College asks near million for 5 to 10 year plan
At a trustees meeting in the state house Gov Cummins and college leaders discussed a proposed appropriation of about 950000 to fund maintenance and new buildings over the next five to ten years. The plan includes auditoriums armory gymnasium library and veterinary and engineering facilities plus an engineering experiment station.
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Iowa State Agricultural College
State House
J.B. Hangerford
Carroll
W. J. Dixon
Sac City
C. S. Barclay
West Liberty
James Wilson
Des Moines
A.b.cummins
A. B. Storms
E. W. Stanton
Engineering Ment
Wisconsin Dairy
State College
Register and Leader
Iowa State College faces crowding and funding squeeze
President Storms warns that enrollment reaching 1,600 this year crowds 23 departments. Trustees urge legislative support to raise the institution’s funding, expand teaching staff and equip facilities including a new main hall heating plant and a modern dairy barn to sustain growing operations.
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Storms
Iowa State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts
Tts
Iowa State Coll
Ite
Real Horseplay by a Staten Island Doctor’s Practical Joke Horse
A Staten Island physician’s horse plays pranks by ringing a dinner bell to signal staff. The horse pulls the bell rope to attract attention, then the doctor spots the animal. The same horse later shoves a basket with a cat, kicks it into the air, and leaves a whinnying triumph.
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Staten Island
New York Mail and Express
Beards as Social Rebellion in 19th Century Britain
An English writer notes social tyranny against beards in the last century. Birmingham first showed courage with beard wearers linked to Joanna Southcott. Muntz, an early Birmingham MP, defied insult with a beard, sometimes wielding a Malacca cane. Clergyman Ed Burton and Daw son linked beards to audacity and latitudinarianism in sermons and public life.
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R. Larken
Lincoln
Edof Burton
George Dawson
Brown Mustac
Witchcraft case of Jane Wenham at Hertfordshire assizes
Indicted March 4 1712 for conversing with the devil in the form of a cat under 1604 act. Prosecution sought extra count for witch craft against Ann Thorns injury. evidence of pins and cakes in pillow and cattle deaths cited. Jury found guilty, death sentence by Mr Justice Powell, then commuted and Wenham placed under protection. By 1720 country reportedly convinced of her innocence.
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Jane Wenham
Hertfordshire
Ann Thorn
Justice Powell
Wenham
Prummer
Hutchinson
The Natives Had Scruples Tinned Meat Tale
An old time south sea trader carried various tinned meats labeled by pictures. When mutton tins were relabeled with a red dragon, natives believed the meat to be devilish and refused to trade. He ended up eating his own stock as no native would touch it.
Exchange of Compliments From a Pennsylvania Sexton
A village sexton who was also a stonecutter and carpenter assisted a doctor moving his household goods. They settled accounts but the doctor disputed the sexton’s furniture removal charge. The sexton quipped that steady work would pay better, and the sexton replied gravedigging is slack since you left the county.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Ledger
Best of the three alibi trial remark
Lord Brampton praised Sir Frank Lockwood for an acquittal and the strong alibi in a criminal case. Lockwood quipped that it was the best of the three he had offered, reflecting on the defense's success.
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Frank Lockwood
Lord Brampton
Henry Hawkins
Wretched Mr New Pop Describes Endless Crying Baby
A fragment shows a man lamenting the strain of a baby that cries all night, with another speaker noting twins as part of the hardship. The excerpt appears from a Chicago Record-Herald context.
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Mr. Newpop
Chicago
Opposition Drives Growth Says John Neal
A quotation notes that opposition and hardship nourish manhood and self reliance as essential soil for character and achievement derived from John Neal.
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John Neal
Duty and Power Guiding Our Purpose
The quote stresses shaping actions by ability rather than want, urging practical ethics. It reflects a viewpoint of aligning effort with capacity to serve larger aims.
Keeping His Place Warm
A London Tit-Bits joke recounts a successful general who was once no scholar. He visits his old school and asks which pupil kept his place warm. The teacher presents a shy boy, who answers that he is the eras. The general replies with a crown for him for keeping his place warm.
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London
Curious Tombstone Clown Illustration Linked to Tragedy
A gravestone in Yarmouth parish church shows a clown on a tub drawn by two swans. The stone marks a victim drowned when an iron suspension bridge collapsed as crowds crowded to watch the clown pass beneath. The stunt was used as a circus advertisement and drew a deadly rush of spectators.
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Yarmouth
England
Judge Confusion Recounts in Odd Court Tale
A humorous account recalls a county court judge who misinterprets questions as a vocalist would. The exchange highlights perceived judicial ignorance and parallels a joke about stock market terms asked by a judge.
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Judges County Court
Fish
Counse
T'E
Cer Court
Exchange
Wedding of beauty and plains teased in Philadelphia Press
Reporters quote guests at a ceremony noting the bride's beauty and plainness in a comic pairing. The exchange highlights surprise at the unusual combination of traits in the bride.
An Exchange of Compliments
Mrs Dinsmore remarks that man is fearfully and wonderfully made while Mr Dinsmore counters that woman is fearfully and wonderfully made up. Detroit Free Press snippet reflects playful gender quip in domestic exchange.
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Mrs. Dinsmore
Mr. Dinsmore
Detroit Free Press
Big words are the tombs in which we vary our ideas.
A terse aphorism attributes caution to the use of grand diction. The phrase warns that ornate language can mask shifting or superficial ideas.
