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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1909
Page
3
A Washington inventor proposes a device to silence roosters within city limits. The muzzle would kill the crow while saving the rooster, aiming for municipal approval to reduce insomnia and noise.
August Werner, a Berlin merchant, divides Americans into traveled and untraveled. He says many Americans believe the U S is the greatest nation, but facts show this isn t always true. He cites casual remarks overheard during a cross country trip and notes American travel habits shape narrow views.
The piece links success to hard work and persistence from figures like Carlyle Dante Alfred the Great and Darwin. It recounts stories of artists scientists and leaders who toiled year after year, turning drudgery into achievement, and includes anecdotes on stage life and rail travel contrasts by era.
A Harper’s Weekly vignette tells of a ship president asking a veteran pilot if he knows the dangers of a channel. The pilot shrugs and replies he knows where the bad places aren’t, underscoring practical seamanship over boastful certainty.
A Kansas druggist refuses whisky to a stranger arguing sickness changes nothing under the new strict rule. The exchange ends with the pharmacist joking whisky can only be sold for snake bites, noting one town snake is booked for three weeks.
Nearly 6,000 frozen carcasses of pigs imported from Wankow China are undergoing inspection by the London port sanitary authority at Deptford. The consignment also includes beef poultry deer game and eggs awaiting clearance.
A teacher asks students to define wind and young Robert explains it as air when it gets in a hurry. The anecdote from a Delineator September issue highlights a witty classroom moment.
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