The Jumping Off Place and Civic Laugh Lines
A collage of social witticisms and reflections on public manners, crime language, weddings, and theater. A narrator teases language use in crime reporting and everyday speech while a moving picture column mocks highbrow drama versus cinema thrills.
Pastor Sermon and City Bid Notice Merge in Ames
A historical Ames page combines a religious exhortation on sowing and reaping with a city bid advertisement for paving projects. The sermon urges repentance and spiritual growth while the notice details bids for street improvements on Duff and Kellogg avenues, with timelines, bond requirements, and qualification rules.
I Will Always Do My Very Best Walt Mason Verse
A columnist entry quotes Walt Mason urging a steady middle path and repeated vows to do one’s best. The verse promises perseverance through obscurity and modest means, stressing character over applause and the certainty of personal effort. The piece appears in the Emporia Gazette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Mason
Emporia Gazette
Goldoni Play A Curious Mishap At Friday Performance
James O Donnell of the Chicago Record Herald praises Goldoni as the charm lies in mellowness of characterization and satire. M Philibert, the busybody, remains lovable due to humanity and wit, making the piece sturdy and clear. Bartholo mew secures the Donald Robertson Players for Friday March 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldoni
Bartholomew
Donald Robertson
James O’donnell
Chicago Record-Herald
M. Philibert
Railway Mail Clerks Wanted for Government Posts
Uncle Sam will hold spring examinations nationwide for railway mail clerks, custom house clerks, stenographers, bookkeepers and other clerical positions. Free instruction and information available by writing to the Bureau of Instruction, 1694 Hamlin Building, Rochester NY. Thousands of appointments will be made. 18 or older eligible, city or country.
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Uncle Sam
Bureau of Instruction
Hamlin Building
Rochester
N. Y
Ames School Treasurer Report Yearly Funds and Balances
The 1910 treasurer report for Ames IA Independent School District details Teacher's Fund Contingent Fund and School House Fund. It shows balances on hand February 28 1910, receipts from county, tuition and other sources, vouchers paid, and recapitulations of fund balances and amounts due to the treasurer. Parley Sheldon signs as treasurer.
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Independent School District
Ames
OOP Oak Ra Ciee
Treas
Es Ek Ok
Treas- Por
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Ames School Board Sets Next Year Levy Totals
The Ames Independent School District board met on the second Monday in February and ordered the secretary to estimate the levy for the next year. Contingent fund eight thousand dollars, teachers fund fifteen thousand, school house fund five thousand, totaling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent
Ames
H. Pasley
Public Works Seeks Proposals for Street Paving Routes
Official notice invites proposals for paving Onondaga Street from Carroll Avenue east to Grand Avenue and Duff Avenue from Chicago and Northwestern Railway right of way to Story Street. Proposals due by specified date.
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Onondaga Street
Carroll Avenue
Grand Avenue
Duff Avenue
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Story Street
District Court Notice of Partition Suit in Ames
In Story County Iowa Louis Anderson sues Andrew Anderson Nellie Anderson and Annie Rhodell claiming undivided one fourth interest in Lot 5 Block 1 Kingsbury addition Ames Story County Iowa. He seeks partition sale of property proceeds after costs and incumbrances and requests decree to establish shares. Failure to appear by March term 1910 noon may lead to default and judgment.
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District Court of the
State of Iowa
Story County
A. D
Louis Anderson
Andrew Anderson
Nellie Anderson
Annie
Anna) Rhodell
District Court of
Kingsburys
Amesney County
Iowa
Nels Anderson
Annie the Hell
Nevada
Lawsuit Notice in Ames Property Case Against Multiple Defendants
The Iowa Story County court petition filed March 1910 seeks to establish Arthur Bauer as sole owner of Sub lot 10 in Lot 2, Block 41, Third Addition to Ames. Defendants include Will Skilton and J A Baker, among others, with dates, records, and property claims disputed. Default warning issued for the March term starting March 28, 1910 at Nevada Iowa.
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District Court of the State of
Ames
Iowa
Skilton
Story County
W. M. Skilton
J. A. E. Baker
James A. Baker
Hugh Swan
Hot O. Carpenter
Des Moines Loan Company
Nevada
Administrators Notice in Story County Iowa 1919
The District Court of Story County appoints Co A Duntz as administrator of Julia A Hunter estate on February 10 1910 with February 14 1919 date filed. Creditors urged to present claims to the court for allowance and debtors to pay the administrator.
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District Court
Story County
Iowa
Julia A. Hunter
Co. A .Duntz
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Geo. E. Baker
Ames, Iowa
Segate
F. H. Waters
Bakers Jewelry Store
Morgan, Morgan & Watts
Attorneys AT Law
Ames Savings Bank
Earl B.bush, Ph. G
M.D
Baker’s Jewelry Store
Adams
Mutual ‘Phone
J. F. Tilden
Odd Fellows’ Building
Mutual
Towa
A. W. Crary, M
M. D
Alice
Crary
Story Streets
Boone, Iowa
Cc. G. Tilden, M. D
E.R. Moore
Ames Plumbing & Lighting CO
Bell
McWilliam
Ames, Lowa
M. H. Kelso
Hamilton
Asnes
G. J. Snyder
Gamble’s Drug Store
Daniel McCartuy
J. Y. Luxe
McCarthy & Luke
Story County Bank
D. M. Ghrist
Jennie G. Ghrist, M.D
Drs. Ghrist
Ghrist
Physicians & Surgeons
Masonic Building
Onondaga St
Charles J. Biewen
E. Cagwin
Olympia
Sorenson & Sorenson
The
Union Delivery
Shakespeare
Dash
Ward Heeler
Wrangles
Cracksman
Becaue
Sing Sing
H. C. Kegley
Willie Blow
Daysey May
Romeo
Bernard Shaw
Ibsen
Maeterlinck
Daysey
Spain
Romeo and Juliet
Shaw
Moving Picture Man
Moving Picture Show
James J. Montague
Chicago Examiner
Death
Jesus
Lonondaga
Tory
Douglas Ves
City Elk
Roll Avenue
Douglass Avenue
Kellogg Avenue
7 Street
State of
City of
BR. Maxwell
City
Story
City Hall
W. B. Niles
Parley Sheldon
Co. H. Pasley
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