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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1904
Page
3
The article describes Russian wedding customs where a brother guards the bride until the groom’s arrival. A barter between sister and brother occurs as the dowry is set, followed by a ceremony in which the bride asks pardon, is kissed by her parents, and receives bread and salt. The open door at departure signals she may return.
A discussion on accurate perception of wildlife cites John Burroughs on seeing truth in animals and warns against anthropomorphism. Anecdotes include buzzards in West Virginia and a coal town breaker boy fined in a German squire’s court, showing human bias and mercy.
The article recounts a long Anglo folklore belief in the seven whistlers, eerie night sounds linked to mine dangers. It notes miners avoiding pits on hearing the cry, with incidents at Bedworth collieries and Morfa, and references to past explosions and strikes in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Professor Seggel of Munich reports two brain development spurts by gender. Girls show accelerations from ten to eleven and seventeen to eighteen years, while boys show shifts from twelve to thirteen and nineteen to twenty. During ages twelve to fourteen brain growth lags body growth by under one hundredth, then at seventeen to nineteen it is about one thirtieth as fast, reaching one seventh of body growth at age twenty.
The Rosen dale cement is a natural product from shaly limestone burned in kilns and ground with bur stones to a fine powder that sets to a hard artificial stone. Portland cement mixes chalk or limestone free of magnesia with siliceous clay, forms bricks, burns at high heat, and yields clinker that is stronger and sets faster.
A historical note describes catching gulls and other sea fowl with baited hooks, a method sailors resorted to and once used for herons. A silk line with a wire strand ran from a stone to hooks, placed in shallow water where birds feed, enabling the hook to lodge in the gullet and the wire to prevent bite-through.
A governess applicant explains leaving Mrs Roscommon’s family due to her employer’s superficiality and ignorance of distinctions like anachronism versus anomaly, in a witty Chicago Tribune exchange.
A short dialogue on a road where a fisherman asks about a mule. The colored man on a log answers that the mule is calm, claiming the animal is doing fine and that the man worries more than the mule.
A comment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a man declaring he cannot yet provide much income but hopes to meet his partner’s desires. The woman replies that generosity and partnership would be all she asks.
A schoolmaster speaks on happiness as a shared invitation. He urges kindness as the path to joy for all, framing benevolence as the prerequisite to communal well being.
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