Ames Public Schools Report for February 1905
The Ames Public Schools provide enrollment figures for 1904 05 with 822 total students including 426 boys and 296 girls in the year and high school counts 102 boys 105 girls. New attendance rules incentive to skip finals for 95 attendance 90 average term work and at most two tardies plus health measures and vaccination rules adopted February 1905 with board support and invitation for patron visits.
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South Side
Christ
Board of Education
Fort Worth visit sparks plans and family moves
Readable notices describe Dr J N Cozzens expanding practice with son Frank assisting until September, a pension increase for Henry C McIntosh to 24 dollars monthly, and a suite of local events including anniversaries, church dedication, and hotel ownership changes.
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J. N. Cozzens
Frank
Ames
Chicago
Cole Banner
Henry C. McIntosh
Washington
Mack
Nevada Journal
A Solemn Russian Dance Circle in Village Revelry
In rural Russia a solitary dance forms among youths and maidens split by sex on village greens. Dancers circle silently while a piper plays a drone. Partners never touch hands. the prize goes to the girl who has not spoken or smiled during the summer revelry.
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Charles Ashford
Seattle
George
Nome
Alaska
Gold Country
Charles
John
Far North
Nevada
Jonas
Russia
A Widower Resists Wives Yet Drawn to a Younger Woman
The piece notes a widower who remains calm and confident around women. He believes himself impervious to marriage and wary of widowly advances. Yet a young, single woman arouses his sympathy, and endurance turns to pity and finally to embrace, signaling his doom.
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Washington Post
The Simple Life Costs a Bundle in Town
A city entertainment showcases the high price of rustic luxuries with country sausage from pedigreed pigs, buckwheat from costly fields, and maple syrup from expensive Adirondack trees. The piece argues simple living buys rare delicacies for the few, while common fare remains out of reach for many.
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Adirondack
Gory Dew The Low Form of Vegetable Life
Gory dew appears as a dark red slimy film on damp walls in shade. It is a low form of vegetable life closely related to the plant behind red snow and its botanical name is Palmella cruenta.
Remarkable Hidden Portrait Found Behind Flowers
A Warwickshire painting at Lord Leigh's residence was once a flower painting masking a fine portrait of Charles I by Van Dyck. An art dealer cleaned away the flowers with permission and revealed the hidden royal likeness, likely concealed to save it from destruction during the Commonwealth.
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Lord Leigh
Warwickshire
Charles L
Vandyke
Air quality contrasts in Good Housekeeping citation
Charlotte Perkins Gilman argues in Good Housekeeping that despite strict cleanliness at home and high quality food, people still inhale polluted air from crowded gatherings. She notes modern life concentrates in large groups where air becomes foul with debris and disease germs, yet people continue to breathe it.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Good Housekeeping
Doctors and Celibacy Through Medieval Eras
The article traces the rule of celibacy for doctors from medieval monastic medicine to its decline in France where lay practice took over. After centuries of protest, the vow was abolished by papal authority near the end of the fifteenth century.
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France
Two Points of View on the Orange Peel Incident
A quarrel erupts between an exasperated old deacon and a bystander over sidewalk conduct. The deacon condemns littering as unchristian while the bystander retorts with a sharper critique about the peel causing a man to fall.
Anecdote of Gounod and the Barabbas Moment
The devout Catholic composer Charles Gounod nearly entered holy orders but stayed devoted to religious music. During a Vaudeville rehearsal for Drames Sacres the manager suggested more orchestral effect for the Barabbas scene. Gounod, after a pause, declared that such a blackguard does not deserve more music.
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Gounod
Funeral Garlands for Unmarried Deceased Virgins
The Westminster Gazette notes a lasting custom of funeral garlands for young unmanned women of blemishless character. Garlands, sometimes of metal or natural materials, featured a white glove center with the deceased’s name initials and age. They were laid before the coffin and often hung in the church, with crowns of flowers once placed on virgins’ heads in primitive times.
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Westminster Gazette
Funeral Customs in Scotland and Northern England
The Westminster Gazette notes traditional Scottish practices at death including drawing blinds, hanging white sheets, and keeping a special sheet for the death chamber. Relatives often lower the body into the grave and wait by the grave until it is filled.
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Scotland
England
Westminster Gazette
Public Stock Sale at Carey Farm Near Nevada and Ames
A public sale of 75 head of livestock and equipment will be held at the Carey farm nine miles northwest of Nevada, 34 miles northeast of Ames, Friday at 10 o clock. The catalog includes 22 steers two years old 23 steers one year old 7 heifers one year old 4 cows one fresh 1 registered Shorthorn bull 6 horses plus a new driving harness a road wagon corn fodder and corn in crib. Free lunch at noon. Terms include one year bankable notes at 8 percent interest or 2 percent off for cash cash payments for sums under five dollars. Settlement before removal. 41-2
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Carey
Nevada
Ames
Gilbert
Notice to dog owners on license due and enforcement
Owners are warned that dog licenses are due under ordinance 121. Unlicensed dogs found at large will be captured and placed in the city pound with a $1 fee for capture and feeding. Unclaimed dogs will be killed and buried. Licenses and tags available at City Clerk A. B. Maxwell's office.
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A. B. Maxwell
When You Have a Cold Use Chamberlains Cough Remedy
The article urges using Chamberlains Cough Remedy as the first action to relieve lungs during a cold. It claims the remedy liquefies mucus clears air cells and promotes expectoration aiding rapid recovery and reduces pneumonia risk. Sold by all druggists.
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R. K. Gaard
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C. B. Burton
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