Sigma Nu Sixth District Convention Planned Here
Ames hosts the Second Biennial Convention of the Sixth District Sigma Nu Fraternity on April 17 18 with delegates from Iowa Minnesota Cornell and alumni from Iowa Nebraska Minnesota and the Dakotas. Grand Recorder Clarence B E Woods of Richmond Kentucky will speak at the banquet. A smoker is planned at the chapter house Friday with a six course banquet at the Savery Des Moines Saturday.
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Ames
Sigma Nu Fraternity
Sigma Nu
Iowa
Minnesota
Cornell
Nebraska
Dakotas
Clarence BE
Woods
Richmond
Kentucky
Savery In
Des Mooines
Clifford V. Cox
Newton
Des Moines
Savery
Nevada youth gets fifteen year sentence for larceny
Bill Brunson, a Des Moines defendant found guilty of larceny in Judge McHenry's court, faces a fifteen year penitentiary term in Anamosa with possible reduction for good behavior. The sentence is determinate yet harsh for a common offense.
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Bill Brunson
Nevada
Ames Postoffice Sets Yearly Receipts Record in 1908
The Ames post office reports 100239.15 in receipts for the year ending March 31 1908, a record gain over previous years and higher than the Boone office in several metrics. Ames near 20000 in receipts, with $7046.80 remitted to the treasury, compared to Boone’s $4593.61.
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Ames Postoffice
Ames
Boone
United States Treasury
Tmaster
Ween
U. S. Treasury
Denew
Pwaec
Boone Boone
Annual statement of Ames and Boone post offices 1907 08
Annual summary reports the business of Ames and Boone post offices for the year ending March 31 1908. It details the money order account totals and general postal activities between April 1 1907 and March 31 1908.
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Ames and
Boone Post Offices
New ‘York
Credit Tee
Seanteeneen
Dr. Errors
Ames
Itepaid
Ames Station
Death of Mrs Crane in city near Kelley
Mrs C A Crane formerly Clara Posegate died at home near Kelley from pneumonia after a week of illness. Survived by a husband and several children, one a few weeks old. Funeral this afternoon conducted by Rev Walter I Fowle with interment at the local place.
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C. A. Crane
Kelley
True friendship shown at funeral by Squire Tightfist
A tale recalls a funeral for a very poor man. The usually cold Squire Tightfist wept, noting the deceased never asked for a loan. The story suggests genuine friendship lies in selfless regard rather than material aid.
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Squire Tightfist
My Maryland Writ by James Randall Inspired by Battle News
Colonel Randall recalled that in April 1861 he read reports of the attack on Massachusetts troops in Baltimore. He said the poem My Maryland wrote itself during a late night inspired by the news, dashed off as a spontaneous surge of feeling and intellect.
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Brander Matthews
Maryland
James Ryder Randall
Professor Matthews
Colonel Randall
New Orleans
Massachusetts
Baltimore
Mr. Randall
Randall
New York Herald
Portrait of Self by Miss Elderly-I
A fragment from Transatlantic Tales notes a self portrait painted weeks earlier, with Cad lings admiring the image of a young girl and recalling a vivid memory.
What shall I play asks a distracted organist
A brief London Telegraph quip about an absentminded clergyman and a witty organist exchange, noting the organist asks about the hand and the clergyman answers with a figurative line.
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London Telegraph
Shakespearean Quote: Truth Is Not in Oaths
A compact line from Shakespeare asserts that truth relies on more than numerous oaths and formal vows. It emphasizes integrity over ritual assurances.
Reminiscences on Drinking and Bee Queen Rearing Traditions
The piece reflects on old upper class drinking culture and a noted politcian tale while describing beekeeping practice to replace an unproductive queen. It recounts how a coachman’s remarks were received and explains the method of introducing a new queen to a hive by a queen in a sugar honey cage placed atop the frames.
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Lord Cockburn
London
Bee hive scent helps queen blend with bees
The London Globe explains bees identify friends and foes by smell. A queen entering a hive is quickly attacked unless she shares the hive’s scent, which she gains after being freed from her cage, making her no longer a stranger to the colony.
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London Globe
Ridiculous First Editions Cited For Tiny Printer Errors
A writer notes readers prize early editions like Dickens American Notes and Disraeli Lothair for page misprints and misprints in Burns Poems Roxborough Duke and Barker Bible 1504 1495 dated pages misnamed editors and translators in Irving Sketch Book.
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George Somes Layard
Disraeli
Lothair
Mgr. Catesby
Capel
Robert Burns
Edinburgh
Duke of Roxborough
Barker
Washington Irving
M. Irwin Washington
Sir Walter Scott
Barron
Streetcar Seats and a Pretty Girl
A dialog reflective of social change with Olive praising universal streetcar seating and Violet doubting equality. Puck comments on a girl’s certainty of beauty if all could find a seat.
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Olive
Violet
Puck
Children Question Parents Choice In Local Paper
In a brief personal remark the Naptucket Inquirer and Mirror notes how some kids act surprised by their parents good taste in selecting them, reflecting a light local sentiment about family and upbringing.
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Naptucket Inquirer and
Mirror
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