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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1910
Page
8
A London theatre pit scene described with orderly queues forming by 5 o clock and crowds paying 2s 6d for entry. A newsboy offers placeholding and hackneyed vaudeville acts entertain while hawkers sell snacks before doors open for the performance.
In Great Yarmouth parish churchyard a gravestone shows a clown riding a tub drawn by two swans as crowds once gathered to watch a circus stunt. The rush to view the underbridge performance caused a fatal collapse killing spectators. The judge dismissed humor as the prisoner faced a year.
Agnes sits playing bridge all afternoon with her back to a glorious mountain view and is noted as president of the Back to Nature club in Life.
In the Miss De Style vignette a life flower metaphor implies preservation by a possessive suitor. Miss Gunbusta recalls witnessing pressure applied to the subject, suggesting coercive control within a relationship.
At the Upper Des Moines Editorial Association in Iowa City on July 7 and 8, Howard Rann of the Manchester Press delivered a humorous paper read by Hoffit of the Eldora Herald. The talk contrasts country printers with farmers, laments price cuts in job printing, and argues editors suffer while farmers prosper, urging a return to nature and simpler work.
A list of property transfers in Ames, Colo, and Nevada with multiple grantors and grantees, including parcels in blocks and additions, followed by an advertisement praising Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a purifier for total body cleansing and health. The notice names Joel E. B. Cagwin.
The Independent School District of Ames Iowa invites bids for about 500 tons of Jump coal for delivery to school bins for winter use. Bids will be opened after August 1, 1910. the board may reject any or all bids. Contact Secretary C H Pasley with submissions.
Story County Veterans Association set dates August 25 and 26 1910 in Ames city park. Committees listed include Grounds and Privileges Finance Vocal Music Entertainments Martial Music Advertising and Program with Parley Sheldon in charge. Also notes about Des Moines Airdome theatre and Dr Shoop Pain Tablets sold by Cagwin’s drug store.
Saturday morning sale offers brown rubber cloth suitcases made over heavy board for school books lunches samples and parcels. Sizes 12x14x16. Entire lot at 9 o clock at 25 cents each limit one per customer no telephone orders accepted W A Perry.
The world’s most successful medicine for bowel complaints relieves pain and suffering and saves lives. Valuable for children and adults. Sold by all dealers.
The Register and Leader promotes fair impartial coverage of the state convention and general election. Daily mail subscription offered through election day November 15 with Sunday edition included.
The dramatization of Marie Corelli as Thelma will be shown at the Des Moines Airdome starting Sunday night July 24. Antionette Roche stars for the first week delivering a strong emotional title role with the entire company presenting a new scenic production and costumes ordered from Philadelphia.
Contents list for McClure's Magazine August 1910 includes fiction by Eleanor Stuart Elsie Singmaster George Pattullo and Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews. essays on city reforms. poetry by Katharine Tynan Dora Sigerson Shorter Sydney Brooks and William James. biographies. a Rockefeller Grand Jury item. and an advertisement for Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
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