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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
8
The civil service commission announces exams for many positions over the next six months. Information may be obtained from Assistant Postmaster Rich, secretary of the local board of examiners.
The Elks at Boone opened their new lodge and club rooms in the National Bank Building with a public reception on Thursday. The event marks a stylish new home for the lodge and its members.
The article discusses why surgical bills vary widely from $50 to $5,000. It explains that some surgeons use a fixed price scheme aimed at roughly one month’s income, charging proportional amounts based on a patient’s earnings, and notes public confusion when bills differ greatly for similar operations.
In ancient times Tyre’s Phoenician ships sailed from the Suez area to England, inspiring Greek and Roman models and later Venice and Portugal. English shipwrights advanced the craft while far eastern builders clung to Tyrian forms, with high sterns and low maws evolving as wind power grew. Modern vessels recall Columbus’ era, yet Persian and Indian ships persist in Tyre’s wake. Mariners still rely on stars and wind, sailing around lands to Mecca and trading with Hindus, Arabs, and Indo-Chinese peoples aboard cargo ships carrying pilgrims and livestock under a colonial-era gaze.
Story county rural mail carriers held their annual convention in Nevada city hall on Washington's Birthday weekend with eighteen members present. George James of Story City read a paper on Good Roads and the group elected Chas E Fleming president and W B Klump, E O Stitman, and O K Helvig to offices. The next meeting was set for Cole on February 23, 1908.
The Manchester Guardian traces the proverb to falconry origins. It explains how hawk and heron prey were contrasted and how the saying evolved through corruption to handsaw in Hamlet.
The London Chronicle notes that Italy Hol land Norway Switzerland Portugal and Russia do not inflict death penalty except for rulers heirs to thrones. It cites Zug canton Switzerland with a minimum of three years for willful homicide and a life maximum.
A witty exchange at a subway station features a sweet young woman asking for an express train and an escort reminding it is not an express station. The dialogue closes with a terse complaint and a Hesiod quote about working evil.
Public auction on February 27 at 1 p m will offer 9 head of horses 45 head of cattle 4 milch cows and various farm implements. Personal property of the Armstrong estate includes horses cattle seed corn posts plows wagons harness and buggy with terms of one year notes at 8 percent or 2 percent off for cash. Administrators EB Posegate A G Wing and clerk Parley Sheldon oversee the sale.
Two couples from Slater eloped by train to Des Moines to wed in justice Cope's office. John Hagg and Mabel Christianson wed Frank Nelson and Katie Neilson after a staged romance. Friends found out later at the depot as the couples departed for home.
The Ames based poet and composer C. H. Meiers adds a new composition titled Mid the Maples Near that Cottage Far Away to his catalog. The Treloar Music issues the latest song.
Qualified electors of the Independent District of Ames Story County Iowa are notified of the annual meeting at City Hall on the second Monday in March 1908 from 1 to 6 pm. A three year director will succeed John Judge and Henry Ison. a two year treasurer will succeed Parley Sheldon. Secretary H Passery.
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