Moquin Forms Private Band With 12 City Musicians
Geo Moquin organized a private company of twelve leading Ames musicians to form Moquin’s band and orchestra. Officers include B D Cramblil as president and orchestra manager, Will Pitser as treasurer, and Ed Clark as secretary. Several new instruments were added as the season nears, boosting Ames’ cultural prospects.
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Geo. Moquin
Mogquin
B. D. Cramblil
Will Pitser
Ed. Clark
Ames
Story County
Card of Thanks from Nelson Taylor and Family
Nelson Taylor and family extend sincere thanks for neighbors and friends kindness during sickness and death of Mrs. Taylor. Especial thanks to the Ames choir that conducted music at the funeral.
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Nelson Taylor
Platforms for Ames Mayor Election By Galen Tilden
Galen Tilden outlines his stance on city leadership, promising to seek voter confidence as mayor and to appoint decisions he deems best for Ames. He supports investigating the light plant, favors moral city amusements with youth in mind, opposes a pool hall, and urges voters to cast ballots by conscience to boost Ames.
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Ames
Chamberlain's Platform for Ames Mayor in 1908
Four year councilman Candidate Chamberlain outlines a policy platform for Ames Iowa including privatizing electric light and gas franchising selling the electric plant while preserving city regulation, retaining waterworks, ending Star Chamber sessions, publishing full council proceedings, enforcing ordinances, regulating pool halls, and equalizing taxes between rich and poor. He requests votes for the March 30 1908 election.
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Ames
Iowa
Interurban Railway Company
Trunks Seized Over College Debt With Stultz Cafes
College student J H Hershey returned home to Kansas City amid debt issues with Stultz cafe. He left town with trunks attached, offered watch as security, then paid the full bill later that day and left without further incident.
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J. H. Hershey
Kansas City
Hershey
Stultz Cafe
Stultz
Little Gas Plant Illuminates Ames Homes
The city adopts acetylene lighting via small gas plants demonstrated by Kooser and Kooser at their pump shop. Farmers install these plants boosting light and heat with about ten lights per house, costing as low as thirty cents monthly after initial setup.
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Kooser & Kooser
Steam heat plans at union depot noted by stove removal
The Ames and College Railroad Company appears to consider installing steam heat at the union depot north of central hall. A stove has been discarded and lies unused at the east end of the building.
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Ames and College Railroad Company
Union Depot
Central Hall
Band Aims Summer Concerts Schedule Series
A band plans to reach peak form for the summer concert season. They expect to tour during warm months and have secured contracts with several nearby towns to perform weekly park concerts. The group is arranging additional details for the upcoming schedule.
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Maquin
Deering Resigns from Boone County Telephone Company
C. Deering, secretary and general manager, leaves Boone County Telephone to take a similar post with the Long Distance Telephone Company of Omaha. Boone exchange plans to install an automatic exchange system.
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C. C. Deering
Boone County Telephone Company
Long Distance Telephone Company
Omaha
Boone Exchange
Charley Shockley Again Tops Spring Catch
Charley Shockley is hailed as the season’s earliest sportsman after a spring fishing spree. He reportedly hauled in a string of ten to twelve black suckers from the creek, following reports that suckers were biting as the season opened.
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Charley Shockley
Story County
Charley
Two Ames Men Hunted Ducks
Ames men Kintzley and Beckwith return from Wall Lake with twelve ducks and a tale of hunting in Jewell Junction record. The story notes a gun incident involving John Maland and a sale of eleven ducks and two silver dollars, reported as part of the travelers’ adventures.
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Mud Lake
Ames
Jewell Junction
Messrs
Kintzley
Beckwith
Jewell
John
Motorcycle Age Is Here In Ames As Prices Drop
The town notes the motorcycle price drop to about 150 dollars. Five bikes are in use now and Geo Roberson has ordered a new red machine. The noisy machines rival a busy railroad in racket, but the public will adapt as with streetcars and autos.
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Ames
Neck of the Woods
Geo. Roberson
Northwestern Railway
Passing of Lester Banks
Telegraph from Carl Banks of Los Angeles confirms the death of Lester Banks aged eighteen in San Diego California. He died Monday afternoon at 1 30 due to tuberculosis. Lester was a bright boy with many friends in Ames where the family previously lived and his loss is deeply mourned by those who knew him.
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C. E. Holmes
Carl
Los Angeles
Lester Banks
H. Banks
San Diego
California
Lester
Ames
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