Social and club notices fill Ames calendar
A large list of local organizations and events fills the Ames calendar. Groups meet in halls and homes on fixed dates each month, with chapters of OES, P BE O, Rebekah, and Catholic, Baptist, Congregational, Methodist, and Christian societies among those described. A gala evening features the Delta Phi Omega installation and a concert, while many gatherings highlight charity, education, and community service.
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Joshua
Masonic Hall
Arthur Bullen
Buell Tilden
Alva Howard
Fred Shaw
Max Hardin
Ames
Cedar Rapids
Delta Phi Omega
Lydia Olsan
F. J. Olsan
Chicago
Philadelphia
A. J. Model
Misses Rice
Grace Padmore
Marshalltown
Miss Padmore
Our City
Lazarus
Thompson
Prof. Thompson
Hunt
Cessna
Madame Bouton
Martha
Chinese Football Observed Like A Prolonged Riot
Harper’s Weekly describes northern Chinese football as a chaotic game with about fifty players per side, no goals or halves, lasting days. Players are giants over six feet, weighing around 200 pounds, using a wicket basket as the ball and fighting through streets to place it in the opponent’s territory.
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China
Animal Intelligence and the Lady in the Moon
The piece contrasts instinct and reasoning in animals, citing a campus rabbit and other cases, then shifts to an amateur astronomer’s portrait of the lady in the moon, describing features seen at half moon through a small telescope and noting recognitions of the face. An unhappy comparison ends the excerpt.
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Ames Times
John R. Keating
Jeweler
A. H. Person
H. A. Dockum
Person
Pig Wins Gold Medal Outshines Church News
A farmer's wife jokes about joy from a pig winning a cattle show gold medal, upstaging her friend's excitement over her husband becoming a church incumbent. The anecdote highlights humorous comparison of domestic pride and religious news in Pearson's Weekly.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Ain't He Plain Circus Hippo Draws Awe
Two country women visit a circus for the first time and marvel at the hippo. The mother whispers solemnly to her daughter My Ain t he plain confirming a humorous country observation.
Now I hope you profit from that spanking
Tommy's mother tells him to learn from punishment and change his behavior after a spanking. Tommy protests, wishing to remain a "little savage" and blaming his mother's slippers for discipline. The exchange captures a child’s defiant wit and a parental corrective moment.
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Tommy
Mrs. Superfluous Chiropody and Children's Notice
Public notice appears to reference chiropody and children's matters with a dated header 31-4 and mentions Mrs. in a superfluous phrase, suggesting a local filing or advisory note without clear details.
K O T M Register Military Roles Named
During the last Thursday meeting of the K O T M the regular election named A Shaw commander Wm Kingkade lieutenant W S Read treasurer R R 8S M Deal chaplain HB O Stillman sergeant L Wellman M at A C B Holmes St M of G r v Brown 2nd M of G E R Garner sent.
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A. Shaw
Wm. Kingkade
W. S. Read
F. R
R. R
M. Deal
HB. O Stillman
L. Wellman
C. B. Holmes
St. M
G. E. R. Garner
Charles W. Halstead
C. E. Lyman
Wanted Operator at Mutual Telephone Office
Classified notice advertising a job as operator at the Mutual Telephone Office with instructions to apply at once and a separate health ad promoting Hollister's Rocky Tea with a price of 35 cents for tea or tablets, implying health benefits.
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Mutual Telephone Office
Hollister
How Diptheria Is Contracted
Explains cold exposure can leave a child susceptible to diphtheria and promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a quick cure for the cold and to lessen germ disease risk. For sale by Judisch Bros.
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Chamberlain
Judisch Bros
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