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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1901
Page
3
A Forest and Stream article warns of dangerous gun handling habits. It explains muzzle directions should be kept up or down to avoid discharge into the body, cautions against rearward or neck carried guns, and notes the risk when someone stumbles or steps into a hole.
A crowded club reads an Evening paper premium and a gruesome report of a dismembered crime. Members debate law and humanity, then a veteran speaker notes jurors are being disqualified by morbid curiosity. Two newspapers are seized as the crowd fixes on the case.
The Jury notes the path of patent work from application to issue involves many hands and fees. An applicant pays 15 for claim examination and 20 national fee if granted, with costs rising 25 and up for additional work. Most inventors hire a lawyer who can broaden claims to cover new and valuable aspects and help avoid rejections.
A past ration MP visiting a seaside retreat is swept overboard during a sailing trip but rescued. In the cabin a young man jokes about the incident, prompting shocked reactions from the group and a quick retort from a fastidious patron who admits relief at the man being washed overboard.
A brief note on ancient Jewish burial customs praising simple coffins and plain shrouds as a virtue. It contrasts costly modern funerals where the rich fear taxes and the poor strain to match wealthier neighbors.
In Life magazine’s quip, Peer Bhe declares marriage on $3 a year is fine while William frets about food. The exchange highlights frugal domestic worries as Papa whispers basic needs must be met before nuptial plans.
Chicago News notes the martial poems The Battle of the Baltic Ye Mariners of England and Hohenlinden as stirring works likening Chevy Chase to a trumpet. It comments on public appearances in silk hats triggering imagined judgments.
Two through sleeping cars run from Des Moines each week to California and Texas points. One departs Monday 8:45 p.m. via Kansas City and Santa Fe Route to Los Angeles. The other leaves Saturday 11:40 a.m. via Kansas City Missouri Kansas & Texas San Antonio Arkansas Pass and Southern Pacific to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Both are brand new wide vestibuled steam heated cars running St Paul Minneapolis to Kansas City.
A description of trains leaving Chicago on Monday and Saturday bound for Los Angeles with intermediate stops including Waco San Antonio and El Paso. The notes advise contacting Chicago Great Western Railway traveling agents in Des Moines Iowa for full information and assistance.
An 19th century ad promotes DeWitts Little Early Risers as liver cleansers and restoratives by L. M. Bosworth. It also markets musical instruments as Xmas gifts from Rae Tripen and LOUGHRAN. B Crawford offers native herbs with a personal testimonial, promising a two hundred day treatment and money-back guarantee.
In Denmark a hospital case reports an attempt to revive a man pronounced dead from typhoid fever. Dr Maag reopened the chest, massaged the heart, and restored circulation for hours. Breathing returned after about thirty minutes, but consciousness was not regained and respiration later ceased.
Kipling owned a house in Rottingdean and faced a tree danger over a village bus. He and his conductor cut back the twigs sparking a series of letters to the bus owner who ran a local inn. A bar parlor bought each letter for cash, and Kipling confronted the innkeeper, joking that more letters paid better than bus driving.
In Smyrna and Egypt bargaining language resembles that of the orient as the narrator haggles over a purchase. After English and French exchanges, the seller offers escalating prices before the narrator buys for three dollars, amid coffee and friendly chatter.
Reports from Florida claim quails peck and ingest rust from steel rails along the sugar belt near Runnymede. The holes weaken rails as moisture enters, with engineers suggesting the birds seek relief from illness by feeding on the iron.
A Praga railway station messenger made a bold bet to eat five fowls, a jar of sour cabbage, two melons, ten pounds of fruit, six cucumbers, bread, a gallon of vodka, six beers and three siphons of soda. The crowd watched as he finished, the bet paid, but he was found dead in bed the next morning.
McJigger Bragg says he mixed in a scrap last night and claims he came out on top. The exchange centers on whether he spoke about the incident and how the other party fared.
Rev C Z Brady recalls taking his son to a cathedral as a toddler. The child wandered mid aisle, asking where Jesus is, believing the church to be the savior's house. Now grown, the boy asks for a war souvenir bullet if his father is wounded, which the father did not provide.
A Chicago convention crowds a lodging house as Col Hawkthunder, a notable citizen, seeks shelter. The landlady offers a four day stay for $6 to educate her boy for a lawyer, but the colonel retorts with a $10 offer, claiming the lesson for future standards.
In Wiltshire a widow famed for a pig dealer husband claims second sight by tracking pigs in a distance cart. A visitor marvels, she admits no miracle, saying she has trained her car to pigs and that is all.
A short anecdote contrasts Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s story of women funding a poor student’s education with Editor Cadby of the Whangville Patriot. Cadby recounts aiding a son with college help and a city newspaper post, only to have him mock country printing offices in a two column burlesque.
A Larimer county farmer reports his cow died after rummaging a summer kitchen and swallowing an umbrella and a cake of yeast. The yeast fermentation allegedly caused the umbrella to be raised in the cow’s stomach, ending in her death.
The Dun dee Advertiser denounces excessive drunkenness as a grave vice and proclaims Scotland isolated in its shameful conduct, urging reform and public accountability.
Brief adage from the Atchisom Globe urging avoiding quarrels and seeking reconciliation whenever possible.
A business note outlines key activities in real estate including paying taxes negotiating loans making investments and handling all related affairs. It emphasizes managing finances and property matters within the real estate sector.
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