Great Plains Retailer Plans Split and Deep Discounts
A business announces a new mercantile company to take over all or part of its retail operations. Pending this split, it will reduce many merchandise lines and require past due accounts to be settled by cash or note. Story and Boone Counties residents are told of a multi week sale offering deep discounts on Dry Goods Clothing Shoes Carpets Curtains Furnishing Goods Hats Shirts Underwear Notions and more with many items reduced by up to fifty percent and some closer to forty nine percent.
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Story
Boone
College Hosts Noted Visitor and Recital at Ames
Mrs. Cora Van Velser Lambert of Chicago, class of ’90, spoke on the critic in literature and life. A high grade pupils recital at the conservatory featured Robert Mason Clarke, Miss Gertrude Mereness, and Miss Fern Chadsey with tunes and Mendelssohn pieces. Ellen Feuling won a $25 prize for a paper on farmers wives mortgage relief. The program included multiple student performances in voice piano and violin, and Prof. Alice Peloubet Norton of the University of Chicago spoke on the social value of household arts. The visiting members toured campus and resolved to double their Ames chapter membership before Des Moines.
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Chicago
Robert Mason Clarke
Gertrude Mereness
Fern Chadsey
Clarke
Miss Mereness
Chadsey
Conservatory
Miss Tune
W. B. Douglass
Fargo
N. D
Ellen Feuling
Alice Feuling
College
Iowa Public Schools
T. Y. L. Club
Clara MacConnell
Edward McDowell
Edith Cairns Evers
Clara McConnell
Jessie Parker
Winnie Doolittle
College Street
Grand Avenue
Mrs. Paxton
Messenger
Tedrow and
Heggen
Des Moines
Mise Heers
Story City
Schworm
Nevada
New Library Books in Circulation Citywide
The city library announced new adult titles now available including G F Chambers Story of the comets Lucy Pratt Ezekiel F H Burnett Dawn of a tomorrow Albert Sonnischen Confessions of a Macedonian bandit and many more. Juvenile titles by Gulielma Zellinger Harry Castlemon and others are listed alongside sporting goods like hammocks and croquet sets at Perry's.
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Chambers, G. F
May Day fete and society notices at Ames college
Several campus events fill the week list at Ames College. May Day festivities appear Saturday May 21 with civic and sorority activities, plus a piano recital in the library by Miss Jessie Parker and students.
Ames Hosts Iowa Economics Association Meeting
The Domestic Economy faculty from Ames attended the Iowa Economics Association gathering in Cedar Falls on May 13 and 14. Hostess Miss Mary Townsend and students served a luncheon for about forty guests while delegates were welcomed by senior students.
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Ames
Iowa Economics Association
Cedar Falls
Mary Townsend
State Teachers College
Waterloo
Woods
State Federation Womens Clubs
Knowlé@és
Iowa
Miss Purdy
Local residents thank helpers after accident
Mr L G Hardin receives thanks from W S Hoon and family to friends who assisted and donated during a recent accident, their kindness gratefully remembered by the sender.
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L. G. Hardin
W. S. Hoon
Resolutions of Marion Rebekah Lodge on Naoma McGuire
The Marion Rebekah Lodge No. 108 notes the death of sister Naoma McGuire and offers condolence to her family. The resolutions state sympathy, request a copy for the family, and to record the notices in lodge minutes, with a verse about immortality and hope.
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Marion
Rebekah Lodge NO
Naoma McGuire
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