on estheticism yet proceeds to write. The remark is cited as a commendable example showing honesty over unnecessary elaboration.
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Boston Record
Quote on ship costs versus public institutions
The statement by Charles Sumner contrasts military ship costs with the value of institutions like colleges and libraries, arguing that each warship's expense surpasses funding for higher education and public libraries in the nation.
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Charles Sumner
Hart's Island and Potter's Field Chronicle
The piece describes Hart's Island as a growing burial and institutional complex near New York City. It notes the history of pauper interments, soldiers' barracks repurposed for lunatics, and weekly burial days on Tuesdays and Thursdays conducted by workhouse prisoners.
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New York
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East River
Hart’s Island
Scorpions and Shopping Tales Across Two Regions
This article segment blends a vivid natural history note on scorpions in Durango with a humorous travelogue of Pat Doonan shopping with a Chicago girl. It contrasts dangerous stings and remedies with lively portraits of 19th century retail scenes and social pretensions.
Deep Ocean Abysses Reported Across World Waters
Reports reveal extreme depths found near Dampier Strait north of New Guinea with sounding 30 500 to 31 600 feet. Other abyssal wells measured near Tortola in the Virgin Islands and off Saint Helena. Progress notes remind that 150 years of soundings still leave vast unexplored ocean interspaces.
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Dampier Strait
New Guinea
Tortola Group
Virgin Archipelago
West Indies
Newfoundland
St. Helena
Tenneman
The Girls of Cherry Vale in Kansas Portrait
A nostalgic portrait extols Kansas women as healthy plump and cheerful in Cherryvale described as a valley of cherries. The piece links local beauty to regional pride and humor, noting an idealized place with free fashion and vivacious rural charm.
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Cherry Vale
Kansas
Minneapolis Tribune
Cerryvale
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