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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1903
Page
6
The piece notes a Chinese fondness for animals rooted in Buddhist teaching. It describes people using tethered birds and lark cages, a bird bazaar near a gateway, and benevolent re leasers buying birds to set them free, reflecting mixed attitudes toward captivity and kindness.
Collected lines from classic authors spanning wit and wisdom on fraud, marriage, and honesty. Notable voices include Mary MacLane Philip Payne Jane Welsh Carlyle Moe Vickar-Collins Max Adeler James Lane Allen, reflecting on time, love, marriage, and deceit.
A Baltimore Sun anecdote tells of a southern old darky who greets a white visitor from Massachusetts with a hat tip to Marie Charles. The northernerasks about equality in voting and status, but the man insists he is not as good as Marie Charles, illustrating racial hierarchy.
Mr Dennis struggles to describe his wife symptoms to the doctor and wonders if her cough is hollow. He notes the sound carries a great substance despite its hollowness in a humorous exchange.
In a brief Town Topics vignette Mr. Dinsmore jokes about losing an umbrella with his name on the handle. Miss Fracks laments the loss and suggests asking papa, prompting a playful exchange about needing not just another umbrella but another name.
A Philadelphia Ledger note recounts a quip where a neighbor teases Nettles about building a chicken house. Nettles reveals the structure is for a flock of pink camels, a playful twist on expectation.
Indianapolis Sentinel recounts James Black born 1800 New Jersey who moved to Washington and crafted knives. Black’s tempering method tested on hard wood defined the Bowie blade. Bowie ordered a knife in 1833 34 and chose Black blend of Bowie's pattern. Bowie killed at the Alamo with that knife. no one else mastered the Bowie knife.
The Great Argus is the rarest pheasant, shy in dense Sumatra, Java, and Borneo forests. Males reach seven feet, display vast wings with argus eyes, and lure with wing fans. Reeves pheasants of China boast six foot tails, endure all weathers, and perform a stiff legged circle display.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt explores why oysters rest and feed on their left side. The speaker describes how natural orientation aids feeding while reversing to the right side makes opening the shell energetically hard or fatal, based on years in Chesapeake Bay and Choptank River oyster beds.
In West’s memoirs a clash between Senators Ingalls and Sherman unfolds over a pension bill for Civil War veterans. Ingalls blocks immediate action, Sherman argues against service pensions, the bill dies, and years later Ingalls blocs a real estate favoured extension in Washington, then votes for the measure. Kansas City Journal.
In a city square a dying statesman’s life is marked by an organist’s daily tunes. A black butler funds the music, believing it aids the patient, but a crape knot signals Blaine’s death and the audience disperses as the car passes.
Unripe fruits should not be eaten. Oatmeal is heating and desirable in winter. Well cooked rice and arrowroot aid healing in intestinal irritations. Pickles are unwholesome except with meat and oily foods. Strong coffee without cream refreshes nerves and stimulates the brain. Sweet foods and rare meat may raise gouty acid in at risk individuals. Toast and tea form an invalid diet. Tea contains tannic acid and toast has little nutrition. Food values vary by constitution. Old law says one man's meat is another man's poison. Gastronomic experiments should be cautious. Take foods that best prepare the body for life’s work.
The article argues that education dramatically boosts a child’s chances of distinction. It quantifies the impact: an uneducated child has one in 150 000 chance, a common school education raises it nearly fourfold, high school raises it twenty threefold, college elevates the high school student ninefold, yielding 219 times the common school rate and over eight hundred times the untrained.
A young man who seeks happiness by the sea befriends a young woman in Margate and pursues marriage. He returns to town to seek the father’s consent but meets his tailor, revealing long unpaid arrears.
A fragment shows train schedules with numbers Overland Limited Pacific Express and Atlantic Express to Chicago and Ames. It notes Sunday service suspensions for several trains including No 4 13 14 27 56 57 58 and directs arrivals and departures with times and stops at Ames Carroll and Des Moines corridors.
The Philadelphia Record discusses elusive rhymes in English noting silver mouth and carpet as hard to rhyme. It cites Swinburne and W S Gilbert's humorous pairs and Patience for playful near rhymes and concludes silver remains troublesome for poets.
The narrator recalls Willie learning Latin Caesar Omnia Gallia and asks if Latin is dead. Willie then cheekily asks to bury Latin, turning to his mother with a bright, mischievous smile as ink spills. The judge notes such sentiment shows that children have souls.
A short exchange from the Houston Post features a stern Dominic asking Johnnie about wages of sin as he ties a can to a dog's tail. Johnnie replies he is not seeking wages but acting for fun.
A brief exchange reveals a woman's discomfort with elite society as she declines further acquaintance. A man asserts her unfamiliarity with good society and notes she was horrified by minor scandals. Detroit Free Press.
Tess recalls turning down a marriage proposal urging an immediate yes. She tells Jess she refused to be hurried and set the wedding decision for tomorrow, highlighting a moment of patient insistence.
An official insists he rarely speaks for publication in a tense exchange with a reporter. The reporter warns the remarks will appear in print, prompting questions about transparency and media access.
A Florida Times Union note extols the Florida straits as a promising treasure field. It recalls ships wrecked near the Jaws, with riches from Peru Mexico and Pacific fisheries and survivors captured by Indians, urging success to searchers.
A witty exchange notes Diogenes with a lantern seeking an honest man and Mrs Potter remarks that honest people stay home with their families rather than wander at night. The Boston Transcript frames the quip as a larger joke about virtue and public searching.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune item quotes a exchange about marriage and a wife’s sense of humor. The dialogue sketches a light moment as a man reveals his marriage proposal and the wife laughs at him, reflecting social wit of the era.
Owenlotts coughs out that a trip abroad would be greatly to his benefit as Sharpun asks who advised him a lawyer or a doctor in Town and Country.
A Pittsburg Dispatch item recounts a playful classroom exchange as a six year old student explains their age by recalling the day the hired girl arrived. The anecdote underscores the humor found in child answers and schoolyard observation.
Patrice recalls a songwriter who believed his tune would endure. He asked if it survived, and the artist who first performed it reportedly killed its chances with a faulty rendition.
A brief fable line presents a hare as a thorough fool who cannot learn from his own folly, illustrating a lesson on repeating mistakes through a sharp, concise moral warning.
A remark attributed to Mrs Disraeli depicts Benjamin Disraeli as lacking physical courage, contrasting his moral and political bravery with the need for others to pull his shower bath string during a country house gathering.
A Washington Star quote features Uncle Eben declaring that a man stubborn as a mute general is not sensible, reflecting a folksy view on stubbornness and common sense.
Local note from Petoskey Michigan Lyre credits water works for the fountain’s ongoing display. Public interest centers on maintenance and civic improvements.
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