Social and church events fill Ames community calendar
Mrs Farnum and Miss Farnum host a two to five gathering at 1130 Boone Street. The Ladies Aid Society meets Friday 2:30 pm at 237 Park Avenue. Old Chautauqua Park hosts a Methodist Sunday school picnic and the Nonpareil club wraps up the year with a city park meeting and picnic. Fern Grover turns ten with a W H Grover party.
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Ladies Aid Society of
The
M. E. Church
Squyers
Park Avenue
Old Chautauqua Park
Unity Club
Howard Warren
Jefferson, Iowa
Lela Niles
Winfield
Kansas
Will Meiers
Baby
Belle Plaine
Kappa Zeta Sorority
Irene Budde
Oak Park
Chicago
Budde
Florence Brown
Ruth Curtiss
Farm House
Ames Hotel
Edith Ferguson
Kappa Zetas
Mary Kintzley
Lyla Wygle
Mabel Latham
Ula McNeil
An Artist's Joke About Holman Hunt
Holman Hunt, once a clerk for an auctioneer, draws portraits during work hours. He creates wings with delicate pencil strokes on ground glass window panes, fooling observers. His boss notices more flies every day as he enters the sunlit room and tries to brush them away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holman Hunt
Patchwork origins debated across centuries and regions
The piece argues patchwork did not originate in America, citing a thousand years before Christ queen of Egypt buried under a canopy dyed and pieced mosaic style. It notes patchwork and quilts in eighteenth century England as shown by Cowper’s lines to Mrs King about a quilt she made.
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America
Egypt
Nile
England
Cowper
A Mighty Man Topham Feats Of Strength
A Mighty Man Topham is described as a prince among English strong men with powerful arms. He could bend a bar of iron one and a half inches thick five feet long by placing its middle on his neck and bending the ends forward to meet his face. He once challenged a village blacksmith and created a lasting foe by snapping several horseshoes as easily as pine sticks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topham
Woman suffers two weeks from mosquito bite story
A humorous Chicago note contrasts a woman bedridden two weeks after a mosquito bite with a man who has endured years of henpecking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
King of the Long Horn Ranch in Ames Show
Steiner’s big dramatic company of Western stars will perform King of the Long Horn Ranch in Ames under a big tent on Saturday, June 17. Also listed: a for sale note for a second hand gasoline stove and an ad urging Martin county Minnesota land buyers to compare prices with Ames area offers from Rodgers & Rich, Hyde & Grant.
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Col. H. EB. Steiners
Big Dramatic Company
Arizona
Young Buffalo
Long Horn Ranch
Ames
Martin County
Minnesota
Rodgers & Rich
Hyde & Grant Land Co
Fairmont
Minn
Annual Summer School Opens at Nevada
The annual summer school opened Monday at the Nevada high school building as a preparatory step to the Normal Institute. Supt. Scott leads with Miss Nelle V MecNichols as secretary and a teaching staff including Supts Hicks Ames Nims and Prof Dana. Enrollment is about 75 with far more young women than men and sessions run 7:00–11:30 a.m. and 1:30–4:00 p.m. Attendees from Ames include Ethel Briggs Dessa Walker Delia Swain Beulah Hoot Marie Beedle and Mildred Kingsbury.
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Normal Institute
Nevada High School
Supt. Scott
Supt
Hicks
Ames
Nims
Nevada
Prof
Dana
Cambridge
Ethel Briggs
Dessa Walker
Delia Swain
Beulah Hoot
Marie Beedle
Mildred Kingsbury
Local business drives fill band project as reviews spread
Businessmen at Ames respond generously to a Times suggestion for a band. A circulated paper reports a tidy sum collected. Plans for the new third ward school face west after a Monday night board meeting. Births and health notes include a newborn son to Mr and Mrs Peter son. Geo W O'Brien visits Ames while residing in Seattle.
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Third Ward
Ames Church Debate Draws Local Satire in Iowa News
The Ames discussion on city churches provokes satirical commentary from the New Era and Times editors, suggesting the town has too many houses of worship. A separate item notes the wedding of George Tilden to Freeda Agataz at Ritzville Congregational church with a Seattle home ahead and a Minnesota visit planned for kin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genevieve Westerman
Ames
Josephine Wallace
Des Moines
Margaret McKee
Ireland
New York
Beyruth
Willard Morris
Morris
the Times
The
Intelligencer
the Intelligencer
Times
Baxter
Iowa
New Era
Gregational Church
Ritzville
Wash
Agataz
Seattle
Mr. Tilden
Lydia C. Tilden
Minneapolis
J. G. Tilden
Minnesota
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Fern Grover
W. H. Grover
Fourth Ward
Baptist Ladies Missionary Society
N. E. Perkins
J. M. Johnston
Kelley
Ruth Dyer
Lois Boardman
Harold .Nichols
Lyons
Mrs. Nichols
Country Club
Mae Laving
Cedar Falls
Greeley
Colorado
Millie Ellis
Tom C Ceelis and
Mr. Browning
Heine
King OF the
Ames Gas Co
E. B. Ball
Luther
R. BR
Napier
Douglass Ave
6Th Street
Fred Ballard
M. K. Smith
Coles
Se Od Lynch
G. BE. Farnum
Boone St
Miss Nelle
MecNichols
Perrys
Geo. W. O’brien
EB. G. Peterson
Lafe Brewster
L. C. Brewster of
Carroll
Ae. Ee Eee
Ames, Lowa
K. P
Old Chautaqua Park
George Tilden
Freeda
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