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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1901
Page
5
A Dialogue on rain's impact citing an inch of water over New York City. It computes volume weight and energy, noting 308 square miles receive 715,455,600 cubic feet of water weighing 45,079,372,800 pounds and implying immense power from rainfall as energy expended to lift moisture.
An old Scotchman visiting a young couple agrees not to meddle in their household quarrel. After planning a ruse to eject him, he calmly declares he intends to stay only a month or two and will not interfere with their private affairs.
After the Civil War Wendell Phillips the abolitionist stayed in a Charleston hotel where a slave served his breakfast. He spoke of equality but the slave’s concern was only his duties to the silverware. Phillips grew discouraged and asked the servant to leave. The slave replied that he must stay because he was responsible for the silverware.
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt shows a girl asking to give money for dinners. When told she may have the money, she weighs options choosing to do without sugar then suggests soap, turning the act into a frugal test of generosity.
An Oxford undergraduate hunt led by Edward VII rode into a farmer’s yard and were ordered to pay £1 each for passs. The farmer stayed bold and replied Prince or no prince all have my money and collected the fee.
A woman who argued with a Paris Turkish shopkeeper returns the next day ready to buy. She recalls a quoted twenty francs, but the price has risen to ninety. The shopkeeper explains the rise was due to night-time changes.
Mrs Gaddie complains her husband's buttons keep coming off. Mrs Goode suggests they are not sewed on properly. Mrs Gaddie adds that he is very careless about his sewing, as reported by the Philadelphia Press.
A terse dialogue from Brooklyn Life notes a rushing moment before a character’s departure as the train leaves in fifteen minutes. The exchange centers on a plea for one ray of hope and a clock that runs half an hour fast.
A woman visiting the British embassy finds every official away or unavailable. The embassy staff are on leave, at hospital, or otherwise occupied, and only a bear remains at home, deterring a meet with any secretary or attache. The anecdote plays on absurd misplacements and ends with the bear alone present.
Milwaukee Journal urges readers to avoid affectation and fake fronts. It champions honesty as strength, integrity that influences others, and staying true to oneself to maintain self respect and credibility.
A Gentleman's Magazine excerpt traces the rise of monumental brasses in the thirteenth century, noting flat effigies on tomb slabs soon becoming magnificent. It describes knights in armor with ladies, bishops and judges, merchants with trade emblems, and heraldic animals.
An old Swedish custom uses visiting cards to show business and offices held. Cards list professions such as lawyer and banker, with officials like burgomaster and consul noted. Ladies often print maiden names under married names to signal ancestry and family pride.
A Paris library Chinese manuscript shows anesthetic use 1700 years ago. It describes a surgeon giving a decoction to a patient before a serious operation so the patient became insensible like death, then the procedure proceeded and tissue was secured and liniments applied. The patient recovered after days with no pain during the operation.
A fakir explains that success comes from selling the key rather than buying it. The gullible seeker admits the advertised promise failed until the key is marketed, not purchased, proving the seller’s method brings him success.
In a brisk exchange Grimes and Boyd discuss a planned reduction of railroad fares. Grimes reveals he has just purchased an annual pass, highlighting irony in the timing of the policy change.
A brief Chicago News squib notes the motto never give up as advice for people who avoid paying debts, framing it as a humorous or ironic slogan in a local civic context.
All farmers are urged to subscribe to a limited time offer including The Iowa Homestead The Poultry Farmer and Special Farmers Institute Editions plus the home paper for 1 45 a year. Samples are available at the office.
Advertises business openings along the Chicago Great Western Railway with locations in Iowa Illinois Minnesota and Missouri. Seeks capitalized operators for creamery miller general merchandise hardware hotels banks stockbuyers and related ventures. Contact W J Reed industrial agent 604 Endicott Building St Paul Minn. Maple Leaflets maps. Also notes White Pearl flour from J B Kooser Co.
John J. Hanson, a registered pharmacist, applies for a January permit to buy keep and sell intoxicating liquor at Gilbert Station Story County Iowa. Hearing set in District Court Nevada Iowa January Term 1902 commencing January 13. Applicant is John J. Hanson & Co. doing business as Hanson & Co. 33-31.
John Connell a registered pharmacist seeks a permit to buy keep and sell intoxicating liquors at Kelley Drug Company in Kelley Story County Iowa The application will be on file before January 1 1902 and the hearing is set for January 13 1902 in the District Court at Nevada Iowa Atty for Plaintiff E H Appison appears on behalf of John Connell.
Susan A. Eastwood petitions for partition of multiple parcels in the 83 24 area described as Lot 9 in the SE quarter of the SW quarter and the E half of the SE quarter of Sec 5 along with portions of Sec 8, seeking division among Jennie Crane Edward A. Crane George Eastwood Mrs George Eastwood Mrs Ellis Eastwood Orville Eastwood and Harry Eastwood with specified shares and a default judgment if defendants fail to appear by January 13, 1902.
Notice in Story County Iowa District Court that the last will of John R Decker is on file for probate. Hearing set for January 15, 1902 in Nevada with inquiry to show cause why the instrument should not be accepted as the decedent's will. Clerk M Soper signs and seals the notice.
In Story County Iowa a foreclosure petition filed by E Purvis seeks sale of the north half of lot nine in block four Kelley to satisfy a promissory note. The defendant William Theiste must answer before noon January term 1902 starting January 13 in Nevada Iowa. default will be entered.
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