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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1909
Page
6
A harrowing African hut encounter recounts a man eaten by a lion who drags him from bed and feeds on him while companions flee. After a dramatic gunfight, the beast is finally killed by a companion with a rifle. The tale is published in London Ideas.
The Flemish artist Quentin Metys, born to a blacksmith in Louvain or Antwerp, shifts from metalwork to painting after winning a rich burgher’s blessing. He marries the daughter he loves, memorializing the union with an auto portrait in the frame that hides his beloved Dutch wife behind a spring opening in Florence’s Uffizi panel.
In this excerpt from Youth's Companion the author traces the phrase three boxes the cartridge ballot bandbox and notes how women’s suffrage challenged male authority. Quaker ideals of equality influenced Lucretia Mott Abby Hopper Gibbons and others who balanced rights with peaceful action. A H Gibbons signs as A H Gibbons and is excused from jury duty, illustrating the jury box’s reach.
A first time visitor to St Andrews notes golfers' efficiency on the greens. He studies their method and discovers a common feature: the left hand held more under the club when putting than driving. He deduces a rule to watch the left hand nails at address to the ball. His putting improves thereafter.
From the Metropolitan tower nearly 700 feet above the sidewalk, Park and Madison avenues appear as rigid lines crossing the island. A model city tapeline would be straight. a twelve inch rifle fired at Twenty third street would hit Harlem directly, with no side buildings in the path.
Mrs Nuvoe Reash asks if her letter requesting a holiday house party was received. Mrs Bloodgood denies getting the invitation and confirms the mix up in correspondence.
A brief dialogue quotes a dispute about being bled for circulating money. The Boston Transcript dialogue captures slang and mention of losing one’s circulating medium amid an exchange between a he and a she.
The quotation notes that waiting to accomplish much at once leads to no action at all. It emphasizes steady, incremental effort over grand, deferred plans.
A study of the cobra stone legend in Ceylon recounts a scientist offering coins to find a glowing fluor spar laced gem. An old Tamil guides him to a tama tree where a cobra coils beside a green light, cautioning against close approach.
A worker recounts his plan to steal a shining object from a cobra by using ashes. He hides a bag in a tree and waits for the cobra to return its treasure at night. After the cobra deposits the object, he empties ashes over it, confusing the reptile, then retrieves the stone and earns his reward.
The Dundee Advertiser reports an archdeacon at a St Andrew’s day banquet humorously explaining why St Andrew became Scotland’s patron saint. He claims the choice stems from Andrew discovering the lad with the loaves and fishes, offering a playful solution to a long question.
A humorous note describes a Stilton cheese that vanishes from a pantry, escapes via the garden, and bolts down the road chased by a frightened dog, prompting local amusement.
A witty exchange ponders whether an audience prefers a perfectly stupid bore or a clever first time traveler abroad. The remark frames entertainment taste as a clash between dull predictability and fresh, if inexperienced, insight.
A terse Eastern proverb notes that a person’s actions in this life determine the fate of the next life, reflecting belief in moral cause and consequence across generations.
Civil War veteran J A Stone of Kemp Texas credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing years of stubborn cough and lung trouble. He reports weight gain from 130 to 178 pounds after using the remedy. The ad promotes it for colds coughs hemorrhages asthma and pneumonia prevention with trial bottle offered. Mollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea is also advertised as a tonic.
A village girl posing as a lad, Anna Plocht, dupes Archduke Johann. He courts her by joining family meals, gains permission to marry despite the emperor’s objections, and is later elevated in rank as forgiveness follows. The tale ends with their marriage andAnna’s rise from jobmaster’s daughter to baroness and countess.
A French scientist cites a blood based secret for longevity while Electric Bitters is promoted as prolonging life. The ad claims it purifies and vitalizes the blood, rebuilds nerves, and supports weak, sick, and debilitated people. W M Sherman of Cushing Maine reports kidney trouble cured. Only 50 cents at druggists.
Peter Edes recalls a Bangor era when tything men barred walking on Sunday. His apprentice James Orrock walked anyway and Edes faced a potential fine before Judge Dutton intervened. The Bangor Weekly Register advertised a new school for young misses offering orthography, writing, grammar, geography, composition, and needlework at modest weekly rates.
A long quoted jumble of obscure words and arcane terms tests a reader's spelling skill as a New York Mail snippet jokes about a pretentious man who proclaims he can spell any dictionary word while performing odd actions and speaking in grandiose phrases.
Home Notes recalls the death of the wife of King Ernest Augustus of Hanover around 1842. An illness confounded doctors, a clairvoyant marked the bedroom door with signs, yet the queen died. Afterward the king ordered the room kept as if she would sleep there again with bed turned down and slippers laid ready.
Two men on the second floor waited impatiently for an elevator on the first floor. The lawyer notes Londsel looks unwell, while the real estate man Rangle suggests joining an athletic club for exercise.
The Cleveland Leader notes Old Cash walked into the country barefoot a decade ago and now has amassed millions. The remark playfully highlights his dramatic financial rise, with witty banter about extraordinary wealth.
A London Punch excerpt recalls a Royal Marine remark on service life with humor. The sergeant says sailors are half soldier and half yachtsman, joking about the mix of duties in naval service.
A Yonkers Statesman discussion notes that mail carriers carry heavy loads and suggests steps to lighten their duties, highlighting concern for postal workers and the need for action to ease the burden on postmen.
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