Priscilla Club Meets Next Wednesday at Farm House
The Priscilla club will meet next Wednesday with Mrs. Curtiss at the Farm House.
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1910
Page
8
The Priscilla club will meet next Wednesday with Mrs. Curtiss at the Farm House.
Miss May Loving will host a Friday evening event for Kappa Zeta at the Theta Zi house, inviting members to attend.
Mrs F R Conaway hosts a Des Moines guest with a weekend visit, the Women's Relief Corps serves ice cream cake and a cold supper next Saturday in the Odd Fellows dining room, and Mr and Mrs J H Sweeney celebrate their 42nd anniversary and Sweeney's 64th birthday with relatives from Jewell and beyond. Other items include Pythian Sisters temple reinstatement led by Mrs Ora Rogers of Boone, new officers elected, and a Priscilla club gathering with talks by Miss Lillian Weaver about Munich life and a Bavarian girls school.
A Cleveland woman testimonials relief after using Dr Miles Nervine for nervous prostration. The ad claims nerves regulate body functions and markets Nervine as a nerve specific that soothes irritation and aids nerve force. It offers a money back guarantee through the druggist.
Small excursion parties plan visits to historic cities to hear grand opera. Miss Weaver shares Munich life and Oberammergau Passion Play insights before returning home to Des Moines. Jackson club boys enjoy a two day river camp with Rev. Houser and Baraca members, mornings start with Bible reading and prayers, days filled with swimming fishing and games.
A Sunday evening vesper program at Congregational church features organ, solos, quartets, and a postlude, followed by the installation of Beardshear Circle No. 68 Ladies of the G A R in Odd Fellows hall. More than twenty ladies and several comrades become charter members. Mrs Ida Hare Warfield presides as Iowa department president.
An article explains that chimney smoke can appear to beat down due to a sudden drop in atmospheric pressure before storms. It argues buoyancy, not air heaviness, governs smoke behavior, citing experiments and comparisons to salt water buoyancy and weather prediction.
A Vegetarian Magazine piece outlines spinach and horseradish as high in sulphur and iron, while pumpkin, cucumbers, and apples provide phosphorus. It notes lettuce as nerve food and suggests lemon juice over vinegar, promoting pumpkin diets for phosphorus intake.
Ira A. Williams a Williams Mining Engineering professor and Miss Jessie Wood private secretary to Dean Marston wed in Minneapolis Saturday July 9 with Dr Cessna officiating at the Radisson hotel. The couple plans an extended western trip visiting California and Spokane relatives before college opens in September.
An old lady helps a boy reach a wind up toy car trapped by a fence. She retrieves it but the boy claims ownership, then runs away leaving her to ponder his honesty and her compromised conscience.
Meteoric dust forms from incandescent iron vapor in meteor fireballs. Meteors bombarding Earth at thousands per hour yield only five to six visible per hour. Minute spheres descend as an invisible, non corrosive shower shaped by upper air currents.
A vintage product promotion claims Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets gently stimulate the liver and bowels to expel poisonous matter, cleanse the system, cure constipation and sick headache. Sold by all dealers.
An agent solicitation from W. T. Sulia of Austin Minnesota invites readers to buy or trade for a Canada land section and save on commissions. The notice is dated December 21.
The piece recounts Voltaire's failed dueling attempts in which the Chevalier de Rohan Chabot provoked a fight but instead had Voltaire whipped by masked hirelings in a coach. Voltaire then sought municipal aid in a bid to restore his honor.
Mary Lieaton Worse argues in Success Magazine that the bargain hunt wastes more money than gambling or racing. She cites personal experience in city shops and observations of women of all classes succumbing to impulse buying like ninety eight cent undergarments. She notes psychological deviations driving the phenomenon.
A Chicago Tribune quip has Mr Gaswell told a dealer his wife wants a rare violin and the dealer replies with a genuine Stradivarius offered at 3000 dollars. The exchange notes her belief that such instruments cost more.
An explorer recalls the sun in the Arctic as resembling a magnified elusive gold dollar, a vivid image cited by the Washington Star.
A reader question from the Cleveland Leader contrasts grammar usage in the line a man lies easy versus a man lies easily and asks which form is correct. The pupil asks for the correct subject verb and adverb placement.
Three hungry boys race upstairs for cake. Tommy wins and is offered a piece, but he asks which piece has the worm in it, in a sober, curious moment. The tale captures a child’s playful mischief with a dash of wit from National Monthly.
Court scene in London where a pompous magistrate declares a pig theft a serious offense and vows to set an example to curb rising pig stealing in the district. The dramatic remark highlights tensions over animal theft.
Proposals for installing and erecting closets and urinals in Welch and Beardshear ward school buildings in Ames Iowa will be received by the Ames Independent School District Board of Education at the secretary's office in Ames until 7 PM August 8 1910. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office. Contracts awarded to lowest responsible bidder. The board may reject any or all bids. Co H Pasley Secy Ames Iowa July 14 1910.
An advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as restoring vitality and regulating the kidneys liver and stomach. It promises a money back guarantee if it fails to cure with a 35 cent price for tea or tablets and credits Joel E. Cag win.
The piece extols the Chicago Record-Herald Sunday Magazine as a unique, high quality feature among American journalism, noting it stands out for substance in contrast to the usual Sunday paper content. It asserts the magazine’s exceptional nature within the era's press.
An advertisement by Joel E. Cagwin promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy for headaches, constipation, kidney and liver troubles, claiming it will make you well.
The Independent School District of Ames Iowa invites bids for about 600 tons of lump coal to be delivered to school bins for the coming winter. The board may reject any or all bids. Send bids by August 1 1910 to C H Pasley Secretary Board of Education.
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