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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1911
Page
2
A garbled Ames Times item recalls a race meet at Vicia and mentions political chatter about Bryan and national events. The readable text also references Mercy or Carrolls and Oklahoma Purcell with unclear details about individuals and prices.
A garbled excerpt shows a Louisville Statesman discussant denying purities invasion and pondering how a yellow front could be facts. The text references a title, threats of relegation to the ash heap, and mentions Sariigs ban and a Saturday night event in a nearby locale. The passage is incomplete and unclear.
Fragmentary text shows an applicant comparing expenses to income and noting efforts to keep costs down to the lowest viable level. Mentions a date and a daily amount of seven dollars, with references to costs exceeding income and white color wording remaining unclear.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Nevada and years, with unclear names and events. The readable bits reference a test, bets, and payments, but details are inconsistent. The item appears as a damaged newspaper snippet without a clear single action or outcome.
Fragmentary notes mention a long journey from St Louis to New York about 2295 miles over twenty eight years, plus a vague tale of a grave, envy, and a teacher confiding to a man about her child. A grave concern for a dead few appears in a scattered, murky fragment.
The Jefferson Free Lance notes Jef feson as the sole western city to achieve financial success from its Chautauqua event while Ames remains central towa location disputed in a terse local exchange.
A garbled report suggests Senator Cummins backs La Follette for president. The piece hints at internal Republican party divisions and references political maneuvering and influence within the party.
Fragments from a Pasadena Daily News column discuss ice shortages and public anxiety in eastern cities. A Hammond gym director jokes about men’s trousers and labeling garments to avoid mixups. A reckless melon theft scene at Slater leads to a man struck by a flying fruit on a farm patch.
A reader notes a bachelor wears eleven clothing items when fully dressed, including necktie and pipe. A woman reportedly uses nineteen items in her hair and seven other clothing varieties held by pins. A leap spends ten minutes daily in dressing.
A fragmentary reminiscence recounts Bill Nye the brother Say Nye promising career in Washington and a missing sibling later found offered a world tour by a daily paper. The text recalls years of pursuit in mountains and a midnight moment amid uncertain danger.
A fragment from Everybody's Magazine recounts a tale of two young women, married to members of a village troop, and the eerie meeting at a station where the twin children echo superstition. A mother recalls a past “Two Little Girls in Bing” and questions if fate or memory shapes the fears around the twins.
A British sailor and an Irish sailor land on Juvena with a Spanish ship in conflict. They are punished by two years in prison while the American consul protests. The Englishman serves years in Ceuta and Cuba, survives yellow fever, escapes, and is eventually released after a long sentence. He later marries a Spanish woman.
The article recalls George Downing of Massachusetts who became a British diplomat, chaplain in Cromwell's army, and ambassador at The Hague. It notes his fortune in receiving land in Westminster and the lasting fame of Downing Street in London, despite his later forgetfulness.
The piece asserts self control and poise enable clear extemporaneous speaking before any audience. It champions oratory as a supreme achievement and urges all youths to study speaking, as the act reveals a person’s best abilities and tests the whole character.
A dialogue in a Baltimore American excerpt features an Englishman living in the orient who reveals he owns the shirt that caused laughter and prompts a reflective moment among the group. The scene blends satire and a shared melancholy as the narrator contemplates identity and responsibility.
The Crow and many tribes observe a mother-in-law ban where a man may not speak to his wife's mother. Practical jokes are limited to within a clan lineage. within that group members may mock others publicly without provoking anger, awaiting a chance to respond later.
In high Rocky Mountain mesas there are crevices four feet wide and up to eighty feet deep. Winter buzzards drive cattle and horses into these sun warmed chasms where they sink and die, leaving once living animals as mummies in the earth.
The late Goldwin Lupith recalls Robert Lowe later Lord Sherbrooke. The essay notes Lowe’s near sightedness while reading and his habit of erasing with his nose. It jokes that he would have earned higher marks at Oxford if he had not rubbed out with his nose what he had written with his pen.
Dialogue from Chicago News recounts Cholly visiting Mr. Butts and encountering a growling sour dog. Old Butts considers removing the animal rather than risk a bite. The exchange reflects social tensions and provincial humor of the era.
A Toledo Blade column mentions a playful phrase social lemonade as a gag about saying sour things in a sweet way. It notes a figure described as known for this social lemonade persona.
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