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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1904
Page
3
Long list of campus visitors and events including professors from Minnesota and Mount Vernon, a horticultural lab upgrade, student dances, a leap year party, a portrait for the new central building, and a death on a Rock Island train. Details cover lectures, readings, athletic scores, and local social gatherings with Ames, Des Moines, and Omaha ties.
An American traveler contrasts European tipping with U S wages arguing tips are not wages but a coercive charity. He notes hotel staff drivers clerks and others expect money and laments the erosion of dignity and self respect caused by tipping culture.
Des Moines visitors, Newton and Boone stays, Ames events, and family visits feature in this column. Locals and guests such as Mrs. W. M. Greeley, Bert Clutter, H. S. Hoot, Mrs. Walker, Otto Herman, John Elliott, Miss Carter, and many others are listed with brief travel notes and visitations across Des Moines, Newton, Boone, Grinnell, Nevada, and Ames. The item notes a filing about sewer assessments in Ames and a mayoral signature.
The text stresses self respect as the foundation of life and moral conduct. It warns that deliberate wrongdoing erodes self respect and diminishes a person’s power, urging ceaseless striving for conduct, morality, and principle.
Mr and Mrs C H Green and family express heartfelt gratitude to friends and neighbors for their kindness during the death of our beloved mother.
Round trip tourist tickets to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo are on sale daily in winter via the Chicago Union Pacific Northwestern Line. Reductions apply on fast through trains with high class equipment. For naps booklets and Colorado hotel rates contact ticket agents Chicago Northwestern Ry. 28 31.
The piece surveys trademarks as ancient as Babylon and China with early mentions in English law around 1300. It notes Gutenberg’s trademark dispute, U S protections, and the constant need for strong identifying marks to prevent fraud and preserve product value.
A returned tourist recounts a grand European trip. He jokes about his travels through Monte Carlo the Apennines and Rome while sharing light remarks on the voyage.
A Japanese woman uses kimono sleeves and a fan to convey unspoken messages. Movements of sleeve ends signal attraction or rejection and the fan’s opening and closing directs admiration or dismissal, forming a social code.
The Youth's Companion promotes its new 1905 volume with full illustrated announcements and offers free issues for remaining weeks of 1904 to new subscribers. It emphasizes wide reader appeal to youths and families and invites subscriptions from 144 Berkeley St, Boston.
Wm D Hodge and wife transfer to Michael Hallen barger for 200 dollars lot 8 bik in Ames. Ada Miller and husband sell to H E Slattery for 1350 dollars lot 5 bik in Ames. H E Slattery and wife sell to Ada Miller for 350 dollars lot 12 bik 1 Harriman's addition in Ames. F M Darner and wife transfer to George N Foote for 300 dollars lot 7 bik 6 Bigelow’s addition in Ames. Delia Woodman transfers to H W Hougland for 1000 dollars lots 9 10 11 and 12 block 1 George and Littles subdivision wing northwest 9 83 24. F M Hunter and wife to Christ Peterson for 1 dollar one quarter section ne 10 84 24. F W Penfield Lafe Myers and wives to Joseph Rothgeb for 100 dollars lot 3 ne ne 80 83 23.
The undersigned will sell at public auction on his farm near Ames at ten o'clock a m Tuesday November 29 1904. Described property includes 5 head horses 40 head cattle 1 Aberdeen Angus bull 6 registered Shorthorn bulls 125 head shoats two pure bred Poland boars and a lot of farm machinery 40 acres corn stalks and 100 acres pasture. Terms: one year on sums of 5 and over with 8 percent interest. sums under 5 cash. Gro H Maxwell.
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