College Notes show faculty and student movements
Prof Pammel is in Mason City. Mrs Kilbourn and several students return to campus from Toledo, Carroll, Mitchellville and other places. The botany lab expands, the Beardshear memorial service is set, and Prof Holden joins agronomy. The student rush continues as Emergency hall adds eight rooms after a fire.
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College Notes
Pammel
Mason City
Hoyt
Carroll
Reslers and Bennets
Watkin’s Well
Maude Rice
Charles City
Stanton
Miss Williams
Orange
New Jersey
Curtiss
Minneapolis
Stock
Ora Brandt
Mitchellville
Cavell
Bank President Recalls Saving His Capital Story
A Broadway bank president recounts a tale of a meek man with white hair who saved his own fortune. The teller Charley moved the deposit to a private box before a bank run and the bank's failure. The deposit later proved the foundation of the narrator's wealth.
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Broadway
Iowa
St. Louis
Charley
Toole and Brough in Ragged Visit to a Friend
English comedians Toole and Brough visit Fradelle and Marshall to be photographed in ragged costumes. They bluff their way to a friend’s house claiming to be cousins from the workhouse, causing surprise at the entrance and the maid’s puzzled denial.
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Messrs
Toole
Brough
Fradelle and
Marshall
Charles
William
London
Poultry Rearing Tips for Feed and House Care
Pure water is essential for young poultry and good care determines outcomes. Avoid overfat hens as they lag in laying. Middlings must be mixed with bran or corn and moistened with milk or hot water. Whitewash cleans and purifies poultry houses and can be reapplied monthly. Sunflower seed improves plumage gloss when fed at the right time.
Gainsborough and His Carrier
One of the earliest Royal Academy members, Gainsborough had his pictures carried to London by carrier Mr Wiltshire of Shock erwick near Bath who refused payment for loving the work. Gainsborough later rewarded him with six paintings. The Parish Clerk of Bradford on Avon sold for 500 guineas and The Harvest Wagon for 2500 pounds. The Sisters from another gallery later neared 10 000 pounds.
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Gainsborough
Royal Academy
London
Wiltshire
Shockerwick
Bath
National Gallery
Bradford-on-Avon
Nature as Muse in Poetry Across Environment
The text argues that environment aids poetry without creating it, calling nature the grand agent that sparks, glows, flashes, and roars across sea, rainbow, lightning, stars, thunder, cataracts, and winds. Poetry is described as God’s image reflected in nature, with nature present wherever humanity is.
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God
Boston Boy Prodigy Classifies Tree in Common
A seven year old boy in Boston Common meets a kind westerner who asks about his bird nest search. The boy replies he is simply classifying the tree as a botanical product, demonstrating a sharp intellect.
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Boston
Sonny
Boston Common
Columbus State Journal
Where Her Hopes Centered
A brief Chicago News item notes a couple at a supper table quoted exchange about a surprise. The wife hopes for a millinery store as the unexpected gift, reflecting lighthearted domestic humor.
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Chicago News
And They Are Obeyed. What are unwritten laws, pa
A brief New York Press feature quotes a humorous exchange about unwritten codes and maternal guidance, reflecting social norms and family dynamics. The dialogue hints at tradition and respect within a humorously framed scene.
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New York Press
Penny Postage Origins Behind the Penny Rate
The story recalls Rowland Hill’s inspiration for penny postage after witnessing a girl unable to pay ninepence for a letter in Victoria's era. Hill paid the postage to help her, recognizing the dishonest workaround and proposing a widespread penny rate that faced initial laughter but eventual adoption.
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Queen Victoria
Engleh
Rowland Hill
Hull
New York Tribune
Retracting Words Earned Applause in Japan Debates
An Australian orator at a political meeting calls a public official a thief. A police chief quietly asks retracting the insult. The speaker offers to take back the word while keeping the idea, receiving loud applause and cheers.
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Japan
Chief of Police
Tennyson On Letters From Shakespeare And Austen
Tennyson told Sir Henry Taylor he thanked God he knew nothing and that the world knew nothing of Shakespeare or Jane Austen beyond their writings. He claimed no letters from Shakespeare or Austen were preserved and warned against opening them like pigs.
