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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1892
Page
5
The department announces plans to make its section a feature of the paper. It will endeavor to fill space weekly with items of interest to all readers.
Miss Hazel Beardshear returns home. Miss Alene Chester to oversee the book room this term. Updates on faculty, students, and campus events at the Iowa Agricultural College, with notices on mail delivery, dormitory life, and local reports from Boone, Ogden, and surrounding areas.
A weekly roundup notes a Boone minister preaching at Worrell's Grove last Sunday both services and again next Sunday. Miss Alice Hurst returns home, Miss Josie Keltner works at Mr Fitchpatrick's, and Miss May Swartzendrover goes to Grand Junction next Saturday with cousin Hattie Hurst.
A collage of curious statements including counting moons, rainfall in New Mexico, banana leaf size, and a New York saloon glass bill. It also mentions the Crown of St Stephen in Buda Pesth, gas lighting origins, Japanese Lantern Festival dates, the first oil well in Kentucky, and various historical curiosities and quotations.
Plenty of rain slows activity in Gilbert. Miss Emma Anderson of Mt. Ayr Iowa visits. Locals read about a green goods scheme with a letter from Gilbert Station Iowa sending $10 in a partner’s name and asking for returns. Business remains not brisk.
An advertisement proclaims the sole agent for Sisson's Safety Halter claiming it is the best halter to prevent and cure halter pullers and to break a colt to lead in ten minutes.
Baroness von Zuyllan of Paris maintains the finest stables in the world for her horses. Her three acre complex features a central carpeted aisle to a tea room where horses come to the table for sugar. The claim contrasts with czarist stables in grandeur.
A Boston woman at Portland Union Station forgot her destination name. Pressed for a guess she blurted cats whiskers and was sold a ticket to Wiscasseb, a mistaken destination. The incident highlights travel misdirections at the station.
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