Local Week News Notes Ames Students and Travel
Misa Madge Lotspeich a state school student at Ames visited cousins Miss Clara and Eugene Hinton at Central College late last week on her way home to Martinsburg. Mr and Mrs D C Thomas and baby of Evans attended Memorial Day services at Pella and visited relatives. Mr and Mrs B H Langerak returned Friday from the southwest and plan to move to Ancho New Mexico to be near property interests. Vanderpols Saturday special Rio Coffee 1734 ctu per lb limit four lbs per customer. Miss Louise Champion who taught shorthand at Central College this spring finished work and left for Osage to teach at Cedar Valley Seminary next year. H P and Ed Van Gorp went to Des Moines Saturday to bring down some automobiles.
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Misa Madge Lotspeich
Ames
Miss Clara and
Eugene Hinton
Central College
Martinsburg
D. C. Thomas
Baby
Evans
Pella
B. H. Langerak
Ancho
New Mexico
Osage
Cedar Valley Seminary
H. P
Ed van Gorp
Des Moines
Bertha Burns
Winnipeg
Caucousin
Lora
C. Vander Busse
Leonard DeBruyn
Monroe
T. D. Tice
Newton
Holdsworth & Company of
Sully
Jackson
Richmond
Empire
Teunis Klein
Law
Drake University
N Chronicle
Supt
Chas. Sipe
Madeline- Calhoun
Otley
AutoCo
H. Gezel
Chas
Si W. H. Fowler
Pella News Roundup Reflects Local Visits and School Debt
Mrs Edgar Crooke of Montrose and her daughter visited the John De Cook home on South Main. The Pella school district debt status shows $3,000 paid on Lincoln School debt, leaving $6,000 to be carried by locals and retired within two years. Various residents and visitors are noted, including Rev B F Brinkman, Mrs Dave Dykstra, and others, plus local ads and events at the Ever Ready garage and People's Cafe.
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Edgar Crooke
Montrose
Pella
John de Cook
South Main Street
C. M. Moore
Portland
Oreg
Lincoln School
John Hamilton
Lucas County
Pell
B. F. Brinkman
New York City
Asbury Park
N. J
General Synod of the Reformed Church
Holland
Mich
Hope College
Dave Dykstra
Mitchellville
H. F. Fisk
Fred Vanderzyl
Eddyville
Ben Grant
Fred
People’s Cafe
Adv
The Mirthful Shop of Chippendale in St Martin's Lane
A vivid slice of London bustling with high society patrons at Chippendale's shop in St Martin's Lane. The text portrays the fashionable clientele from belles and beaus to great lords gathered each morning, seeking furniture and gossip alike. The shop is described as a club where court chatter and city scandal circulated amid Gothic chairs Chinese sofas and Louis Quinze desks.
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St. Martin's Lane
Chippendale
Sophas
Louis Quinze
City location debate sparks pupil from Shrewsbury school
Dean Hole recalls a university anecdote in which a youth from Shrewsbury school challenges the atlas of Dr. Butler. The student suggests the ancient city lies about ten miles southeast of its current map position, prompting thanks from the dean.
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University Ife
Dean Hole
Shrewsbury School
Bentley
Butler
Shrewsbury
Blood as Food in Masal Diet
Blood as a diet item for the Masal is described as essential, serving as a salt substitute. Bleeding is performed with a ligature above the incision in the neck, using a thick shafted arrow to prevent overpenetration. The blood is typically consumed hot from the animal, sometimes mixed with milk.
Riding a Camel Tale of Camels Cup and Ball
A man describes camel riding as a perpetual game of cup and ball where the animal tosses the rider and repeatedly misses, capturing the sensation of rough, unpredictable motion. The anecdote likens the ride to a playful yet stubborn animal game.
Misery bound man jokes about wealth and happiness
A Detroit Free Press cartoon line quotes a man preferring poverty over wealth to spare misery for others, while Brooklyn Life captions a National Guard recruit and an officer joking about firing at a field bull, implying a humorous scene.
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Detroit Free Press
National Guard
Brooklyn
An Escape
A terse London Opinion note recalls a scene of a frightened maid and a peeping visitor as Mrs Dodge is away. A mystery tone notes T’s fear at the visitor’s peek through the curtain as the speaker approaches the path.
What Did He Mean and Other Fragments From Newsprint
A collage of brief vintage quotes and wry exchanges. The Houston Post joke about marriage contrasts with Epictetus wisdom. A shipboard remark likens a heaving deck to a self walking floor, capturing light, humorous newspaper tone.
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Houston Post
Chippendale The Cabinet Maker and Advertising Thief?
The passage portrays Chippendale as skilled and tasteful in cabinet making, adept at matching styles to British patrons, and a shrewd businessman who understood advertising and self-promotion to attract clients.
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Chippendale
Fortunate Exchange On Interruptions Revealed
Dialogue reveals tension between speakers as one laments interruptions while the other notes the other's fortunes in stable discourse. The exchange underscores differing attitudes toward ability and circumstance amid everyday speech.
Excuse Cited as Hered by Philadelphia Telegraph
A terse exchange features Bessie denying a scream during an attempted kiss while Jessie notes a nearby sick man across the street as the telegraph column records a dramatic street scene in Philadelphia.
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Bessie
Jessie
Philadelphia Telegraph
Noise of Silkworms Reveals Strict Chinese Silk Farms
A Chicago Record-Herald excerpt notes that China leads in silkworm culture with vast, tightly controlled farms. Guards attend the hatching rooms naked to sense humidity changes, ban talking near the worms, keep flies away, and require bath and breath standards.
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China
Chicago Record-Herald
Patience as Strength Against Despair
The line credits Jerrold with the idea that patience is the strongest asset against despair, portraying calm persistence as a covert weapon against looming darkness. It frames patience as a shield that defeats overwhelming odds through steady resolve.
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Jerrold
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