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Fowler
One of Our Boys Says General Lee Helped A Confederate Soldier
General Robert E. Lee received a dusty visitor at his Lexington veranda and gave him money. Friends wondered which regiment he served with but Lee replied the man had fought on the other side, calling him “one of our boys in trouble.”
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Robert E. Lee
Lexington
Lee
General Lee
Stair Climbing Guidelines for Women’s Daily Exercise
Guidance on safe stair ascent for women emphasizes correct posture and breathing. Keep spine straight, move from the knees, lift the knees, and breathe deeply. Proper form turns stair climbing into beneficial exercise rather than a drudge for busy homemakers.
The Ante and the Elephant Army
Eyewitnesses describe ant marches that traverse obstacles by going through or over them. The ants move straight as a Roman road and consume any creature in their path, leaving only bones after their passage. An army once stalled beside an elephant, taking eight hours to pass and leaving nothing but the elephant’s picked bones.
Beaconsfield Shows Witticisms Over Converting Lords
In Magnell's Beaconsfield biography a scene unfolds with Lord Beauchamp? and Lord Bury converting to Catholicism. Disraeli receives news of the conversion with dry humor noting a relative making the same step and pondering proper congratulation wording.
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Disraeli
Lord Beery
Lord Bury
Earl of
Magnell
Beaconsfield
Cakes as Love Letters Among Hungarian Gypsies and Desert Arabs
The piece describes Hungarian gypsies baking cakes with coins to test a woman's consent and warnings of fatal outcomes if rejected. It contrasts with Arabian desert custom where a suitor pressures a girl, she resists with sticks and stones, and her eventual fate affects her father’s honor.
Curb the Temper in Ethical Thought
The essay examines ill temper as a vice that can afflict even highly virtuous people. It notes that many individuals are nearly flawless except for a quick temper or touchiness, calling this clash between moral character and temper a striking and sorrowful ethical paradox.
A Guess at It Teacher and Tommy Quip About Speech
A Chicago Tribune item presents a classroom exchange where a teacher asks about parts of speech and a student answers in a humorous mispronunciation. The brief captures a light moment in a grammar lesson.
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Tommy
Chicago Tribune
Why Indeed Why Do Women Take a Husband’s Name
A humorous question column examines traditions around women adopting a husband’s surname and what it implies about ownership and social norms during marriage. It notes evolving views and invites reader reflection on identity and lineage.
Sulpher Spring Visit Sparks Odd Exchange
A visitor remarks the water tastes like pad eggs, while a servitor replies he is not an actor and does not know the taste.
Man Who Pauses in His Honemy Wants Little of Villainy
An old literary line by Martyn notes that hesitation or restraint in wrongdoing reveals minimal villainy and implies moral ambiguity in character. The remark frames virtue as rare in candid misdeeds and questions the value of deliberate restraint.
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Martyn
Gumming the Stamps and the Precision of Gum Use
The New York Tribune details the gumming process for postage stamps. Workers start each day with 1000 sheets and 26 pounds of gum and must apply it uniformly. The operation uses exact measurements, continuous inspection, and gauges to maintain precise gum temperature at 80 degrees and gravity at 29.
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New York Tribune
Going East and North Train Schedules
A fragmented timetable lists trains with routes east and north from Ames and Chicago. It notes which numbered trains do not run on Sundays, with arrivals and stops like Ames, Portland, and Chicago, plus times and service types such as Mail Only and Express.
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Ames
Overland Limited
Portland
Northern
Iowa
Gods South
Mail Senet
Bsip& City
Dakow & Dee M
Bajini Pe
Dakota Express
Paol
Bam
Chicago & Carroll Pas
Chicago Express
How Work Kills Music Telegrapher’s Piano Skills
Telegrapher workers lose finger flexibility after years at the key. They miss music, struggle to play beyond simple pieces, and default to the sending finger when attempting piano play. The piece notes few in their line can use a piano well. Chicago Tribune reports.
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Chicago Tribune
Etiquette by Precedent from London Lord Chamberlain Office
Officials in the lord chamberlain's office study state etiquette and court dress from heavy volumes. They prepare detailed drawings of costumes and keep faithful records of past royal events to guide present ceremonies even for unexpected questions.
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Lord Chamberlain
London
Persia
Siam
Curious Ball Clock At Gurid Watch House
A London Globe report describes a remarkable clock in a Gurid shop. The timepiece is ball shaped and travels down an inclined sixteen inch path in twenty four hours without rolling. It requires no winding as no spring powers it and the ball is lifted back to the top to restart.
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Gurid
London Globe
Before Marriage Proverb on Courtship Disposition
A Boston Transcript quip notes that fewer unhappy marriages would result if couples learned each other’s dispositions during courtship instead of deceiving one another. The exchange highlights mutual honesty as the path to fewer marriages overall.
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Daddy
Boston Transcript
Dark Corner Meeting Sparks Astonishment in Piazza
In a Chicago Post snippet a conversation reveals a kiss in a dark piazza corner. The exchange shows both parties surprised by the encounter and its secrecy.
Do Right Now Precept Echoes in Early Morning
Fragmentary note quotes a call to immediate action and self discipline. The text references a maxim Do right now and mentions awake behavior from morning to bedtime with a reference to Warner and Charles Dudley.
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Bippy
Warner
King
Charles Dudley
Poetry as a Gift and Its Disposal
A reflective piece on poetry being a born gift rather than something that can be acquired. The author suggests poetry originates within a person and that possessing it is natural, while its handling or disposal remains to be explored.
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