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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
9
Dr. G Elliot Flint argues water with meals improves digestion by moistening food, aiding gastric juice action, and preventing dry chyme. He cites infant diet work by A Jacobi and notes water's seven essential roles from moistening to heat regulation, advising water with meals to ease digestion rather than withholding it.
Charles Barnard argues that instead of lamenting traditional toil in harvest, art should celebrate modern harvesting machines. He praises the labor-saving power of threshers and plows, envisioning epic scenes of vast wheatfields, steam and labor replaced by mechanization, and calls for poets to embrace industrial progress.
A Kansas philosopher cautions men against rushing engagements to women who delay a proposal. He suggests she hopes something better may appear, but the chosen suitor can solace himself that no better option was available.
A discussion on natural health law and the dangers of irregular living. It argues that delaying sleep, skipping meals, or overworking disrupts the body’s delicate systems and can lead to disaster. It compares bodily machinery to precise gears needing constant alignment and cites regulatory aims for mines and factories to protect workers and the public.
Aboriginal legends recount a time when no water existed except within a giant frog. Animals danced to make the frog laugh, but only the eel's wriggle caused the frog to laugh, flooding the world. Pelican saved people by building a large canoe to gather them on islands that rose above the water.
A correspondent recounts a Zulu legend of origin in which a talking elephant eats children including a mother and her infant. The mother pleads, the elephant swallows them all, the child and mother later escape by fire and an ax, and the elephant dies, making a new nation in a new land.
In Belgium the landowner controls only up to a prescribed depth. If coal or gold lies beneath, the surface owner must obtain a government concession to mine. The government may grant the subsoil wealth to another, with the surface owner receiving eight percent of extracted value, while the mine pays the government based on concession value and total extraction.
A London Express piece describes Lerwick as having one tree amid all the Shetland absence of trees. Sea gulls populate every roof, each house with its own gulls, feeding them daily, while locals treat rice offerings with care before the gulls retreat to the Isle of Noss.
A noted quote attributed to George Pirot condemns conceit as a flaw. The speaker argues pride accompanies its own discomfort and moral failure, suggesting humility over self-importance.
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