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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1901
Page
6
A northern man visiting an Alabama planter is offered mint juleps and hospitality. He samples the drink, trades recipes, and leaves. Two years later returning, he learns the master has died after introducing the “weed” drink to the local red liquor, a tale recounted by an old servant.
A Washington Star report recalls a Whitechapel dining saloon where a large brown pie filled with sheep liver onions and turnips and gravy costs a halfpenny with tea and bread for a penny extra. From 12 to 2 PM the hungry from the east end flock in. Patrons include shoeblacks penny toy men costermongers and clerks with small salaries.
The phrase nine tailors make a man traces to bell ringing beliefs that bells warded off evil. Tellers or strokes tolled at knell ended became tailors, with nine strokes signaling an adult's departure. Curran used the line in a jovial farewell after dining with 18 tailors.
A Colorado Springs Gazette fragment portrays muffled voices in a dim parlor and a man deciding on heroic measures as the gas meter ticks. A witty Daily Bugle carrier jokes about holding the form for an important decision while the house contemplates staying or leaving.
Sailors in Ceylon rely on sorcerers to restrain shark appetite and drive away stingrays. The greatest danger is the giant clam weighing nearly a ton which can crush a diver’s legs or trap him until he drowns.
A woman stamps her feet in defiant fury as a heavy villain mocks her, saying she must pay excess postage. She confronts the insult, questioning whether such chivalry exists, in a Baltimore American narrative fragment.
A broker claims bank clerks are underpaid while the bank president notes a former receiving teller earned about $20 000 a year for six years, illustrating pay levels in banking.
The text ranks Swedish cities by size, placing Stockholm as a large city similar to Pittsburg, Gothenburg about as large as Columbus, and notes the remaining cities are small towns.
India will not produce horses for military use, signaling a shift in defense logistics and reliance on other transport and cavalry options. No further details on plans or alternatives are provided.
A humorous anecdote about a life insurance applicant who forgets himself when listing his family, prompting a punchline from a office boy. The tale is set against a medical exam scene and ends with the applicant recognizing his lapse.
Apples the diet for the sedentary explains apples wholesome and digestible with minerals and high water content. They are rich in pectin form jelly and contain organic acids and salts including potassium and magnesium.
An observer recounts visiting a friend and preparing for a bath when a parrot in the window cage stared from its perch prompting a startled reaction. The matter of fact question, Going to take a bath, sparked comic terror and a clumsy scramble to cover.
The Karroo bush of South Africa stores life by long underground roots that reach many feet deep. After ten months of drought the soil is baked hard, yet breaking a dried stalk reveals a pale green sap thread still alive at the center.
The piece explains the noise habit as a dissipation that grips city dwellers. After long urban exposure the mind seeks stimulation, and woods or mountains provoke loneliness and unease. It likens the experience to a drunk deprived of drink and notes New York streets as deepening channels with reflecting surfaces intensifying noise.
The article notes four as a perfect number and a base for various ideas. It cites eras and symbols such as forty as a sacred multiple, referencing proverbs from Omār and events like the Deluge, embalming, and Moses in the wilderness, linking forty days or years to key biblical timelines.
A cockney and elephant keeper discuss tricks. The elephant naively accepts a half crown and places it in a distant box. The keeper claims they never taught that trick and moves on to the monkeys and hyenas.
Hoyt and a playwright friend witnessed a play not his own. The lead actor, poor in study, relied on the prompt er as applause roared. After a mistaken curtain, Hoyt asked who was being called and was told the name X to spare feelings.
Augustus Hare recalls a friend famed for memory lapses. In a tale of repeated meetings the man forgets prior events and again asks about his deceased father, prompting the surprised reply that the father is still dead.
A painting teacher contrasts two types of artistic girls. One wears blush roses on a sky blue frock, the other a blue ribbon with a pink frock. He says the first acts without warrant, the second with nature as authority.
A fisherman's wife recalls storms at sea and a haunting clock that repeats the words wife and widow. She ponders which name is true as the bob swing echoes in the night, with the line Cynthia in the West appearing as a clue.
A humorous exchange notes Jenkins has taken the thirty third degree. His wife insists it must not occur again.
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