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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1895
Page
3
A city worker longs for wildflowers against the urban grime. The speaker recalls spring’s beauty and compares humble blooms to costly hothouse arrangements, imagining emerald meadows where bees hum and he can escape the street noise.
Jim Bourn recalls a tale shared with Howson about Ella York, his marriage, and a hidden truth. A convict's dying plea reveals Ella may be the daughter he never knew, forcing a quiet reckoning over secrets between husband and wife and their faith.
A medical man reports a thirty day trial with only sweet milk as nourishment. He lost five and a half pounds but kept full strength, attribiting weight loss to heat and heavy exercise. He drank four pints daily in the final week and recommends five pints for similar periods.
The article describes historic watches owned or presented to Mary Queen of Scots and her circle, noting skull and coffin shapes, crystal cases, and quirky mechanisms. It mentions a skull watch once owned by Mary and later by Mary Setoun, a ring-set watch gifted to George III, and a ruby cylinder ring watch, with the czar’s bid for a similar piece.
A Philadelphia Tigres note recalls Alfred Russell Wallace's 19th century prediction that brightly colored caterpillars are less favored by birds. Observations and experiments show vivid caterpillars are often avoided, while dull ones are eaten, suggesting natural selection favors conspicuous warning coloration. The study includes a captive jackdaw that preferred dull caterpillars and showed aversion to a bright figure-of-eight moth caterpillar.
The Ladies' Physiological Institute of Boston and Vicinity traces its roots to 1848 with Prof C B Bronson lectures. Mary V and Lydia E Randall have held membership for 47 years, and Dr Salome Merritt serves as current president guiding a program on physiology hygiene and moral education.
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