Many Minds and Miles: Ames Readers Share Travel and Visit News
A long list of residents and visitors spreads across Des Moines Omaha Nevada Humboldt and Drake University. Names include Galen Tilden Myrtle Fowler Dow Maxwell McDowell Pike King Williams Beach Adamson Shugart Roland Buchanan Smith Allan Murray Reynolds Kooker Laird and many others as they travel attend events visit kin or study in Iowa and nearby states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Dow
Omaha
A. B. Maxwell
Des Moines
John McDowell
Carrie Pike
W. L. King
Jennie Williams
Miss Beach
Dean C. Curtiss
Mary G. Bryant
Marshalltown
L. M. Warburton
Jewel
Bess Griffith
Ethel Bateman
K. E. Buchanan
Karl Smith
Ames
Mr. Smith
Drake University
John Allan
Knights of Pythias
Dubuque
E. L. Murray
Boone
Myrtle Reynolds
Mildred Reynolds
Oskaloosa
Fred Holmes
Mert Dugan
Mabel Capps
Ed Kooker
Colfax
C. McWilliam
Leslie
Artesian
Woolstock
Dakota
Emma Orton
Darling
Deerwood
Minnesota
Augusta Dwelle
P. R
J. A. Shugart
Hill
Will J. Sloan
Fuller Construction Co
Chicago
Treasure Trove Law in England Crown Owns Hidden Find
The law assigns fines and imprisonment to anyone who hides found treasure for personal use. It applies only to accidental discoveries, not systematic searches or finds via astrology or divining rods, per St. James Gazette.
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England
St. James
Painless Dentist Sells Pain Silence With Hats
A Kansas City Times writer notes a dentist who did not advertise as painless yet pulled a tooth swiftly. A patient asked about anesthesia. the dentist replied his office sits opposite a department store millinery display, so women are absorbed in hat selections and insensible to pain.
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Kansas City Times
That Which Counts in the Celestial City
Quotations from Henry van Dyke on the worth of deeds done for love of others. Focuses on actions that serve welfare over wages and gifts given without self promotion.
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Celestial City
Henry van Dyke
The Irony of Fate in a Witty Exchange
A bashful suitor asks about fate's irony and a pretty reply suggests that if two men fight over her and she avoids newspaper coverage, that would be fate’s irony. The Chicago Record-Herald frames the quip as a light societal observation.
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Chicago Record-Herald
The Similarity and the anaemic horse
The doctor told little Mary she was anaemic due to being 80 white. A few days later she cried to her mother to see an anaemic horse that was as white as possible.
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J. G. Wallis
Ames
Black Earth
Wisconsin
Schannel
Wallis
Nellie Stenson
Pattle Creek
J. F. Williams
Prairie City
Earl Baird
Mary
Quarrelsome Polly and Molly Clash in Conversation
Quarrelsome Polly laments Molly's quarrelsome nature while Dolly notes Molly often disputes her own conscience. The dialogue presents sharp witticisms in a staged exchange.
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Polly
Molly
Dolly
Philadelphia Ledger
The Lady And The Little Man In Hard Labor
A fragment from the Tondon Telegraph notes a terse exchange about work and judgment. The dialogue suggests the judge ordered hard labor as a punishment, reflecting sparse courtroom reportage.
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Tondon
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs. Galen Tilden
Myrtle Fowler
J. E. Adamson
Texas
Shugart
Nevada
Beri
Joe Roland
Sioux City
Lucy Cox
John Buchanan
Eagle Grove
Laura Gibson Smith
A. H
Gibson
Ents
J. W. Latherow
Des Moinés
Ames Lodge
Marie Brace
College Library
Mr. Brace
Hartford Steam Boiler Co
Dunlap
Law
Mary Makepiece Morris
Minnie Rice
Hampton
Paul Pauline
J. Pauline
Indiana
J. Klove
Edwin Klove
Fred Klove
Inez Hunter
Daisy Hrockman
Spencer
South Dakota
Brockman
Walter F. O'Donnell
Ftowa City
Mr. O'Donnell
J. E. Burton
Odebolt
George Judison
Vr Mullan
Frick Con & Coke Company
Uniontown
Wfe
Chas, Kaufm
Ches
Ames, Iowa
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