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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1902
Page
3
A reflection on crude drawings on a gatepost signaling danger to travelers and hobos. The narrator recalls a wary stance to avoid a raucous scene, then describes a hospitable cottage keeper who offers a meal and a chance to send a message to her missing son.
The article outlines dairy practices for good butter. It covers temperature control from 66 degrees in winter, keeping cream slightly sour, skimming milk while sweet, and churning when cream is in good condition to avoid rancid butter. It also notes brine salting to prevent mottling and timing cows’ calving for spring and fall freshening.
The Chuckster family bought gas burners with mantles. After a week the light dimmed until Mrs. Chuckster called a gas fitter. He removed and washed the chimney, restoring bright light. the charge was fifty cents.
A Germantown family hosted a distinguished foreign novelist unfamiliar with social norms. At departure the host offered a courteous farewell, saying she could not stay longer. The novelist responded I can and reentered the house after the carriage left, prompting embarrassment and a rapid return to the home.
Early explorers found vast red patches in Arctic snow. Scientists now know unicellular algae color the snow, similar to a green garden fence, with the same protoplasm coloring. Acres can be coated in a single night by these tiny plants.
A Washington Star quip frames climate as changeable. the native notes it shifts quickly from pleasant to disagreeable, lingering as grim death in bad spells, reflecting a sly take on local conditions.
Quote from Ladies' Home Journal extols libraries and reading as open doors to wide knowledge and disciplined minds, offering immense extension and variety of interests through books.
A Chicago Herald summary notes the number of Venice bronze horses rises to at least fifteen. It describes Verrocchio's Colleone statue as the finest bronze equestrian work and recounts the long journey of the St Mark’s horses from Nero to Paris and back to Venice.
The note explains phrases such as I am escaped with the skin of my teeth from Job and the modernized form by the skin of my teeth. It defines cast in the teeth as throwing defiant insults and tooth and nail as an action marked by frenzied fury.
Ames, Iowa writers report a local legal or professional notice regarding Hunt Ffiumt and Brown, with possible affiliations to a group named DOiennists. The fragment suggests an address or filing by AMES. The readable text is incomplete and any precise action or date cannot be determined.
A jumble of train names and times lists several express and passenger services including Chicago Express, Overland Limited, Pacific, Northern Iowa Express, and Sioux City Ex. It notes baggage check timing and delivers an attribution to G. W. Roaenrea.
An actor who knew Augustin Daly recalls the manager’s quick humor during a bank failure. Daly narrowly avoids a fall on the street when asked if he was hurt, replying that he only lost his balance.
In a Chicago Tribune snippet a Purist orders a calves liver and rejects excessive portions. A waiter offers liver options while a Professor refuses more than a single portion. The playful exchange highlights culinary restraint.
A compact Baltimore News item notes the saying that most people are trouble and adds a wry remark about common human folly.
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