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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1901
Page
3
A New York druggist recalls a domestic bringing a morphine prescription for a family head with neuralgia. The physician urged using distilled water only, claiming the aqua para would work as well without the opiate. The patient slept soundly after the second dose of the mixture and faith in the remedy.
An Anglo Indian correspondent recalls stalking a black buck in India. While crawling across a cotton soil field he is trailed by a flock of vultures circling within 20 yards. He fires at one vulture at close range but misses and reflects on the eerie experience.
A Munsey's Magazine excerpt describes the camel as the primary burden beast in peace and war in the East and notes the hamal or human porter as the remarkable freighter of Constantinople. It explains the pak saddle system and the forehead band used by hamals traversing the Lebanon corridor.
A humorous exchange leads to marriage as a lover boasts dieting to improve looks and a partner responds with a witty, hopeful plan. The dialogue ends with them deciding to wed.
Brief quips note domestic life contrasts in Mrs Slowboy and Mrs Rounder from Chicago News. The Kansas City Star comments on Mumbai as a vast trading hub with premier Indian architecture and strong shipping, commerce, and manufacturing sectors.
The North Western Line advertises about 350000 acres of choice farm lands in northern Wisconsin at low prices with easy payment terms. Early buyers gain locations near streams and lakes with fish and ample water supply. Land is timbered, fertile, and suited for cattle and sheep farming as markets in Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Duluth and more are served. For details contact Geo W Bell Hudson Wis or G H MacRae St Paul Mn.
A passenger car service operates between Chicago and Jacksonville Florida aboard the Illinois Central and connecting lines. The description highlights a sleeping car and a Pullman buffet car on the route with connections to other lines.
Two through sleeping cars run from Des Moines to Los Angeles via distinct weekly routes. One departs Monday 8 45 p m via Kansas City Santa Fe, the other Saturday 11 40 a m via Kansas City Missouri Kansas & Texas San Antonio Arkansas Pass and Southern Pacific, both new wide vestibule and steam heated cars from St Paul and Minneapolis Kansas City.
Chicago Great Western announces car service with departures on Monday and Saturday. The Monday car arrives in Los Angeles Friday afternoon avoiding Sunday travel. The Saturday car reaches Los Angeles Wednesday morning and San Francisco Thursday morning, routing through Waco San Antonio and El Paso. For details contact the Traveling Passenger Agent in Des Moines Iowa.
A humorous pair of vignettes from a New York Sun item and Pearson's Weekly describe a phrenology boast about a bridegroom’s “memory and generosity” bumps and a house fly surviving long immersion. The phrenology reading flops when a host reads the chart calling bumps for cats and monkeys. The fly tale recounts a 65 minute submersion with salt and water, then the insect revives and flies away.
A Philadelphia Record report recounts a life insurance examiner describing two unmarried brothers rated strong and healthy at ages 85 and 33. He highlights identical chest measurements and a four inch expansion, noting their tobacco use and childhood breath-holding tests of about a minute and a half.
A father questions his son about studying logic and traps him with a paradox. Tom claims the father cannot be present if he is elsewhere, prompting a sharp sting as the boy realizes a flaw in his reasoning. The scene ends with the moral that strict logic can meet a physical rebuke.
A manager remarks on an employee Pat being at work first light. Pat replies it’s a family trait and jokes that his father rises so early he would meet himself if he slept later. The exchange blends humor with a regional Irish dialect.
A Rabelais, short of funds, lured police from Marseilles to Paris on treason charges with brick dust packages labeled Poison for the royal family. They traveled 700 miles before learning it was an April 1 hoax. As royal wit, he was forgiven.
In a brief quoted exchange the daughter asks her father for a son-in-law as she insists she has nothing to request, only to offer the idea of a marriage proposal as reported in the Philadelphia Press.
A playful exchange references a wedding notice for Mrs Nubride and jokes about a maid of honor, reflecting social notices in the Philadelphia Press.
Captain John Smith argued Virginia is not an island in letters home, despite common belief. He claimed the colony lies on a mainland coast and urged settlers and investors to see Virginia as connected to the continental mainland.
In 1800 a woman received the first patent ever issued to a female inventor for straw weaving. The document marks a milestone in women's contributions to early industrial craft and intellectual property.
Pathologists note mental and physical decline in medieval rulers linked to lavish court life. Kings lost autonomy as flunkeys attended to meals, clothing, and daily tasks while courtiers prepared news and chatter for their consumption.
A guard at a large Midlands station warned a late passenger not to board a moving Northern express. The man leapt onto a footboard and was pulled off by the guard who said he had saved a life. The guard then boarded his van and the man insisted two good turns deserve another, claiming they were quits.
In Ohio a farmhand asks for two days off two weeks after his wife died. The farmer questions the need since work is behind. The worker explains he is to be married again, saying I do not hold spite long. The farmer dismisses the case without prejudice.
A summer resident in a New Hampshire village visits an old widower's family for a first-season call. The father notes two daughters, Mary fared well while Lizabeth lingers with a steady suitor for two years, still not progressing.
A humor item recounts a quarrel with Krankey over nails. He demanded ten pounds, insisted on taking them home himself, and the dealer’s clerk retaliated by secretly adding ten extra pounds, leaving Krankey unaware of the surplus.
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