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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1900
Page
1
A speaker recounts a widow’s memory and a surviving groom in a poem about enduring love. The verses contrast the dead wife with the living bride, noting the pain beneath wedding joy and the belief that true life and love begin anew with marriage. Joseph J. C. Clarke in Criterion.
An 19th century approach describes blood washing using saline solutions to replace direct transfusion. Doctors once bridged donor and patient via tubes or bowl mixing, then de fibrinated blood lost efficacy. The method, called blood washing, saves life by flushing poisons through kidneys and restoring fluids without alive blood transfer.
A St. Louis dispatch urges housekeepers to sift ashes daily and pour cold water on used cinders to improve fuel. Mixing damp cinders with coal yields safer bedroom fires and reduces sparks, while avoiding constant stirring preserves heat.
The article describes a practice in Guiana where parents urge slow children to move by applying ants, which bite painfully. The custom is said to foster cruelty to animals and to mark boyhood by tolerance to pain rather than age.
In suburban area a bull owned by Koo bin dug up ground, toppled a fence and wrecked most of the barnyard earlier today. A passerby allegedly strapped red spectacles on the animal’s eyes.
A local cooperative advertises real estate business farm loans and insurance services. It lists handling grain coal farm supplies and related goods plus Chautauquan literature and electrical work. It also promotes Prof Ott's novel and Baden Baden prose excerpts.
In London Answers a daughter recounts a rushed marriage proposal. She describes the suitor as trembling and nervous, while the father recalls coercive pressure and a highwayman like demand for her hand. The exchange reveals social expectations and fear surrounding consent.
Bigbee tells Smallbee after five years of knowing him that he wants a loan of £2. Smallbee refuses, insisting the friendship is the reason he cannot lend.
A Philadelphia Record anecdote recalls a man who finds a set of false teeth on a Atlantic City beach after quipping about searching for his lost dentures. A curious stranger notes the discovery and the narrator admits he has never had a tooth pulled.
Advertisements tout saving money by insuring with Iowa Town Mutual covering town residents and households with limited assessments, plus cheaper tornado windstorm cover from Our State Association. Also offers crayon portrait work and book listings from Des Moines studios and stores, including Golden Eagle bread and standard books from Tilden & Loughran.
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