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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1901
Page
3
The excerpt questions true success contrasting wealth and fame with enduring impact. It asks if success lies in laboring for fleeting rewards or in serving others and staying true to truth, lasting in the hearts of those who remember us. It cites Ernest Neal Lyon’s lines about lasting legacy beyond death.
A hotel clerk recalls cashing checks while weighing risk of losing money and upsetting patrons. A recent case involved a seemingly trustworthy traveler and a later No funds marked check, followed by a bold socialite who asked for cashing it with assurances from a contact. The clerk reflects on whether to refuse or risk patron backlash. Northern Wisconsin Railway lands offer 350000 acres for sale with easy terms, timber and fertile soil, markets in Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Superior Ashland. Geo W Bell and G H MacRae are listed as contacts in Hudson Wisconsin and St Paul Minnesota.
A call to action from the Atchison Globe urging immediate help for friends in distress. It counsels doing more than asking what can be done and promises surprising personal diligence from proactive effort.
A farmer recounts how he married Hanner to clear a mortgage from Simon Simmons. He spun a tale of implied match with Si, sending Simmons to Indiana and securing the payoff, leading to his marriage to Hanner and a new mother in law.
The Illinois Central offers a through Pullman buffet sleeping car from Chicago to Jacksonville via Lookout Mountain on the Limited vestibule train. It departs Chicago daily at 6 10 p m connects at Mattoon with Peoria line trains, arriving Nashville next morning and Chattanooga Atlanta Jacksonville in succession. Fall details available from Illinois Central agents and connecting lines.
Two brand new through Sleeping Car routes from Des Moines to California depart weekly via different paths. One leaves Monday at 8 45 p m via Kansas City and Santa Fe to Los Angeles. The other leaves Saturday at 11 40 a m via multiple lines to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
A Chicago Great Western Rail Way car departs Saturday for Los Angeles arriving Wednesday morning in San Francisco the next day and Thursday morning in the city after passing Waco San Antonio and El Paso. For full information contact any station or F H Hunter traveling passenger agent at Des Moines Iowa.
An old medical ad promotes DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for skin troubles including cuts burns scalds and chafing. It warns against imitations and urges buyers to choose DeWitt's. The excerpt also includes a quip about lazy men and theories.
Longman's Magazine describes flatfishes hiding on the sea bottom with eyes migrating across the skull as they grow. The piece explains how plaice sole and turbot change eye sides with age to blend with the riverbed, plus a curious tale about Peter the Great and Western fashion reforms in 1703 aimed at modernizing Russia.
In a landlord suit over back rent a sturdy widow testifies about a stubbornly barren farm. She recalls the soil as sour and sterile saying the land ruined crops and even a gander died trying to pull grass while she kept sugar airtight to cope with the conditions.
A Baltimore Sun writer notes manners start as accidents and become habits. The piece recounts a tremble of the eyelids influencing suitors and a portly wife whose husband valued the tremor as a desired trait. He married for what he paid and now seeks the same quirk.
The medical field praises massage for conditions like paralysis and apoplexy. It notes that apoplexy results from a brain clot and claims recovery is possible if the clot is broken up and veins cleared through repeated forehead and skull massage and kneading of paralyzed limbs.
A Newburyport epitaph for Mrs. Mary McHard notes her virtuous life and sudden death after swallowing a pea at her own table on March 8 1778 at age 47. The grave marker praises her virtues and records her husband Captain William McHard as erecting the monument.
A tale of 18th century wig makers petitioning George III to shave his head and wear a wig to save their trade. On approach to the palace the petitioners lacked wigs themselves, provoking onlookers to cut leading processionists' hair. Caricatures followed, with wooden leg makers urged the king to wear a wooden leg as example after peace reduced demand.
In a light exchange Mr Meekton asks his wife if she trumped his ace during a whist game. She confirms with a stern reply and he notes the comfort of trumping the ace, warning that another result would have cost them the trick.
A police officer near Bourne, England, forced two suspected deserters to surrender when he called out Attention. Startled, the men instantly assumed military posture but were quickly overpowered and arrested on the spot.
A mother advises her daughter against gushing while the oil regions prize gushing wells. The daughter notes that unfinesed oil gushes, reflecting a region’s rhetoric on production and value.
In Tokyo about 600 professional storytellers roam from house to house spinning yarns. They average 20 cents per hour pay. When a teller finds his romances tired from repetition he shifts to a new audience or setting to refresh his work.
The notice outlines duties to pay taxes negotiate loans pursue investments and promptly attend to estate related business. It emphasizes timely handling of financial obligations and property matters within the described estate affairs.
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