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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1907
Page
7
This feature surveys eye structure from the tough tunica sclera to the blind spot and eyelash renewal, explains pupil function, and notes eye fatigue measured by blinks. It compares ears to animal hearing, discusses nose shape linked to character, and cites symmetry in faces with photographer tips.
In Wanganui, lawbreakers troubled neighbors with drunken behavior and were fined. They were forced to perform labor such as sawing wood to build a prison, and the punishment aimed to deter repetition by making them vanish from the area.
The article explains shoe lace makers' secrecy around braiding methods and machine parts. No automatic lace machines are sold. components are cast or wrought at distant points and shipped to headquarters. Workers are kept under strict confidentiality to prevent spying.
Behind the scenes a couple in antique attire discuss marriage as the male narrator stumbles over his words. The prompter calls Marie’s name, but she isolates him by urging him to continue with the performance and dismissing the cue.
The Japanese spider crab is described as the largest known crab with flexible pinchers and many armed limbs. It tears off sponge and seaweed fragments, coats its mouth and limbs with sticky material, and uses this to camouflage itself blending with the sea floor.
The article traces boat origins from the log to the raft, noting lashing logs to bear greater loads and the shift from paddling to rowing with oars. It surveys ancient use of rafts by many nations and cites Herodotus, describing raft evolution in early maritime history.
A deed in a North Carolina county records a startling land plot description. It details a forty feet square parcel cut from the back end of Pemima Jones, beginning at Beck's south corner and following a simple rectangle: north fifty feet, west fifty feet, south fifty feet, east fifty feet.
In the Field recounts a brief encounter at a drugstore where a drug clerk helps a young woman with a stamp and weighing her letter before affixing the stamp. The woman asks for the stamp upside down, hinting at a coded message linked to Charlie, before the clerk loses interest.
In the New York Weekly’s vignette a wife asks her husband to mail a letter and notes she has sent a telegram to Sister Lucy this morning and now writes to the local telegraph operator to speed delivery.
A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent details the old Maori tohunga Tohoto last of the tohungas, his claimed powers seen as hypnotic and telepathic, and his dramatic death after the 1886 Pink and White Terraces eruption. The piece notes the bishop's failed conversion attempts and the brutal desecration of the tohunga's sacred head, ending with his death in Rotorua hospital.
Colonel Alexander Gardner recalls a stay in Asia where he was suspected of being a Russian spy. Three scholars questioned him while he was feverish. They judged him American after he admitted he could not travel by land from America to England.
In a tale from Illustrated Bits two elderly sisters live together. One falls ill and the other, eager for money, hides to hear doctors discuss the patient. Drs Harris and Brown exchange harsh words about the sisters, criticizing Providence and the sister downstairs as they depart.
A hapless author tries to read his new tale to editors. Casper kneels before a girl with alabaster brow and offers a marble heart but is told to take the story to the stoneyard. The Chicago News quotes the joking episode about editors.
A reflective aphorism argues that failure can be more romantic than success and that comfort in success can dull a person’s edge and interest.
A brief motto asserts men are defined by actions over words, emphasizing virtue as practical principle. The line highlights how deeds reveal character and guide leadership standards.
A Cham bers' Journal note reproduces a historical Yorkshire pies recipe. It details making a thick standing crust and layering turkey goose fowl partridge pigeon and hare with woodcock and game on one side, plus four pounds of butter, baked in a very hot oven for at least four hours.
An interview with Mr. M. T. Swelhead notes his careful study of curricula at home and abroad and his reluctance to endorse a radical change without more time. The piece, cited by the London Telegraph, mocks the reporter for mimicking his phrasing.
Mrs Gad dis coming across the street prompts Mrs Housekeep to send Bridget to flip the Welcome mat outside their door. The odd domestic moment is recounted in a Philadelphia Ledger phrasing.
A humorous exchange shows Tommy asking if giving all medicine at once changes anything and a mother replying in horror that it does. Tommy insists no difference, highlighting a comic miscommunication.
About one acre of land four blocks from the interurban station and five blocks from the post office. Includes fruit, rhubarb and asparagus for one family. Sold as whole or in lots at a low price. She Campbell Graves or call.
The notice lists contact details for Dr G J Snyder with an office above Gamble's Drug Store and telephone lines Mutual Phone and Iona Phone, plus a residence at 68.
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