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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1911
Page
10
The Washington Post notes that China has no typewriter for its own language due to the vast number of Chinese characters. Yet foreigners and institutions such as legations, consulates, banks, shipping offices, colleges, merchants, and missionaries increasingly use typewriters.
An historic note contrasts legends of Adam creating objects from wine remnants and exotic fruits with missteps by Victorian writers. It cites Effendi and Besant, noting errors about steamboats, telegraphs, and railways in fictional and travel writings.
A fragmented column recalls Wall Street talk on seat prices and a mid 19th century joke about buying stock seats, with stray notes about Jenny Lind on a river voyage and a bankruptcy court wit. The piece includes a venturing friend and a pun on gross income, plus a quip about a tailor gifting clothes to a pig and a child's reaction.
An excerpt recounts Captain Morgan and his crew surviving extreme hunger by eating leather. They sliced dried hides, beat them between stones, soaked them in river water, scraped off the hair, roasted or broiled, then cut into morsels and swallowed with water.
The elder Coquelin delays the audience as Binet the architect praises him in the dressing room. He re performs the "Cadets of Gascony" passage to honor his friend, showing the value of approbation over applause as the curtain rises for the next act.
A walking contest of about six miles near Boston attracted notable figures including Thomas Bailes Aldrich James T Fields and Charles Dickens. Afterward a dinner at Parker House Boston featured speakers such as Longfellow Lowell Holmes and O W Holmes among others.
A classroom moment recalls a teacher testing a student on a history anecdote about Queen Mary and Calais. The pupil answers with a misheard line, revealing a humorous mishearing of notable phrase in a short dialogue.
In a playful yet urgent exchange a family debates economizing decisions. The speaker worries about funds for a car and a dancer’s class while planning spendings and possible alternatives to stretch a budget.
A narrative of courtship and secret vows between a youthful suitor and the girl he loves. The suitor seeks secrecy through a confidant, arranging a meeting, presenting a flower, and obtaining a mutual oath to keep the matter secret. If accepted, the couple soon wed.
At 8 20 with the theater full a prospective buyer offered two dollars for two remaining seats. The treasurer, taking him at his word, sold the two tickets for a dollar and directed him to the first door on the right. The scene ends with the bargain sealed and the man entering.
A historical account notes sardines in Nantes tied to the Societe Academique. Early catches came by small boats and 1738 police rules aided Breton livelihoods. Joseph Cillin popularized oil preparation, sparking imitators. A 1855 factory nuisance case moved offshore, and 1885 Paris exhibition crowned sardines.
Mr Sillicus confronts his wife after paying in advance for ten dollars worth of groceries from a stranger at prices below wholesale. His wife claims she has the receipt, suggesting a swindle. The exchange ends with the husband noting their loss while she says she has proof.
In a Washington Herald item, the town’s oldest resident Jed Wotbat is humorously described as refusing to trim his whiskers. He supposedly argues each winter with the barber but they never reach an agreement.
A humorous Chicago Record Herald quip shows a man claiming self cure by chewing his food and humor about leaving the office for lunch. The exchange notes fear that ten minutes away would ruin everything.
A fragment from the Houston Post mentions a woman fainting and a man not kissing her before he hurried for help. The lines pose questions about whether he truly loves her and reference a supposed first aid incident.
A garbled excerpt describes a tense exchange involving a mother and a person named Filgende Blatter and a statement about desecration. The rough text hints at a personal confrontation captured in a fragment from a damaged source.
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