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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
8
A mining engineer warns travelers in Death Valley about hidden water pools. Clear looking water can be arsenic laced and deadly, while the only safe desert water often appears foul and insect ridden.
Riverview Chicago is described as a vast festival city with 256000 daily visitors featuring circuses theaters water chutes cascades and open air concerts. The article touts its many attractions including Wild West shows aerial coasters miniature railways and elaborate stage productions amid fountains lights and music in a romantic park setting.
A Baltimore American passage describes a pool surface where insects disport themselves and a drinkable liquid despite its unsettling appearance. The vivid scene contrasts repulsion with thirst driven by burning sands and relentless sun.
A reflective piece praises the Palisades cliffs near New York as a vast hidden spectacle almost unknown to the world. It contrasts their grandeur with the public’s limited view from the Hudson and notes a tradition of superstition among actors about stagecraft and theater superstition.
A Chicago editor recounts George Bernard Shaw’s critique of English public schools. He recalls Shaw’s jab about schooling’s value and a tale at Eton showing social contrast, highlighting the famed playwright’s skeptical view of elite education.
A customer confronts a bookseller over a weight discrepancy in Shakespeare volumes. He cites a fourteen pound set bought last year and a thirteen pound nine ounce duplicate ordered yesterday, claiming a city ordinance against short weights. The bookseller apologizes and makes up the shortage with seven ounces of miscellany.
An expert golfer struck a trespasser with a vigorous stroke on the edge of a course. The man was rendered insensible but recovered, receiving a five dollar bill from the grateful golfer. The injured man asked when the golfer would play again.
John Corkle of Philippi West Virginia reports his father suffered chronic diarrhoea for years until taking Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. One bottle cured him and he has not suffered in eighteen months. The patient, sixty, is now sound and able to work. Sold by J E Cagwin.
Farmers across the west increasingly rely on autos for quick trips and field work, reserving horses for tasks unsuited to electricity or gasoline. At the National Corn Exposition in Omaha December 4 to 19 a Michigan farmer will award a gasoline engine dynamo and switchboard for the best half bushel of wheat in the milling test, with open world entries. The Brush Automobile Co of Detroit offers a $600 auto for the best bushel of corn, also open to worldwide entrants.
A jailhouse joke recounts a shooting aftermath where Wild Bill allegedly escaped a bite, but Tough Tompkins was bitten and drank a remedy before fatally wounding Bill. The quip appears in the Judge's Library with terse frontier humor.
Two species of the solenodon exist, one in Haiti and one in Cuba. They differ mainly in fur color and texture. These quaint animals are larger than rats with long flexible snouts and bare tails. They are nocturnal insect eaters that dig for food and have small brains. When hunted by dogs they tend to hide their heads in holes while exposing their bodies.
A humorous exchange from the Liverpool Mercury recalls a man mistaking an alarm clock. He tells how the clock woke his wife Maria and prompted his exclamation. The anecdote captures early alarm clock confusion and domestic reactions.
H B Nichols of Oakland Indiana praises Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a faithful companion for travel. He claims it cures swiftly and has used it for thirty five years. Sold by J E Cagwin.
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