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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1902
Page
4
A prose excerpt discusses abuso of terms like extra and identify in reformers terms. It argues extra is misused to intensify quality, and identify cannot describe self likeness to others. It condemns phrases such as high or low caliber and a consensus of opinions as linguistically improper.
A waiter recalls a passenger on an ocean liner who tried to have three courses changed. The steward refused and noted the fare is not refunded, while the man still ate heartily. The tale appears amid musings on advertising value in newspapers and local commerce.
A benevolent looking man boards a downtown elevator with three women and, in a Chesterfieldian manner, doffs his hat and is praised for lovely manners. Later in his office he sprawls in a chair, puffs a pipe, and asks why legal papers aren’t finished, greeting his stenographer jocularly.
An ex archdeacon visiting a rural English parish is taken to the churchyard where a fine wheat crop grows. He objects to planting in sacred ground, while the clerk quips that the parson should have planted taters instead, delivering a humorous rural exchange.
A London News item from November 21, 1801 reports a coal porter displaying his wife in Smithfield with a halter round her neck for sale. The seller demanded a guinea, a buyer purchased her, and they departed with halter intact amid cheering onlookers.
A shopper in a large department store loses her baby check and must wait as staff remove others. The last remaining baby is a colored infant, and the mother confirms she is colored, a detail noted in the report from Atchison Gisbe.
Deep sea animals dwelling below 00 fathoms often have imperfect or no eyes. This condition mirrors cave life, likely sharing the same causes. Science believes deep sea life originated from shallower waters.
Macedonia has about 4 million residents. Around three quarters are Christian, one quarter are Turks, and nearly half trace their ancestry to Bulgaria.
T. J. Skidmore, local ticket and freight agent for the North-Western, resigns effective January 1. He has spent much of his career with the railroad, arriving in Boone in 1891 to succeed O. T. Marshall as agent. Plans beyond resignation are unclear. he intends to stay in Boone, per the Republican.
Mrs. L. Brooks-Vincent presented a Monday night illustrated lecture in the assembly room. She described travels through the land of the midnight sun with rare authentic pictures and sets of views showing life and resources of lesser known regions.
Abstracts report transfers in Nevada and Story City areas with numerous lot sales including John Butler to A J Schwartz Myrtle Duna Hoover state laws Zearing to O M Bundy in Cambridge and other deeds. Names include Larson Darner Lee Gibson Willoughby and Nelson with prices ranging from 80 to 8000 dollars and parcels from blocks in Collins, Cambridge, and Ames. Public notices of Sunday school and church leagues conclude the record.
Mrs Mary Bird of Harrisburg Pa declares her child was saved from croup by One Minute Cough Cure. The ad touts the product as a sure safe immediate remedy for coughs croup and throat troubles suitable for young children and stresses urgency for season use. Loughran Bauer markets the cure.
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