Happenings at Ames College and Visitors Mix
Local notes record visits by Prof Holden and Dr Bailey to Ames and Coe College officials and townsfolk calling on peers. Lectures, banquets, and chapel talks feature Profs Price McEnery Stuart Newens and Schurman. Cornell president meets students. plans include trips to Chicago and St Louis events and a Drake game prep.
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Schurman
Cornell University
Boulder
Col
Stanton
Cornell
Clara Morris
Dr. Cessna
Prof. Newens
Judging Contest Rules Set for International Stock Show
The Student reports on the Chicago International Live Stock Exposition judging contest. Contestants compete for 500 in twelve prizes, with 100 for first and 8 for twelfth. Open to farmers sons under 25 and enrolled agricultural students. Five entries per college at 2 entrance fee, entries due November 15. Spoor Trophy goes to the college with top three aggregate scores.
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Chicago
John Clay, Jr
Alvin Sanders
Spoor
Ames
Mrs Hiram Blake Dies After Long Iowa Life
Mrs Hiram Blake born February 10 1848 in Muskingum Ohio lived in Marshall Cass and Ames Iowa moving in 1902 to Ames where she resided until her death from organic heart trouble on November 11. She leaves husband three daughters Minnie Verne and Mrs Thomas Thomp son Blake. Funeral at two this afternoon conducted by Rev Ferrall from the family home.
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Hiram Blake
Muskingum County
Ohio
Marshall County
Iowa
Cass County
Ames
Christian Church
Ferrall
Real Estate Loans Offer Flexible Pay Plans by Story County Bank
Real Estate Loans promote payments on any interest pay day or any day you choose with no commission. The bank offers to take up existing loans to reduce rates and provide new loans with flexible payment options.
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Story County Bank
Rosebud Lands Open for Settlement Near Bonesteel
The Chicago and North Western Railway extension to Bonesteel will soon reach the Rosebud reservation lands poised for public settlement next spring. A rush for homesteads is expected. the line recently opened to Spencer Nebraska and will terminate at Bonesteel within days. The Rosebud reservation lies in southern South Dakota along the Nebraska border, bordered by the White River to the north and the Missouri to the east.
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Chicago & Northwestern Ba Y
Rosebud
Bonesteel
Spencer
Neb
Rosebud Reservation
South Dakota
Nebraska
White River
Missouri
Homeseekers Excursions to Northwest West and Southwest
The Chicago & Northwestern railroad announces reduced rate homeseekers excursions on the first and third Tuesdays from November 1902 to April 1903. Tickets include standard and tourist sleeping cars with free reclining chair cars and best accommodations, for the indicated territory. Apply to railroad agents for full details.
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Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Letter From Nebraska Describes Travel and Farmland Conditions
A Ames resident writes from the west about moist soils east of Dunlap and dry roads toward Missouri Valley. He notes frost effects on central Nebraska corn, a humorous depot incident with women and a grip, and a Lincoln to Omaha rail journey with comments on planting timing and weed issues. The writer signs as B.
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Ames
Times
West
Dunlap
Boone
Iowa
Missouri Valley
Carroll
Omaha
Nebraska
Lincoln
W. A. Thomas
Oxford
House Trade Offer West of College Grounds
Mrs. May Ross seeks to trade a modern eight room house with closets furnace heat and conveniences located west of the college grounds for a modern six room cottage in Ames. Property includes a good barn with harness and carriage room and two and two thirds acres that can be subdivided to front two ways. Trade must be made before January 1 if possible.
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Ames
May Ross
Watch Free Stem for Enterprising Boys
Rich gun metal case with gold lettering invites boys to write for information on obtaining a free stem watch. Times Republican of Marshball Town Iowa promotes the offer and provides contact details dated 25-2mo.
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Times-Republican
Marshballtown
Iowa
Homeseeker Excursions Sell Tickets to Many Points
Homeseeker's Excursions offers tickets at low rates by the Chicago Great Western to nearly all points on first and third Tuesdays from November to April inclusive. Available in through tourist sleeping cars. For specifics contact any Great Western agent or J. P. Elmer G P A Chicago Isles SEY Pee 12 31.
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Chicago
Great Western Ba Y
Great Western
J. P. Elmer
Apples for winter sale in Hamilton notice
Carload of fine eastern apples offered for winter use good keepers. Call and see them in Hamilton 28-26 C.
