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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1903
Page
3
The piece explains how every object and voice has a musical key, how high regions dampen sound while mines and diving bells amplify it, and how rapid air vibrations could create organ like music. It notes eleven possible octaves, contrasts locust whirring with wind sighs, and mentions experiments with gas jets and responsive tones.
A Pittsburgh editor sends a young reporter to cover a steamboat disaster on the Ohio. after a late train, he bribes a sleeping tramp to break into the station and transmit the story to press, narrowly avoiding a missed deadline.
The text advertises a railway excursion to the southwest and southeast at a reduced rate with a 21 day limit from the sale date. It lists inquiry points at local ticket agents in Minneapolis and references to a picture framing sale offering frames at about half price. The notice is dated 1908 and mentions various months and dates for sales. It promotes travel and a frame sale by E Homes and includes contact details for Curts GP TA in Minneapolis.
A residence property located on lot eight in block four of Black's second addition to Ames Iowa is listed. Inquiries directed to M. Sorer, Referee, for details or action regarding the property and any related proceedings.
In Italy a bishop pausing amid health, helps a girl tending pigs by watching grunting pigs while she seizes two runaway lambs from the fold. He boasts of higher earnings, but the girl notes he tends many more pigs, revealing a simple moral on value and work.
A naturalist visiting Great Sangi in the Celebes chain discovers a curious time recorder at a rajah’s house. Two bottles lashed in a wooden frame contain black sand that flows between them in thirty minutes. Twelve notched sticks and a hook indicate hours, with a sentry striking a gong to mark time.
The article recalls ancient notions linking seven planets to the world and seven days seven holes seven colors and seven senses. It notes the superstition around a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter granting magical gifts and luck, and lists seven related references from the period.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat reports a busy man and a bore visiting next week. Guidance suggests wise handling by not introducing the pleasanter guest to a club and avoiding unnecessary introductions to a club.
Widow vows her daughters are her only resources and receives counsel to husband her assets wisely in a brief exchange with a friend. The line reflects a period voice and terse social advice tone.
A Chicago Tribune line quotes Uncle Ephm noting a man with a fast boss will not mind the path to shoes for himself if he has a son to consider. The remark contrasts personal mobility with family responsibility in rural wisdom.
A quotation by Wallace notes that a person can bear work more easily when their spirit is cheerful and unburdened.
Two noblemen, a German and a Spaniard, sought Maximilian II’s daughter Helena. To decide marriage, the emperor staged a mock combat in a sack, awarding Helena to the victor. The Spaniard was first overcome. the German finally wrapped the rival in the sack and carried him to the emperor. The tale is said to yield the phrase give him the sack.
A Confederate soldier from the Twenty-ninth Virginia regiment was found dead after a brief skirmish near Drewry's Bluff. A surgeon tending the wounded reported the man kneeling with a gun to his shoulder and the left eye closed, a ball through the brain at the moment of sighting the foe. The corpse remained rigid, requiring force to release the weapon.
A report from the Atlanta Intelligencer chronicles a peculiar soldier death. The article details the circumstances, location, and any official statements, with emphasis on unexpected causes or outcomes surrounding the incident.
A teacher at a public educational institution for African American students recalls an eighteen year old girl who answered an exam question with an exceptionally amusing and ridiculous response, noting it surpasses prior examples of such work.
Describes ear shapes linking large drooping ears to low mental standards and lack of sensitivity, flat ironed hems to vacillating minds, lobeless ears to selfish traits, rounded hems to tenacity, oval ears to lofty ideals, and rounded tops to placid, affectionate temperaments.
In Death Valley a unique animal life form, a mouse, feeds exclusively on scorpions. The scorpion carries a venomous sting in its tail, but the quick mouse leaps to sever the sting with a single bite and then eats the prey. This makes the mouse appear to be the only animal that relishes scorpions.
A historical note describes an earache cure using a paper funnel and a cotton ball soaked in chloroform. The device is placed at the ear, the patient breathes, and the fumes are blown into the ear to relieve pain.
A Chicago man boasted in a manner typical to his kind, while a New York man corrected him by noting that cage time runs one hour slower than New York time. The Chicago man, covered with confusion, slipped away.
Cordelia frets about buying new clothes and choosing between style and comfort. Cornelia asks why she worries, and Cordelia explains the struggle between looking stylish and feeling uncomfortable or dressing for comfort and risking a fright.
A Washington Star quote captures a brief exchange on persuasion where the prelix person contends a point is worth extensive discussion while the weary author concedes that view as the one point that convinces him.
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