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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1883
Page
15
The Boston Traveler recounts a woman on a daily newspaper who seeks editorial consensus for a small pleasure trip. She consults editors of meteorology astronomy shipping mining and culture along with prophecy and go-as-you-please desks. They approve openly and cheerfully.
In Albert Lea Minnesota a hunter’s telegram to a friend about sending rubber wading stockings leads to a comical misunderstanding with his wife. She suspects infidelity, revealing a prank involving a fake telegram and a clever confession. The miscommunication ends with a cautionary note to the recipient.
The Afton is described as one of sixteen similarly designed cars featuring paneling mahogany sashes and paper wheels with steel rims. It showcases a square interior with crimson plush seating Axminster carpet six brass lamps and moorish frescoed ceiling. It includes private dressing rooms a smoking room and a bouffe with a museum like sideboard and silver service. The car cost just over 15000 and will run New York to Washington and Florida.
The piece notes that story telling is alive in male circles such as clerical, legal, medical, and artistic groups though often off color. It contrasts storytellers who seize opportunities with those always ready but rarely succeeding and observes varying types of story tellers across professions.
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