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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1909
Page
3
The Bronx Zoo elephant Luna wakes to a tiny mouse and responds with curiosity. She corners the creature, pins it with a foreleg, then lifts and inspects it with her trunk before trumpeting and tossing it aside. The event shows the elephant calm and unafraid despite legends of mouse fear.
The atom is now seen as a complex system with a central positive nucleus and surrounding negative electrons. The radius of the atomic system is vast relative to the solar system, with electrons in distinct orbits and light frequency revealing orbital speeds. The sodium yellow line corresponds to 500 quintillion revolutions per second in the electron orbit.
A New York lawyer perches at his window and witnesses a paramour scene in an adjacent office. He then reaches for the telephone and, after a stern warning, declares the speaker to be his conscience before hanging up.
A column from the New York Press humorously contrasts fashion and behavior. It playfully critiques men's hat styles and stereotypes, hints at college life observations, and comments on family size and marital judgments with wry wit.
The text notes the motor boat occupies a role in Canada similar to the automobile in the United States, common along the St Lawrence and near the Columbia region for travel and fishing activity.
In the North American Review, L. B. Rowe argues the United States misjudges Latin America. He surveys capitals from Rio de Janeiro to La Paz, praising modernization, harbor works, drainage, and urban planning while noting the rise in trade. He cites 1897 to 1907 trade growth and contrasts U S trade gains.
A social visit between Mrs A and Mrs B turns grim when Mrs B's husband recently committed suicide by hanging in the attic. The conversation shifts to domestic tasks with a biting joke about hanging clothes in the attic prompting uneasy laughter.
Charles E. Bigelow the comedian complains about time and asks a Lambs club barber to cut hair with collar on. The barber jokes he can cut it with a hat on.
The city introduces an ambulance equipped with battery fed electric lighting. The modification aims to improve visibility and safety during nighttime calls.
The passage offers wry maxims on debt, exclusiveness, marriage, and social vanity. It quips that the faster you run into debt the more you fall behind and notes the quirks of courtship, secrecy, and opportunism with sharp humor and a carnival tone.
A collection of wry maxims on duty friendship money marriage and pride. The quips explore how duty and nuisance coexist reveal the value of money and the folly of secrets and misused love with a sober urban wit.
A brief humorous exchange features a narrator and friend trading lines about a story they have not previously shared. The charm lies in the simple play on words and anticipation of a funny tale.
St Louis reports Joseph Junette raises ducks trained to eat potato bugs at one dollar a day per duck. Fifteen ducks yield about fifteen dollars daily with potential weekly income of ninety dollars. He plans patenting the idea and expanding to a Bug Duck university with graduates leased nationwide.
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