Des Moines Man Injured At Northwestern Depot In Des Moines
J R Golden of the Iowa Marble Company Des Moines sustained a serious knee injury after tripping over an induction switch box on the Northwestern Depot main line while rushing to catch a train to Minneapolis. He was treated at Ames hotel then moved to Des Moines. Council proceedings report abnormal tax levies and an insane patient admitted for care after a violent episode.
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J. R. Golden
Iowa Marble Company
Northwestern Depot
Des Moines
Golden
Minneapolis
No. 60
Ames
Ames Hotel
Prohibitionists to Hold Reunion on College Campus
The Story county prohibitionists plan an annual reunion and picnic on September 13, 1906, at 10 a.m. on the college campus. A full program of speeches toasts and music will be presented with Hon. L S Coffin a gubernatorial candidate and Rev. J S Corkey among speakers. You are invited to attend with a full lunch basket.
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Story County
Nevada
M. L. Bowman
Banner County
Iowa
Christians Plan Parsonage and Lecture Room Addition
At the recent Christian church board meeting, plans were approved to build a parsonage this year with an estimated total cost around 3500 dollars including site. A site committee was formed but not yet reporting. The Ladies Aid pledged to assist in construction and a new 24 by 40 foot lecture and Sunday school room on the east side was also decided.
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The
Christian Church
Ladies Aid Society
Olmstead Landscape Gardening
Boston
Auditorium hall with flexible design to host events
The plan describes a main auditorium with a high ceiling and a layout that can be opened into separate spaces or used as one area. It was also decided to organize several meetings during the coming winter.
Steel water tank tower nears completion
Work on the steel tower for the new water tank progresses well. The structure will exceed one hundred feet with the tank installed. An iron ball was proposed for the top but rejected by Supt Linebaugh for lacking a Jupiter statue to crown the ball.
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Supt. Linebaugh
Jupiter
Marine injured by train at Ames last Sunday night
A United States marine officer from Des Moines was struck on the knee by a pilot of a fast train on the Ames platform. He thought the train was on the other track and was seriously injured with temporary paralysis in the limb while en route to join a company in San Francisco.
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U. S
Ames
United States
Des Moines
San Francisco
Ames notes and moves around campus and town
Ames society sees faculty staff and residents moving houses, positions, and duties as Prof Marston and others leave for travels and new posts. The article lists arrivals and departures, campus housing changes, and plans for an agricultural hall, with local events like the Story county fair corn premiums mentioned.
Ames Men at the Big Shoot
Eight Ames shooters joined sixteen contestants at Marwell for a county shoot. Dr Hatcher of Maxwell defeated W W Talbott by one target 42 to 41 with 50 total. Ames boasted the fastest county team as eight from Ames broke 65 pins in the sixty third match out of 480 birds.
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Ames
Marwell
W. W. Talbott
Dr. Hatcher
Maxwell
Hatcher
Talbott
Baumgardner
Brodie
King
Alderman
Gibson
Zoor
Ames— Talbott
Smith
Proctor
Adams
Kooser
Brown
Proper
Nervy theft at Northwestern depot involves Panama hat
A traveling man, Charlie Benson of Boone, was robbed last Thursday night at the Northwestern depot. He wore a recently bought $20 Panama hat when the window of the chair car was raised and a youth named Glen Maxwell, known for trouble at the depot, rushed toward the scene as the train began to move.
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Benson
Stultz
Maxwell
Panama
Northwestern
Charlie Benson
Boone
Glen Maxwell
One More Big Ball Game Before the Season Ends
The piece urges a final large baseball game after the Chautauqua and war clouds, with the clerk returning from vacation and comparisons to John L. Sullivan. It notes no champions yet this year aside from the post office employee and promises a date to be announced next week.
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John L. Sullivan
Free Lunch Robbery and School Coal Bids Highlight Ames Notices
An editorial mocks a local lunch room for a robbery claim while civic notices advertise rail excursion fares to Mexico City and Toronto and announce sealed bids for 400 tons of lump coal for Ames schools with a bid deadline and contract bond requirements.
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Ames
f.C.b. Ames
Board of Education
I. J. Scott
Supply Committee
J. E. Judge
W. W. Talbort
Supply Com
Good Roads School Closes and Ames City Council Sewer Resolution
The Good Roads School at the college closed with a lantern view lecture by President Harlow. Attendance was around fifty as state supervisors meet and the state fair starts. The event featured evening addresses, road building demonstrations, and a model earth road project. In Ames Iowa the City Council passes a sanitary sewers and sub drains resolution outlining extensions on Iowa Street, State Street, Lincoln Street, College Street, and Duff Street with manholes and lamp holes, specifying pipe materials, assessment methods, and a one year maintenance guarantee, set for publication dates August 23, August 30, September 6 and 13 1906 with a council meeting on September 2 1906.
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C. & N. W. North
M. E. Bannon
Fort Madison
George Miller
Des Moines
F. L. Reeder
Tipton
C. E. Boynton
Portland Cement Co
A. N. Johnson
B. Stanton
Perry
H. EK. Oldaker
M. Adams
Davenport
McDonald
Story County
Good Roads School
Good Roads
Harlow
State Supervisors
Lincoln
New House
Amen
Iowa
Ames
Iowa Street
Hodge Street
State Street
Lincoln Street
Hoggatt Street
College Street
Clark Street
Duff Street
Carroll Street
Arley Sheldon
Sagen
A. B. Maxwell
For Sale Building Lot West of Campus
One of the best building lots west of the campus offered for sale. Call on or address Wm BuckLane Station A. 7 tf.
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Wm. BuckLane
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W. J. Semmons
General Fund
T.eeeseeee
Prof
A. Marston
Minnesota
Mary Rausch
Fourth Ward
F. Gage Cutler
Bennett
Europe
F. J. Resler and Son
Okoboji
Gertrude Mereness
Sac City
Prof. Holden
Lanphear House
South West
Arthur M. Judy
Prof Ford
LeGrand College
H. C. Pierce
Cornell University
Pentry
Ed Wagners
F. J. Graves
L. M. Hurt
Chicago
Cramer
Douglas Street
A A. Bennett
St. Louis
J. C. Hainer
Chris Larson
Logan
Utah
Prof Larson
Utah Agricultural College
Lawrence Hodson
Hodson
George Mitchell
P. G. Holden
Pamme
Cole
John Woodruff
John
Redpath Lyceum Bureau
York
Neb
Maria Roberts
Dean Stanton
E. Curtis
Moxie
Miami
Fla
J. Nye Bourne
Pommel
Grundy Center
Virginia Theological Seminary
Alexandria
Episcopal Church
Frank Curtiss
C. F. Curtiss
Curtiss
Pd S. Scott
Mary Selby
Mercy Hospital
Big County
Ames Boy
Ogden Messenger
Mexico City
Mex
North-Western
International Geological Congress
Chicago & North-Western R’y
Benton
Belle Plaine
Chicago & North-Western Railway
Boise City
Idaho
North-Western Line
National Irrigation Congress
Chicago & North- Western Re
Toronto
I. O. O. F. Grand Lodge
Chicago & North- Western
Farm House Station
Judisch Brothers
Emporium OF Music
Edison
Victor
W. G. Stockwell
Queensware
F. M. Darner
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