Many Ames residents visit relatives and friends across Iowa
A long list of Ames area residents travel to Boone Nevada Jefferson Clinton and other towns for visits and vacations. Names include J L Stevens P Hagerly Graves Robt Taylor Ethel and Ruth Nelson Frank Danforth Gustie Lies Mrs J M Kenworthy and many others with trips to Indianapolis New York Boston and Cripple Creek noted among social and family travel.
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Ethel
Ruth Nelson
Gold
J.J. Kegsey
Boone
Edith and
Ruth Button
Nevada
Hopkins
Fenton
Will Sisson
Clinton
Frank van Brocklin
Griswold
Blake
Dr. McCall
Parkhill
Hunt
Lou Willey
New York
Gustie Lies
Cedar Rapids
Flossie Perkins
S. W. O'Brien
Jefferson
J.M. Kenworthy
Ankeny
Geo. Noyes
G. F. Simmons
Webster City
J.D. Palmer
Marshalltown
Ed. Rutherford
H. A. Sawyer
Kensal
N. D
Daugh
School Board Approves Site and Plans for New School
The board held a special session to approve election reports and land offers from Dr. Raynor Jas Hale and G A Underwood for a new school site. W R Parsons & Sons of Des Moines' building specs were approved, bids to be opened Sept 3, and a name selection committee formed. Grace Packard resignation noted and a land purchase of $1300 from Jas Hale for Sycamore Street site finalized.
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Raynor
Jas. Hale
G. A. Underwood
W. R. Parsons & Sons
Des Moines
Pear Street
Crawford
Grace Packard
Sycamore Street
Low fares to California and Northwest via Chicago & North-Western
Special G A R train week August 11 to 14 with final return to October 15. Three daily Chicago to coast trains, guided tourist car trips, and a through route via Denver to Salt Lake City. Authorized by Chicago & North-Western R y for National Encampment G A R San Francisco and Trans Missippi Commercial Congress Seattle.
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Chicago & North-Western Ra
San Francisco
Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress
Seattle
Chicago
DeKalb
Clinton
Cedar Rapids
Belle Plaine
Tama
Marshalltown
Ames
Boone
Omaha
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Salt Lake City
Chicago & North-Western R’y
Harvest Labor Rates to Minnesota and the Dakotas
Low rates for parties of five or more via Chicago Great Western Railway. Tickets on sale daily to Aug. 3ist. Liberal arrangements for return trip. For full information apply to any Great Western Agent, or J. P. Elmer, G. P. A., Chicago, Lil. 13-5.
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Minnesota
Dakotas
Chicago Great Western Railway
Great Western
J. P. Elmer
Chicago
A Life Saving Order on the Delaware
During a heavy squall near Sardinia the American warship Delaware nearly foundered with 1100 aboard. The first lieutenant Commodore Thomas W. Wyman ordered “Keep clear of the paint work” restoring order as hundreds clung to the scuppers, preventing panic.
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Delaware
Sardinia
Thomas W. Wyman
Insurance Agent Seeks Back Yard Fire Clarification
A business man and his excited neighbor clash over a boy building a bonfire in the neighbor's yard. The placid neighbor questions insurance coverage, noting the yard is not insured, prompting the insurance agent to produce his card.
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P. N
Community Notes and Local Updates
The town reports new railroad steel work begun and a string of visits and travels. Social events include a Saturday evening ice cream and cake fundraiser by the Cong church Ladies Aid on the church lawn. Local movements cover relocations, travels to Des Moines for Mercy Hospital, and clergy assignments in Earlville Garden Prairie and Kelley.
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The
Ladies Aid Society of the Cong. Church
Wet Weather and Camels in Moist Regions
The article notes camels are sensitive to humidity, avoiding tropical rains and northern Atlas slopes. It explains how moisture drives camel absence from Abyssinia and coast regions, and describes regional differences with Tuarek interior camels sleek and desert-adapted versus Fezzan animals short and coarse haired.
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Atlas
Abyssinia
Deserts
Tuarek
North Africa
Fezzan
Tripoli
Nile
Birds Plant Trees In Arizona Pines
An Arizona woodchopper claims bluejays plant forests by burying seeds and pine nuts in pine groves. He and an eastern companion observed a jay burying a nut, then locating it as proof. The tale suggests nature sustains forests through bird action.
