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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
3
Dr John D Quackenbos discusses instinctive fear of mortality noting fear can drive insanity. He recalls a dissecting room fright where a corpse's movement startled him, illustrating how training fails against sudden contact with death in a New York World piece.
A Detroit Free Press reader laments local watchmakers in Woodward avenue charging repairs while supplying customers with inferior substitute watches. He argues shops should provide matching loan watches so customers carry a comparable timepiece while their own is under repair.
A Washington Post clipping quotes a woman who jokes about terra cotta and terra firma aboard a steamer. She recalls saying she would be glad to set foot on terra cotta, only to be corrected by an English mother who notes the phrase is terra firma.
A Dartmoor tale from A Book on Dartmoor by the Rev S Baring-Gould describes a walker across marshes who, when he kicks a hat lying in the sedge, is startled by a voice from beneath asking what he is doing to the hat and then adds there is a man under it and a horse beneath him.
An Englishman’s will recalls his wife as a force that would drive him from life. He compares her to Samson Homer Augustine Pyrrhus Job Socrates Hannibal and Hermogenes, noting none could subdue her perversity.
A clerk recalls a hotel with a turbulent landlord who ran a deficit of twice his intake. The old landlord owed thousands to local provision dealers and was known for costly mismanagement.
Bankers National Bank Chicago National City Bank New York Valley National Bank Des Moines offer money transfer by drafi as the cheapest option in this brief correspondence style listing.
California Excursions offers two brand new through sleeping car routes from Des Moines. One departs Mondays at 8 45 p m via Kansas City and Santa Fe to Los Angeles. The other leaves Saturdays at 11 40 a m via Kansas City Missouri Kansas Texas San Antonio Arkansas Pass and Southern Pacific to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
A Baltimore American item notes Mrs. Meddergrass the postmistress dislikes the new school professor. Mr. Meddergrass says locals heard the professor wrote postal cards in Latin or a foreign language.
The Indianapolis Journal quotes saying Eogles died from indigestion while remaining devoted to the principle of allowing no doctor to dictate his diet. The remark frames his death as a sacrifice to stubborn dietary principles.
The royal army clothing factory of Great Britain has only two commissioned officers, a director and a doctor.
Chicago Great Western Rail Way announces car itineraries leaving Monday to Los Angeles arriving Friday afternoon with no Sunday travel. A Saturday departure arrives Los Angeles the following Wednesday and San Francisco Thursday, via Waco San Antonio and El Paso. For details contact Traveling Passenger Agent Cor Fifth and Walnut Des Moines IA.
A terse commentary argues progress favors persistent effort over raw force. It asserts the stayer wins regardless of whether weapons are brawn or brains and that the best work comes from hard work.
A playful exchange notes a famed inventor known for a cash register fitted to married men's trouser pockets. Mrs Small questions recognition while Mr Small references her husband as the inventor. The quip hinges on a sly revenue-raising device.
A St Paul Dispatch quip notes a sequence from a tailor made suit to a lawyer made suit and then a nonsuit. The line satirizes legal fashion and judicial outcomes, reflecting marketplace and courtroom humor.
A light quarrel is described where Mrs Easey complains her husband interrupts to sew a button, requiring her to thread the needle. Mrs Kauler responds with disbelief as the exchange ends in laughter from The Philadelphia Press and Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A local sales blurb touts a sack of Seal of Minnesota flour as a preferred brand from T. J. Miller & Son, suggesting it as the sole choice for bakers and households.
Mothers praise One Minute Cough Cure for croup grippe and asthma and claim it cures throat and lung troubles quickly. The ad from Tilden & Loughran markets Washburn Guitar and Mandolin and notes politeness for company only, not home use.
Whakarewarewa in New Zealand features geysers and hot springs along with boiling pools mud volcanoes and a hot water fall as part of its geothermal landscape attracting visitors and researchers alike.
In Spain the traditional gift givers are the three Magi, while Santa Claus is not widely known. Children await Epiphany gifts from Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar rather than a Christmas Eve visit.
A barber tells a regular customer why he fired his pet barber over beards. The boss cites three reasons: cross look, time to grow, and fear of customers following the beard trend hurting sales. The segment shifts to notes on Thomas Jefferson and other anecdotes about letters, satire, and language.
A Philadelphia physician treats an old Irish couple with quinine and whisky for colds. The husband reports he and his wife followed the doctor’s orders with the husband consuming whisky and pills while the wife takes the entire supply, ending with both menacingly cautious and amused.
A preacher in an extempore sermon before Archbishop Tait and Dean Stanley quipped about dividing his congregation into two groups the converted and the unconverted. The primate’s sharp humor prompted a quick exchange as he asked the audience to decide which group each was.
A Nagasaki shipping company branch was found deserted as the manager and staff had gone mushroom hunting on a fine day. The incident is described with light tone, noting mushrooming appeals to Japanese people.
In a light theater scene from London Fun a guest arrives late at the doctor’s home. The doctor, absentminded and forgetting his visitor, questions the guest as he misses a train. The guest identifies himself as Mr. Trane and awaits the next train.
A fragment from Tit Bits features a playful exchange about washing a dirty face. The exchange centers on Willie and a mother figure remarking on cleanliness and a humorous hand dirt clue.
The first photographic portrait was taken of Mrs Dorothy Draper in 1839 by her brother Dr John Draper. The event marks an early milestone in the history of photography.
Ireland ships 44 000 tons of eggs every year and about 640000000 eggs sent to England alone, reflecting large cross border trade and agricultural output.
In Paris a wealthy and portly wine merchant known as M. R attempted to ride a cab. His bulk toppled the vehicle and a window was broken. The crowd laughed as the cabby refused the load. The matter moved to the police station where the issue was settled and M. R sought another cab.
A Bathing Suit and a Violet clash over modesty in a Detroit Journal item. The Bathing Suit asks for a modest system. the Violet replies I shrink. The Suit shrinks following the hint, is rebuked further, and finally discarded as impossible.
A letter from a woman to a young man describes a nervous illness and demand for perfect rest. The man reads the note, pockets it, and walks beneath the silent stars thinking deeply about her. London Answers excerpt.
The Rev Dr Third ly warns that attendance is essential for next Sunday. He has arranged for Rev Dr Markthirst to speak on slum observations after the regular sermon, promising eye opening remarks.
A visitor asked for a week of back issues at the newspaper office. A facetious clerk proposed trying a porous plaster as a joke.
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