Electrical Show Dazzles Ames Campus Crowd
Several thousand residents from Ames and nearby towns attended the college electrical show last night. The display, organized by the electrical engineers, featured testing machines projectoscopes arcs dynamos transformers and a gyrostat mono rail model owned by Prof Spinney. Domestic science students served coffee and biscuits from electric stoves while a Dutch band played on the lawn and a water tank searchlight scanned the campus.
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Ames
Nevada
Boone
Des Moines
Spinney
Engineering Hall
Special notice for Des Moines trip to Maude Adams play
Parties traveling to Des Moines next Monday for the Maude Adams play may secure special coupon round trip tickets from Parley Sheldon downtown or from Prof. F. W. Dickey at the college. A street car will depart the waiting room station after the performance ends.
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Des Moines
Maude Adams
Parley Sheldon
F. W. Dickey
Hollis Manning and A. L. Potter Buy Mitchell Car
Hollis Manning and A. L. Potter purchased a seven passenger fifty horse power Mitchell automobile from the Ames Auto Co. on Monday. The new car is described as probably the finest in the city.
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Hollis Manning
A. L. Potter
Mitchell Auto
Ames Auto Co
Auto shop blaze destroys Darrell Moore’s finished car
Darrell Moore, a Nevada mechanic, spent two years building a homemade automobile and $200 in materials. The Wakeman shop and two nearby shops burned last Saturday, with the finished car and tools totaling a light loss. Fire spread quickly, and authorities note only minutes from alarm to extinguishment.
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Nevada
Darrell Moore
Wakeman
Andy
Pictures Worth Seeing From Nutting Platina Display at Duckworths
An Ames exhibit at Duckworths features Nutting Platina prints from a Massachusetts photographer. Each image, printed on Platino paper and hand colored, showcases outdoor scenes from Maine to California and bears Wallace Nutting's autograph. Credit to local mentions and upcoming events include May dates and conference meets in Des Moines and Chicago.
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Ames
Duckworth’s
Duckworth
Maine
California
New England
Newton & Windsor
Massachusetts
Cassie Lincoln
Miseo Lincoln
Lincoln
Wallace Nutting
Track Schedule and Spring Work at College
On the cinder track at the college Coach Clyde Williams and Trainer Jack Watson lead durability tests as fair weather returns. Hundred yard men hurdlers and quarter milers train for upcoming field meets while baseball players prep material. Schedule lists April 16 home field meet April 23East Des Moines High at Ames April 30 West Des Moines High at May 7 second home meet.
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Clyde Williams
Jack Watson
East Des Moines High
Commencement Week Schedule Announced by President Storme
The schedule for the class term commencement week runs May 30 to June 9 led by President Storme. Events include Memorial Day, music recital, Baccalaureate, MCA services, literary society graduation, grand concert and Martha opera, class day, junior play, senior and alumni breakfasts, outdoor Sylvan Players show, and final exercises with Dr James S Montgomery. The President hosts a closing reception June 9 with Mrs Rosenfeld. local social notes follow.
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Storme
Pupils of Music
Opera of
Martha
John Nicholson
Sylvan Players
James
Montgomery
Minneapolis
Local Visits Mentioned in Short Notes From Town
Miss Kelley and Blanche Apple of Deeg Moines visited grandparents Mr. and Mrs Clayton last week. Eva Person spent a few days with her brother Howard and wife at Frazier. Irma Stevens spent weekend at home. Carl Rosenfeld has blood poisoning in his right hand but is improving. Mr. A Wortman returned from Chicago after winter with his son Ray. Gertrude Morris of Ames visited.
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Blanche
Robbie Apple
Deeg Moines
Clayton
Eva Person
Howard
Frazier
Irma Stevens
Carl Rosenfeld
A. Wortman
Chicago
Ray
Gertrude Morris
Ames
Nevada soldiers graves marked in local cemetery
Headstones for unmarked graves of veterans were erected last week in the Nevada cemetery. Nine markers, 31 by 12 by 2 inches, list names and ranks including Thos. R. Leonard corporal I 39th Iowa and Daniel Finch F 28th Iowa, among others. A second marker stands at Johnson's Grove for Freeman Elliott sergeant G 15th Ill. Cav. The Times prints all the News.
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Nevada
Daniel Finch
Iowa
Eugene M. Tryon
N. Y
Sowash
Chas. H. Jackson
Henry K. Hulse
Ohio
Art. B. J. Bellesfield
Wis
John H. Meiers
N. J
TWO MARRIAGE LICENSES
Marriage licenses issued this week to Elmer Huey and Cecil Jones of Ames, Virgil Johnson of Ames and Rhoda Holdeman of Williams. Curtain stretchers for rent by Baptist Ladies Aid Society. Mutual phone 79.
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Elmer Huey
Cecil Jones
Ames
Virgil Johnson
Rhoda Holdeman
Williams
Baptist Ladies Aid Society
Mutual
Talbott and Proper Start Trip to Marshalltown
Fragment summarizes a Sunday travel start by W. W. Talbott and Ed Proper toward Marshalltown with incomplete details of their route and purpose.
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W. W. Talbott
Ed Proper
Marshalltown
Tal
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E. R. Perkins
West
United States
Drake
Grinnell
Missouri Valley Conference
Missouri Valley
West Des Moines High
Iowa State College
Cieties
L. G. Rosenfeld
Underwood
D. Clayton
Blanche Rosenfeld
Ruth Clayton
Young Peoples’ Society
Vivian Lindsay
Grace Hughes
J. Zimmerman
The
Young Peoples Society
Kelley
Thos. R. Leonard
I 39Th
the Times
Bott
State Center
Mutual Telephone
Mitchell and Overland
Coorg
B. Kuppenheimer & Co
Hirsh Wickwire
G. E. Burton & Co
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