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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1900
Page
3
Local misc notes include business ads for Harp stationers and greenhouse blooms, plus a June 19 church event at the Episcopal church. Local crimes report theft at Seward Mabie residence and a Northwestern wreck sequence with injuries including a death. Also notes on baptisms, marriages, and a kindergarten program by Emma Mills and Ethel Hamilton.
Florence Hoggatt Sonquist formerly of Ames dies in Chicago linked to exophthalmic goitre believed caused by grief for her daughter Hazel who died six years earlier in Ames. She leaves husband Robert Sonquist and son Gordon, four sisters, two brothers, and her mother Mrs. Abigail Hoggatt. Funeral held Monday at 4 p.m. with services by Rev. H. P. Douglass.
Joe Cohn visits Knoxville. Mrs White of What Cheer visits her son B F White. Miss Bess Read attends Iowa College commencement in Grinnell. Mrs Harriman and children return from Newton. Frank Sexton returns home and enjoys lunch with old folks. Margaret Leland returns from California. R T Sisson visits Clinton relatives ten days. Miss Josephine Wallace of Des Moines visits Miss Genevieve Westermann. Mrs Parley Sheldon returns from Chicago Til and Mechanicsville. C E Hitchcock and J A Crozier visiting J R Patterson. Jeff Kegley attends National Breeders Association in Des Moines. Mrs Phil Walsh and S H Beck visit Ames. Robert Sonquist arrives for wife Florence Hoggatt Sonquist’s death. Marie Raynor returns from Fort Dodge for summer with parents. Prof Wynn to Fairfield for funeral. Faith Douglass leaves for Grinnell to finish kindergarten until fall. A C Banks visits by sister Mrs Kelley of Rockford and brother A D Taylor of Rochelle. Nell Cole completes school year at Cedar Falls. resumes city schools in fall. Flo Fitchpatrick returns from Monte Vista Colorado. contracts to teach in Pueblo. G I Martin of Adair County visits Fred C Tilden. candidate for Republican Secretary of State. Lizzie Brainerd Clark of Knoxville visits Ames, Des Moines, and Elzie Decker home, then Marshalltown.
Dr D B Cargile of Washita I T reports Mrs Brewer cured of scrofula after years of sores on head and face. Electric Bitters described as a blood purifier and remedy for eczema and related ailments. Sold for 50 cents by L M Bosworth druggist with guarantee.
A Manchester Indiana man recalls nearly fatal measles related lung illness and hemorrhages. He credits Dr. King's New Discovery with a complete recovery after doctors said death was near. The remedy, regular size 50e and 1.00, with trial bottles free at L M Bosworth's drug store.
Des Moines officials dispute prior board report with Hungerford and Beardshear confirming a calm meeting. Rev O H Cessna fills history chair. Mrs Kilbourne succeeds Mrs Smith as preceptress. Dr Stalker named animal anatomy professor. C E Woodruff becomes director of physical culture. July could see more teaching staff changes.
A United Brethren Church plans Sunday morning and evening preaching by the pastor. The notice invites attendees to worship and hear the sermon.
Miss Gretta Zenor offers lessons to a limited number of scholars at C. E. Holmes music store. Terms are reasonable and applications are open.
A medical ad touts Dr. King's New Life Pills as a safe cure for a claimed stomach illness described as a monster devil fish driving constipation. It promises relief for stomach liver kidneys and bowels and offers the remedy at 25 cents at L. M. Bosworth's drug store.
Dray line for sale includes excellent dray team horse wagon harness and year license. Contact Perry Simmons for details.
CHAMPION lodge K P will observe their Memorial Sunday on the twenty fourth. The exercises will be for the K P s and Rathbone Sisters only at the ball in the afternoon.
The park’s name stems from the Irish Fionnaisge meaning clear water. The spring near the Dublin entrance of the viceregal lodge still exists in a Glen beside the lower lake, a romantic feature of the park.
The first movable type book, the Mazarin Bible printed by Gutenberg and Fust, issued August 14, 1456, is one of only two or three surviving copies. One copy was sold at auction last year by the Earl of Ashburnham to Bernard Quaritch of London for $19,360, the second highest price ever paid for a book.
Congressman Cummings recalls a change since he entered Congress about thirteen years ago. He notes Capitol grounds and nearby parks once teemed with robins, bobolinks, and other song birds. today robins are rare as English sparrows have driven them away.
A vintage advertisement claims Karl's Clover Root Tea shares herbs of healing from ancestors. It promises blood purification as a benefit and offers the product at 25 and 50 cents, attributed to L. M. Bosworth, a druggist.
A German patent generator uses a series of small dry cells between flexible fabric strips with metallic studs to contact the flesh for bodily electric therapy. The device delivers current to any body part through the fabric interface and skin contact points.
A report notes Dewey’s collection includes the oldest relic tied to the 1762 Manila Bay clash between English and Spanish forces. Another item is a flag once captured by Sir William Draper later owned by William Everett of Massachusetts and presented to the admiral.
A friend reports William M. Evarts very amused by a new account claiming he is gradually fading like an old photograph. He quips that the features are still visible if one looks closely.
Notes from New Linen explains that Bank of England currency is produced on new white linen cuttings, never from used material. The paper is prepared so precisely that each workman's number of dips into the pulp is recorded by a dialed machine, tracking the manufacturing process.
The new public school house in New Haven will bear the name of Dr Worthington Hooker a longtime Yale Medical School professor and former member of the New Haven Board of Education The naming honors his years of service to education and medicine in the city
The Presbyterian Church in England reports total revenue of 1,514,435 in the last financial year, up from 1,395,755. Membership increases to 74,541 from 73,249.
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