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Newspaper

Ames Times

Location

Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 11, 1904

Page

4

Shirt order opportunity opens for customer requests

The notice announces a new option to order shirts with customer driven selections. It states readiness to process requests and fulfill custom shirt orders.

Local Ames Items Highlight Socials And Notices

Local miscellany shows Miss Kate McMichael entertaining the Bachelor Maids with Miss Mayme Raynor hosting card games. Lost watch, agrarian notes, and multiple society events fill a busy Ames week with weddings, outings, repairs, and upcoming footballs at Story County fair.

Brick for Sale at J. W. Adams Building

A local listing offers a few hundred hollow brick and crushed stone for sale at a discount for immediate purchase. The seller notes the J. W. Adams building as the location. No contact details are provided in the fragment.

J. W. Adams

Lost Coins in the Mail Spur National Quarrel Over Nickel

A railway postal clerk discovers a nickel loose in a mail pouch during transit. The moment the coin spins out on a sorting table it triggers a formal investigation and bureaucratic fuss worth about 18 dollars, with the clerk obliged to record every detail of the incident.

Postal Money Coin Transfer Through Bureaucratic Routes

A narrator recounts how a nickel empties from a pouch, travels via train number and date through bonded officials to the national government fund, illustrating the post office department’s money movements and red tape in unregistered mail channels.

Post Office Department Chicago Tribune

PITH AND POINT

Aimed at urban manners and family discipline the piece notes that frequent job changes lead to poor prospects and homes feel worn after departures. It observes mothers warn boys against dangerous risks and warns against drawing out a skeleton in conversation with sympathetic friends.

The Dead Sea Mystery Deepens Beyond Life

The Dead Sea contains no aquatic life and has about 26 percent solids. Its major solids are chlorides of sodium magnesium and calcium. The deepest bed there lies about 2 600 feet below the Mediterranean level, with a 1 310 foot depth at another point. Remarkably a cloud system forms over the lake, with clouds appearing 600 to 700 feet below ocean level.

Dead Sea Mediterranean Ocean

He Was a Stayer and His Worrying Landlady

A short, sharp scene from Cleveland Plain Dealer centers on a man who delays returning home to keep a landlady anxious, joking that his lack of a body to worry about by others is offset by owing a month’s board. The exchange hints at tension and humor in domestic life.

Osmund Hagen Newton & Northwestern Railroad Boone Osmund the Times Ames F. P. Baker Washington D. C Yale School of Forestry Board of Baker Iowa Mary Sabin I. S.C Fred K. Houston Belvidere Ill Rockford Miss Sabin Sabin Atchison Globe Cleveland Plain Dealer

Family Scene Signals Late Night House Duties

The congressman's daughter notes it is 9 o'clock and George and she usually go into committee, prompting papa to retire to the drawing room with the young people. The scene centers on routine political duties and a family moment.

Papa Lou George

Insults Replace Courtroom Chatter in Gossip Row

A fragment shows sharp remarks about a woman describing her as insulting and unlikable. The dialogue contrasts reactions with a quip about wiping feet, reflecting domestic gossip tone and social sniping.

His Latchkey: Matron and Husband Debate Independence

In a dialogue between a First Matron and Second Matron, the husband is allowed to carry a latchkey. The key does not fit the door, but the matron lets him carry it to humor him and to please him with a sense of independence.

A Painter's Retort to Imperial Portrait Request

Franz Lenbach, after painting Emperor Wilhelm I, is asked to detail buttons on the uniform. He replies he paints heads not buttons and instructs the envoy to tell his majesty. The emperor reportedly laughs at the answer.

Franz Lenbach Wilhelm I Lenbach

New Wire Machinery Factory Planned for Ames

Mr. O H Watkins of the Clinton Iowa firm that designs and builds wire making machinery visited Ames and arranged a move. A factory will rise on the south side near the old fence factory site. The project promises local employment and growth with no bonus asked. The company will form a stock company and seek $2000 in local stock purchases to guarantee a 6 percent dividend with a buyback option later.

Mark Havenhill Alice Overholser Mr. Havenhill Miss Overholser Fox, Ill California Fruit Frank Lowry Frank Carle Marshalstown Ames O. H. Watkins Watkins- Skillenberger Co Clinton Iowa Watkins

Mrs. C. W. St. John Dies After Illness in Montour

Mrs. C W St John born October 15 1863 near Clemons Marshalltown Iowa resided at multiple towns before settling in Montour Sept 14 1892 She and Mr St John had three children Estella Clifford and Bernice Funeral services held at the M E church Rev Mark Masters with burial at Bivins Grove near her father’s grave in Clemons Iowa

Clemons Marshalltown Iowa Mr. St. John Gifford Orange City Wall Lake Tama Montour Estella M Clifford Bernice M. E Mark Masters Clemens Marshall County Bivins Grove Montour Courier

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