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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1894
Page
7
The article catalogs thieves nicknamed by detectives such as moll-buzzer gopher-blower damper-worker roof-walker supper-sneak and strong-arm. It explains how pickpockets safe-blowers break-ins and streetcar thieves use specific tag terms to describe their methods and targets.
A short, readable note describes an insect eye’s single kind of vision, noting its adaptation to resolving fine microscopic detail and the implications for perception.
Visual science discusses two insect eye theories and a dragonfly eye model. Gaelic language notes explain mac nichvich variants, clan meaning, and kin relations in Highland culture with reference to Sir Walter Scott. Oblique cultural remarks and a brief humorous exchange conclude.
In a holiday pitch readers are urged to mail eighteen Lion coffee wrappers to Woolson Spice Co in Toledo Ohio for a range of gifts including pictures books and a knife. The notice promotes premium lists and urges sending address on a postcard to receive the illustrated offer.
A 19th century advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure sold by F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio and claims the medicine acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills at 25 cents and lists wholesale endorsers.
A note on early inventors of gunpowder highlighting their frequent mishaps and careful trial and error. The text discusses risks and the evolving understanding of safe handling practices among the pioneers.
Advertisements tout the Wabash and Chicago Great Western lines offering round trip excursion tickets to Texas New Mexico Indian Territory and Oklahoma with departures November 6 20 and December 4 18 and return validity twenty days. Horace Seely commercial agent and city offices 220 Fourth Street Des Moines Ia.
A collection of brief anecdotes describes a Clearfield Pa town door keyhole ploy thwarted by a resisting prisoner, a New York landlady who used sulphur to evict tenants, James Anthony Froude donating lecture proceeds to fire victims, and an octogenarian recalling 19th century travel hardship from Maryland to Ohio via Cumberland and Wheeling.
The record lists wonders and figures from the past including a Siberian mammoth tusk of 869 pounds a California giant tree possibly 4000 years old a 25 pound Adirondack salmon trout and a 70 beat heart pumping two ounces of blood per contraction It also notes the Zuyder Zee drainage cost 106 million dollars reclaiming 72782 acres valued at about 130 million and US per capita liquor expenditure over 16 dollars.
In Le Fanu’s reminiscences a peasant girl visits the rectory with hare and game for sale. When asked about the origin she declares, Sure, your reverence, my father is poacher to Lord Clare.
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