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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1910
Page
4
The passage recalls Mark Twain taking the Buffalo Express editor chair in 1869. He pledges to avoid deliberate harm, refrain from sensational reform, and pursue truthful writing while bound by practical limits. He jokes on crime, politics, poetry, and propriety, and compares future work to Handel rise in Germany.
The Literary Digest explains the difference between sanatorium and sanitarium. Sanator ium derives from sanatorius meaning health giving and denotes treatment or care of invalids with locality based therapies. Sanitarium comes from sanitas meaning health and emphasizes hygienic conditions preserving health rather than active treatment.
Advertisement touts Dr Shoop's Restorative as a quick fix to mood and energy declines in August. It promises noticeable improvement within 48 hours and eventual full health return, noting nerves, stomach, heart, and kidneys are strengthened. Sold by Cagwin's Drug Store.
A satirical list from Puck lampoons domestic life with tips for husbands. It mocks small concessions and compromises at home from recognizing moods to chores, retailers of patience, and social duties, highlighting gendered expectations in marriage.
If your liver is sluggish and out of tone and you feel dull bilious or constipated take a dose tonight before retiring and you will feel all right in the morning Sold by all dealers.
Stow describes Oae Wotton who ran an alehouse near Billingsgate that trained boys in pickpocketing. A school instructed youths to steal, with two hanging devices—a pocket and a purse—containing counters to aid their activity.
The Los Angeles Times describes a Samoan fishing bee where coconut leaves form a miles long prickly chain used as a seine. Villagers in canoes stretch the chain across shallow water, drive fish ashore, and dispatch large catches with spears as the tide recedes. Thousands of fish can be taken in a single effort.
A reader from Reynoldsville Illinois credits Foley's Kidney Remedy with curing months of kidney trouble that baffled other treatments. He reports a complete cure after using a few large bottles and calls it of inestimable value. Sold by all druggists.
A budding barrister interrogates a witness in a courtroom as she flounders over family relations. The exchange reveals comic confusion and the judge or attorney struggles to keep the examination on track.
J R Pitt of Rocky Mount North Carolina recalls a defining moment during a severe cold when he proved to his satisfaction the value of a remarkable cold. He describes enduring intense suffering yet discovering a notable personal insight.
A fragment discusses the origin of Denmarks flag the Dannebrog with a white cross on red and its 13th century adoption. It notes Valdemar the Great seeing a cross in the sky and the order of Dannebrog for courageous soldiers. Also includes a housekeeper tale about hawk bells and a foyster and nipper as thieves with silent theft methods.
A brief note recalls George Frederick Handel as a five year old son of a Saxon barber and valet whose fingers already showed musical promise as he began to woo the keys.
Advertises Warner's White Wine of Tar as a guaranteed cold cure within 24 hours if taken early and promotes it as a remedy for whooping cough in children. Sold by Joel E. Cagwin.
A discussion on whether snobbishness is innate learned or imposed. The piece cites Beatrice, nine, telling a visitor that Sarah is not played with because her father has only a first name job, while their father holds a mister position, illustrating class cues.
A fragmentary London newspaper tease hints at a mysterious exchange as a speaker insists on honesty about a brotherly claim. The terse wording leaves motives and details unclear.
The text describes ancestral moon superstition linking a birth sign to physical and mental traits in people and animals. It claims well formed, intelligent offspring result from favorable signs, while unfavorable signs produce degenerate or troublesome behavior including miscreants, rooting dogs, fence jumping cattle, or kicking horses. It also links certain temperaments to being born under a dark moon with a sign beneath the heart.
A guest muses why the bride cries at the wedding while her brother jokes she loves the groom and feels sorrow for him. The exchange captures the charm and humor of a domestic moment.
The baker jokes about a long line of ancestors in his trade, prompting a pun from a chump who smiles at the bread line remark. The humorous exchange appears in the University of Minnesota Minnehaha.
A promotional claim extols Dr King’s New Discovery as a sure remedy for diseased lungs and lung troubles including hemorrhages and hay fever. The pitch notes cures after one bottle and offers a trial bottle free with guaranteed satisfaction by all druggists.
A quotation from the Atlanta Constitution describes the old man as busy with breakfast delays, scolding workers, raising Cain with hired hands, digging for bait, and fishing in the river when idle. The fragment evokes rural labor and daily tasks through a colorful regional voice.
A quip on wedding life contrasts a flower in hair before marriage with hair covered in flour after marriage, offered by an observer of events and things. The remark highlights social humor around marital status.
A character compliments a book as charming and true to life. The responder agrees noting every man in the story is a villain, highlighting a sharp, cynical tone about the tale's moral balance.
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