County News In General Highlights Local Events and Legal Notices
The Nevada Journal reports on a variety of county happenings including a verdict of five dollars in a suit over a suit, a runaway near Slater with minor injuries, a boy injured on a Fourth of July merry-go-round, tuberculosis tests on cattle, and weed control along highways. Other items note strawberry crops near Roland, goatherds selling in Story County, a divorce suit by Blanche Kirkman Morgan, a sky rocket incident at a bank, plans for a new Story City depot, editorial change in Colo, and a notable minister’s itinerary plus numerous property transfers and legal notices across Story County towns.
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Blanche Kirkman Morgan
Story County
Polk County
Health recovery story of Ira W. Kelley from Mansfield
Ira W. Kelley of Mansfield Pa writes about long illness with kidney and bladder trouble. He describes years of poor health and relief found after treatment, noting improved strength and wellbeing following care.
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Ira W. Kelley
Mansfield, Pa
Too Much Culture Aunt Penelope Wiggins Quips at Matilda
In a summer visit, Aunt Penelope Wiggins mocks a Vassar graduate niece who jokes about English accents. She corrects her name from Aunty Penultimate to Aunt Penelope, recalling the humorous moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penelope Wiggins
Vassar College
Penelope
Matilda
Pocahontas in England and the Impact of Her Visit
Pocahontas born in 1595, daughter of Powhatan, ruler of thirty tribes in Virginia. In England her grace won many friends, she met Queen Anne, attended a bishop's ball, and saw Shakespeare. Yet she longed for her forest life while awaiting return on the George.
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Pocahontas
Powhatan
Virginia
Elizabeth
England
Queen Anne’s Court
London
Globe Theater
George
Ames Poultry Association Trophies at Upcoming Show
The Ames Poultry Association, though young, has grown into one of the state’s best and largest clubs. Last winter’s show drew wide attendance and many birds from across the state, prompting early inquiries for next season. The association will offer silver trophies, a prize valued by winners beyond money, with Secretary Fowler graciously providing trophy cuts for the Times.
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Ames Poultry Association
Fowler
Association
Times
Notable quote on unity across hemispheres and races
In Circle Magazine William Ordway Partridge remarks that a person fired at Gravesend lived long enough to unite two hemispheres two races and two civilizations.
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Gravesend
William Ordway Partridge
Circle Magazine
Lives of Old Violins Take New Chapter in History
The New York World notes the lives of old Italian violins. After decades idle or played by amateurs, a famed instrument like a Strad or Guarnerius returns to a new master, beginning another chapter in its long life of sweetness and admiration.
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George Lehman
Strad
Guarnerius
New York World
Calcutta's Jungle Villages Described as Town by Quirk
Calcutta is portrayed as a vast spread of low huts along the Hooghly river, a dense jungle of dwellings that grows into a city only by its commercial and political weight and population. The piece calls it a series of jungle villages plastered on the riverbank with a trowel.
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Calcutta
Hooghly
Tampered Truth and Witty Classroom Exchange
A Chicago News item notes a humorous remark about large women with a skeptical aside about truth. A schoolteacher explains conceit to his class, asking what they would call him for bragging about himself, and a student replies a liar. The snippets showcase light, quotable humor in brief newspaper style.
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Chicago News
The Unconquered One Demetrius and Seneca's Hero
Seneca recounts Demetrius of Phalerum who took Megara yet proclaimed his inner possessions untouched despite ruin. He faced loss of daughters, conquest, and flames, but asserted that true goods endure beyond city walls and plunder. One man remained unscathed in spirit while all else burned around him.
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Demetrius
Polloreetos
Megara
Stilbo
Seneca
His Powers as a Mimic Impress Hostess and Gentleman
A Chicago Record-Herald item recounts a hostess praising her son’s marvelous mimicry after overhearing him impersonate a gentleman. The amused father concedes the boy could imitate a refined man if he practiced more.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Montaigne's Reflection on Small Things
A terse meditation notes how minor concerns strain attention as much as large trials. The quotation echoes Montaigne’s view that subtle, everyday matters demand care and thought, revealing a philosophy of proportion in human focus.
