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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1900
Page
5
A Kingston visit turns comic as a Jamaican woman discovers her dress and a boy’s mishap with ice. The boy explains he hid the frock under his seat to protect it, but the plan failed and the dress arrives soaked. The tale reflects local humor from Harper's Magazine.
A young speaker recalls old country practice where a country doctor served as surgeon and general healer. He mentions Dr Hill who traveled seven miles and extracted a tooth with a hammer and nail, using improvised tools and remedies.
A dramatic exchange unfolds as a beautiful actress refuses Mr. Frost's marriage proposal citing public scrutiny. He argues his name should not hinder love, invoking Shakespeare while she frets over inevitable headlines in every newspaper.
A large dark vessel fires on the Bosporus as gunfire echoes the shores. The sultan and grand vizier exchange quips as the crowd reacts to the dramatic display of naval power.
A brief exchange where Hoskins explains that shutting one eye aids aiming while a novice asks why people shut an eye when sighting. The punchline notes that shutting both eyes would prevent sight.
The text notes that in Tartary onions leeks and garlic are seen as perfumes. A Tartarian woman softens social interactions by rubbing fresh onion on her hands and face to seem agreeable.
More than 1000 kinds of rubber shoes are manufactured in the United States demonstrating broad product diversity and industrial capability in the footwear sector.
Samuel M. Crothers notes The Gentle Reader's decline as modern authors drop direct addresses and the chatty spirit fades. The piece humorously contrasts older narrative custom with current prose, citing examples from late 19th century to early 20th century writing.
Chambers' Journal recounts Miss Mary Kingsley and two guides trekking the Gabon river. They surprise a family of five gorillas and a solitary male on different days. The gun misfired once. the second encounter ends with the male gorilla killed after advancing.
A humorous Exchange dialogue jokes about card etiquette. An old gentleman guides a Mrs Newrich on how many cards to leave for servants and family, noting the rules are simple and even adding two of the husband’s cards. The man reveals he is not a etiquette professor but Mr Bristol, a card manufacturer.
A bald man buys a hair renewer bragged as a store’s own preparation. The bald clerk jokes that he cannot use it since he is before using while the after using clerk is away at lunch, prompting a chuckling exchange in Philadelphia.
In 1861 as he traveled to his inauguration Mr. Lincoln stopped at Rochester Pennsylvania on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago line. He chatted with locals and quipped no one has been hurt yet while a tall townsman challenged height with a back to back hat check.
A New York assembly tale recounts a bill titled An act for the preservation of the heathen and other game. The speaker misreads it as An act for other game until a northern member proposes an amendment adding except Indians.
A reporter asks if the businessman wants to add to an account of his wife’s reception and lists helpers. He answers there is only one account he will be interested in and there will be no one to assist him with it.
A quip about a physician bill and a patient, noting that Dr Bloss provided a remedy that improved appetite at high cost. The speaker muses who should pay whom for the treatment, a humorous exchange in the Boston Transcript style.
A dramatic Cleveland Plain Dealer caption describes a rubber plant tub pinning a husband, with rescuers lifting gently to avoid harming a new leaf. The devoted wife guides the effort urging caution and care.
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