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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1905
Page
7
A hunter party in North Carolina misunderstands a guide who cannot row yet ends up rowing. The guide explains he can pull an oar all his life, revealing a humorous miscommunication. The piece also lampoons social types of men described as bold shy or tough with varying motives and conduct.
Classification of men by a spinster in a feature titled The Truth About Man. The excerpt suggests a broader claim that men as a group are roughly divided, with the author critiquing masculine behavior.
In a column excerpt from Smart Set, Mrs. Boyce discusses why women devote attention to dress. The dialogue questions whether dress serves to attract men or outshine sisters and whether a woman can multitask in fashion and other duties.
In a terse note the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune reports Binks Skinner will join Catchem as a partner. The item hints at the legal move amid a discussion of possible collaboration and rival interpretations of his role.
The Jewelers' Circular Weekly describes Burmese ruby purchase methods using sunlight and a copper plate to grade rubies by size color and shape while buyers and sellers exchange signals by grip. It weighs moonlight’s role, noting orbital arrangements to keep moonlight constant and eclipses avoided.
A reader from Oaklandon Indiana credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing his wife of consumption after doctors gave up. The ad promises it kills germs of all diseases, relieves in one dose, and offers 50c to 1.00 pricing with a trial bottle free through L M Bosworth, druggist.
James Grant Wilson reports Thackeray declares he will strike for higher wages at Fraser's Magazine. He will write no more on Yellowplush unless paid 12 guineas per sheet with a 2 guinea drawing, arguing Yellowplush is the magazine’s most popular contributor and deserves better compensation.
A New York press quip notes how linen enthusiasts judge fabric by microscopic thread counts, causing distress when a hostess discovers napery quality differs from expectation. The piece jestingly warns linen experts to leave microscopes at home. Also a brief blurb advertises Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for biliousness, sold by druggists.
A London Standard piece recalls Blucher and his pipe servant Christian Henneman at Waterloo. Describing eighteenth century armies valuing tobacco, it notes Wellington’s admiration for the sergeant’s courage as a cannonball halts Blucher who orders a fresh pipe and returns to the field with Wellington.
In a Chicago Tribune note the Rev Dr Fourth ly ends his sermon with one word. He gazes over his congregation, closes the book, then declares Amen to conclude the service.
A traveler condemns the camel comparing it to a brute and unfaithful animal. He cites Kipling and imagines the creature as lacking loyalty and moral refinement, praising its endurance while deeming its intellect and temperament inferior.
The ad claims Electric Bitters relieves ague and malaria with a curative effect unseen in quinine and cites E. S. Munday of Henrietta, Texas, praising the remedy for a brother’s recovery from malarial fever and jaundice. Sold by L. M. Bosworth's drug store for 50 cents with a guarantee.
Java’s boiling mud lake, called the fire island, sits near Grobogana’s center about fifty paals northeast of Solo. The lake spans nearly two miles in circumference with vast hot mud columns rising and sinking continually. Two enormous bubbles near the western edge inflate and burst about three times each minute.
A worker on the Siberian railway was locked inside a refrigerator car and found dead. He had chalked his sufferings on the floor imagining freezing, but the refrigerating system failed. temperatures never dropped below 50 degrees Fahrenheit during the trip.
A sailor recalls the hardest night at sea aiding a man with a wooden leg while an old Scotchman notes a rope would have saved him faster than ten wooden legs. The exchange highlights seamanship and improvisation at sea.
A Philadelphia Press origin tale recalls a visitor asking if the distant sea was the ocean. A Atlantic City native proudly confirms the Atlantic Ocean as named for the city, highlighting local lore.
Victoria Australia druggist Mr F W J Fletcher reports a customer bought nine bottles over two weeks and sent them to friends in various parts of the state. She told others the remedy helped her children with colds and croup and urged trials. For sale by all druggists.
In a church congress at Manchester a member warned cremation would threaten belief in the resurrection. Lord Shaftesbury retorted by asking what had become of holy martyrs who were tortured, silencing further doubts.
A witty courtroom exchange centers on age and aging jokes as Mr Jones and The Lover spar over a daughter’s age with a judge presiding. The banter lingers on waiting for maturity while the daughter remains eighteen in memory.
A brief dialogue between Reggie and his mother shows tension over schooling and responsibility. Reggie answers that he goes to school only because his mother makes him, revealing strain in their relationship.
A concise reflection on why Ife Dreary feels drearier, linking mood to lack of motive and purpose. The piece argues that absence of driving reason dims daily life and future actions.
The piece surveys corporal punishment across eras from biblical legends to Roman use. It cites rabbis, Solomon and Egyptian proverbs, then details ancient tools including the ferula seutica and flagellum as forms of punishment.
Millions of dollars in diamonds are imported yearly and carried overseas with extreme precautions. Gems are immured in strong safes and guarded so tightly that no theft or loss has ever been recorded, though a thief could not easily steal half a million dollars in gems from a waistcoat pocket.
London Mail reports coffins repurposed as household items in various towns. A Queensbury resident keeps a coffin as furniture with a churchyard grave beside him bearing the inscription Not dead, but waiting. Tong men stored Sunday clothes and a breakfast eater used a coffin as a meal bin, while a Keighley man kept butterfly specimens in a coffin.
A Philadelphia Press cartoon caption humorously contrasts self criticism with reluctance to admit faults in public. The exchange features a speaker acknowledging faults while a neighbor points out visible faults observed by others.
A fragment quotes a survivor remarking on a man’s strong will and a grim expectation that lawyers will prevail. The dialogue evokes a legal battle tone and a sense of defiance amid a probable death or defeat.
A concise quotation attributed to Chalmers notes that purity of heart embodies a quick and delicate sensitivity, such that even the idea of sin is offensive to it.
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