Iowa Wins Big at American Royal Live Stock Show
The Iowa agricultural college stock judging team, led by Profs. Kennedy and Dinsmore, returned from Kansas City with a $500 Kansas City Stock Yards trophy. Five Iowa students placed in the top scores, led by J. F. Metcalf and F. B. Hank, as Iowa led in horses, cattle, sheep, and swine with a grand total of 5177 points to Missouri and Kansas.
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Profs. Kennedy
Dinsmore
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas City Stock Yards Co
Agricultural College
Iowa
J. F. Metcalf
F. B. Hank
C.F. Monroe
L. A. Nelson
E. E. Arthur
C. F. Monroe
J. L. Metcalf
F. D. Hank
E. E
Kansas
Chicago
Howard
Dressmaking parlors open under Haverly Loving name
Arthur Bauer returns to the store after a typhoid siege. WANTED Apprentice girl and seam stress. Apply at Haverly and Loving's dressmaking parlors over Loughran and Bauer's drug store. 221f Mrs Haverly and Mrs Loving will open Sept 1 Tailor made suits a specialty. Interurban car 68 blocked Ames hotel a.m. Baptist state convention in Grinnell next week. Rev W I Fowle on program. Salesmen wanted Rand McNally chart salesmen. Ex Governor Larrabee visits Ames. speech at chapel and reception at Conaway home. The Colored Brother's Reason anecdote by Booker T Washington.
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Haverly & Loving
Loughran & Bauer’s
Haverly
Baptist Sunday School
Grinnell
Ames Church
W. I. Fowle
United States
Rand-McNally
Rand, McNally & Co
Chicago
Larrabee
Onaway
Conaway
Laughing Dublin Skeptic Guards Cigar Butt Prank
An Irish tale from Dublin describes a calm man followed by two street urchins begging for his cigar butt. The youths concede defeat with sarcasm saying he picked up the butt himself. The scene shifts to a boastful steward at athletic sports attempting to bar spectators.
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Westmoreland Street
Dublin
O'Connell Bridge
General Post Office
Dressed by an Angry Spectator Insults Consote
An excerpt from the London Standard records an angry spectator telling the consote its size and character with sharp taunts about being sour and diminished. The remarks reflect a combative crowd atmosphere.
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London Standard
Happiness From Troubles and the Mind
A reflection on how worry shapes behavior and mood. George Harvey notes most people find solace in what they know while misery draws company. The piece argues that fear is a treatable mental state and urges simple approaches to overcome apprehension.
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George Harvey
North American Review
First Baptist Church Service Schedule and Programs
Walter I. Fowle is pastor. Bible school at 9 45. Sermon The Greatest Enemy of the Church at 11. Junior Union at 3 pm. Sermon The Place of Christ in His History at 7 30 pm.
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First Baptist Church
Walter I. Fowle
Bible School
Junior Union
Christ
Saint John’s Episcopal Church Service Features Sermon
Morning Prayer and sermon at 11 oclock on Christian Certainties. Special music directed by Professor Thompson. Sunday school held before the service.
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Professor Thompson
Congregational Musical Services Led by Pastor Minchin
The Congregational Church with Pastor W J Minchin presents a morning service featuring anthems by Gounod and Shelley, a duet by Glover, and a sunset program with Roberts anthem and Schilling even-song. Soloist Mrs L C Tilden and organist Miss McConnell participate, under Choir Director H G Bell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ch. Gounod
Shelley
Glover
Schilling
Miss McConnell
H. G. Bell
Williams to Lead Church Services Next Sunday
Pastor H. D. Williams announces the church will be ready for use next Sunday. The Y. P. C. E. meets at 6 30 p m with the morning theme The Patience of Hope and the evening sermon on Gods Education of Man.
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H. D. Williams
Horton's Hardware Sells Wood Stove For Four Dollars
A wood stove was listed at four dollars at Horton's hardware store. The record notes a price tag of 4.00 and mentions the store location in generic terms. The fragment includes figures 25 and 21 as part of the OCR line.
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Horton’s
How the Baby Talked Joke Excerpt
A Yonkers Statesman quip about a baby talking, with Mrs Bacon noting hairpins in her mouth as a comic obstacle. The exchange plays on parental expectations and a playful misunderstanding of a child's speech.
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Mr. Bacon
Mrs. Bacon
Yonkers Statesman
The Lovely Life Mrs Proud Exchange
A humorous Chicago News quip about Myrtle's essay titled The Lovely Life. Mr Proud praises the work while joking that it would reveal less polished sides such as Myrtle using eau de Cologne and slapping her little brother.
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Mrs. Proud
Myrtle
Mr. Proud
Chicago News
Professor falls downstairs ponders mysterious noise
A New Orleans professor tumbles down stairs and, brushing himself off, asks aloud what sound he heard, a muted reporting tone from the Times-Democrat.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
The Applause of a Single Human Being
A brief note reflects on the significance of one person's applause and its impact on public life and individual effort. It emphasizes quiet influence and personal acknowledgement without grand spectacle.