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Arizona
Indianapolis News
How He Lost a Million A Banquet Tale From Ochiltree
Colonel Ochiltree recounts a joke about losing one million dollars at a banquet with Senator Hearst of California. Hearst praises a red haired boy who helped across the Platte and vows a gift of a million, prompting Ochiltree to reveal he was the lad.
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Colonel Ochiltree
Senator Hearst
California
Hearst
Platte
Ochiltree
The Pale Yellow Beads Jokingly Baffle Mother
A street car ride prompts a double joke as a mother explains amber beads to a girl who misidentifies them as beans similar to a discarded meal. The New York Mail and Express notes the story share.
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New York Mail and Express
Frugal Clergyman of Patterdale Inspires Wakefield Muse
In 1766 Universal Magazine records Rev. Mr. Mattinson curate of Patterdale for sixty years. His stipend dwindled to under £20 a year in later decades yet he died at eighty three with £1,000 in savings, £800 saved from stipends. Notes on Goldsmith’s possible inspiration referenced.
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Goldsmith
Wakefield
Universal Magazine
Mattinson
Patterdale
Westmorland
Madness in Tunis Witch Doctor Ritual Ends in Tragedy
A mad dog bite leads a Tunis market trial by witch doctors and devil hunters. They circle a woman as she screams then she drowns in a well. Her husband later dies in the same well. Reports say the pair were pushed to suicide by the cult to cast out the devil.
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Tunis
Westminster Gazette
Billingtons Sea and the Dream of a South Sea
In Plymouth Mass two to three miles inland lies Billington’s sea a modest pond that stirred Billington a pilgrim to imagine a great south sea. The piece notes his brave curiosity and compares his discovery to Spain’s Pacfic sighting. It concludes that the Pacific river does not lie here and honors Billington’s adventurous spirit.
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Billington's Sea
Plymouth
Mass
Billington
Pacific
Darien
Pacific Ocean
Plymouth County
S. M. Crothers
Atlantic
Squaring the Circle Through Ancient Theorems
The origin of squaring the circle traces to ancient Egypt before the exodus with a later claim by Elone that Hippocrates of Chios solved it in 500 B.C. His work showed that a figure formed by two perpendicular radii has area equal to the triangle from the radii, the famous lines of Hippocrates.
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Egypt
Elone
Hippocrates
Chios
Glauber
Origin of the Mastiff Name Traced Through Languages
The article discusses competing theories on the mastiff term origin. Some trace to Italian mastino or French mastin meaning large limbed, later morphing to masty and then mastiff. Others seek a German root masten meaning to fatten, reflecting the breed’s size and fullness.
Lincoln and Douglas Debated Senate and Presidency
A Swett anecdote shows Lincoln telling Len Swett he cannot beat Douglas for the Senate but will force his opponent to beat himself for the presidency. The remark reflects Lincoln's strategic use of opportunity before the famed debates.
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Lincoln
Douglas
Leonard Swett
Augustus
Buell
Abe
Senate
Mr. Swett
Len
Leslie
Notable Tempers in City Row Over Duty
In a city scene reported by the Philadelphia Press two neighbors exchange sharp words as Mrs Cassidy demands action while Cassidy complains of tolerated inaction. The quarrel centers on behavior and expectations amid domestic tensions.
Railway accident quip on first and last cars
In a cartoonish remark O Rourke muses why the first and last cars always suffer in railroad accidents and jokes about removing those two cars from trains.
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Hundtswill
O’rourke
How They Are Kept in Smart Set
A brief line from a Smart Set piece, noting Miss De Style and Miss Guubusta. The dialogue hints at a pursuer who intended to keep one character and a perception of pressure or pursuit by another. The fragment conveys social intrigue without a full narrative.
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de Style
Following the Plan That It Is Un Healthful to Eat
An Atchison Globe item questions the idea that it is unhealthful to eat while cross and asks how many meals a day people would miss. It ponders if wives would let their husbands starve.
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Atchison Globe
Cowardly Nincompoops Stir Congress Over Pension Bill
An anecdote from Francis Be. Leupp recounts Oshkosh representative Gabe Bouck fretting over a pension bill. Bouck jokes that he is “one of the cowardly nincompoops” himself as colleagues worry the measure will pass, while he fears opposing it.
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Congress
Gabe Bouck
Oshkosh
Wisconsin
House
Bouck
Gabe
Bourck
Francis BE. Leupp
Century
The True Collie Story of a Drowning Puppy
A Scottish shepherd drowns a single surviving collie pup and leaves for the day. His collie Bess leads him to a knoll where the earth is newly turned, revealing the buried puppy, rescued so it could receive a proper burial. The tale is shared as a testament to a collie’s intelligence.
