Names Sought for Athletic Field at Grinnell
The Student seeks suggested names for the athletic field. Attending the rdgiaia convention in Grinnell, Miss Clark the librarian, reports travel and meetings across Iowa City and Des Moines. Continued notes cover sports, meetings, weddings, and local visits with mentions of Patience Wormley, Miss Armstrong, and J.H. Frandson in hospital at Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark
Therdgiaia
Grinnell
W. J. Kennedy
Redding
Farmer's Institute
Metta Beardshear
Told
Toledo
J.H. Frandson
E8 Moines
Ristine
Iowa City
Fort
Respected Citizen Leaves City for Stomach Treatment
A local man travels to the city seeking care for stomach trouble. He spent railroad fare that could have bought Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for his family for six months. The ad promotes 50c and 1.00 bottles sold by L. M. Bosworth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Caldwell
L. M. Bosworth
Real Estate Loans Offer Flexible Payment Options
Real estate loan notice offers to take up existing loans to reduce rates and provide a new loan allowing payments on any interest day or any day with no commission. Stony County Bang.
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Stony County
He Must Coness. Mineral Tar Syrup for Lung Trouble Ad
Dear readers praise for the White Wine of Tar Syrup sent by Coye Pharmacy. A. M. Homphrey minister endorses it for lung ailments, claiming greater benefit than prior remedies. Trilla California? Ll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Homphrey
Baptisl Church
Chicago Great Western A y Ticket Sale Announced
The Chicago Great Western announces one way second class colonist tickets to the west southwest and south at the lowest rates yet offered on the first and third Tuesdays of November and December. For details contact any Great Western agent J. P. Elmer G. P. A. Chicago, Ill.
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Chicago Great Western A'y
Great Western
J. P. Elmer
Chicago
Mrs Nellie Gaskett Smith dies in Colorado Springs
Nellie Gaskett Smith born Ames April 8 1871 died Colorado Springs October 23 1902 at 31. Married O G Smith of Wichita December 1858, had two daughters. Funeral at Ames Christian church conducted by F D Ferrall, interred Ames cemetery beside family.
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Culbertson
Ames
W. W. Spring
Trenton
Nebraska
Francis M. Coffelt
Owen County
Indiana
Story County
Iowa
2Nd Iowa Cavalry
Anna Kaufman
Caldwell
Kansas
Hitchcock County
A. O. U. W. Lodge
Trenton Cemetery
Hattie J. Day
Laura A. Haegen
Nora B. Hurst
Neb
Elia Sutton
Colorado Springs
Colo
Nellie Baskett
F. D
Mary Baskett
Col
O. G. Smith
Wichita
Kan
Kansas City
Ames Christian Church
F. D. Ferrall
New eight room house with barn and garden in College
For sale a new eight room residence including bath room wash house fuel room and barn with lawn and a fruit tree garden. Inquire of A Duebendorfer College lip.
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A. Duebendorfer
Lip
Student P L Kimberly Found Dead Near Ames Rail Line
The body of P L Kimberly of West Liberty was found Sunday morning between rail tracks near Ames. Coroner ruled accidental death after a jury investigation. Kimberly, 19, had attended an oyster supper with friends and was last seen boarding a westbound freight. His roommate Roy Stuart reported the search, and funeral services were held at his parents home in West Liberty.
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Ames
P. L. Kimberly
West Liberty
N. W
Boone
Templeton
Loud
Cooner
Nevada
M. J. Adams
Nels Rouge
Railroad Company
Roy Stuart
Bankers’ Union
Odd Fellows Hall
Stuart
Kimberly
Grassey
Des Moines
D. Kimberly
Charles Chase
A. EB. Kimteriey
Weat Liberty
Mrs Alexander McFarland Die in Gilbert After Breakfast
Mrs Alexander McFarland of Gilbert died yesterday morning after a brief illness following a hearty breakfast. She was a pioneer of Story county and mother of Mrs W H Nelson of the Neilson House in Ames. Funeral tomorrow with additional particulars next week.
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Alexander McFarland
Gilbert
W H. Nelson
Neilson House
Ames
Story County
Hawaiian Place Names Inspire Gentle Jokes
A New York Tribune note recalls how Hawaiian place names roll with vowels and delight listeners. A Brooklyn Presbyterian clergyman visiting the islands once quipped that only Spreckelsville lacked euphony, then added a playful line about traveling to Nawilly-willy with a sing song cadence.
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Spreckelsville
Nawilly-willy
New York Tribune
Bookish advice on wedding preacher cited in column
A woman asks her mother for guidance on choosing a wedding preacher for Cecil and herself. The mother recommends Dr. Easleigh, noting he has performed four previous marriages and always provided thorough satisfaction, a detail attributed to a Chicago Record-Herald citation.
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Cecil
Wanted dining room girl for four dollar weekly board
Help wanted advertisement seeks a dining room girl offering four dollars per week and board. Apply at once with address A L Wilabelo Box 143 Iowa 8 College.
