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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1907
Page
2
A fragment from the Chattanooga Times cites playful verses about limericks and a “Dam family” including Sister Jane and Brother Will. It references a railroad mogul who “don’t have to pay” and mentions Hepburn’s bill.
The Ogden Messenger reports old man Thompson venturing into poultry. He notes a male in a yard is believed by many to lessen egg production, a quip that appears in his recent issue. Litle Fidity Flinders is sick with the mumps and not named in columns to avoid spreading illness.
January chatter ranges from Iowa hangings rare comment to railroads and bank meetings in Des Moines. Notes cover the Iowa Private Bankers meeting in Des Moines with Parley Sheldon elected president, editorials on railroad advertising and a string of local office changes including Charley McCord and Ole Langland shifts. The piece also references regional anecdotes from Garner and Cambridge and includes a general cultural aside about Yankee optimism in German eyes.
A Spirit Lake man entered his room for a drink of Colfax water, placed the bottle by the window, and fell asleep. Sunlight focused through the bottle onto the bed starting a fire in his clothing. Investigators may determine the bottle was mis labeled.
The governor tried to distribute federal patronage in Washington last week to honor campaign obligations. He publicly supported Cady Chase of Webster City for the Northern district of Iowa, but could not persuade the delegation that such payback was proper.
The Colfax Clipper discusses tariff prospects and a shift in Republican support, predicting a largely unchanged tariff stance for two years. The Hampton Record lauds the interstate railway commission ruling prohibiting railroads from trading transportation for advertising, and questions post office payments to railroads for mail transport versus express companies.
A reporter found Nevada court house in transition on Friday as outgoing officers packed for departure Monday and incoming officials lined up to assume duties after board qualification. Changes this year are not radical.
The piece recounts the historic Bluebeard origins from Holinshed naming Giles de Retz as a 15th century marshal of France who killed for magical blood and was burned in 1440, then pivots to a Brittany legend of Count Conomer who decapitated his wife Triphyna before St. Gildas restored her to life.
An account from 1629 describes a country gentleman's supper with servants bringing in food and hats on, followed by grace from Sir James Pringle. Dishes include pottage, kale, venison pie, cheese, and apples. After the meal, a towel, basin, and green carpet are arranged on the table, hot water is served, and three boys recite prayers and thanksgiving before the party drinks hot water and retires.
W R C Larson argues boxing offers unmatched physical, mental, and moral benefits. He cites perception, judgment, and will as sharpened by boxing and warns a boxer who misreads an opponent risks losing reputation, confidence, and income.
The article notes brain weights for figures such as Daniel Webster Napoleon Bonaparte Cuvier and Dupuytren and compares average human brain weights for men and women. It argues that brain size alone does not determine intellect and that body size does not reliably predict brain size.
An unusual migration of the Norway rat occurs only every eleven years. The rats move westward from Scandinavia in vast numbers, swimming lakes and rivers and climbing mountains as they devastate the land they cross. Naturalists speculate an inherited memory of flight from catastrophe, though the theory remains doubtful.
A fully equipped Roman mint was discovered in a cave near Kayosovar Hungary. The site contained bronze crucibles and three coin dies, suggesting minting operations once occurred there.
Admiralty uses paraffin wax scale models twelve to twenty four feet long to test hull forms before keel laying. The 400 by twenty foot tank allows quick alterations since wax is water resistant and reusable. American models are larger and more elaborate with white pine hulls and simulated rudders and shafts.
Sir Robert Purvis defends an education act before Peterborough constituents. He argues the act rests on a granite foundation and speaks with a voice not to be drowned by sectarian clamor. A Rheinlander mayor tells Kaiser Wilhelm's father that only one Germany exists, with Austria not in Prussia's plans.
November marks the worst fog month in London. A good year brings about fifty fogs while a very bad year can reach eighty. Coal fires mingle soot with mist to create the London fogs, most forming between 7 and morning as fires are lit.
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