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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
4
The Ames Times notes a delayed cyclone season arriving in northern Iowa and describes its arrival as arriving in decent shape for the period. The report reflects local weather observations and timing without detailed forecasts.
The text notes John D. Rockefeller claims abuse while a twenty nine million dollar fine looms as a possible provocation. It mentions railroads easing to a two cent fare law and the public barely noticing the shift as travel costs contract.
The New York courts have ruled Mr. Chanler insane while Virginia courts found him sane. He travels between states for different mental statuses, illustrating legal contrasts. The August Review of Reviews features Frank W. Bicknell's piece on The Farm's Debt to Science and Iowa State College short courses.
The Register and Leader praised Governor Hughes of New York for president while Webster City Freeman Tribune and F T belittled or doubted his electability in Iowa. Pede Swick roars for cleanup of Butler hotel fire debris and street lights, predicting paving cleanup by 1910 and a rough week for Fourth ward utilities.
Judge Landis in Chicago imposed a record 20 000 dollar fine on each of 1 462 counts against Standard Oil, described by The New York World as the maximum under law. The total dwarfs Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase plus Alaska and surpasses costs of the Philippine Archipelago and earnings of several monarchies, with the penalty amounting to half the trust’s annual income. The World likens the sum to histories of great wars and ancient conflicts.
The article claims life expectancy can be extended beyond current limits with advanced knowledge and designates the decade between 50 and 60 as critical. It advertises Electric Bitters as nature's best helper after 50, a tonic that revitalizes every organ, guaranteed by druggists for 50 cents.
A Queen Anne era commander ignored limits to pursue a Spanish fleet at Vigo. He defeated the enemy with gallantry, then faced arrest for disobedience and declared that a commander must risk life for the country's good.
A peculiar habit among Cromwell era preachers was coughing or hemming mid sentence to seize audience focus. The text notes this singular practice as a distinctive rhetorical device of the period.
The article discusses how listeners' attention was essential and cites authorities who claim preachers coughed as a speech ornament. It notes that sermons printed with margins marked coughs and hems to reflect performance. From the St. Louis Republic.
Professor McGoozle apologizes for lengthy discourse on his hobby to Miss Genevieve de Muir. She replies that she could listen for hours, showing mutual interest in antiques during a Chicago Tribune exchange.
A quoted exchange from Fliegende Blatter sketches a promise to lend money with a pledge to spend every penny by tomorrow morning. The dialogue contrasts a reluctant lender with an eager spender in a brief sensationalism style.
A survey of famed archery stories from Vergil to William Tell and Robin Hood, noting feats of precision and mythic force. Stories include an archer firing through a cannonball, a Danish tale of a son’s apple, and Florida Indians shooting grain from ears of corn in midair.
A collection of maxims emphasizing inner peace honesty and restraint. Words advise happiness from absence of anxiety patience mercy and integrity while warning against uniting with foes and harming others. Enduring truths compare personal character in war debt poverty fidelity and friendship.
A New Orleans Times Democrat report notes Korean tailors rely on a fish glue called glue a peculiarly fine glue to bond fabric edges. The method involves overlapping edges brushing on glue pressing seams and drying the garment rather than sewing.
An excerpt from Reader Magazine extols reading aloud at home as a simple affordable pleasure. It argues shared reading strengthens family bonds, creates common topics, and surpasses mindless evening games in bringing joy.
The article traces book plates from mid fifteenth century Germany as marks of ownership to early American examples. It notes the St Christopher woodcut of 1423, early French 1574, Swedish 1575, Swiss 1607, Italian 1623, and England’s first in Wolsey property, with Pepys first English reference in 1688 and Paul Revere among early American engravers.
Wm Dietz editor of the Otsego Journal Gilbertsville N Y praises Dr King’s New Discovery as the best remedy for coughs colds and lung and throat diseases. He claims it is infallible and always kept in his home with trial bottles offered free by druggists pricing at 50 cents and 1.00.
The article explains cameo artistry as low relief sculpture rather than the stone itself. It notes emerald and shell cameos among common materials with emeralds and banded onyx popular for carving, mentions Queen Elizabeth portraits and shell cameos dating to the fifteenth century, and clarifies the term’s misapprehension.
Charleston historian recounts Revolutionary days when young men returned from battles to dance and sup, often disturbed by enemies. A clever youth hid at Mrs Motte’s but cried out for the giblets, betraying himself and being captured for later punishment.
A Mississippian mother praises Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after three doctors failed to help her child. She reports rapid improvement and full recovery. Sold by Judisch Bros.
A young applicant for a silk department clerk is asked to identify many shade samples. The superintendent notes stores reject color blind workers, as color vision is essential in selecting fabrics. The New York Post cites color blindness as a career barrier in dry goods stores.
A lawyer, a doctor, and a newspaper man sit in a dim room with empty bottles and cards. A rat scurries by as they glare at each other. the lawyer insists he did not think he saw a rat, reflecting on their shared tired mood.
The piece argues women understand dress by instinct and can quickly distinguish between natural flair and deliberate effort. It suggests women notice style differences and can assess a girl's appearance at a glance, reflecting early 20th century views on fashion perception.
The Washington Post notes that the best microscopes are warranted to magnify about 16 000 times. It implies people use such tools to inspect neighbors faults.
In Kansas City the Independ ent notes a philosopher label for Smiley praising his talent to bear others troubles with fortitude. The remark frames him as a calm moral observer.
A Concord Georgia man credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with saving his life after a severe measles attack followed by a bad rain exposure. He praises its efficacy and notes Judisch Bros. sell the product.
The article notes Dougherty Island as the loneliest unknown land, with no recorded landing. It cites its two sightings per century and official Admiralty directions calling it the most remote place on earth, contrasting Bouvet and Pos ssion islands and other孤 habitats. It also references vast card variation counts in whist, estimating immense possible hands and deals across a hypothetical million players over immense spans of time.
An advertising warning asserts Foley's Kidney Cure cures all kidney and bladder diseases and warns buyers they are to blame for any failures if they do not use the product.
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