May 1905 Ames Library Report and Festival Closings
The Ames Library reports May 1905 activity including books purchased donated repaired and new readers registered. Circulation shows 910 books issued over 1793 visitors with $4.53 in fines and 55 largest daily circulation and 35 average daily circulation. The note announces a two-book rule for fiction only and library closures during three day festival with story hours for children on Wednesdays and Thursdays starting July 6. Missing back issues of McClure's requested. Librarian Kirtie B. Freep signs. Z. K. Craves seeks fruit orders and TILDEN Bros. & Co. advertises sewing jobs.
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McClure
Kirtie B. Freep
Personal Paragraphs Highlight Ames Area Socials
Mayor Sheldon visits Chicago on business. Numerous Ames residents travel to Boone Madrid and Chicago for weddings visits and work. Attendees include Harriett Watts J W Adams Charles Fenton and many others with relatives across Des Moines Madison and other towns.
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Sheldon
Chicago
J. W. Adams
Sioux City
Shriners
Charles Fenton
Zearing
M. C. Ufford
Fred Alm
Arvid
W. G. Wright
Nevada
Ames
Marlborough’s Arc Tactics at Ramillies
The London Standard explains Marlborough’s victory at Ramillies by geometry. The French line formed an arc on a ridge with Autre Eglise and the Tomb ot Tammon d behind the right. Marlborough feinted at Autre Eglise then struck along the arc chord to seize the key height before French reinforcements could arrive.
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Marlborough
Ramillies
Villeroi
Autre Eglise
Ottamond
London Standard
Jubilee Convention attendance shifts to Des Moines services
At a Wednesday prayer meeting the Christian Church voted to omit Sunday night preaching and attend the State Jubilee Convention in Des Moines. Bible School and preaching proceed at regular Sunday morning hours.
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J. D. McAffee
Bedford
Ind
Abbie Hoggatt
R. Ramey
Ethel
Portland
Oregon
John Cole
Chicago
Cleveland
Ohio
Jackson Beyer
Englebeck
Des Moines
Jennie Beyer
Ing
Union
The
Christian Church
C. E. Holmes
The Perfect Foot Across Nations and Time
A quirky collection of foot fashion and racial contrasts compares the ideal American foot to French Spanish German and English types. It cites elegance strength and faults with playful ethnographic tone and mocks English feet as uniquely unattractive before recalling a Napoleonic era secret about German arms and Mexican ambitions.
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Minneapolis Journal
Stevenson and Wallace
Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace once spoke with a youth in Edinburgh who claimed deep knowledge of Russia. The youth had just been reviewing Wallace's Russia while Wallace replied he had just been writing it. The anecdote notes that the speaker lived to become famous: Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Stevenson
Wallace
Donald Mackenzie Wallace
Edinburgh
Russia
R. L. Stevenson
Sorrow and the meaning of pain in life
A reflective passage on sorrow as a constant in life. The author cites F W Robertson praising sorrow's divine sacredness and the lesson it yields about life’s deeper meaning.
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F. W. Robertson
Hypocrisy Cited as Folly in Lord Burleigh Quote
A quotation from Lord Burleigh notes hypocrisy as folly and declares it easier to appear one thing than to truly be what one seems. The saying implies discomfort in maintaining false appearances versus authentic character.
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Lord Burleigh
Why is the wife of a lord called Lady
A dialogue explains that she is titled as Lady by virtue of her marriage. The exchange notes that the designation signals her status, even if not immediately obvious to onlookers.
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Ethel
Mamma
Avarice and the Life After Pleasure and Ambition
A terse aphorism notes that avarice often follows a life wasted on pleasure then ruled by ambition. The quote attributed to Johnson reflects moral counsel on desire and self control.
Electric button won’t accomplish much unless pushed
Quote from Philadelphia Record notes the need for action beyond mere devices. The aphorism underscores active effort as essential to effect change, implying that tools alone do not trigger progress without decisive human input.
