Neighborhood News and Local Happenings
Eugene Smith and wife Sundayed at the Lee Smith home. Fay Taylor and family visited O. F. Smith and relatives. Gien and Josie Whitinger visited their grandmother in Maxwell Iowa last week. Ray Smith was badly bruised in a runaway with his driving horse. Mrs Albert Whitinger returned from Oklahoma. Bloomington residents enjoy days as mumps spread. J Wes Bateman lost a valuable horse in a runaway with a drag and had to kill it. A three member committee Algie Briley Floy Scott Oscar Freed to seek a church bell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fay Taylor
O. F. Smith
Gien
Josie Whitinger
Maxwell
Iowa
Ray Smith
Albert Whitinger
Oklahoma
J. Wes. Bateman
Algie Briley
Floy Scott
Oscar Freed
Card Op Thanking For Kindness After Bereavement
Compton and family express gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindnesses shown during their recent bereavement.
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P, C
Compton
Local social notes and events fall into place
Floyd Scott called at the L A Ross home Sunday evening. Odd Fellows visit Ames lodge Friday. Freed family spent Sunday with Hank Cobb. Mable Latham attended church last Sunday. Mable Kintzley visited Nellie Scott. Many youths attended the A H S class play at the Armory Friday. Ontario youths dined with E B Moore and heard the grapophone. Homer Beedle strained his left arm Sunday evening. A youth dance fizzled last Thursday and will be held again Friday. A lot was seen at church Sunday. A five member committee including A E Ross and several wives to meet there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Scott
L. A
Mable Latham
Ames
Boone
Rosebud
Corey
Des Moines
Marion Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows’ Temple
Nevada
Ontario
Gilbert
Jessie McCarthy
P. D. TO BE CLOSED ON DECORATION DAY
The Ames post office will be closed on Decoration Day May 30 from 12 noon to 6 p.m. C. E. Haverly postmaster signs the notice indicating the temporary postal service halt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
E. Haverly
Sioux City piano expert to visit Ames next week
Mr. B. E. Brown, an expert piano man from Sioux City, will be in Ames all next week. If you want anything done in this line call up 327 Mutual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. E. Brown
Sioux City
Ames
Mutual
Fairies on a Lough Derg Bridge in Irish Folklore
A Chicago News correspondent recounts a 20 year old sighting at Killaloe near Lough Derg. On a Sunday after mass a man and Sullivan watched fairies emerge from a liss and play hurley in a potato field before vanishing as the sun hid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Lough Derg
Sullivan
Killaloe
Chicago News
Labor and the Education of Labor Doctrines
A compact meditation on labor as divine education. Emerson argues that each person must engage directly with world work, avoiding social privilege or dishonorable crafts, to become a sincere learner and master through real skill and mastery of nature.
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Emerson
Community Club and Society Schedule Report
Local organizations list regular meetings across churches lodges and clubs. Descriptions cover Missionary Societies Ladies Aids Rebekah chapters Nonpareil Club Priscella Club PEO and more with dates venues and social events including banquets picnics and initiations.
Colors of Sounds and Color Perception Debate
Willis Brooks recounts a Bay Ridge conversation with Stephen Crane on sounds and colors. Crane argues every sound has a color, while Brooks notes color is a personal association not universal. They discuss motion, Huxley, and the idea that colors accompany sounds through reading and experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Crane
Boston
Crane
Crescent Club
Bay Ridge
Huxley
Willis Brooks
Brooklyn Eagle
May Day festivities and campus social events described
The article details visits from Mrs. Stewart and Miss Rodamer, a farewell for Dr Walter Stuhr, and lectures by Prof. Wallace. It covers the ag picnic with riding, tennis and target shooting, a faculty-student reception in Central hall, and a May Day festival led by Miss Winifred Tilden with royal processions, a May queen, floral attendants, and a colorful pole dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Stuhr
Chicago
Smith’s Hall
Margaret Hall
Ag Hall
New Central Hall
Storms
Stanton
Lincoln
Knapp
Glee Club
Womans Athletic Association
Winifred Tilden
Harriet Beyer
Ada Hayden
Maid Marian
Orpha KaDel
Page
Misa Tilden
Very Old Trees and Ancient Palms Across Lands
The piece notes coconuts from Brazil living 600 to 700 years and date palms claimed to reach 200 to 800 years. Wallan's oak near Paisley is over 700 years old, with eight Mount of Olives olives persisting since 1099 near Jerusalem and mentions Jewish people at Fountain Abbey in York.