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Bess
Philadelphia Record
Boileau’s compliment to De Mesmes as new fellow
A graceful remark by Boileau to the virtuous De Mesmes on his election to the Paris Parliament academy. Boileau said, I have come to you to congratulate me on having you for one of my fellow academicians.
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Boileau
de Mesmes
Paris
Ames City Council hears resolution for storm sewer along Burnett Sycamore Kellogg
Notice of resolution of necessity declares a storm sewer project petitioned by owners along Burnett and Sycamore to Kellogg, with specific tile sizes and cost apportionment. City will hear objections August 31 at 8 p.m. in the city hall council room.
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Wamely
Ames
Iowa
Front Foot
Burnett Street
Sycamore Street
North Street
Agate Street
Kellogg Street
Parley Shelden
An. A. B. Maxwell
Notice of Liquor License Application in Story County
L M Bosworth a registered pharmacist of Ames seeks a permit to buy keep and sell intoxicating liquors at his business on Onondaga Street Ames Story County Iowa The clerk of the district court will file the application by August 13 1908 and a hearing is set for the August term beginning August 24 1903 at Nevada
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State of
Iowa
Story County
L. M. Bosworth
Ames
Ary
Nevada
L. M. En Orth
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Farnhamville
Tuesdy
Graves
Storm Lake
Ae Robt. Taylor
Red Oak
Rehn Ames
Frank Danforth
Oskaloosa
R Ev. F. D. Ferrall
Findlay, Ohio
Fred Cleaver
Emmet Montgomy
Lement Smith
Council Bluffs Yesy
G. W. Rogers
Lot Rogers
GR. Davis
Colorado
Cripple Creek
Fred Lacy
Fred
Harold
O. H. Cessna
Alice Nelson
Eagle Grove
Wright County
W. G. Spratt
McCallsfy
Irs
W. S. Dawson
Baby
Terloo
John Butler
Don
Nate
M. E. Gross
Irma
Conrad
Co. A. Nowlin
John Stone
Chambersburg, Penn
John Repp
Daisy Brown
Rela
Abbie Burns
Hiram Taylor
Cressline
Ther Points
Ohio
Viola Chambers
College Y Lafter
Frank Lang
Edward Furnas
Iss Mina Talbott
Carroll
Talbott
McElyea
Dakota
Lew
Will
Ta. J. W. Neasham
Ottum
O. H
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H. Heileman
I. S
Minnie Perkins
Will Logan
Maquoketa
Bissell
Irma Maullen
Stanton
L. Bey
Lake Ida
Minn
Tilden
Fay Cord
Grant Town
H. Judge
R. E. Doudell
South Daland
al Cleaver
Sanborn County
South
Stanford
Nuhs
Gossard
Waterloo
Mrs. Gossard
Jennie McLain Benson
Lisbon
Turner Home
Ethel Lang
Hough
Nebraska
J. M. Lawrence
Story County Veteran’s Association
Glee Club
Col. Commanding
Oley Nelson
Ladies of Daughters
Rebekah
Dr. Storms
Prof
Newens
Lafe Young
J. A. T. Hull
H. D. Herr
Hattie Barker
Mable Sawyer
John F. Lacey
Oregon
Washington
Kelley
Misses Stevens
Slater
W. P. Starr
Cal
Western
C. C. Lytie
Montour
Harry Gossard
Florida
Stevens
Mr. C. Foley
Mercy Hospital
Geo. Person
Cambridge
W. P. George
Chas. Brumagin
Mrs. Cassidy
Little Cassidy
Philadelphia Press
Loughran
Bauer Prescription Druggists
Church Directory
John Chandler
Generaadreioe
F. D. Ferran, Pastor
Sun Sunday
Junior Endeavor
Christian Endeavor
P.sting Every
First Congregational Church
Cor, Kellogg and
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C. B
Ourvice. Sees
Ji P. W
Lota
Methodist Episcopal Church
Charles Lyman Nye
Seen Sane
United Brethren Churchr
C. L. Wilson
A. & C. Railway
W. M. Greeley
M. K. Err
H. Westerman
Manacen
A. M
Wea Scsvennans
Cuicnss
Te Sarcs Aaa We
Igisineneeis
Beth BP
Cs Shaw Bsiahan
BUD
Ove Ceevees
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