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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1901
Page
6
A traveling tinker moans of misfortune and gets a glazier to hire him for work at a hotel. After being paid, the tinker smashes a schoolhouse windows as repayment, enraging the glazier who repairs the school by contract.
A New York Weekly snippet shows a wife guiding her husband along a side street to avoid a friend. She hints the man may admire the dress and fears anger over prior bills, while denying any quarrel with the friend.
Report describes Inuit people using teeth for many jobs from pinchers and vises to fluting and shaping equipment. Teeth pull belts, untie knots, hold drill mouthpieces, smooth boots, stretch skins, and are leveled with a file or whetstone due to hard usage.
A humorous exchange over wedding invitations ends with a car dash and a mistaken address. A later anecdote recalls a dinner for William Marconi with a toast praising wireless pioneers, followed by a guest quipping about triplets.
The 1881 Isles of Ischia arc Scio disaster killed 4000 to 5000 people and 1884 saw more devastation with 10000 dead and missing. A major 1883 Java convulsion is claimed to have killed no less than 120000.
A Washington Post essay argues that sudden peril reveals true courage beyond fate or stoic denial. It notes ship disasters show both noble heroism and cowardice across classes and races, stressing responsibility, duty, and moral action over philosophical resilience.
Advertises One Fare Plus $2 excursion tickets on Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway for lands in northwestern Iowa southwestern Minnesota and South Dakota. Points north of Abbott Shell Rock and Waverly available on first and third Tuesdays with 21 day limit. Details via Messrs. Ilen and Brooks Cedar Rapids Iowa. Also-promotes travel to numerous states and territories with Cedar Rapids Route agents for rates and information.
The article contrasts luxury among Hudson Bay Company factors with the harsh bush life. It describes cariole travel swathed in furs, gaudy gear, canned foods from Chicago and Ontario, and a driver who also cooks. It ends with a discussion on crime and the mindset of professionals who pursue risky lives.
A newspaper ad touts Weeks Break-Up-A-Cold Tablets claiming to break up a cold while you sleep. The pitch emphasizes no cure no pay and lists a 25 cent price with L. M. Bosworth contact.
Fragmentary ad text promotes a remedy with guarantees No Cure No Pay and free samples. It lists a contact person L. M. Sasomth and an address 29-lyr with unclear lines suggesting a sales pitch about a remedy associated with death and taxes.
The Chicago and North Western Railway issued an illustrated guide announcing summer low rates to California for Epworth League Convention travelers in July in San Francisco. Round trips from Chicago are 50 dollars with reduced fares from other points. Free copies available from W. B. Kniskern in Chicago.
Fragmentary notice speaks of a free item if a cure fails and a pile pipe with each package. Mentions a positive written claim and a price reference, unclear author, and incomplete details.
A young woman aboard a Calais to Dover mail boat became seasick and accepted a lozenge from a stranger who claimed it would ease pain. She recovered instantly and ordered ham sandwiches. The sales agent then sold many boxes at 10 francs each. the lozenges were common jujubes.
A poet recalls finding a long lost maiden aged through time and reuniting her with her daughter, only to learn the maiden is called Mother by the matron. The piece contrasts aging beauty and renewed affection as a quiet recrowning of a past love within a family context in Boston Globe.
Mrs. Browley kept multiple account books to balance household finances and pride in neat ledgers. A missing 40 cents triggered a quarrel with her husband, who left for downtown. A telegraph telegram then arrives asking, Honest, now, what did you do with that 40 cents.
The article argues that in Catholic Brittany the Englishman is viewed not as a person but as a war unit and enemy. Breton sailors fear and glorify killing the uniform foe, warning that recognizing war as killing compatriots could ease peace efforts and war weariness in France.
The article urges reading aloud as a healthful exercise for lung trouble. It notes benefits from chest expansion and voice modulation, claims reading aloud improves speaking skills, and contrasts with singing and whistling as possible only for some.
The timetable lists trains going west from City and Omaha with departures around 2:12 am and 4, fast services until 10:20 am, and a northbound Overland Limited at 2:45 am. It notes baggage handling procedures and a Des Moines connection with accommodations and baggage checks.
Greatly reduced one way settlers rates to points in the northwest will be in effect via the Iowa Central during February March and April 1901. For full call on Iowa ticket agents or union Geo G le G P and T A Marshalltown Ia 41- The famous little pills DeWitts Little Early Risers will remove all impurities from your system cleanse your bowels make them regular. Tilden and Loughran.
The Des Moines Daily News enlarges to eight pages and uses the Associated Press telegraphic service. Subscriptions stay at 1 dollar per year with 75 cents for six months and 50 cents for three months. News from around the world daily for the family, circulation over 29,000. Address The News Des Moines Iowa.
A child aged four or five bursts in shouting that she “went like thunder” after sliding. She recalls her mother saying “as quick as lightning” and explains that it always thunders after it lightens, linking the phrases in her own playful logic.
A man finds the anticipated shower turns into a heavy deluge despite planning for light rain. The Atchison Globe notes the contrast between expectation and reality in this sudden downpour.
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