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John
College Day Anniversary Observed by College Family
The college marks its thirty ninth anniversary with a Monday Oct 21 observance starting at 10 a m. An address by Hungerford opens the program followed by a flag raising a marble fountain unveiling and Alumni Hall opening. A campus picnic barbecue stunts and music conclude a day without classes.
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College
Hungerford
Board of Trustees
Alumni Hall
State Field
Glee Club
Ames Bride Weds Sedalia Man In Quiet Nuptials
Yesterday afternoon at the bride’s parents home on North street in Ames the marriage of Lowell Tallman of Sedalia Missouri and Zaidee Griffith of Ames was performed by Rev. A M Shea of the Methodist church. A luncheon followed and the couple departed for their new home in Sedalia.
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North Street
Lowell Tallman
Sedalia Mo
Zaidee Griffith
A. M. Shea
Methodist Church
Ames
Mr. Tallman
C. C. Tallman
Cleaver
Sedalia
Queer Remedies From Animals Exorcisms And Charms
A survey of magical cures from many lands notes toads lizards and snakeskin in China Japan and Persia as sovereign remedies. American Indian rattles and Tibetan bone implements are cited for exorcism while elk hoofs Hawaiian thigh bones and straw images appear in belief the sins and misfortune can be transferred or removed. Charms and incantations among Druids and pilgrims wrap rags garments and pins as cures.
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Scientific American
China
Japan
Hawaiian Islands
Persia
Twisting a Rabbit Traditions and Methods
The passage describes a method where a wretched rabbit is driven into a hollow log or tree, a supple gad is inserted into the retreat, and the twister pokes about to feel the rabbit before withdrawing the gad. The language portrays a marginally disturbing animal handling scene from an older text.
The Destructiveness of Worry by George Harvey
George Harvey argues that worry is a purely negative force that drains energy, blocks resolution, and can create the very problems feared. He describes how dwelling on dread feeds fear from doubt to imagined outcomes, often making imagined threats seem real.
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George Harvey
North American Review
Vernet and the Veteran A Tiny Art Bargain
In a famed anecdote Horace Vernet, then at the peak of his fame, created a brisk sketch for a veteran who asked how much he would charge. The veteran offered a franc and a half, Vernet agreed, and the old man departed with a triumphant sketch thinking he might have struck a better deal.
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Vernet
Each Got What He Wanted
A hunter and a panther set out to hunt and eat respectively. The hunter claimed the panther would become his fur overcoat, while the panther claimed a dinner. They met in a wood. the hunter fired but missed, then the panther sprang and killed the hunter, each achieving what they sought.
The Coach and Four Came
A Harrow boy from a poor tradesman family faced taunts but vowed to ride in a coach and four. He grew to become Dr. Parr, famed as one of the era’s greatest scholars, whose preferred mode of travel remained a coach and four.
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Harrow School
Harrow
Dr. Parr
London Mail
Bee Wax Production In Honeybees Explained
Bees create comb wax in their abdomen wax pockets. Scientists show bees synthesize this peculiar wax even on a saccharine diet, challenging the idea that wax comes only from flower oils.
Hypnotist Tries Gag on Conductor on Train
A Ypsilanti Michigan man obsessed with hypnotism attempted to mesmerize a conductor on a Michigan Central train en route to an asylum. The hypnotist praised the conductor’s honesty and ticket handling and warned of a problematic reversal if he left him hypnotized.
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Ypsilanti
Mich
Michigan Central
Kansas City Star
Beers and Breakfasts in Sixteenth Century England
Sixteenth century nursery breakfasts in Northumberland show a daily menu for my Lady Margaret and Master Ingeram Percy. The meals include white bread, beer, butter, fish or sprouts, with variations for meat days and fish days, and note milk as unknown.
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England
Lady Margaret
Maister
Ingeram Percy
Dinner Denial Thwarted by Generous Stranger
A New York bishop, jostled by a hungry stranger on Fifth Avenue, treated him to a lavish hotel dinner. The guest offered to pay, then insisted the bishop cover only the cab fare, leaving the wallet behind and sparing the prelate an awkward repayment.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
IT Work a Foxy Scheme in Wash Dishes Trick
A Louisville Courier Journal snippet notes a “foxy scheme” where a boy avoids washing hands by instead washing dishes, claiming the trick is that his hands end up clean. The exchange highlights a sly, humorous ruse over household chores.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
A Lucid Interval
A doctor reports the patient’s moment of clarity ended with violence as the husband shouted at the doctor and attempted to break medicine bottles, illustrating a fluctuating mental state during treatment.
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I. S.C
Arthur Bauer
Booker T. Washington
Mr. Washington
John's Episcopal Church
Herbert A. Wilson
W.J. Minchin
Church OF Christ
Iowa State College
Tallman
Griffith
365 Mutual and
Ames Pantorium
Qines
C. E. Holmes
Ames, Ia
THE
Emporium OF Music
W. G. Stockwell
Prop
Bell
Undertaker
G. D. Loud
Kooser Brothers
Mutual
L. A. Morris
East Main Street
F. D. Burdickhr
Mutual ’Phone
Boone ST. Ambs
Adams
Mutual Phone
the Bank of Kelley Kelley
E.J. Penfield
C. L. Liverty
Res
Emmett
Co. F. Curtiss Ames
Foley
Cagwin
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