Choate’s Advice Ends a Southsider’s Rage
A southerner in a Boston hotel clashes with a waiter and seeks the famed Rufus Choate. Choate reassures him that law, not vengeance, will restrain him, and the man avails himself of the lawyer’s counsel to avoid violence, parting on good terms.
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Rufus Choate
Boston
Delacour
Lippincott’s
Mr. Delacour
Choate
Poultry Tips for Fattening and Care
Supply gravel to fattening fowls kept indoors. Do not let chickens roost before ten to twelve weeks. Use lime to wash coops perches nests. If a hen lays soft shelled eggs provide gravel oyster shells and crushed bone. Ducks need liberty not confinement. Unnatural eggs result from over fattening. Geese fatten on any grab fed about ten days. For young fancy birds avoid roosting on perches until eight months. Clean yards then spray with carbolic acid and a little copperas.
Johnny on the Spot Plays Trick on Chicago Youth
A humorous Chicago News item describes a boy catching a girl with a frosty mitt and a ventriloquist style line. The girl declares trouble while the youth proclaims he is there as a joke. The piece ends with the girl sighing that the situation is indeed the trouble.
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Johnny
Chicago News
No, Not You. Household recipes found in vest pocket
A Chicago Tribune humor piece recalls a wife reveals her husband kept clippings from papers for recipes, which she periodically cleans from his pocket, noting the monthly routine of sorting through such clippings.
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Papa
Chicago Tribune
A Faulty Appraisement Met With Mockery
A liberal man quips that Mr Spriggins overestimates money and expects a dollar to buy more than its value, leaving him repeatedly annoyed and disappointed as discussed in the Washington Star.
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Spriggins
Fatal to His Candidacy
A patriotic citizen voices a joke about children and photography votes affecting a presidential bid, as a judge remarks on how such details influence public perception during an election dynamic.
Fragmentary Poultry Dialogue Sparks Market Whimsy
A garbled OCR snippet portrays an exchange about a Leghorn hen and rooster, with lines about pride and price rises. The fragment hints at farm life and price concerns but lacks coherent chronology or clear actors.
A True Hero Worthy of Quiet Admiration
Sewell Ford portrays an unnamed old bachelor, a shop worker who chose family duty over ambition. He hides behind a window blind, caring for his widowed mother and a brother, wearing a worn lawn path as testament to sacrifice and steadfast kindness.
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Earth
Sewell Ford
Brandur Magazine
Moses and His Horns in Michelangelo’s The Lawgiver
The article explains the horned Moses myth, tracing it to Jerome’s Latin Vulgate which rendered cornu as horn, while the Greek Septuagint used radiant rays. Michelangelo depicted horns based on this misinterpretation, reflecting historical Bible translations influencing art.
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Moses
Michael Angelo
Jerome
Angelo
Soil as Living Organism Says Exchange
The soil is a living organism whose life is as vital as that of animals or plants. If soil life is killed, soil becomes sterile and cannot produce crops. Plants mainly use mineral nutrients while animals eat organic foods.
It in Case Not So Bad After All
A man laments being cheated out of twenty dollars as his neighbor recalls a horse dying after becoming stuck in a barrack headgear. The exchange ends with a cheery note as the man whistles away.
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Chicago Record- Herald
Paris Merchant Bequeaths $6000 To Ex-Betrothed In Revenge
M Colombies of Paris left a Rouen former sweetheart a legacy of 6000 dollars after she refused to marry him twenty years earlier. The will states the refusal let him live independently and happily as a bachelor.
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M. Colombies
Paris
Rouen
Bride Recalls Husband's Lovely Letters in Exchange
A newlywed bride boasts to a friend of the affectionate letters her husband writes. The friend replies with wit, noting she has many such letters stored away in her attic, implying the practice is common or ongoing.
Action Sparks Hope and Glory in Freedom’s Call
A concise quotation highlights that action brings wisdom, glory, and happiness, with action awakening hope and hope fueling further action within the spirit of freedom.
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Pennedge
Oskaloosa
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East Street
Roth McEnery Stuart
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S Kennedy
Lowery
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Sadie Hook
Mabel al Iougal
Des Moines
Coe Day
Fovf Ames
Coe
Price and Erwin
Wesley Green
State Horticultural Soory
M. J. Wrage
St. Louis
Price
Southeastern Iowa Horticultural Society
Williamsburg
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Mass
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Emanuel Bayard
W. H. Stevenson
Department of Agronomy
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F. E. Overheiser
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