Ames Local Miscellany and Personal Paragraphs
Local notes include sales and chores at the Novelty Store, lost items in Ames, and community updates. Miss Em Chamberlain ill but improving. the Rebekah lodge celebrated Mrs. Campbell’s 20th anniversary. Church events, school theater plans in Indianola, and Danish social ads fill pages with personal notices and upcoming fundraisers.
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Em Chamberlain
Rebekah Lodge
J. E. Campbell
Odd Fellows Temple
Indianola
Easter Observance by Excallibur Commandery No 13
Easter observance by Excallibur Commandery No 13 Knight Templars of Boone included a 12:40 train reception, a 2:30 service at the M E church with hymns and sermons, a 5:00 banquet for about seventy at the Masonic hall, and return at 6:30. The report also notes ornate pulpits in European cathedrals and UK churches.
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Excallibur Commandary No
Knight Templars
Boone
Commandary
Masonic Hall
M. E
Methodist Church
Mesdames Smith
Judisch
Messrs Clark and King
Schoeble
Shea
St. Mathew
Storms
Cessna
St. John
J. A. Parks
Mathew
Eichhors
Novelty Store Ad and Church Topics
The Novelty Store offers wire screen sunbonnets for 25 cents and a short sale on water pitchers at 50 cents for 25 cents. The morning Baptist church topic is The Work of the Holy Spirit and the evening topic is Lynchers and Lawbreakers. Civic Improvement Society plans a Monday meeting April 23 with Miss Budd to discuss federation.
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the Baptist Church
Civic Improvement Society
For Sale One Riding Plow In Good Condition
For sale a riding plow in good condition used two seasons. Inquiries to E.8 Rice 112 Daff St or vox 645 Ames. The piece includes a brief note on Britain’s mixed origins from Celtic, Germanic, and Scandinavian influences with Celtic lineage in Wales and Scotland highlands.
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Rice
Daff St
Ames
Great Britain
Wales
Highlands
Scotland
Ireland
Empire State Capitol Costs Soar Beyond National Icons
Gilson Willets notes in Leslie's Weekly that the Empire State Capitol cost 24 million dollars, more than the national Capitol and the Library of Congress combined. He contrasts this with Washington's Capitol at 12 million and the Library of Congress at 7 million, highlighting the vast expense difference.
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America
New York State Capitol
Albany
National Capitol
Washington
Congressional Library
Library of Congress
Empire State Capitol
Empire State
Florida
Philippines
Gilson Willets
Leslie’s Weekly
Miss Marian Downes Dies at 61 in Gilbert Wisconsin
Marian Downes born February 22 1845 in Walworth County Wisconsin died April 16 1906 at her Gilbert Iowa home after a life devoted to caring for others She moved from a farm to Gilbert in 1881 remained there with her brother Frank Downes and joined the Congregational church in 1888 Surviving are one brother and three sisters and many nieces and nephews The funeral was held at 1 30 Thursday at the Congregational church
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Marian Downes
Walworth County
Wisconsin
Gilbert
Iowa
Frank Downes
Congregational Church
Frank D. Downes
Jane Lull
Engadine
Mich
Sara Healy
Ironwood
Grocery Ad Listing Prices and Specials at The Reliable Grocer
An advertisement from The Reliable Grocer Wellington highlights guaranteed items and prices including soap corn peas prunes peaches apricots apples and raisins. It promotes Ferndall Coffees and Teas fresh fruit vegetables lettuce radishes and notes Friday Saturday specials.
Card of Thanks for Frank W. Downs and Jane Lull
Noon after which the remains were laid to rest in Gilbert cemetery. The family extends thanks to friends and neighbors for sympathy and aid in their bereavement. FraNk W. Downs and Mrs. Jane Lull.
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Gilbert
FraNk W. Downs
Jane Lull
Planting Calendar offers bargain fruit stocks and nursery sale
Planting calendar lists grape vines at 50 cents a dozen and other fruits for low prices including currants gooseberries black raspberries plums cherries apples and more. Part of the nursery must be cleared for new green houses with stock to be sold next week evergreen windbreaks and ornamentals to follow at Olansville near the college. Judgment Bros. sells Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets for sick headaches.
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Olsanville
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Hart Schaffner
Marx
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Tilden Brothers & Company
Onio
Times Office
8. S
WarrLe
Congregational Yard
S. W. Pickett
Christian Church
Home Missionary Society of
M. B. Church
R.C. Barrett
G. F. Simmons
Caeer
lin‘Hinness
Miss Downes
Henry Barnes
Crere
Rhode Island
A. P
Arthur McAuley
Centerville
Tur Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Newton
Order of Odd Fellows
Harriet Sheldon Hammer
Chicago
Exvustron & Vancamp
Dr. Bare
Ivy
Pleasantville
Pickett
Mutual Phone
Douglass Street
Lows
S. Cramer
Eva
Colorado Springs
Harry Howard
Clyde Kintsley
Cramer
Hien
Plymouth Rock
Lippe
O. J. Fey
Bernice Corlett
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
Newens
O. B. Newcombs
Farmers Tribune
Sioux City
Marshalltown
Mason City
J. J. Keaviey
Wm. Taylor
J. J. Keenury
Ray Harmon
Tripp
W. B.C
Tildens
Lew Cole
Conrad
W. J. Semmons
Newell
Tanner McLain
Hough, Neb
Jessie Cole
F. E. Tierney
Ray Pilcher
Ida Grove
Frank Akin
Lytton
Claude Campbell
The
Jewell Record
Mollie Fenton
Misses Hopkins
Nevada
Alma Robinson
Fort Dodge
Fred Tilden
Iris Hunter
Webster City
Willis Rich
Minneapolis
Mesdames S. F. McElyea
Jennie Beyer
Des Moines
Velora Brown
Beaman
E. W. Brown
C. EB. Pixley
Mount Pleasant
Geo. Grahaw
Eldora
Eagle Grove
Bert Keltz
Hiram Taylor
Crossline
Ohio
L. D. Hill
Tacoma, Wash
J. P. Alderman
Alderman
A. B. Phillips
Clear Lake
F E. Boss
Clara Boss
Claude Spring
Vhas Spring
Miss Mae Spring
W. W. Spring
Town
Seccombe
Waterloo
Lincoln
Knapp
Chas. Hamilton
Sons of the American Revolution
T. A. Barrett
W. J. Freed
Mississippi
Belle Phillips Brown and Baby
Humphrey, Neb
Ruth Cook
Anna Giddings
Mabel
Polk St
Georgia Meredith Masters
Meredith
Crawford, Neb
Omaha
Henry Guild
Lillie
Missouri
J. S. Mather
Glidden
Harry Jones
California
Kansas
Mrs. Jones
St. Gudule
Brussels
Paradise
Antwerp
St. Andrew
Peter
Andrew
Wilton Church
Salisbury
England
Worcester Cathedral
Earl of Dudley
Church of St. Mary
Radcliffe
Bristol
Church of the Holy Name
Oxford Street
Manchester
Grocer
Wellington
St. Clare
Swift Pride
S. Majestic
Nat'l Biscuit Co
C. Hamilton
Chamberlain
Judisch Bros
Devoe
Lead
Loughran & Bauer
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