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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
3
Joaquin Miller recalls a Klondike tale where miners sprinkled gold dust on the cabin floor to ease dancing. The scene ends with a boast that Captain John Healy would substantiate the story, eliciting applause for the financier from Alaska.
The Casino event drew the season’s biggest attendance with Mr. Howard lauded as Colorado’s renowned baritone. He will headline a Friday Ames recital December 11 at the Christian Church auditorium with 35 cent general admission and 50 cent reserved seats.
Parnell valued superstition, adding a fourteenth clause to a draft bill and fearing green as unlucky. The article contrasts his quirks with the evolution of the pointer dog, praising a fast, versatile breed suited to wide American plains and sporting use. It notes varying pointer types and rejects heavy, weak specimens in favor of sleek, capable animals.
A London Tit-Bits anecdote describes a war office officer seeking a screwdriver. The request bounces through officials, revealing that secret drivers go only in tool boxes, then boxes only to carpenters, and finally a carpenter's shop is granted.
A law student torn down ordinances was kicked by a king's officer in 1830 Paris. The officer, Patrice de MacMahon, later resigned the French presidency in 1879 and congratulated Jules Grevy on his election to succeed him.
The Eskimos of Point Barrow obtain tobacco from whites and display clear knowledge of quality. Chewing tobacco is universal among men women and even unweaned children who keep large quids in the mouth. The juice is swallowed with saliva and causes no apparent ill effects.
Mrs Cumrox praises her daughter Arabella noting a fine disposition. She highlights Arabella's self control as she sits for hours listening to her own piano playing.
An exhorter addressed a group of religious workers urging that nothing kindles faith like water from the fountains of life, a metaphorical call to spiritual renewal and devotion.
The passage explains how green plant leaves use sunlight to synthesize substance from water and carbonic acid gas. It contrasts deciduous and evergreen strategies, noting deciduous trees store nutrients in trunks before autumn and shed leaves, while evergreens keep tough leaves year round to resist frost.
A New York youth eager for Freemasonry endures a prank-like initiation. He steps on a rack, endures two hours of pain before discovering the tack had no role in the rites. The Post reports the incident as a cautionary tale about ritual practice.
John Morley's life of Gladstone recalls an Oxford admission exam where an examiner fails to stump the youth on theology. Gladstone responds with a fresh torrent of words, while Dean Gaisford is noted for his terse wit and brevity.
The original fire engine, the first machine of its kind, is kept in the old parish church at Dartmouth England. It measures four feet in length and four feet six inches high. The car has four small wheels with a hose attached to the top and a back lever to operate it. The stream produced was small and likely ineffective.
A young woman with glasses jokes about admiring Bacon and asks if she offended a Shakespearean student. A Chicago pork packer bluntly says he doesn’t care to talk shop, quashing the quip with a cool retort.
A humorous exchange features an eminent scientist calling babies with fat “blubber” and a father protesting that his baby is not fat yet suffering sleepless nights due to the blubber. The light tone mocks scientific jargon and parental concern.
A lecturer on physiognomy describes brilliant and impulsive people as having black eyes or being prone to darken their gaze if they lack them. The statement reflects early pseudoscience ideas about character and appearance.
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