Various Happenings at Iowa Institutions and Local News
A stream of notes reports Prof Holdens Institute talks in Logan and visits by Professors and students to Des Moines Fairfield and Waymark. Lectures by Jack London planned, College Day events, and a 63 to 0 football win over Simpson. Marriages, travel, and garden and horticulture work feature alongside music at chapel and university notices.
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Jack London
Prof. Stevenson
E. B. Watson
Soils Department
Fairfield
Reding
Stanton
Macomber
Lincoln
Deafness Cure Tale Ends In Ironic Silence
A patient cured of deafness by a Wagner performance sits near the orchestra. As trombones blare the man hears and exclaims to the doctor who remains silent. The physician, however, has himself become deaf.
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Harper’s Weekly
Nelsons Famous Signal At Trafalgar
Captain Pasco gives the London Chronicle account of Nelson directing the fleet to England confides that every man will do his duty. Pasco pressed to change confides to expects but Nelson insisted the original wording be used and the signal was sent before close action.
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Nelson
Trafalgar
England
Pasco
London Chronicle
Barber, Monkey and Pat in a Comical Shave
An Irish man visits a barber shop for a shave. While the barber is away, the monkey imitates the barber and finishes lathering with the brush, then takes up the razor. Pat exclaims that his father must shave him, protesting the cheeky animal's actions.
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Pat
Not Encouraging Ends of the Earth Banter
A Boston girl and a persistent suitor debate proving devotion by reaching the ends of the earth, but she argues the earth has no ends making the claim impossible. The exchange is reported as a witty remark from the Philadelphia Press.
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Man
Atchison Globe
Boston
Philadelphia Press
Virtue as the measure of man beyond Water and Fire
A concise reflection on virtue’s supremacy over water and fire. Confucian thought shares that men can perish by treading on water or fire, yet virtue itself sustains life. The saying highlights virtue as the true guide for living.
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Confucius
Notice to Deliveries in November Afternoon
Beginning November 1st the service will make a single delivery in the afternoon. No goods will be received after 3 p m. C S Henry.
Marriage of Gertrude Curtiss and Clayton Paxton
Miss Gertrude Curtiss of Nevada wed Clayton Paxton of Chicago yesterday at the Curtiss home in Nevada in a small ceremony conducted by Rev. Sanford of the Presbyterian church. The bride, a graduate of I. S. C. class of 1904, and the Ames-born groom, son of Mrs. R. Paxton and a Northwestern office worker in Chicago, win the good wishes of many friends in Ames.
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Gertrude Curtiss
Nevada
Clayton Paxton
Chicago
Curtiss
Sanford
Presbyterian Church
I. 8
S. C
Ames
R. Paxton
Northwestern
Daisy Kitchen and Oscar Miller wed at kitchen home
The marriage of Miss Daisy Kitchen and Mr Oscar Miller took place Wednesday evening October 18 at the bride’s parents home southwest of town. Rev A M Pruitt of the U B church officiated before about fifty guests. The groom, a farmer, and bride will live on a farm southwest of town.
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David J. Conn
Pearl Louise Patterson
J. R. Patterson
Fourth Street
O. H. L. Mason
Allie Hartman
Dorothy Phillips
Minnie Cedargreen
Conn
West
Colorado
Wyoming
Sara Rice
Cesar Halls
Daisy Hathaway
Ames
J. 8. Johnson
Superior
Nebraska
Boone Republican
A. J. Kitchen
Daisy Kitchen
Oscar Miller
A. M. Pruitt
U. B
Two 200 Pound Pumpkins At Local Real Estate Office
In Smith & Davis and Thompson & Graves offices in this city two pumpkins, resembling ordinary sweet pumpkins, weigh 200 pounds each and were grown by Billy Miller, an engineer on his farm near the town. The writer recalls a Dakota county fair circa 1884 where a 101 pound cow pumpkin was shown.
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Astern
Ames
Canada
Billy
Story County
Smith & Davis
Thompson & Graves
Billy Miller
N. W
Dakota
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Iow
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Des Moines
Dr. Storms
Dr. Stalker
Rotterdam
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R. E. Buchanan
Mt. Pleasant
Miss Bess Disbrow
Independence
Prof. Irwin
Des Moines Golf and Country Club
Bloom
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Enterprise, Ore
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Perry
the Gables
Mrs. Bisse
St. John’s Guild
Herbert Wilson
Dow
Marshalltown
Board of Trustees
Simpson
Prof. Beach
Storm Lake
P. F. Kione
State Horticultural Association
Wragg Nursery
Waukee
L. W.forman
Mr. Stein
Agronomy
Polk
Marshall
J. W. Jones
Mr. Reinber
Sioux
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Glee Club
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Kryl
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Mr. Heinrich
Miss Roberts
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Heinrich
Little Dutch Band
Cessna
Storms
George W. Catt
Dean Stanton
Taylor
Hollister
L. M. Bosworth
Conn Patterson
Virtue
C. S. Henry
Paxton-Curtiss
A. & C. Railway
Ision
Seth
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Tt. M. Ks
H. Westerman
Hicene
Chicago & Northwestern
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Des Moines & Ae
Overland
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Etee
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Carroll Mail
Cee
8. C
Engile Grove
St.aul & Des Moine Pass
Bom
Des Moines Pass
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Omaha
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Des Moines & Ames
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