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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1906
Page
3
Arizona began ostrich farming in 1881 and the birds spread across states. Over 1,000 birds from a single pair have produced most of today’s U S ostrich stock in Arizona and beyond. The industry remains young with slow maturity timelines for both sexes.
The article notes ostrich heights of eight to eleven feet and six farms in Arizona. It details feather values up to 146 dollars per pound, nest habits, day and night egg sitting by male and female, incubation practices, and the staged plucking process on ranches with birds driven into a shed for feather removal.
The New York Tribune notes that spring water held sacred status among Southwest tribes, with pueblos locating near springs. It argues groundwater from hidden depths inspired reverence, shaping myth, ritual, and daily life in desert regions among peoples like the Pueblo and associated cultures.
A collection of aphorisms on happiness marriage and economy notes that a person’s judgment of others varies with circumstance. It warns that borrowing trouble harms peace of mind and urges agreeable conduct. The piece contrasts public reception with private opinion and reflects on postvisit conversations.
Dr Pinches of University College London cites a curious ancient anointing claim from a little known Assyrian king Torus. An owl egg in wine supposedly causes weariness, sheep lung dries drunkenness, and swal low beak with myrrh sprinkled in wine would cleanse a drinker. The note attributes the discovery to Torus.
A guide advises using one gallon of water at the blaze base rather than ten gallons at the top. The strategy, “Play tew,” emphasizes steady, bottom-up cooling as flames rise, creating steam and quenching the fire. A large Jeo ward site fire is deadly, but applying water at the fire’s base on the windhyard side offers a fast, river-free method to extinguish sparks.
In a playful Chicago note the Count Reus on the Count Kreelunch-Ah asks if he made a favorable impression on the heiress’s father. Count Broken-Favorable replies that John T thought the Count sought land, not a match, sparking humorous banter about marriage prospects.
An old farmer recalls excusing his sleep under sermons with the saying that when the rector is in the pulpit it is all right. The London Standard notes this quip about pastoral authority and reassurance.
The article outlines a comparison of skin perspiration tubes totaling over 201000 feet in length and a near forty mile aggregate drainage path. It then mentions a remarkable night bird, the laughing owl of Florida, which emits loud half human laughter capable of frightening campers.
A Philadelphia quip recalls Mrs Galley as a beauty in youth. A man notes his uncle planned marriage but she eloped, then jokes the uncle was her pastor. The exchanged lines reflect local banter on past romance.
Morocco Ind locals report a peat bog near St. John's along the Indiana Harbor railroad. The mass, waterlogged vegetation, weighs little when dry but burns slowly, producing intense heat. Its weight has caused railroad expansion problems, with boreholes to 35 feet showing no change in material.
A Swinburne poem is cited in a Christmas fund publication, while a lecture on consumer deception unfolds. Mann, a longtime doctor, demonstrates items from cherry dyes to can weights, contrasting claimed and real products as Gaines questions. The audience applauds as Mann argues for proper standards and warns against misleading labeling.
A Philadelphia Bulletin note discusses architectural competitions for new cathedrals. It cites a local firm that spent $2,400 on one fatal mock competition, having entered ten contests and won four, totaling $7,000 in design costs. The piece underscores time, effort, and expenses architects bear to deliver the best possible plans.
The record recalls 19th century Christmas negotiations shaping Europe and events in the United States. It notes Austria, France, Italy, and Turkey agreeing or conceding territories and constitutional changes under duress, with Napoleon as a key figure cited and the US withdrawal voyage mentioned. The account underscores imperial diplomacy and posturing around holiday dates.
Immersive passages describe Davina Well near Bethlehem where David’s men offered water, later poured out as a sacrifice. Includes mythic notes on Amazon River vastness, number of tributaries, navigable reach, and historical impressions of indigenous beliefs about the river’s course around the world.
Edmond Rostand, the French playwright, faced early hearing difficulties until sarah Bernhardt took interest in his early work La Princesse Loyitaine. She reading the manuscript at her theatre, brought Coquelin aboard, who pledged to stage Rostand’s work, leading to Cyrano and eventually Anglons tragedy. Bernhardt’s support helped Rostand gain prominence in France and abroad.
The piece notes medieval kitchens as informal spaces before formal rooms arose. It mentions butchers skinning and dressing animals there, a blacksmith repairing farm tools on site, coal usage starting around 1245, and the oven's adoption by 1400 with brick ovens dominating for centuries. The stove later supplanted separate ovens and hanging pots.
A prayer from Carly's Magazine as a southern islander speaker closes a religious gathering asks that their words not fade like worn clothes in a box at burial, but that truth endure in the face of death and time.
The passage blends the Achaians League of ancient Achaea with battles against Romans led by Metellus and Mummius, noting its rise, dissolution, and subjugation of Greece. It shifts to a biographical aside on Jnomea Anthony Froude, recounting harsh childhood punishments by Hurrell and beliefs in haunted holly behind a house, then hints at illusion and doubt about Hurrell’s friends.
The curious lizards known as Dracoydians are confined to Java. Their extensible skin folds unfold along long ribs, allowing gliding between trees as they hunt insects. In stillness they blend with mottled branches, a striking example of protective resemblance.
An old Sudan railway anecdote recounts a telegram where a station master is declared dead and buried after the agent asks to bury him only if truly dead. The story shifts to notes on speech in monkeys with references to Burton and Haeckel who argued for primate language.
An advertisement extols DewWitt's Little Early Risers as pleasant pills that cleanse the liver without unpleasant effects. It notes sales by N. Schultz and includes quotes praising the Ames Times-Republican and the Poleda Chronicle as leading evening newspapers in the United States.
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