Numerous Des Moines Visitors Describe Light Week in Ames
Des Moines and Boone residents travel to Ames and surrounding towns for visits and weddings. Notables include Mrs. Bert Cramblit, Judge Stevens, Mrs. Nina Smith, Milo Wilkinson, Mrs. A W Miller, Mrs. Carrie Horton, Miss Belle Cairns, Miss Lulu Smith, Mrs. Rosey Payne, and many others visiting relatives, attending weddings, and attending social events. A production of Rip Van Winkle by Jack Daniel is announced for May 15 at the opera house with a full amateur cast and wigs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lulu Smith
Huxley
Hall Leresche
Billville
K. W. Brown
Lydia
Edmunds
N. C
W. T. Fisher
Ames
Winfield
Kansas
C. E. Foley
Renwick
Geo. Copestake
A. J. Treman
Eva
Marshalltown
Jack Daniel
Rip van Winkle
Ernest Pitser
Opera House
Joseph Jefferson
Daniel
Prof
Scroggie
Hearth Institute Opens In Ames Health Home On Douglass Street
The Hearth Institute announces a new health home at the old Cramblil home on North Douglass Street in Ames Iowa offering sanitary rooms and nursing care under physicians. Bath facilities including Turkish spray shower salt glow and oil rub will be ready by May 1. Physicians are invited to refer patients and retain their own practice while the institute protects doctors rights and treats all alike. Frank W Coy March Box 33 Mutual phone 102 welcomes both patients and medical colleagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cramblil
North Douglass Street
Ames
Iowa
The
Hearth Institute
Frank W. Coy
Mar
Mutual Phone
Ames Post Office to Open Station A June 1 1903
The postmaster general orders a new Station A in Ames with money order registry mail and postal supply services. A Swan’s opera house program by Prof C A Woodcox and assistants Mrs Frank Smith and Miss Mamie Corneliussen featured the Fairy Grotto with forty children and the six year old orator Irving Vernon. Special scenery by Woodcox enhanced the show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ames
Irving Vernon
Woodcox
Story City Herald
Ten room house inquiry notice
Inquiry from George White of 902 Clark Street seeks a ten room house. Contact through the listed address for details and potential sale or rental arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George White
Clark St
When Starch Was New in Elizabethan England
London Graphic reports on the origin and history of starch from Flanders to England. It notes Queen Elizabeth era ruffs, color fashions, a starching school run by Frau Van der Plasse, and the shift from linen to cambric ruffs with starch. It mentions prices, recipes, and Puritan attitudes toward starch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flanders
England
Holland
Frau van der Plasse
London
London Graphic
College Notes Bring Faculty and Alumni News
Miss Elsie Titus is teaching at Conrad. Several faculty and alumni visit or attend events including Prof Curtiss en route to Chicago and St Louis. Debates, lectures by Geo Vincent, athletic events, and a Chicago Alumni banquet are announced with dates in May 1903.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Titus
Conrad
Curtiss
Chicago
St. Louis
Chapel
Mr. Vincent
W. A. Tener
Welch
R. EB. Blackwood
Phileleutherol
M. L. Merritt
L. J. Wilkinson
Cresent
F. M. Hansen
Pythian
Claude Campbell
Mandolin Club
P. G. Holden
Ames
County Board of Supervisors
J. ©. Emery
H. J. van der Waa
H. H. McKee
Orange City
Burton Rogers
Chicago Alumni Association
Grand Pacific Hotel
Jackson Boulevard
Clark Street
Jas. Rush Lincoln
Statistics claim married men deter more crime than bachelors
The London Tatler notes that 38 of every 1,000 bachelors are criminals versus 18 of 1,000 married men. The piece argues that the so called coy and hard to please modern women may possess a strong ability to keep men out of mischief, offsetting old reputations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Eve
London
Tatler
Ready For Sacrifice
A short vignette from Brooklyn Life presents a child pleading for her father not to go out to work for bread and butter, while the father explains his duty requires him to leave the home. The exchange underscores hardship and family sacrifice in urban life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. V
Brooklyn
Beware of the man who offers you advice at the expense
A proverbial warning about a person who dispenses counsel while harming a shared friend, cautioning readers to distrust someone who layers guidance with personal gain and damages a trusted companion.
Low Rates To Points In Western States On Great Western
Advertisement announces very low rail rates to Montana Idaho Washington Oregon British Columbia Utah and Colorado from February 15 to April 30 via Chicago Great Western railway. Full details available from Chicago Great Western agents or J P Elmer G P A Chicago Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Chicago
Great Western
J. P. Elmer
Ill
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
British Columbia
Utah
Colorado
Great Western Railway
Illinois
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LEY & Sman
Bradley
Vrooman Co
J. E. Davis
Il_owa
Pant
Ine
E. D. Mineah & CO
Carrara
the Macomb, Ill
Bert Cramblit
Des Moines
Judge Stevens
Boone
City
Nina Smith
Milo Wilkinson
Mrs. A. W. Miller
Carroll
Mrs. W. W. Talbott
Carrie Horton
Miss Belle Cairns
Nevada
A. Shaw
Jessie
Frank Spence
Woodward
Alice Nelson
Eagle Grove
Mabel Child
Harry Fleming
Mrs. C. ©. Morrison
Fern Tedrow
Gretchen Bremmerman
Geo. Baker
S. L. Loughran
Caroline Taylor
Mrs
Orrin Jones
Madrid
Frank Smith
Bethania McKinstry
Dyer
Gilbert Station
Clay Greenlee
Belle Plaine
W. W. Talbott
Mesdames
Will Scott
Frank Kooser
Walt Kooser
Mabel Mason
Jefferson
Bert Kooser
Turner
Will Dawson
Waterloo
Osmund Johnson
Trenton
Missouri
Franka-Roland
BE. L. Taylor
Winnebago City
Minn
Shriners
Addie Shockley
M. Hodgson
Los Angeles
California
John Roland
Joe Roland
Sioux City
Mollie Franka
Will Franka
Fannie Wright
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs
Des »Olmes
L. M. Gibson
Joe Cohn
Nona Phelan
Riverside
Mr. Cohn
Long Beach
J.L. Budd
Etta Budd
San Antonio
Texas
T. S. Thompson
Jewell Junction
American Medical Association
Foley Shoney
C. W. Warburton
Peter Emmel
Pammel
Harvey
W. J. Griffith
Victor
I. J. Welch
Florence Barber
Colonial Club
Wilbur Wilson
West Liberty
Geo. S. Forrest
Iowa Corn Growers’ Association
the Athletic Association
Margaret Hall
Grinnell
Mrs. Kilbourne
Clark
Harlan
Stevens
Boone Viaduct
EB. C. Cameron
Clarksville
Estella Paddock
Wilkesbarre
George Graham
Mary Sabin
U. S. Griggs
U. S
Pierre
S. D
Gen. Lincoln
Drake
Boone High School
I. 8. OC
State Normal
Geo. E. Vincent
Chicago University
Dr. Vincent
Foley Skidney
Watl Paper
Oil
Japan
Loughran & Bauer
H. L. Munn
Frank B. Spence
Lion
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