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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1900
Page
4
A reflective verse explores burial of the past yet its power persists. Jeanette Bliss Gillespy's lines in Columbia Literary Monthly frame memory as a living haunting that defies burial and waits at the door.
A New Orleans Times‑Democrat report describes a 15 000 ant army from a hut mound marching to a nearby earth mound. The foragers divide labor, capture crickets and grasshoppers, transport prey, then return home with provisions for the colony. The piece likens the operation to a well planned military expedition.
A New York Tribune anecdote describes two men in a cafe debating a millionaire's gift to found a psychology chair. A tester bets he can force his companion to say fourteen, exposing willpower as he copies numbers and reveals the trick.
Mrs. Ballington Booth writes in The Ladies' Home Journal about harsh child life in slums. She describes sick deprived children, streets roamed by noise and danger, and homes where youngsters hide from abuse and drunkenness. She likens death in summer to the angel of light amid harsh urban life.
A Breslau physician fed hens only horseflesh with water and no fat to induce gout. After inducing the disease he tried to treat it by giving eggshell, which somewhat relieved the birds but left them in poor condition.
A quote from the Washington Star recalls Willie Washington saying he made more blunders than any boy in his class, asked by Miss Cayenne what he excelled at in school.
A Philadelphia Times quips that a curfew bell mirrors rules of a married man without a latchkey. The piece also notes that a person discovers how little he knows after reading a page or two of the dictionary.
In Chicago after a Paris study noted author Alexander MacArthur, famed for a Latin quarter work, attends a publisher dinner. A guest, Lillian MacArthur, reveals she has written under his name since leaving Dublin. The mix up ends quickly and the dinner succeeds.
In dense fog near Fastnet the Atlantic liner struck rocks at 3 am. Passengers were shaken but safe. Hoey, recovering from a night of revelry, joined a service praising the captain. He then honored the captain with three cheers and a tiger, claiming he alone could hit the rock without a light.
A women’s encire party featured a riddle where a player asked what a little black cat is called in England. The answer given was “kitty, kitty,” matching terms used elsewhere, and the moment reflected playful bridge style.
The article highlights the Klamath Indians reliance on vegetables for nourishment. It describes novel foods from the yellow water lily pulp made into a farinaceous meal, goosefoot with a ground black seed for bread, and arrowhead producing a starchy white tuber in autumn.
A legislative investigation hearing features a chairman questioning a witness about bribery during a campaign. The witness denies bribery and acknowledges distributing several cigar boxes, insisting the cigars were not bribes and offering one as evidence.
Saute. 15 perch building rock. Inquire at this office. 43 1f.
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