May Day Celebrations and College Happenings
Senior mechanicals banquet next Tuesday in Adams hall. Notts hold formal term party Saturday in Adams hall. Des Moines Ry appoints Lyman to service. YWCA breakfast nets funds for secretary. Inter-collegiate ball IBC vs Cornell tomorrow at 3:45 on state field. Burton club house rental talks with Spanish group for next year. Miss Harris of the student volunteer movement spoke at the YWCA. Isabel Wallace arrives from Spencer for platform work with Redpath Lyceum. James Burrows heads to Casper to manage claim and rail work. Board seeks 8000 from executive council for agricultural assembly room. W.E. Packard to Stanford as YMC A secretary in August. May Day celebrations on central campus May 18 with May pole dances and 25 cents admission.
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Adams’ Hall
Notts
Adams Hall
Rusty
Lyman
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Southern Ry
Cornell
State Field
W. 8. Burtons
Burton
Elizabeth Harris
Student Volunteer Movement
Drake Loses to Cyclones in Iowa State Baseball Win
Iowa State College baseball defeated Drake University 5 to 3 at Fourth Street Park Des Moines on a fast game marked by timely hits Ames built lead with productive innings Parsons Mills Cunningham Jacks among players with two base hits Cunningham three base hit Morgan Wieland controlled pitching Morgan 4 strikeouts Wieland 10.
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Iowa State College
Fourth Street Park
Lowa State College
Fourth Street Ball Park
Des Moines
Drake University
Ames Boys
Ames
Parsons
Mills
Cunningham
Jacks
Morgan
Wieland
van Meter
Smith
Bush
Kenyon
Kruel
Fox
Stevenson
Card Op Thanks for Kindness During Illness and Death
Mr and Mrs C C Stevens and family express thanks to friends for kindness during illness and death of their daughter and sister and for the floral offerings.
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Mr. and
Mrs
C. C. Stevens
Dreams Wrought In Masonry and a Roundup of Local Visitors
Local notes list Mrs. Harry White traveling to El Paso Texas. Des Moines and Ames residents visitations and travels include Dr C E Hunt Riley Sullivan Caswell and many others. A lengthy anecdote on a London News story about a famed criminal and a mock resurrection. Also a reflection on architecture dreams becoming masonry and the credit due to early ideas in business development.
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Waldo Pendray Warren
Woman Injured In Runaway Near City
Mrs. Ben Vogt residing near the city suffered a serious head injury after being thrown from her carriage during a runaway on the road home from town. The horse frightened by wastepaper by the roadside caused the accident. She is reported improving rapidly.
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Ben Vogt
Vogt
Foley Kidney Cure Praised by Williamantic Man
Alvin H. Stimpson of Williamantic Conn credits Foley s Kidney Cure with his recovery after many remedies failed. He says four bottles cured him completely and he is now free from kidney trouble symptoms. Cagwin Druggist reports the testimonial for the product.
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New England
Foley
Alvin H. Stimpson
Williamantic
Conn
Cagwin
Deacon Brodie the Original of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A historical sketch of Deacon Brodie of Edinburgh a wright and cabinet maker who inspired Robert Louis Stevenson. He served four years as deacon in the Wrights Guild and later as burgess and town council member. By day honest craftsman by night thief using a dark lantern and jimmy. He lived a double life and faced gambling cockfighting and tavern temptations.
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Deacon Brodie
Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Wright
Lawnmarket
Edinburgh
Incorporation of
Wrights
Meam
Tuum
Deacon
Brodie
Jimmy
Fly Fishing Rods For Pleasure And Practical Choice
Advice on selecting fly fishing rods and tackle from Forest and Stream. Discusses price ranges from affordable to premium, weight distribution, rod length preferences, and how strength of the angler affects performance. Emphasizes comfort, balance, and personal fit for long days on the water.
Strange Memory Gap After Writing The Bride of Lammermoor
James Ballantyne recalls Sir Walter Scott wrote and published The Bride of Lammermoor while unable to rise from bed and later forgot the entire manuscript. Lockerhart confirms the account, stating Scott remembered only original incidents from his youth.
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Walter Scott
Mr. Lockhart
Sir Walter Scott
Cinchona Cultivation and Quinine Production in Java
The cinchona tree is a principal Java industry. Dutch processes produce high quality quinine sulfate in Holland from bark shipped dried from Java. Cinchona plantations span lower Java hills, with trees ranging from saplings to about thirty feet in height.
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Java
Holland
Hair in balance wheel stops watch
A customer hands a stopped watch to a jeweler asking what is wrong. The jeweler inspects with a grimace and notes a hair tangled in the balance wheel. He suggests giving the timepiece a shampoo to free the obstruction.
Capital Punishment
Dialog excerpt features a mother and child discussing flirtation, with the mother admitting past flirtation and a harsh consequence, framed as a vignette in a period voice. The line hints at moral judgment and social norms of a bygone era.
Local Miscellany from Ames Tells of Dances Pianos Rentals and Railyard Work
The column notes a high school dance in Adams hall and births at the Klove home. It mentions several Schulz pianos bought from C E Holmes, rental houses on Douglass and North Lincoln, and a big Mono club grubfest with Don Lewis serving. Postoffice routes may gain new carriers. Mapleton Press praises Marshalltown Times-Republican. Other items cover land sales, property moves, a nurse company lawsuit, and plans for an interurban rail line toward Ames with July hopes.
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Adams’ Hall
Ed Klove
J. W. Bateman
Schulz
C. E. Holmes
Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets Advertised
For stomach troubles biliousness and constipation try Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets. Many remarkable cures have been effected by them. Price 25 cents. Samples free. For sale by Judisch Bros.
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Chamberlain
Judisch Bros
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Wyo
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Leland Stanford University
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Warsaw
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W. P. George
Central Association of Congregational Churches of Iowa
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Minchin
Association
Peter Desgravers
London News
Stevenson's
Dr. Jekyll and
Mamma
Rire
Chicago
Tilden Bros. & Co
Armenis
A. J. W. Emery
Schulz Piano
C. B E. Holmes
H. D. Harris
Douglass Street
Ed Wilkinson
Lincoln Street
Frank B. Spencer
Mono Club
Don Lewis
Postoffice
Brell
Hollister
L. M. Bosworth
R. L. Childs
Mapleton Press
Marshalltown Times-Republican
W. E. Shannon
Council Bluffs
J. A. Moyers
Luther
Mr. Moyer
Moyer
Nursery Co
Sam Akin
Seymore Coe
Marion Smith
Story County
Florence Manning
L. E. Ashbaugh
Viaduct
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Northwestern
South Main Street
L. M. Hunt
McCarthy
Great Falls
Montana
Daily Leader
Howard Larned
Banff
Alberta
Canada
Howard
Squaw Creek
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