County News In General Shows Local Festivities And Incidents
Roland hosts a Fourth celebration with double jointed peanuts red lemonade and toy pistols. Dan Hurst Ames graduate opens veterinary practice in Cambridge. Hague Synod annual meeting in Roland draws global attendees. Ed Reynolds horse accident at Cole injures rider and companion. Chries Green of Maxwell improves after factory belt injury. Story City condemns dog muzzles as classed by local papers. Ames updates include business moves housing lots and several community notices. Moving picture company to perform in Ames June 25 at Armory Opera House.
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Roland
Foley
Cagwin
Times-Republiccan
Rockwell Phonograph
T. A
D. W. Robertson
Moving Picture
New York City
Ames
Iowa
Armory Opera House
Robertson
Gibson’s
N. L. Baker
Quaker City
Harry Willard
America
Claude V. Lewis
B. F. Coan
Resolutions of Respect for James Miller
Yeoman Homestead No 833 Ames Iowa reaches a memorial for James Miller dated June 19 1907. The resolutions express sympathy to his family and request mourning draped charter for thirty days and publication in local papers. Committee I J Ferguson Perry Bower F R Conaway.
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Yeoman
Ames
Iowa
Earth
James Miller
Wheereas
I. J. Ferguson
Perry Bower
F. R. Conaway
Concrete stock water tank praised on G. A. Underwood farm
A Times reporter toured the G. A. Underwood farm and encountered a 32 barrel concrete stock water tank by Gregory models from Grove & Mosher. Underwood lauds its frost proof design and durability, recounting the farm’s water-access innovations and crediting Harry Kelso as a helper. The piece also promotes Chamberlain’s remedies, noting a set of five products sold by Judisch Bros for 1.26 dollars.
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G. A. Underwood
Grove & Mosher
Uunderwood
Powell’s
Harry Kelso
Mr. Underwood
Harry
Story County
Old Ames House Moves Across Rail Line
Bob Darner bought one of Ames oldest houses and moved it from its former site near the armory to a vacant lot in Harriman & Lee addition. He arranged to cross the motor line by supplying water and fuel to halt at Burnett street, moving at night. the process stretched into the next day, with the house headed for Meadowlark Station likely to rest for decades.
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Gus Leecing
Onondaga Street
Ed Rutherford
Rutherford
W. R. Ward
Oversberg
Tenn
Baker and Knudson
Mark Wayne Williams
West London Tabernacle
London
England
Christian Church
Boraca
J. J. Grove
Williams
Herman Williams
Ames
Bob Darner
Armory
Mr. Darner
Harriman & Lee
Bob
Burnett Street
Meadowlark Station
Sudden Death of Elijah Wire in Cambridge Home
Elijah Wire died suddenly at his daughter Mrs. G. M. Person's home on June 18. The funeral will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at the residence, with interment in Cambridge cemetery. A mine excursion party left four baskets of lunch at the 1500 foot level, but miners at 1200 feet found only empty hampers and twenty men feasting on chicken salad and champagne, dancing a Cornish breakdown.
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Elijah Wire
G. M. Person
Cambridge
London Express
Unconquered Spirit Amid Destruction
Seneca recounts Demetrius Polliarchates in Megara who, despite his city’s fall, remains unbroken. He declares his true goods endure, bearing them amid flames, ruins, and plunder, proving that a steadfast mind cannot be conquered or harmed by fortune.
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Demetrius
Polliarcetes
Megara
Stilbo
Seneca
Autographs and a Patron's Poem in Aldrich Story
The writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich preferred genuine admirers seeking a personal token over professional autograph hunters. A touching request from a woman grieving for her child led him to copy and send the entire poem from Babie Bell. Weeks later he found the same manuscript for sale in an autograph dealer's shop.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Mr. Aldrich
Babie Bell
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Hague Synod
Ed. Reynolds
Cole
Fair Lady
Chries Green
Maxwell
McHose Brick and Tile Factory
Huxley
City Herald
Olson
the Tribune
Miss Eldred
High Street
College Inn
C. E. Latham
Cupps
Wm. Watkins
Carrie Horton
Smith
School House
College Street
Northwestern Street
Red Men
Pocahontas
Red Men’s Hall
Len Queal
Knight of the Brush
H. A. Ringgenberg
Prof. Kennedy
Hoggatt Street
Iown
Bro. Ringgenberg
The
Life and Death
W. L. Brandt
North Ames
J. D. Grove
Blair
City of
W. T. Smith
Hollister
L. M. Bosworth
Bob McCarthy
Tom Thompson
Tom
D. L. Parker
Duff Street
Underwood
Chamberlain
Judisch Bros
Sherwin-Williams Co
Bosworth Drug Store
Mutual Telephone
Iowa Telephone
City
College
365 Mutual
Ames Pantorium
C. E. Holmes
Ames, Ia
W. G. Stockwell
Prop
Bell Phone
13Ix
Lockwood
Wisconsin
American Colonization Company
Chippewa Ridg
Chippewa Falls
Hayward
Wis
Jone Bros Spy
Tone Brothers
Tone Bros
Des Moines
Ana
Airantion
Judisch
Ames, Iowa
M. H. Kelso
Hamilton Black
Daniel McCarthy
J. Y. Luke
McCarthy & Luke
Attorneys At Law
Story County Bank
A. L. Potter
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