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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1901
Page
6
A man vows to abstain from alcohol and is met with playful doubt from friends. The first friend commends his progress, while a second friend notes no visible change, leading to a light exchange about the resolve and a $50 loan from the decider of habits.
In a New York bar a portly gentleman in a black cutaway lends a hungry anarchist a nickel after the man admits he lacks 8 cents and recently blew his money in a spree. He notes appreciation and jokes about treating him if he had another coin.
A fragment from Town Topics features a flippant dialogue about a New York beauty with golden hair and blue eyes, noting her figure as angular. The exchange questions if a man is a professional and humorously warns Willie about eating too fast to avoid dyspepsia.
The notice lists one cent a word for wants and sales and includes several small ads. It mentions ladies sought at Anna Loosaar Millinery, and a general request for sewing supplies, plus inquiries about a local loan and a house taken up with details of a missing child find. A district court petition from Hardin County Iowa outlines a divorce and alimony case against William Grobe Sr. with a warning of default if he does not appear by August term.
Fragmentary verse notes a preacher’s vanity and a moan of a wounded creature heard in the woods, conveying somber, reflective mood and natural imagery.
The article discusses boiler explosions as the greatest maritime fear, noting they wipe out ships and crews instantly unlike storms. It cites strict boiler inspections reducing disappearances, but warns against unchecked carelessness or fraud. It also recounts anecdotes of engineers, inspectors, and a tale of a drunken Scot misreading gauges.
A humorous reminiscence by a famed clergyman describes his marriages across three wives and the awkward moment when his eight year old daughter asked to attend his wedding. The tale, set during a natural history hour, contrasts feline duplicity with restaurant mischief as told in Philadelphia papers.
An excerpt mentions a cheap steel headed divining rod with a wooden handle shaped like an anchor, advising buyers to ask for a pickax at a hardware store. It also cites a proverb about aligning with wind and notes the first savings bank in the United States established in 1816.
A St. Louis Star excerpt recounts a barber who refuses to hire a regular customer who wants to grow a beard. The barber warns rival customers that bearded barbers could shift client habits, reducing shaving frequency and hurting the cash box. The exchange highlights constitutional rights and business policy.
A Chicago Record summary notes Jefferson wrote most letters by his own hand, preserving 26 000 neatly folded items with replies to 16 000. Despite a broken wrist in France he kept meticulous penmanship, writing with both hands and learning left hand writing to continue correspondence.
A Philadelphia Record piece recounts an Irish couple advised by a city physician to take quinine and whisky every three hours. Misunderstanding leads to both consuming pills at once, the husband quipping the routine kept him busy while his wife stayed bedbound.
A pulpit candidate, delivering an ex tempore trial sermon before Archbishop Tait and Dean Stan ay, stammered to split his congregation into two the converted and the unconverted. The primate, scarcely able to contain his humor, replied that with only two present he should name which is which.
A Nagasaki branch of a chit shipping firm emptied for a mushroom hunting outing leaves the staff absent. The manager and workers vanished from the premises as the day’s fine weather lured them to the search, a quirk the columnist treats with wry humor.
A difficult scene on a crowded street car shows a crying baby sparked by a distraught father. Passengers judge, then soften as a mother’s absence at a business meeting is revealed. The moment reveals shared human sympathy amid public discomfort on the transit ride.
Evander Melver Sweet in The Ladies Home Journal extols the transmitting clock at Washington’s Naval Observatory as the absolute master of American timekeeping. He notes its synchrony with a Pacific branch clock on Mine Island and its control over 3 to 3,000 clocks nationwide via telegraph switch contacts.
A New York Tribune report describes a basement cooperage in the wholesale dry goods district where workers strap cases and grind wooden straps. The shop rarely makes barrels, employs about 15 men who neither head barrels nor craft them, and earns 25 cents an hour plus 16 to 25 cents per strap for the labor.
Cheap rates now in force on the Chicago Great Western Ry for settlers and home seekers. Through tourist car leaves St. Paul on Monday nights, passes Minnesota and Illinois Wednesdays. Excursion tickets at reduced rates sold by Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul to resorts in the South including Jacksonville Mobile New Orleans Savannah El Paso good for return passage before June 1 1901. Information from coupon ticket agents. The older we get the less people please.
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