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Tennyson
Sir Henry Taylor
Shakespeare
Jane Austen
Traveling suitor told to attend to business at ten
In a family scene a father asks his daughter about her frequent caller a traveling man. He then instructs that when he calls again the man should focus on business at exactly ten o clock per the Richmond Dispatch.
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Will Lytle
Jefferson
Kelley
Richmond Dispatch
Poetry at Home Dialogue Captures Troubles of Poverty
A Chicago Record-Herald remark portrays a poet and his weary wife debating posterity and the impossibility of paying for a girl. The exchange underscores domestic strain and financial hardship in a compact, period voice.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Children Sweeten Labor Yet Worsen Burden of Misfortune
A Bacon quotation notes that children brighten labor yet deepen life’s cares and lessen memory of death, contrasting comfort with mortality and suggesting offspring temper sorrow and fear.
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Bacon
Paris Produces Glasslike Paper From Seaweed Fibers
A Paris process yields a transparent paper made from kelp and other seaweeds. The innovation blends marine plants into a clear, durable sheet suitable for writing and printing applications.
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Paris
Real estate ad offers wide range of Iowa and Plains farms
An agent lists farms across Story Boone Greene counties Iowa from 40 to 640 acres priced 45 to 100 per acre and western Iowa tracts in Monona Woodbury and Harrison counties 35 to 70 per acre with good improvements. Also notes Red River country 100 acres to 20 000 acres 10 to 20 per acre and farms across Minnesota North and South Dakota Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska with favorable terms. Phone 384 for Iowa and free rail fare to purchasers Excursions at any time.
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Story
Boone
Greene
Iowa
Monona
Woodbury
Harrison
Red River
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
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Mrs. Kilbourn
Gertrude Harlan
Toledo
Charlotte King
Bradford Knapp
Belmond
Knapp
Carl Gay
Mrs. Palmer
Hedrick
Prof. Beyer
8. A. Knapp
Lake Charles, la
Herman Knapp
Ermah McGuire
ShawVan
Denison
Prof. Dowe
Milwaukee, Wis
Miss Colpitts
Nova Scotia
Canada
Dr. Repo
Dr. Beardshear
Dr. Miller
Des Moines
Newens
Alice Merritt
Grundy Center
Florence Barber
New Hampton
Sabin
Hazel Beardshear-Chambers
Humboldt
Ella French-Robinson
Repp
The
National Veterinary Society
Lewis Young
Mr Young
Houghton, Mich
Watkins Well
Olive Stevens
Helen Knapp
Frederick Curtiss
Robb
Prof. Curtiss
Algona
Rovb
Chicago
A. Estella Paddock
Department of Botany
W. O. A. R. E. Buchanan
P. G. Holden
Bloomington
Holden
T. L. Andrews
Mt Pleasant
Andrews
Valparaiso
Rio Janeiro
South America
Samoa Island
Africa
England
R. H. McCarthy
the Cove Pharmacy
Alliage
M. Helmstreet
Summy & Miller
Sony A
District Court
Story County
Chas. RE. Arrasmith
WM. Arrasmith
Ames
Clear Lake
Iowa Central Railway
Thompson & Graves
Insurance
Sioux Iy
State OF
Louisa M. Bosworth
Said
Nevada
CO. M. Soper
Clerk District Court
F. H. Waters
Keedick’s Clothing Store
Banker’s Accident Insurance Co
F. L. Merepith
New Orleans
M. Hemstreet
City
Ames, Iowa
I. C. Brownlie
D. D
P. O
Foley
Loughran & Bauer
St. Paul
Kansas City
Peoria
Marshalltown
Rocky Mountain
Geo Leininger
Dove’s Pharmacy
Berg
Geo. Leininger
Doye
Chicago & North Western
Railway
Desk& Chicago Express
Dam
Portland
Omaha & Chicago Express
Atlantic Express
Chicago Exon
Overland Limited
Fast Mailines
Pacific Mapress
Bam
Chicago & Carroll Pas
Chicago Express
Dakota & Des M
Omaha & Des M Pas
Mall Express
Des M
St P
Sioux City
Bagnage
To Ee
Ming, Ee
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