Creative Interpretation of Musical Genius
The Etude argues interpretation blends Beethoven like construct with Bach and Mozart inflections. It claims creativity arises when subjective and objective minds synchronize, using tones and rhythms as bricks while balancing personal temperament with impersonal craft.
The Limit: A Snippet of Gossip in Baltimore
A brief gossiping exchange portrays a fashionable physician as notably jovial and confident. The jab about Cholly Lofted hints at hidden concerns or secrets, reflecting a street corner style of humor from the Baltimore American.
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Cholly
Baltimore
Memorable Day with Dr. King's New Life Pills
A nostalgic note praises Dr. King's New Life Pills as painless purifiers that cure headache and biliousness and keep the bowels right. The ad notes the price 25c and that they are available at all druggists.
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Dr. King
Pure Ice Cream Promotes Strict Quality Standards
The article touts ice cream makers adhering to pure food rules, contrasting unsanitary rivals with Boone and Des Moines products. It claims scientifically ventilated factories, spotless freezing rooms, and no impurities, promising frozen, ready-to-serve packs without soft cream issues.
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Pure Food Commission
Boone and
Trier Concert Company to perform at Christian Church
The Trier Concert Company will give a hit of the season program at the Christian Church on Tuesday evening July 23. The Royal Guides of the M. E. Sunday School will serve ice cream on the Henry Westerman lawn at 1021 Doug lass street Tuesday evening July 23.
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Trier
The
Christian Church
Royal Guides
M. E
Henry Westerman
Douglass Street
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County News
Nevada Journal
P. E. Bolin
Boone
Martin
Nevada
Henry Weeks
Slater
Kelley
Mrs. Weeks
Johnny Bolser
Maxwell
J. H. McNeil
O. J. Jacobson
Roland
A. Carr
Collins
Sam Nelson
Dunlap
Wyatt Carr
Guy Clift
Bank
Story City
A. M. Henderson
M. O. Marvick
Des Moines
T. L. Gossard
Colo
A. I. Boreman
Brother Gossard
Cole
Janes S. Montgomery
Rev. Montgomery
Good Old
Ireland
Divine Providence
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Toledo
Wesley Church
Minneapolis
Trinity Church
Denver
Fowler Church
Fawcett
Harriet A Sykes
Marie Larson
J P Larson
Wiers
A W van Houten
Ames Sav Bank
Duffs
Ames
Hiestand
J L Stevens Et al
Perry Bower
J L Stevens
Alto
Bower
Ad Ames
Angeline Holland
Nelson
Slater Junction
O Ambrose
Robison
Elwell
Emma Benbow
George & Littles
Snedden E Winter
Lockwood
L H Pammel
Orville Rowley
Ives
E J Penfield
Orin S Mead
Harrimans
Ella N Lyman
Z K
Graves
Lees
Eli Thompson
P J
Martin J Hanson
Huxley
Halvor H Musland
Christine
Olaf Gunderson
Larson
Ad Story City
H L
AH Munn
H L Munn Lumber Co
Sheldon
van Houten
J O Neil
T S Wilson
T S Blakssee
Alice E Arrasmith
J W Caughey
A M Kelley
Srack Loughran
Bauer
Ames Poultry Breeders Association
Ble
Foley
Cagwin Druggist
Ames Poultry Ass’n Trophies
Rhode Island
Montaigne
Mason’s
Mason's
B. A. Knudson
Geo. E. Baker
New York
Ever Ames
Kelle
Des Moines Unction
Eevoeterer Alleman Uxiey
Aeetee Eee
Anken
DES Moines Pork Junction
Frise
A.ma
Eiss
Bene Ericson
Gem City Business College
Quincy
Ill
Manshi
L. M. Gisson Co
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