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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1902
Page
4
A historical description explains Muslim prayer as practiced when the muezzin’s call signals devotion. The ritual includes standing with hands to the ears, reciting Koranic passages, bowing, prostration, and repeating the creed with beads tallying. Piety is shown by frequency and public prayer.
A Florida man new to New York experiences his first snowstorm with childlike joy. He revels in snow play, argues with skeptics, and comments on verdancy and an alligator joke, as observed by onlookers in a winter street scene.
The London Chronicle argues against overusing inverted commas in scripture and cites a quote about Jesus saying a little while, and you shall not see me. It asserts the lack of inverted commas does not mislead readers and defends the present punctuation.
Dr Purnivall founder of the English Browning society recalls Browning admitting he often forgot his meaning when asked a passage. He jokes that without his books he cannot enlighten a reader and asks to be sent the volume so he can reread and decide what he meant.
A Philadelphia Press exchange quotes a moralist praising realizing value after loss and a practical remark that the thing lost being insured enhances that realization. The brief dialogue reflects on insurance as a safeguard and lesson about appreciation.
The Philadelphia Record notes a playful exchange about a baby christening with the names Timely and Muggins-Youngpop. The promise of a christening for the infant named Bill is the focus of the quip.
A pithy adage about laughter and sorrow quoted by the St. Louis Star. The line contrasts shared amusement with the solitude of tears. It appears as a brief cultural aside rather than a tied to a news event.
Kassim Pasha of Egypt strict about officers grooming orders a lieutenant to a public punishment. The man escapes by shaving and hiding his beard in a barber shop, returning with a clean face. On arrival at Abassouh he is revealed as a captain, and the pasha exclaims the old fool.
In Elizabethan poetry fairies appear in minute forms yet act with large powers. Folklore and language support tiny beings like a mote or a foxglove cap, while Queen Mab wields birth goddess functions. Size reflects conceived nature, not historical memory.
The piece reflects on how items kept for memory or usefulness become junk after long storage prompts renovation. It notes pictures and souvenirs lose meaning, letters are hard to part with yet discarded, and odds and ends vanish when trunks are opened for move and renewal.
By the end of the seventh century needlework reached great skill in convents used to adorn churches and priestly robes. A religious lady sought St Dunstan then a skilled youth to design flowers and figures she would later embroider in gold thread.
A schoolmaster argues that clear language expresses knowledge and that incomprehensible speech may signal intellectual snobbery. He contends the world shifts for those who use common, plain words rather than unfamiliar phrases.
Loughran & Bauer promote Gar-Gol as a scientific antiseptic preparation that cures sore throat tonsillitis hoarseness and ulcerated throat and acts as a preventive for diphtheria croup and whooping cough in a broad claim.
A medical patent ad touts Dr Geo Leininger’s Formal de hyde Cough Cure as best for serious and slight coughs, claiming it prevents consumption, with a 25 cent price on guarantee at Coye’s Pharmacy. Berg's Sweet Laxative Chips advertised as all vegetable laxative promoting clean skin and complexion, priced 10 and 25 cents from Loughran & Bauer.
Advertises Dr Geo Leininger s Formaldehyde Cough Cure as a guaranteed remedy for consumption and stubborn lung and throat diseases. Sold at 25c with refund if not pleased. Also notes a lost leather cushion and a 7 bar deal for Lenox or Santa Claus soap at Tilden s.
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