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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
4
Henry Learned files for divorce from Mary C. Learned alleging desertion in June 1901 after their Webster City marriage in 1883. He also seeks custody of two daughters aged seventeen and nine. J. F. Martin represents the plaintiff.
A retired sea captain, Captain Bean, surveys Barnacles the horse with a wary yet curious eye. Jed vouches the horse is wind and limb sound, well behaved, and ready to work, as Bean contemplates buying him and signing articles.
Benjamin Brooks describes the stokehold of an ocean liner as its life center and the demanding craft of keeping thirty furnaces at a steady temperature. He details the cycle of shoveling coal, raking clinkers, and slicing furnaces to ensure efficient propulsion amid tight space and constant heat.
The ladies cemetery association prohibits picking flowers at the grounds even by lot owners. Some plants have been destroyed and dumping is banned near the well and fence. Please remove old dead flowers and broken vases and glasses. By order of S. C. Also a classified ad seeks to buy old cotton rags for washing presses at the TIMES office.
Reduced rate excursion tickets to Boone Iowa races available August 26 to 29 with return by August 31. Apply through Agents Chicago and North Western Railway.
The excerpt argues Finnish grammar is unusually hard compared with related languages. It highlights fifteen cases and twenty four infinitive forms, plus no clear noun adjective verb distinction, causing inflection of infinitives as nouns and nouns having adjectival degrees.
Spaniels trace name origins to Spain. Charles I favored a small spaniel leading to the famous King Charles pets. Blenheim or Marlborough spaniels derive their English name from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire where the breed has been kept since the early eighteenth century.
Travel offers from Eagle Grove Iowa for August 18 to 21 with return by August 22. Rates apply to round trips to a carnival and harvest festival, featuring limited return travel options.
The Chicago Great Western Railway offers greatly reduced round trip fares to Seattle Washington from August 1 to 14. For full information contact any Great Western Agent. J P Exner is G P A Chicago Illinois.
Chinese fishermen collect fish spawn from water margins and surface, fill emptied hen eggs with the spawn, seal the hole, and place them under sitting fowl. After several days the shells are opened in sun warmed water, releasing hatched fry kept in clean water before introduction to ponds. Spawn sale supports a significant Chinese trade.
A discussion of hat durability in China notes climate extremes from dry to humidity that warp silk, beaver, cloth, and felt. Mold and fungus ruin sweatbands and brims overnight. Hats must be exposed to sunlight thrice weekly. Ants and cockroaches threaten hats, with insects inhabiting and feasting on leather and pasteboard. Interior spraying with carbolic acid or creosote is advised to deter pests.
Mrs Torkins presents Charley with a small book titled Poker and How to Play It. He jokes about sermons while acknowledging the gift and its betting theme. The comic exchange appears in the Washington Star.
John James Heidegger, Haymarket opera house manager, wagers the Earl of Chesterfield that he cannot find a uglier face in London. A woman of St. Giles initially rivals him, but once the manager dons the woman's cap he wins and keeps the title of ugliness.
A playful exchange where a father asks Mary to check with her partner about bedtime. Mary replies that George says if she is sleepy she should go to bed, adding a light domestic tone to the scene set in Toledo.
A playful line from Smart Set jokes about misfortune and quick wit. The speaker quips that the blind man goes crazy as sight departs, echoing a pun on out of sight and out of mind. The exchange reflects light humor of the era.
Randall Iowa August 4 1903 May J Henderson administratrix of the Rebecca Corkinsoe estate asks creditors to file claims with the Story County District Court for allowance and all debtors to pay promptly.
Sealed bids for erection and completion of a school building in Ames Story County Iowa are due by 1 p m September 3 1903 Bids to C G Lee Secretary School Board Ames Iowa with 500 certified check as bid guarantee Plans available after August 13 1908 at C G Lee Ames and with W R Parson & Son Co Des Moines The Board reserves right to reject any or all bids.
A concise reflection on how thought and virtue operate quietly. The quote suggests elevation of silent effort over loud display, drawing on Carlyle’s idea that true virtue may need no public monument.
Ames Iowa city council ordains division of the city into three sewer districts named No 1 No 2 and No 3 The east of Des Moines and Minneapolis and Chicago and Northwestern rail line area goes to District 1 Ward 2 3 areas form District 2 Ward 4 all in District 3 Publication required by law and effective after publication A B Maxwell and Palley Sheldon sign the document as clerk and mayor
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