Sunday Axe Incident Over Sermon Copyright Clash
Billy Sunday confronted Herman Poole & Company in Hammond Indiana after learning his sermons were uncopyrighted and being printed. He bought the copyright for 3500 and destroyed the stereotyping plates to prevent further distribution.
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Billy Sunday
Story County
W. B. Conkey Publishing Co
Hammond
Indiana
Herman Poole & Company
Decatur
Illinois
Sunday
ISU To Enter Intercollegiate Judging Contests
The Iowa State College will be represented in at least two intercollegiate judging contests this fall. Stock judging at the American Royal in Kansas City October 12 for a $400 trophy and a final contest at the International Fat Stock Show in Chicago early December. Grain contests at the National Corn Exposition in Omaha in December with a $1,600 trophy offered by the Western Grain Dealers' Association. The advanced stock judging class will practice September 21 at the interstate fair in St. Joseph.
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Kansas City
Omaha
Iowa State College
Kansas
Missouri
United States
Canada
Kennedy and
Dinsmore
St. Joseph
Western Grain Dealers’ Association
Story County Fair Opens Next Tuesday
The Story County Fair begins next Tuesday for four days with expectations of a big turnout. Residents note excellent crops this year and anticipate a bigger and better event than previous fairs. Local interest remains high as the community rallies behind the annual showcase.
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Story County
Grain and Corn Judging Contests to Award New Trophy
The contest will honor the most proficient work in small grain judging with a trophy and another $1,000 prize for the top corn judging team. Coaches for both grain and corn teams are Professors Bowman and Crossley. Participation by other states is not yet known.
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Bowman
Crossley
Semmons Wins Another Journal Prize Check
W J Semmons received a $10 prize from the Ladies Home Journal for his Journal pattern advertisement that appeared in the Times on July 15.
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W. J. Semmons
The
Ladies Home Journal
the Times
Rev Shea Returns To Ames For Another Year
Rev Andrew M Shea is returned to Ames for another year following a Methodist Episcopal conference in Clarinda Iowa. The Ames church expresses happiness over his continued work here. Mrs Ruth Cook has been ill for two weeks but is now up and about.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Clarinda
Iowa
Andrew M. Shea
Ames
Shea
Ruth Cook
Postoffice Site Decision Delayed for Months
A postoffice official stated the choice between two sites will be considered, with a decision not expected for two months. Construction of the postoffice is projected at least two years away.
A Harvard of the Soil in Iowa's Farm Boom
Herbert A. Casson extols Iowa’s farming revolution noting $60,000,000 in labor saving machinery and 200,000 women with 300,000 men transforming agriculture into a profession. He highlights Ames as a Harvard of the soil, a thousand acre college feeding a million dollar yearly payroll, and cites prominent Iowans shaping the state’s agricultural prestige.
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The
Review of Reviews
Iowa
England
Europe
Harvester Trust
New York
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Harlan
Des Moines
Ames
Farmers College
Harvard
Andrew Jackson
Princeton
Vassar
Horace Boies
Albert B. Cummins
James Wilson
Prairie West
Last Shot at the Ames Times Silver Cup
Bob Clark, the amateur gun champion of this city, will shoot for the Ames Times Silver Cup on Thursday afternoon September 24. He has won the trophy twice in a row and may keep it if he wins again. Club members are urged to attend and prevent the cup from becoming private property. Six or more eligible shooters may compete.
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Clark
Bob Clark
Ames
Ames Times
Bob
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