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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
5
Geo. S. Foster spends the week at home. Various residents visit relatives in Ames and nearby towns including Mrs. Blumgren in Villisca, Mrs. Templeton in Marion, and Miss Gossard from Marshallowl. Several weddings, trips, and social calls among locals, plus notes on a theater showing and community events.
Friends of sound money and continued prosperity are invited to gather at the opera house corner at 7 p.m. The parade will feature mounted riders, torches, hats and canes, and three bands. The march proceeds through the main streets and returns to the opera house for an address by Hon. O. F. Williams, a renowned political speaker.
Ames notes show Mrs Budd hosting receptions at the Budd home with friends to follow. Quaker women promote Friends Oats, Daniel Bros. store remodeling, sidewalk repairs on Douglass street, and a CHAUTAUQUA circle forming. Ensign Albert H. McCarthy inherits command of the Arayat gun boat in the Philippines as a rapid promotion.
Help wanted advertisement from Mrs. F. M. Counter seeking a girl for general house work with good wages offered to the right person. The notice appears in a historical newspaper classified section.
Dan Snerman stars as Old Dan Tucker in the three act farce comedy My Daughters Husband at the opera house Tuesday October 20. The plot is carefully drawn with a charming story and audience friendly vaudeville interludes. Weibstar Fitz present a strong cast and lavish production values.
Sir W. W. Hunter praises Thackeray’s mother as the tender lifelong influence shaping his life and writings. He notes how this gentleness toward women extended to his wife and daughters and lingers in his work, even as Calcutta graveyards symbolize mortality.
An English physician offers home remedies for insomnia. Techniques include a hot water compress on the abdomen for waking sleepers, hot foot baths, wet thin cotton socks under wool socks, a mustard sitz bath with mustard to water, and tepid reclining baths as sedatives.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier claimed this was the world’s funniest story. A man taken to an asylum asks how to know when an idiot should be discharged. A nurse explains by leading him to a yard with troughs, taps on, and buckets to bail water. The lasting truth: those who are not idiots stop the tap.
Substantial mud entanglement follows a maiden remark about a water lily. Archie Sixcap wades out, sinks to his waist, fails to reach the lily, and mutters a sarcastic line about fools rushing in. He struggles back to shore, reflecting on prudence.
Aunt Mary declares a new baby brother has arrived while the eldest slept. The child claims the milkman delivered him, noting the cart reading Families supplied daily, a curious domestic moment from London Tit-Bits.
A terse dialogue shows a wife gently chiding her husband about spending habits while the husband grumbles he lacks enough funds. The exchange underscores household finance dynamics and mutual dissatisfaction with money management.
The Ames McKinley Club will travel to Nevada Saturday night to hear Ha. B. I. Salinger discuss republican doctrine. The Nevada club plans to visit Ames tonight, promising a good crowd and a reciprocal turnout Saturday.
Joe B. Cohn and Miss Bess Read wed last night at eight in Ames at the Read home with Prof. Wyon officiating. Cohn, an Ames resident, settles into married life in the cottage once occupied by the Marsh family. The Times extends best wishes to the couple. The Washington precinct general election is set for Nov 6 at Slemstreet Campbell’s office in Aves, 8 am to 6 pm. Times offers Road Supervisor’s Poll Tax Receipts bound in books of fifty. Headlines promote Our Flag canned goods, Til den & Loughran’s perfumes, and Miller & Son honey.
Ray Thomas born near Peabody Kansas March 24 1882, fourth of five sons. Family moved to Iowa then Idaho where father Geo W Thomas died May 8 1900. Ray fell ill and died October 16 at age 18 6 23. Funeral at Dunkard church near Ames. buried there. An old notice fragment references local business and ads.
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