Story County school hires teachers for next year
The Story County School Board announced hiring six teachers for the upcoming year including Ray Golly in Zearing Room 2 G F P Osmundson in Slater Room 3 Miss Laura Thompson in Zearing Room 4 Miss Katie Johnson in this place Room 5 Miss Josephine Evenson in this place Room 6 and Miss Severie Hanson.
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Ray Golly
Zearing
G. FP. Osmundson
Slater
Laura Thompson
Katie Johnson
Josephine Evenson
Severie Hanson
Roland Record
Odd Lectures on Leather and Farming Ways
The article describes various animal and fish leathers and their uses from walrus hides to sword grips made of shark skin. It also notes Hon. F. D. Coburn as Kansas Secretary of Agriculture and highlights Rev. Charlies Sheldon’s 1905 address on farming, urging practical education, family life, and community duty.
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Alaska
Kiachta
China
Moscow
Turkey
Pacific Coast
Great Lakes
Canada
F. D. Coburn
Kansas
Agricullure
Agricultural Board of Kansas
Topeka
Charlies Sheldon
Coburn
Sheldon
The Paris Cafe: A Parisian Outdoor Daylong Haven
The Paris cafe serves as an outdoor home for hours with customers reading papers writing letters and enjoying Bordeaux. Waiters supply paper envelopes and ink at the client’s table while patrons linger under the awning daily and seasonally as weather permits.
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Garcon
M. le Patron
Notre
Paris
London News
Waterloo Chautauqua Announces 1905 Great Summer Program
The Waterloo Chautauqua unveils an enlarged 1905 slate July 11 to August 2 featuring a Bible conference music teachers' institute health school Boys Club and Camp sociological department evangelistic conference and more. Western YWCA training school moved from Lake Geneva to Waterloo with famed lecturers musicians preachers and scientists expected.
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Mississippi Valley
Waterloo Chautauqua
West
Music Teachers’ Institute
School of Health
Young Womans’ Christian Association
National Training School
Lake Geneva
Waterloo
Bible Institute
Cedar River Park
Great Assembly
The Family Jar
A brief family exchange from the Philadelphia Ledger depicts Willie asking if a family jar preserves peace, and Pa replying that it is not for preserving peace. The dialogue suggests domestic humor about a jar used for keepsakes rather than harmony.
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Little Willie
Philadelphia Ledger
Weekly equine stands at three farms near Ames
The listing shows Virly will stand at Chet Davis barn six miles north and one percent mile east of Ames on Mondays and Tuesdays, at Taylor's feed shed in Ames on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and at F W Pen Fields two miles east and three quarters mile south of Ames on Fridays and Saturdays. 51-51 Grant Township Horse Co.
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J. S. Danielson
Milford Township
Roland
Nevada Journal
Chet Davis
Ames
Taylor
F. W. Penfield
Grant Township Horse Co
Market Stone relic from plague era in Derby
In Derby England a curious relic from the 1665 plague endures in the arboretum gardens known as the market one. Villagers left orders with the watchman who fetched goods and left them on the steps of the market stone to avoid infection.
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Derby
England
Arboretum Gardens
Prisoner Cries for Freedom as Woman Delivers Tracts
A benevolent woman distributes religious tracts behind bars and asks a prisoner why he is confined. The inmate replies bitterly that he cannot get out, prompting the woman to move on.
An Extended Sonnet Sparks Notion of Originality
A brief exchange on poetic originality cited from a Chicago Record-Herald quip. The remark notes a poem of twenty three lines as an example, prompting a mock debate on creativity and form.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Activity and sadness incompati ble quote by Bovee
A fragmented quotation notes that active natures are rarely melancholy and that activity and sadness are incompatible, attributed to Bovee.
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Bovee
The Most Terrible Penance of Tibetan Monks
A vivid description by Per cival Landen of Nyen-de-kyi-buk monks who endure life sentences in dark cells. Novitiate days precede six months in a cell then three years ninety three days before life imprisonment with a tiny window, a stone slab, and a daily grain of water and unleavened cake.
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Nyen-de-kyi-buk
Percival Landen
Tibet
Mr. Landon
Animal Inventions Inspire Human Tools And Structures
The passage notes that many human devices imitate animals such as the woodpecker's hammer and a ship’s frame resembling a herring skeleton. It describes the tortoise jaws as natural scissors, the squirrel and bee as carpenters, and the gnat shaping eggs like a lifeboat.
Eccentric Neighbor Mr Tighton Quits Saving For Fun
Mrs Higgins notes the neighbor Mr Tighton, famed as the skinflint, has finally acted on his boast to quit saving money after amassing fifty thousand dollars. The old resident is now said to be enjoying his wealth.
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James Prawl
Battle Creek
Mich
Maxwell
Debate Over Best Farm Horse For Corn Belt Work
Homestead columns discuss horse size for farm labor with 1450 to 1706 pound stock favored for heavy implements while critics praise lighter 1200 pound horses for ground work. The exchange notes wider opinions, invites reader subscriptions, and lists local notices and an organ for sale with inquiry to W. S. Read at Potter's hardware.
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Corn
Tres
W. S
Potter's Hardware Store
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Story County Newslets
John
P. D. Johnson
Huxley
White
Cambridge
John Shalley
George
Cumberland County
Nevada
Christian Church
Iowa
Maxwell Tribune
Johnson House
E. S. Shaffer
Des Moines
Mr. Halloway
Masonic Lodge
Story City
State Bank
Masonic Order
Messrs
Ed Quamn
M. Anenson
Chas. Watney
Quam
Anenson
Mr. &. K. Thompson
Geo. W. Little’s
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Paris Cafe
Waterloo Chautauqua End Lible Institute
Frank L. Loveland
Waterloo, Lowa
Virly Will
Union
Har
Ness
Judisch Bros
Adams
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