Personal Paragraphs Reflect Ames Area News
Crookston and Des Moines visitors. trips to Chicago and St. Paul. funerals for Miss Sadie Kooser. many Ames residents traveling or ill. Miss Rose Graves and others visiting relatives. church notes, a funeral in Ames, and early 1900s social updates. Burglaries hit Knudson and Kooser stores with small cash losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. B. Dodds
Big Stone
Minn
Walter Kooser
Des Moines
Sadie Kooser
Public Sale Near Iowa Agricultural College Area
Auction listing for October 25 at 10 a.m. describes 95 head of livestock including horses mules and cattle, 50 hogs, farm implements, and hay. Property located one mile west and 134 miles south of the Iowa Agricultural College and 134 miles south of Ontario. Terms include 12 months on over five dollars with 7 percent interest, cash for smaller sums, 2 percent discount for cash on time sales. Gro W Akin conducts the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Agricultural College
Ontario
Frey’s Major
Chester
Timothy
McCormick
John Deere
Miss Pearl Patterson Weds Mr. David Conn in Boone Home
Miss Pearl Patterson former city schools teacher married last evening at her Boone residence to Mr. David Conn a prominent Boone businessman. The couple will reside in Boone and their social circle follows them with best wishes from Boone and the city.
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Edna Hathaway
Pearl Patterson
Boone
David Conn
Miss Patterson
Chamberlain's Salve Tames Eczema and Tetter
The salve eases intense itching from eczema and tetter and has cured many severe cases. Local users report rapid relief and lasting improvement after regular application.
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Chamberlain
Local items from Boxholm and area visits
Community notes report visits by Mrs. Dr. Adamson and family, A Wortman illness at the post office, Mrs. Starr and Leta in Tacoma Iowa, new resident Mr. Allie Eggleston, shopping trips to Des Moines, Rev. Stevenson at Lamoille, and social plans for the Congregational Ladies Aid. A Cape May beach anecdote contrasts sand texture with Ormond cited as finest in the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape May Beach
Long Branch
Asbury Park
Cape May
Ormond
Philadelphia Bulletin
Phrase origins of to die in the last ditch
The phrase is described as an Americanism by an English authority, tracing its origin to the Civil War era. It cites William, prince of Orange, who allegedly said he would die in the last ditch if Holland’s troops were defeated in battle.
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William, Prince of Orange
France
Holland
Banquet Speech Sparks Editor Ranter Dispute
A confrontation between a speaker and the editor over未 printed remarks from a banquet speech. The exchange centers on whether the newspaper should publish the remarks and reveals tension over editorial decisions.
Modesty of Hokusai Shows Mastery Grows with Age
Dora Amsden notes Hokusai spoke of drawing at six and predicted progress with age. He claimed work before seventy was not worth noting and foresaw greater mastery at eighty, ninety, and beyond. Hokusai died in 1849 at eighty nine.
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Hokusai
Dora Amsden
Frozen Ground Reaches Depths in Yakutsk Mystery
Scientists have puzzled over the Yakutsk frozen well in Siberia. From 1828 reports claimed deep ground freeze, a 1829 dig reached around thirty feet, and by 1838 to 1844 the Reesian Academy of Sciences bored 882 feet before abandoning the shaft as the earth remained solidly frozen. The cause of this extraordinary cold remains unexplained.
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Yakutsk
Siberia
Reesian Academy of Sciences
For Sale Land and Farm Properties in Iowa and Missouri
Three parcels offered for exchange or sale. One 200 acres of deep black Iowa soil within 40 miles of Des Moines seeks merchandise or good livery stock. Another 143 acres in Iowa with fair improvements near a small town seeks merchandise livery stock or furniture. The third 190 acres in Macon County Missouri near town seeks merchandise livery stock or clear income property. Full particulars via R. McBerley Kellogg Iowa. Also listing: New Stanhope item used several times by J Jacons.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Macon County
Missouri
R. McBerley
Kellogg
Births and Deaths of Chas Embody Clara Barger
Chas Embody and Clara Bell Barger born in Pocahontas County Iowa with daughter of W P Barger. Clara died October 15 1905 near Fort Wayne Indiana of typhoid fever after marrying Chas Embody on December 25 1901 and moving to Fort Wayne. Survived by husband son father mother four sisters two brothers with funeral at Ontario Christian church.
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Sadie
George B. Kooser
Story Co
Marion Rebekah Lodge
Chas. Embody
Clara Bell Barger
Pocahontas Co
Iowa
W. P. Barger
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Christian Church
Ontario
Chas
Embody
Leverett
Des Moines
Resolutions of Respect Sadie Kooser Honored by Lodge
Marian Rebekah Lodge No. 108 honors sister Sadie Kooser with a formal resolution. The group expresses sympathy to her family, votes to drape the charter for thirty days, and to publish the notice in home papers and lodge records. Committee members are Atherine Goble Gretta Holmes Jessie Kooser.
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Marian Rebekah
Sadie Kooser
Atherine Goble
Gretta Holmes
Jessie Kooser
Also Mentioned on This Page
C. BE. Holmes
Crookston, Minn
W. D. Moxley
Chicago
Harry Brown
Jamestown, N. D
Kittie Baughman
O. H. Dunham
St. James, Minn
J. L. Gillespie
Claude Miller
Ed. Tierney
Lorena Webber
Geo. Hoffman
Mr. Hoffman
Robt. Hemstreet
Ohio
M. Hemstreet
Wm. Brown
Nebraska
5. J. Gossard
Minnie Boyd
Sandwich
Ill
Ole Bouge
P. S. O'Neil
Baby of Zearing
Will Scott
Frank Kooser
Rose Graves
Paynesville, Minn
C. J. Graves
J. M. Dieffenbacher
Watsontown
Penn
W. A. Scott
Barother
Harry Koontz
Paola
Kansas
E. Campbell
Toledo
The
W.R.C
O. A. Adams
Ainsley, Neb
Ed. Adams
Minnesota
Dr. Seager
Old Mexico
Myrtle Munden
Ames
Fr. Seiling
Lou Seiling
A.C. Kingsbury
Renwick
Ben Kingsbury
D. J. Bishop
Nevada
Charles Benton
Kaneville
Benton
Clayton Bureau
Bohumir Kryi
Heinrich
Max Heinrich
Phoebe Roberts
Duse
Jack London
Gunsaulus
Gladstone
Knudson’s
Roosers
Koosers
Moire
Europe
Paris
W. J. Semmons
Ames, Iowa
Gro. W
Conn-Patterson
Dr. Adamson
Boxholm
A. Wortman
T. Eida
Allie Eggleston
Bert Wire
Stevenson
Lamoille
Mrs. Grenier
Greene County
C. Stevens
Kelley
Congregational Ladies’ Aid Society
Beach Sanda
Ranter
New Stanhope
J. Jacons
Ladies’ Home Journal and
Woman's Magazine
Ene
East Mainstreet
Iow
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