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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1900
Page
1
In a New York Mail and Express vignette a tall handsome man in an L train studies a pamphlet titled Correct Dress. He inspects his top shoes, waistcoat, collar and neckwear, drawing a line of spectators’ amusement before blushing and leaving at the next station.
A Victorian anecdote recounts Herr von Radowitz elevating a barn blaze at a Frankfort party to an aurora display. He boasted of witnessing the aurora borealis while a real fire burned, then vanished after a belated admission and a quiet exit. Knowledge.
A man copies and mails an old sentimental letter to his partner provoking a quarrel. She condemns the gesture as trash calling his effort foolish and asks what he meant by sending it. The exchange ends with her anger lingering and a remark on how hard it is to please a woman.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt recounts a European tipping fraud where a man with a red yellow pink suitcase pays a nickel for six blocks then tips the conductor. It notes New York and European fare habits and a Cape Colony court challenge to a juror. A jockey describes racing physiology and the speed of a 4 mile race in about 1 minute 40 seconds.
The Farmers' Cooperative Association operates a farmer's exchange and general real estate business, negotiates farm loans, writes insurance, handles grain and farm produce, coal and supplies, Chautauquan literature, chemical fire extinguishers, and installs electrical conductors. Also notes deliveries and 24 hour calls. Includes a light quote about age and a potato anecdote from Germany.
About 88 percent of West Indian cyclones occur in August September and October per meteorological summaries. The data highlights the late summer to early fall period as the most active for cyclones in the region.
A countryman touring Glasgow comments on shop signs along Argyle street noting claims of best and cheapest. He pauses before a plumber’s window advertising cast iron sinks and quips that “cast iron wad sink” is truthful.
A Chicago Tribune feature notes Miss De Muir arguing that the phrase It made the very air sick is faulty while the teacher questions the air becoming sick. Miss De Muir counters that she has read of an ill wind.
The article notes two millennia of steel and iron craft in India with a 10 ton wrought iron pillar near Delhi by the Kutub complex, believed to be about 1800 years old. It highlights long regional metallurgical history and enduring artifacts.
You can save one half to two thirds of your money by insuring in the Iowa Town Mutual which insures only town and city residence and household goods. Only two assessments in eight years. Our State Tornado and Windstorm Association is the cheapest and best on earth. For particulars inquire of A. J. Graves, Ag't. 278 For good bread buy Golden Eagle flour of C. F. Letts.
Tilden and Loughran introduce a new line of standard books praised for clarity and reliability. Publishers present the collection amid local interest and reader anticipation for durable reference volumes.
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