Presidents Halt Drake Jows Athletic Relations Over Pranks
President B B Hughes of Jows State College and President D W Morehouse of Drake University agree to suspend athletic relations if childish pranks like night painting continue. They warn a few students jeopardize the institutions for which the teams compete.
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B. B. Hughes
Jows State College
D. W. Morehouse
Drake University
Hughes
Morehouse
Drake
Yoyself
Liberty in Youthful Colonials Echo From 1775 Anecdote
A Boston letter dated January 29 1775 recounts a school coast prank and a complaint to General Haldiman about ashes flung on a coast from Sherburns pill to School street. The governor notes liberty is rooted in the people from childhood and identifies the site of the old house of Gen Frederick Haldiman on School street.
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Ames
Drake
John Andrews
Boston
William Barrel
Andrews
Sherburn's
School Street
Frederick Haldiman
Boston Herald
Local Time Table C W and St P Ry Through Rock Valley
Local railroad schedule lists eastward and westward trains with destinations including Spencer Des Moines Mason City Maorgnette Savanna Clinton and Sioux Falls. Sioux Flyer trains run to Milwaukee Chicago Madison and Sheldon and freight and local service connect Canton Mitchell and the Black Hills with notes on baggage check sleeping car reservations and agent contact.
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C. W
ST. P. RY
Rock Valley
Spencer
Des Moines
Mason City
Maorgnette
Savanna
Clinton
Sheldon
Madison
Milwaukee
Chicago
Wayfreieht
Sanborn
Canton
Sioux Falls
Mitchell
Black Hills
Freieht
Jocal
Cow Jacoba
Impossible to Exhaust Trinidad Asphalt
In Trinidad asphalt was found in a vast lake known as the Pitch lake in 1859 with no roads or obvious export supply. The lake is solid enough to walk on and tram lines carry excavated asphalt on its surface though holes fill rapidly after a day’s digging. The material paves streets in London and other great cities.
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Trinidad
Lemdon
The Easiest Way To Do It All
The New Albany Tribune laments a culture of minimal effort where many avoid precision and timeliness. It lauds those who act, doing their part and driving business forward despite widespread reluctance to exert effort or take responsibility.
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George
Agni
Thos
New Albany ‘Tribune
Gone to the Dog on a Train Car Conversation
A London Tit-Bits item recalls a self assured man in a corner seat bragging about taking his dog in the car and once in the baggage car paying for items the dog supposedly ate. A friend quips about the dog half finishing a fish pose at home as the train slows.
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London
Careful official hides money in coat pocket envelope
A government official tried to conceal his funds by placing them in a sealed financial envelope to mislead his wife. She found it and replied she had already taken it, revealing the ruse.
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Tve
A Fashionable Ball Dance Leads to Shawl Mislaid
A young woman seated through several dances at a stylish ball is approached by a tall, handsome man who asks for a dance. He bows and the pair move to the floor, while she notices he has picked up a Spanish shawl she had been sitting on, then leaves with it.
Beverly 3 year old identifies daddy bird in tie
Beverly aged three reports seeing a daddy bird. Her mother asks how she knew. Beverly answers that the bird had his necktie on.
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Beverly
Prize awarded for a woman's idea of age to Clara Bow
A survey of women across professions asks for an ideal woman’s age. Answers span eighteen to thirty five, with Clara Bow winning for proposing that thirty is a nice age for a young woman, especially if she’s Sunt.
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Clara Bow
Reading glasses with toric lenses offered below post office
An old advertisement describes a heavy Zylonite frame with toric lenses for distance or near focus priced at 12 dollars. It mentions local landmarks near the post office and lists an eye specialist F. L. Meyers M. BD. EYE in Shelden.
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Shelden
Laws
F. L. Meyers
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