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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1898
Page
5
E Creel in New York Journal lists benefits of aging including sa fe refuge in arguments with youth. The piece celebrates privileges such as courteous conduct, table manners, reading the paper, and sleeping in church, portraying wit as parity for elders.
In London and Paris salons frequented by notable figures, Camille Flammarion and the late Alexandre Dumas meet for the first time. Dumas quips that Flammarion seldom descends from heaven while he rarely ascends, eliciting a genial reply.
Prince Albert of Belgium visits the country at age 28. He has traveled widely, visited European capitals and major cities, stands 5 feet 11 inches, is fair haired and athletic, fashions a pompadour, and will one day be king with a vast inheritance and an annual royal pay.
In Chicago News a quip notes a friend Starlett remains on stage while Dixon reveals she married a wealthy southern sugar planter’s daughter. The exchange mocks social climbers and sugar wealth in a witty tidbit.
Fractured excerpt from the Cincinnati Enquirer offers a quip about fortune and doors with two characters Wayworn Watson and a pessimistic narrator. The tone is humorous and satirical, reflecting urban newspaper style.
A bashful man is noted as the most bashful figure, with a quip that Pye recalls him declining to meet a note when it was due. The short exchange appears in Town Topics reflecting social humor.
A New York Journal item notes a man who sings while working being described as a vocalist.
The piece argues that poets and singers miss practical, rural realities. It favors honest talk of farming tasks over floral praise and musical verses. The author prefers songs about mules, seed, and harvest to celebrate spring’s work and the farm’s needs.
John E. Wilkie, a Chicago veteran journalist and longtime editor, has been appointed chief of the federal secret service succeeding Hazen. At 87 he began as a reporter at the Chicago Times, later held posts at The Tribune, and served as London representative for an American rail and steamship office before joining government work.
A Pittsburg business man recalls an overcrowded east end streetcar where eighteen men stepped off to let a woman pass. After she thanked them, they respectfully reboarded in a orderly fashion, lifting hats as they returned to the car.
A new vine pest, Botrytis cinerea or gray rot, is reported in Bordeaux France. The fungus spreads quickly in warm moist weather, bores through grape skins and dries juice reducing tartar, ruining wine flavor and defying effective control, causing great unease among wine growers.
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