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Philadelphia Record
Mid-Summer Festival planned in Ames for July 3–5
The Mid-Summer Festival committees in Ames announce entertainment for July 3 4 and 5. Events include baseball old time celebration and races with prizes. A decorated wagon and largest township delegation win big prizes. Story City band will play and J Percival Hnugget of Cedar Rapids will give the oration.
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Ames
Story City Band
J. Percival Hnugget
Cedar Rapids
Real estate transfers include Ames subdivisions and lots
Fannie Cairns transfers a $400 lot in Cairns sub division north of Ames. Charles L. Baxter sells lot 7 in Millens subdivision, price $700. C G Lee sells sw 35 84 24 to John B Kooser for $1,500. Agnes Cole conveys lot 1 of 5 wig sub at sw 48 24 for $1,000. O D Freed transfers to W J Freed $200 northwest of out lot A. O D Freed to K B Freed $2,500 south 46 feet of out lot A.
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Fannie Cairns
H. P. McCutcheon
Cairns
Ames
Charles L. Baxter
Buckton
Millens
C. G. Lee
John B. Kooser
Agnes Cole
W. R. Lambert
O. D. Freed
W. J. Freed
Kittie B. Freed
Bartlett & Dewet City Property for Sale
Bartlett and Dewet of City list multiple properties for sale including a fine ten room modern house on a large lot with barn and several other homes of eight to sixteen rooms plus three lots, fruit acreage, furnace heat, and varied locations on the south side and new seven room house.
A Queer Insect: Walking Sticks and Leaves
Describes phasmid insects of tropical America and Africa. Notes their twig like bodies and bark camouflage. Mentions Vane the traveler who saw specimens so large they resembled animated clubs moving on trees.
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America
Africa
Vane
Handle With Care As Freight Tale Warns
Alma Kansas Signal recounts a darkly comic warning about shipments marked Handle With Care. A railroad worker mocked the label and mishandled the package, culminating in a fatal collapse during a reckless act amid depot chaos.
Quintain Tale From Offham Green Kent England
The quintain sport survives only in Offham Green Kent. It derived its name from a tilting instrument with a vertical post a crossbar pivot and a bag of sand at the far end. The rider aimed to strike the board fast enough to clear before the sand bag whirled back to strike.
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Offham Green
Kent
England
Pleasant by Comparison. Old Hanks Photo Session
A captioned exchange shows Mr Hanks ready for a formal photograph with a pleasanter expression requested by the photographer and Mrs Hanks noting his look upon arrival. The scene captures a light moment from a Chicago Tribune caption.
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Old Hanks
Spiteful exchange hints at tense romance
Ida-Why and May discuss a flirtatious moment that startled them. May suspects Tom’s sudden boldness stems from losing his senses, while Ida-Why reacts with disbelief. The dialogue hints at social friction and romantic tension.
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Ida
May
Tom Dear
Evened Up in a Quick Market Move
Von Blumer recalls watching a stock rise 20 points in an hour while his ticket balanced out. Dimpleton notes his wife was at her dressmaker's during the same interval.
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von Blumer
Piano Sale Promises Bargains Across Instruments
The notice advertises a big piano sale with several bargains left including an almost new piano valued at 300 dollars offered at 185 dollars and three slightly used pianos priced from 165 to 210 dollars. It also mentions organs with major deals starting at 12 dollars.
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Little Son
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O. H. Cessna
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Frank Danforth
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M. L. Page
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N. S. Tedrow
Nancy Butler
Geo. Baker
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F. H. Munn
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L. H. Pammel
M. K. Smith
Chas. Wilson
Owan Hecker
Minot
N. D
Sterling
Myron C. Ufford
Ethel Capps
Mildred Maxwell
H. A. Stratton
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Ronald
Still College
A. S. Heggen
Kate
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Ethel Underwood
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A. M. Shea
American Express Co
8S. C. Stratton
East
Boone Street
Geometry
Marltborough
Napoleon III
France
Grisons
Mexico
Johnson
Bartlett & Dewet
City
John
Rye
LOOD
Geo. W. Little’s Feed Store
MFGR
Huskers Liniment
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