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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1901
Page
3
Text from Cosmopolitan notes how artists hire several models to complete a single figure, using specialists for coloring hands halo and overall tone. It cites quotes from an artist’s address book describing models by traits and appearance.
An analysis of coin counterfeiting in the United States describing the two person gang model the holder and the shover how counterfeit money is circulated through small purchases and the strategy to avoid detection with lone bad coins ensuring plausible denial. It notes operatives sometimes mix genuine and counterfeit coins.
A Cleveland Leader tale describes a husband who tests his wife’s mood by a ritual. He enters only after his hat is not discarded within five minutes, then expects a agreeable evening. if the hat returns, he seeks hospitality elsewhere.
A Brussels clock is described as nearly perpetual motion as sunlight winds it. A solar shaft drives an airstream that powers a fan and lifts a weight to the top, then brakes the fan until the weight descends, repeating as long as sun shines and parts don’t wear.
In a playful New York Marine Journal scene the sea king complains that boating party songs like A Life on the Ocean Wave grow tiresome. A mermaid questions the king as he retreats into a cave and seals it behind him.
A salt-loaded mule in a pack train learned it could lighten its load by lying in a stream and dissolving the salt. In a later test a muleteer used sponges to absorb water, making the burden four times heavier. The mule’s clever trick was stopped by the cure.
A Baltimore American quip where a couple dismiss Blithersley as the proud papa recalls listening to him talk about his baby’s speech for an hour then leaving to catch a train. The exchange shows playful parental pride and gentle humor.
The quotation notes that a person’s birthplace or planet makes little difference as long as they stay grounded on earth. It emphasizes practical concerns over origin and suggests consistency matters more than origin.
A comment from the Atchison Globe notes that a man treated well at home will choose to eat sleep and loaf there rather than elsewhere, highlighting domestic contentment as a reflection of family treatment.
A concise Chicago News note states it is never too late to learn, yet warns that thinking one knows it all ends progress for a man.
The North Western Line offers about 350 000 acres of choice farm lands in northern Wisconsin at low prices and easy terms. Early buyers gain locations on streams and lakes with abundant fish and water supply. Land is well timbered and fertile, developing into a major sheep and cattle region with markets in Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Superior and other towns. For details contact Geo W Bell Hudson Wis or G H MacRae St Paul Minn.
Train travelers to Buffalo N Y can begin special rates May 1 with Tuesdays offering especially low fare tickets and favorable return limits. Direct Chicago connection with fast trains to Buffalo and an illustrated booklet by mail for two cents to W B Kuiskern General Passenger and Ticket Agent Chicago.
A Jacksonville bound sleeping car runs daily from Chicago at 6 10 p m on the Central's Limited vestibule train with a dining car for supper. It connects at Mattoon with Illinois Central from Peoria and reaches Nashville the next morning, Chattanooga the next afternoon, Atlanta that evening, and Jacksonville the following morning. Details available from Illinois Central agents.
Advertisement offers a topical pile cure with positive guarantee and no pay unless cured. Includes a 50 cent price, free samples, and a pipe with each package. Signed by L. M. Bosworth.
The Iowa Central railway offers homeseekers tickets every first and third Tuesday, with one fare plus $2 for a round trip. Tickets apply to many regions including Oklahoma and Texas oil fields. For full particulars contact Geo S. Batty G P T A Marshalltown Iowa.
Two brand new through sleeping cars operate weekly from Des Moines via Kansas City to Los Angeles and via multiple carriers to Los Angeles and San Francisco. One leaves Monday night at 8 45 with a single through route. the other departs Saturday at 11 40 through sleepers to the West.
The timetable notes departure and arrival patterns for the Chicago Great Western Railway with trains leaving Saturday for Los Angeles arriving Wednesday morning and continuing to San Francisco Thursday morning via Waco San Antonio and El Paso. It also mentions a Monday departure to Los Angeles with Friday afternoon arrival and avoidance of Sunday travel and directs to contact railway agents for full information.
The New York Press notes that legendary Madeira in Bremen’s Hotel de Ville cellars could cost millions to maintain with per glass values absurdly high, while expert Charles Bellows argues aging alone harms it and blending demi-johns or aging in glass could revive its character.
A New York woman finds asthma worsens when moving from river-adjacent areas to a new lower neighborhood and abandons a newly built house after a week. Another New Yorker tolerates city life only on upper floors of tall buildings and suffers distress on solid ground.
A woman receives a $60 rug she did not order and rejects paying for it. The seller insists on payment and later mocks her refusal while referencing unsolicited charity tickets, highlighting rude business practices noted in the St. Paul Trade Journal.
A Columbus Dispatch fragment presents Mose, a Black philosopher, perched on a barrel by Hickory alley. He dismisses grief over his dead wife and lost child, saying white people have better lot, and he plans to loaf, eat corn pone or lasses bread, and avoid work as he drifts away.
In a clipped mock-epistolary note from Puck, a farmer asks about a nephew dubbed doctor yet described as solemn and owlish. The speaker questions the nephew’s true role, suggesting roles from dentist to bone-sawing surgeon, highlighting skepticism toward a self styled physician.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes Edmund Kean, famed English actor, would tailor meals to his roles choosing pork for tyrants beef for murderers and mutton for lovers. The remark adds humor about actors adapting to parts and even hashes for multiple roles in a single evening.
A New England farmer addressed his frolicking herd with a fiery remark. He exclaimed that if there were only one cow left it would still scatter, illustrating his emphatic insistence on order amid the unruly cattle.
A concise report notes an elderly man aiding his wayward son through a personal difficulty, described in neutral terms by the Atchison Globe. The item captures family concern and community interest without sensational detail.
In Novara Italy a wheatfield holds a pyramid of skulls 10 to 12 feet high as rain shelter is built above. The skulls belong to young Savoy Sardinia and Austria men aged 18 to 35 who fought over foreign aims. The piece recalls battles at Magenta Jena Leipsic and Waterloo and cites Napoleon on the fate of boys in war.
Story from a Constantinople suburb recounts April 19 as the day of Ba lukli the place of fishes. A monk refused the Turks invasion tale. the half cooked fish allegedly jumped back to water and the spring gained fame for healing powers. A church now stands over the spring Our Lady of the Fishes.
A person can tell from one cold bath whether it benefits or harms health. If circulation returns quickly after leaving the water and skin reddens and warmth returns, the bath did good. If skin stays cold and clammy for 15 to 20 minutes and weakness lingers for an hour or more, cold bathing is inadvisable.
The 1896 parliamentary register notes one pot walloper left in England. A pot walloper is a voter who boiled his own pot to qualify for suffrage in boroughs before the 1832 reform act.
A long lived maple grows in West Stockbridge Massachusetts. The tree stands fifteen feet above the ground with birch limbs and currant and raspberry bushes bearing fruit annually. The sap may flavor the sugar or the bark may taste of birch, details left unclear. It is very old and expected to endure for years.
A laundress trains her boy Willie in etiquette by forceful methods and repeated correction. The boy recites courteous phrases in a tense moment, showing the pressure of rigid instruction and the strain on both mother and child.
A London Chronicle anecdote recalls a lady smarting after her fish purchase for the cat was wrapped in a newspaper. The fishmonger remarks that they never wrap brown paper for cats, noting the purchase was not for the woman herself.
The human jaw is very loosely socketed in the skull and can become dislocated by yawning. It is not designed for biting, and nature has not provided strong anchorage.
A brief dispatch notes Chicago and North Western lines, with G. W. Roguas mentioned, stating baggage room delivery near theater 25 theater area before the train’s departure date.
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