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Paisley
Scotland
Mount of Olives
Jerusalem
Fountain Abbey
York
Ancient trees span centuries from abbey to Chapultepec
The text notes a 1132 abbey with old trees, a redwood in Mariposa grove aged as a multiple centenarian, Africa's baobabs estimated over 5,000 years old, and Chapultepec's deciduous cypress believed to be even older.
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Shire
Mariposa Grove
California
Africa
Chapultepec
The Fallen Mighty
A New York Press quote extols the nobility of Second Avenue dining with exiled barons princes and dukes among Hungarian eateries. It notes the proprietor pianist violinist and waiters are linked to noble origins, while most patrons are banished nobility from Russia Germany or Hungary living in New York.
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Waldorf
Second Avenue
Wilds
New York
New York Press
Monument to General Prievalski by Lake Issy Kul
A striking monument rises on the shores of Lake Issy Kul in central Asia. A hollowed tomb is carved into a cliff summit beside the lake. The monument features a 25 foot high rough granite block with a chart of central Asia spread over it.
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Lake
Issy- Kul
Central Asia
Prievalski
Famous Superstitions Across History
A compact survey of historic beliefs linking leaders and myths to omens. It cites Wolsey, Sejanus, Dr Johnson, Montaigne, Alexander, Augustus, Charlemagne, Mohammed, Bonaparte, Cromwell, Louis Napoleon, Sulla, Timoleon, and Quintius Curtius. The piece notes omens from crosier heads to marching blood, and how fate and fortune guided decisions and victories.
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Wolsey
Johnson
Montaigne
Alexander
Augustus
Charlemagne
Mohammed
Bonaparte
Cromwell
Louis Napoleon
Sulla
Felix
Timoleon
Quintius Curtius
Tyre
Aristander
Commissariat
Premature Burial Fears Face Off in Conversation
Percy confesses a fear of being buried alive, while Alice dismisses the worry as nonsense and asserts it is impossible. The exchange reveals a humorous tension between superstition and skepticism in a domestic dialogue.
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Percy
Alice
Des Moines Tops Western League. Ames Hs Ties Jefferson Girls
Des Moines leads the Western League with Maxwell and Story City competing at a major shoot in the city yesterday. Grinnell may lose nerve tomorrow. Ames high school basketball tied Jefferson girls 8 to 8 last Saturday, with Ames predicted a likely victory.
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Des Moines
Denver
Lincoln
Sioux City
Ueble
Reese
New York
Washington
CPP
Maxwell
Story City
Grinnell
Ames
Ames High School
Jefferson
Artists Seek Models After Rocky Mountain Tea
Famous beauties discard corsets and become models in face and form after using Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. Tea or Tablets cost 35 cents. L. M. Bosworth promotes the product.
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Hollister
Rocky Mountain
L. M. Bosworth
Special Train To State Field Meet From Ames
A special train to the state field meet at Des Moines departs Ames at 8 30 a m Saturday and returns from Des Moines at 8 p m. Tickets are good for return on any train until Monday. The round trip fare is 1 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Field
Des Moines
Ames
Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea Tonic Ad Curse
Sufferers urged to try Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea said to restore strength and vigor. The ad touts the tonic as the greatest remedy, priced at 35 cents for tea or preparations.
Hunting Mahogany in the Forest
An observer describes mahogany hunting as a skilled, costly hunt where a woodsman locates trees, climbs, surveys, and signals cutters. Loggers follow with axes and sawyers, felling large trees that leave wasteful stumps while the hunter earns by results, potentially $500 to $1,000 monthly.
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Sawyers
St. Louis Republic
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Sea
RFS
Semmons
Pranklin News
Eugene Smith
Lee Smith
Bloomington
Mable Kintzley
Nellie Scott
Armory
E. B. Moorehouse
Homer Beedle
A. E. Ross
Mesdames Parmley
Newlin, Moorehouse
John Baughman
P. D
Fairies
Labor
The
Missionary Society of the National Church
Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
M. E. Missionary Society
Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church
Marion Rebekah Lodge No. 108
Odd Fellows Hall
Laura
Masonic Hall
Civic Improvement Society
City Library
Priscella Club
Unity Club
Missionary Society of the Christian Church
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
G. A. R. Hall
Adams’ Hall
Misses Rice
K. K
Myra Graham
Cora Wilkinson
Nee Wollah
Daughters of the King
Episcopal Church
College Woods
Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Mrs. W. M. Wilson
Mrs. Stewart
West Liberty
Emma Orton
Rodamer and
Meader
Waterloo
Prof. Beach
Storm Lake
Bryant Huff
Webster City
R. Wallace
College of Agriculture
Edinburgh University
Agricultural Club
Engineering Assembly
Argentine
Wallace
Europe
Clark Conservatory of Music
Hamilton
Roland
Ellsworth
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