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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1901
Page
3
A man, pressed by business and a missing family, cooks his own boiled dinner. He starts the long cooking items before leaving, then uses a string system to lower the lid and drop the vegetables into the pot, so he returns to a ready meal, a clever kitchen scheme from Youth's Companion.
The Montreal Herald notes Greenland is governed by Denmark with a state monopoly on trade. Only government ships sail Greenland waters and travel requires prior permiso. Prices for goods and selling terms are fixed by administration to protect natives. The Greenland company operates nine vessels and conducts most exchanges with Denmark.
A Washington Post anecdote recalls a man who rejects talk of womanly tenderness after a conductor announces a death in tower 8 on a New York bound through train. An intelligent woman’s reaction highlights gendered attitudes amid tragedy.
An Englishman bet he could cook a plum pudding underwater. He placed the pudding in a tin case inside a lime gack and submerged it ten feet beneath the Thames. The lime heat cooked the pudding in two hours.
The Mantchoo edict mandating the queue as a sign of loyalty ended the prior practice of long hair coiled atop the head with an ornamental pin. The statement notes a lack of complex terms in the ser gon on the mount.
The North Western Line offers about 350000 acres of choice farm lands in northern Wisconsin with low prices and easy terms. Locations near streams and lakes provide abundant water and fishing. soil is fertile and timbered. The region develops into a major sheep and cattle area with markets in Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Superior and Ashland. For details contact Geo W Bell, Hudson Wisconsin or G H MacRae, St Paul Minnesota.
A Chicago to Jacksonville through sleeping car and Pullman buffet service operates on the Illinois Central Limited vestibule train. Connections at Mattoon link to Illinois Central from Peoria with arrival in Nashville next morning and Chattanooga and Atlanta in subsequent days. Further details available from Illinois Central agents.
Two routes for weekly service to Los Angeles and San Francisco depart Des Moines. A Tourist Car leaves Monday at 8 45 p m via Kansas City Santa Fe to Los Angeles. A second car departs Saturday at 11 40 a m via Kansas City Missouri Kansas and Texas San Antonio Arkansas Pass and Southern Pacific to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Both trains are brand new wide vestibule steam heated through sleepers from Northwest to Texas.
The Chicago Great Western Railway reports a car leaving Saturday and arriving in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning and in San Francisco on Thursday morning, via Waco San Antonio and El Paso. For details contact any railway agent or F H Hunter traveling passenger agent at Cor Fifth and Walnut Des Moines Iowa.
An advertisement warns against imitations of De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve and urges buyers to choose the genuine product from Iden & Loughran. It touts fast healing for skin troubles and cautions lazy men who are like theories, seldom working.
A Chicago trader Stark places a wooden Indian sign in Litthke Muddy provoking clashes and a fatal confrontation with Tobe Hartley and Long Isaac. The piece recounts Stark’s sign incidents and a second tale of Peter the Great enforcing western fashion by publicly docking nonconformists.
A discussion on geological history and evolution describes how ancient species endured mass extinctions to yield modern forms. It traces the horse’s lineage from multi-toed ancestors to a one toed descendant, a product of vast tribulations and natural selection.
In a quip from the New York Mail and Express a punctilious German guard at Justice Bookstayer’s private chambers announces a visit by “two sentlemans and a lawyer.” The lawyer objects, asking if he is not a gentleman, but is told his status differs because he is a lawyer.
The London Telegraph notes Henry II presided at a plain circle crownless coronation in Gloucester on October 28 1216. The royal regalia had been lost with King John near Wisbech during the marshes of Lynn or the Wash.
Exchange shows a persistent suitor defying a father by entering through a window after being warned not to cross the threshold. The father demands respect of his house as the confrontation unfolds.
The piece recounts how wigmakers urged George II to shave his head to save their trade while petitioners mocked their own lack of wigs. It notes caricatures arose from the event and mentions wooden leg makers as another group with claims, joking that the king should wear a wooden leg to set an example.
A brief exchange shows Mr Meekton and his wife debating a card play at whist. He asks if she trumped his ace, she confirms with a stern reply. He smiles and says the question relieved his mind, noting they would have lost the trick otherwise.
A policeman near Bourne England arrested two men described as deserters after surprising them with a sharp command. The pair assumed military stance before being seized, marking one of the nearest arrest records in the area.
A Pittsburg Chronicle quips on oil industry behavior with a mother daughter exchange. The caution contrasts refined versus unrefined oil and notes gushing wells as the focal point in oil regions.
In Tokyo about 600 professional storytellers roam from house to house spinning yarns for pay around 20 cents an hour. When their romances become dull from repetition they move to a new district to find fresh listeners.
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