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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1903
Page
4
Advertisements outline rates for local notices and entertainment ads. The column lists numerous society visits, visits between Ames and Des Moines, church events, box socials, a funeral, a play benefiting the cemetery, and neighborhood happenings with residents and travelers noted.
The Congregational church hosted opening services for union meetings with strong turnout and seating strained. Evangelist Miller arrived midweek, delivering engaging sermons and solo performances. Next Sunday features joint mass meetings, men and women sessions, and children’s programs. City Council discussed electric light service, billiard license, and park land purchase near the Northwestern station, with details on bids and officials for February 10, 1908.
A man sent by the planned third railroad arrived in town last week to inspect the undeveloped coal deposits. If the investigation warrants it, mining will begin at once, aided by J. A. McKee who knows the region well. Cambridge Phoenix.
Philadelphia collectors note a Latin joke volume printed in Germany in 1703 titled Nuge Venales. The 1500 word poem to read The Battle of the Pigs uses every word starting with P, including the title page.
The tale recalls Barry Sullivan in a Richard III tent scene where an actor stammers a reply, then mutters it is the village cook. Sullivan eyes the shocked officer, smirks, and finally growls Why then crow.
The young Tennyson admired Gray and Burns as the greatest lyric poets and loved Burns' poetry. He valued the Bible highly and was fond of Dante’s Inferno, knowing it line for line. He boasted that if one line was read he could supply the next, and he always did.
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