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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1904
Page
3
The London News argues knee breeches avoid wear by allowing no sitting or running, contrasting with long trousers. Knickerbockers stay baggy at the knees and resist foot-gear rubbing, while muddy days favor stockings changed daily.
November special bargain for new or old subscribers at 1.50 a year for Daily and Sunday papers. Offer limited to November, with quick payment required. Also advertises round trip tourist tickets to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo from Chicago Union Pacific Northwest line.
A London Globe note explains the so called five minutes bell. Historically it tolled after a peal to signal special sermon occasions when clergy addressed the faithful.
A London Chronicle excerpt discusses rhymeless vowel sounds in English, noting words like bulb culm cusp Te cumb gulf mouth cloth and others. It explains poets’ use of the sound for dramatic effect and mentions rhymes such as felicitous mysterious inglorious, illustrating stress patterns and accent shifts.
A lighthearted Brooklyn Life item jokes that a high medical authority says the little toe will disappear. He explains that if toes vanish women could wear smaller shoes, sparking playful banter about future fashion and comfort.
A terse dialogue reveals two men in tense social postures. The pompous speaker claims social standing at home while the other, with a cold gaze, hints at connections in a clandestine business and asks about the padded yaus.
The O Gorman Mahon, about eighty, famed as a duelist and survivor of Ireland’s old squire class, is remembered for his fierce bearing and steady attendance during eighties sittings. He planned duels, mocked by Parnell, wore a light tweed, smoked a cheap pipe, and died with his humor intact at the end.
An American observer recalls a Nabob of a conman in Nijni Novgorod who overprices a valise then secretly pockets a buyer’s ten ruble note. The trickster is outwitted when the buyer feigns ignorance, revealing the theft and later settling the sale for far less. The dealer ends up offering the valise for under half the original price.
A humorous Philadelphia Ledger exchange shows a patient warning a slow cure will delay payment, while the doctor promises a quick remedy. The quip captures a light medical satire from a newspaper page.
A witty Puck quip recalls a June loan of five dollars, splitting that debt with two dollars lent to Jones and noting the other debtor has not paid. The remark captures dry early 20th century humor on unpaid loans and lingering grievances.
A compact excerpt lists social do nots for conversation. Avoid personalities family feuds costly talk personal ambitions and discussions of children or dress to spare dignity and feelings in polite company.
A cautionary note on Korean language pitfalls shows how small errors change meaning. An impassioned preacher warns of re pentance or falling to a cellar, as Korean words for cellar and the nether world are nearly identical.
The British empire spans about one fifth of the habitable globe and includes the United Kingdom with its islands and around forty three dependencies under independent governments. Varied in size from Canada thirty times the UK to Abraltar two square miles.
The passage extols books as true friends awaiting the right moment and mood. It invites the reader to escape petty cares and disappointment by spending an hour with a book to gain a new perspective.
A Chicago News line captures a courtroom exchange where a self important lawyer cross examines a witness. The witness retorts that he does not know everything and mocks the lawyer’s ability to secure clients.
A Brooklyn Life comic strip snippet shows Mrs. Casey debating a smoother life path after an uncle’s legacy. The older narrator suggests the weight of duties, while Mrs. Casey laments the endless chores as more dishes appear with the more one learns.
A courtroom exchange shows the judge asking if there was provocation for the assault and the prisoner replying uncooperatively that the other man wouldn’t fight. The fragment reflects a legal proceeding with a terse, regional speech pattern.
A Japan Weekly Mail review of Kokkei Hyaku Snowa by Kubo Tendzai highlights characteristic humor. Tales include a district head misreading a drinker, burglars spared by a doctor, an illiterate father critiquing ink strokes, Kiyomori’s armor logic, a quack sued by wronged parents, and a quack fearing a neighbor’s ill wife.
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