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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
3
A London Outlook critique of the so called smart set describes dinners where hosts pair with favored guests, calling each other dear and using nicknames, with friendships serving political social or financial aims. It notes the pe er e ss wants tips from millionaires and that such calculated ties are visible and disliked by society.
A veteran illustrator learns his twelve year old son offers the sharpest critique. The boy notes a missing dog in a street scene of a crowd rushing to a fire, explaining that such dogs always accompany evacuations. The artist realizes the child’s eye for detail outmatches his own.
A Tennessee monument carries a humorous memorial for John Smith of Smith & Jones as a joke about a firm still operating. The inscription claims the firm is alive via Jones who explains the words to the narrator and notes the house had closed.
A kind anti tobacco worker notices a boy on a bench in Fairmount Park smoking a cigar. She speaks to him about a father’s pain, but the boy says it’s one of his father’s best cigars. The piece satirically recalls the era’s views on youth smoking.
Speaker recalls praising Straddies then encounters Waddies who visits to offer his own view on an article about "The Iepending Crisis." Waddies dominates the evening with his egotistical remarks, leaving the original author impatient and frustrated.
In dialogue from Many Places, Mrs. McCall remarks on a new cook. Mrs. Hiram Offen notes she has little experience but plans to give her one week to improve or seek another job.
Doctor questions cure for catarrh in a joke about long familiarity with the ailment. The exchange uses a pun on Saint Patient and Judge as speakers highlighting medical banter.
An Icago Record-Hera item notes criticism of a songwriter famed for popular lyrics. The column mocks the subject’s wealth and intellect, contrasting rich wordcraft with a supposed dull look and behavior.
The text explains that severe shock can cause temporary color blindness. It describes red and green color distortions, the effect of wearing ruby red glasses to induce temporary color blindness, and how prolonged red light exposure damages red-sensitive nerves, leaving a two color rainbow of yellow and blue once glasses are removed.
A brief quip unfolds as Bobby asks what gossiping is and the old man calls it lying. The exchange notes the man’s late office hours prompting the boy to accuse him of gossiping.
A brief caption from the Pittsburg Dispatch notes Marie offers the negative of a photo to Willie after a playful exchange about an excellent picture of Marie. The dialogue suggests a simple, lighthearted moment over ownership of a negative.
The piece profiles five thousand pit brow women in Lancashire who load coal from wagons at the pit head and wheel it to the tipping and screening systems. They start at 6 a.m. and finish by 4 p.m., earning around 2 shillings daily, half of what men earn. Their workwear includes trousers, clogs, petticoats rolled at the waist, and a cap under a handkerchief and bonnet.
The piece notes Danforths ice cream parlors as pleasant and the best. George Whipple travels from Cambridge for an Ames weekend visit with friends. It mentions a Nevada start and a surreal burial ground scene with Kanaa dead skeleton platforms, high Bolivia air, and eerie moonlit graveyards.
Polly Contessel of Bow ersville reveals she has married Lord Oledebts and that her father’s money funds the refurbishing of Oledebts Castle. The judge recalls rumors of a choice among three farmers and notes how a meeting altered language and fortunes.
A jokey exchange reveals a man proposed four times before a fiancée finally agreed. She dismissed him first saying no one else, then that she might like someone better, then that he teased her, and finally that she would have to say yes if he persisted.
A woman suggests blowing breath on a pencil written letter to prevent blurring after folding. She says moistening the graphite helps it adhere to the paper, making the words legible as if written in ink, though rubbing with a finger can blur it.
A cynical man watches through a window as a chesty man strides by. His companion asks if Chesty knows anything and the cynic dismisses the idea, noting he suspects nothing.
A discussion on secrecy around artist model books in New York studios. It notes lists of 500 models, the risk of reputation damage from disclosure, and defends models as modest and self respecting while highlighting that many come from middle class families facing reverses. French and American models are praised for beauty and intelligence.
A little Black boy sits on a soap box outside a tumble down shanty as a Mammy scolds him for not using the comb and for trying to appear respectable. The passage contrasts harsh living conditions with moments of simple sensory joy and self presentation. The mood is observational with dialect dialogue and social commentary.
A simple experiment shows how color disappears when carbon ate of soda burns with orange yellow light. In darkness the room is lit but all hues vanish, making crimson carnation blue violet and red cloth look gray or white. The piece argues color loss highlights our debt to sunlight and the value of color perception.
Describes bridal treatment in Arabia Persia and Morocco where the bride fasts in seclusion while guests party. Women groom her with depilatories pumice and ben na stain, decorate with gold, and she is veiled from the groom until after marriage. A few cases allow hidden face unveiling.
Natives in Samoa favor tattooing from waist to knees with a design that ends at the lower back. The unfinished pattern signals debt, ensuring prompt payment as the artist leaves the piece incomplete until settled.
Passages from the Philadelphia Ledger note a man’s death with a large funeral and no enemies among friends. It mentions he left all his money to charity, and that he had several relatives.
Pia fears she is not suited for high society due to a lack of affinity for extravagance, as discussed in the Detroit Free Press.
Quotation attributes the greatest art in life to filling the mind with pleasant thoughts, stating that the pleasantest things in the world are those thoughts. It urges cultivating a mindset of positivity as a personal practice.
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