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A. L. WiLaBeLo
Iowa
College
Bank Intrigue At Bank Of England Strongroom
A mysterious midnight intruder sent a letter to Bank of England directors claiming he would reveal a safe room breach. Police guarded the strongroom, then a chest of papers arrived claiming the writer avoided police. A sewer-dweller with a dark lantern entered the strongroom to prove he was no thief.
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Bank of England
Nuffin
Thor
St. James
The Strain on Parents
Sally Peterson Jones asks what mo hair and me are while Mammy Jones rocks in a scene of parental teaching. Mammy insists children must study and locate mo in schoolbooks before she explains further, arguing that parents cannot do all the work for them.
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Mammy
Sally Peterson Jones
Mammy Jones
Sally
Lawyer avoids Latin phrases in Brooklyn letter
A Brooklyn lawyer used the Latin phrase ad dress ut supra in a letter to a client. The client replied after days that he had answered and addressed it as John Langdon Ut Supra N Y, illustrating a Latin error in business correspondence.
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Brooklyn
John Langdon
N. Y
Shell Keep Her Word at Shrubville Centenary
Grandmother Pettingill returns from Shrubville centennial celebration and declares she will never attend another centennial there. She says the noise, bands, frightened horses, crying children, and speeches hardened her resolve to stay away in the future.
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Grandmother Pettingill
Shrubville
Maidens Sold by Auction on Easter Monday at St Goar
The town crier at St Goar calls a public sale of maidens every Easter Monday for four centuries. The highest bidder wins the right to dance with the chosen girl for the year, with fees donated to the public poor box.
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Lower Rhine
St. Goar
A Serious Matter and Publisher Quarrel Cited
A publisher condemns actions resembling theft of ideas and advertising copy. The Washington Star reports the dispute centers on crowds attempting to lure the writer away by copying his advertisement strategies.
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Washington Star
Conscience Talk Over Tailor Bill In Punch Parody
A Punch excerpt features two Bohemian figures debating conscience over paying a tailor. First mocks the haggle, while the second asserts a desire to minimize the tailor’s loss, underscoring a humorous moral quandary.
Seven Year Old Misreads Sermon Tale as Hell Visitor
Mrs C notices her daughter speaks of the devil and pretends to recall a sermon. The child asserts the minister preached about Jesus going up the mountain and being tempted by the devil, misnaming the tempter as the gentleman who keeps hell. Francis E. Wadleigh in Lippincott's.
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Mulienbach
Pammel
Ames
Chicago
San Antonio
Texas
Hell
Francis E. Wadleigh
Lippincott's
One Indian’s Virtue and Manliness in Abstinence
A Scottish American remark praises an aboriginal man, the One of South America, for total abstinence from alcohol despite hardship and ritual. It lauds his bodily prowess, hardihood, and endurance as a rare virtue among indigenous peoples.
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South America
Hardihood
Their Fate and the Black Sheep in Court
A joke recounts Dr. Talmage visiting his lawyer where two parishioners sit on private legal business. The lawyer asks if they are black or white sheep. Talmage quips that they may be fleeced if they stay.
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Dr. Talmage
Talmage
Quote on training spouses sparks home wrecking joke
The Chicago Post joke riffs on a man who trained a wife by catching her young and a wife who trained a husband similarly. The resulting clash of ideas is described as a “crisscross” that wrecks homes in a humorous exchange.
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Chicago Post
Why He Objected to a Wealthy Father
In a Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt a millionaire objects to his daughter's marriage proposal on grounds of her suitor's poverty. The daughter pleads that working for a living is honorable, but the father quips that his objection is not the poverty itself but bearing the burden of being the one who must work for it.
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Odeboit
Prof. Curtiss
A. E. Cook
Sioux City
Kansas City
Philadelphia Bulletin
Special Hat Sale and Fall Horse Breeding Event
Mrs L M Sisson announces a hat sale from 1 to 6 pm Saturday November 1 at her barn seven blocks north of Union National Bank selling street hats below cost. Perry Simmona advertises breeding mares for fall colts noting mares have light work now and mentioning a large jack and Percheron horse Billy Morgan on November 1.
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Billy Morgan
Union National Bank
Perry Simmona
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Newton
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Drake University
L. B. Craig
Cornell
H. L. Willett
University of Chicago University
Edward Baxter Perry
America
College Chapel
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Cedar Falls
Guttenberg
Messrs. Hendricks
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Dodd
Clare Campbell
Ray Mills
Jefferson
Miss Mills
Oklahoma
Pheenix, Ariz
Marcia Mills
Prof. Resler
Francis M. Coffeit
Trilla, Cales Co., Ll
Coye Pharmacy
Nellie Gaskett Smith
Threadneedle Street
Chile
Boone County
Watch Hospital
Pat Propits
J. Lea. Simpson
Scone
Butler House
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