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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1903
Page
7
Ole Bouge from Ames visited his brother L. N. Bouge with another sibling Nels, a Northwestern railroad bridge contractor. The reunion was described as a happy affair.
Homeseekers offer reduced fare trips to nearly all points on sale from Chicago Great Western on the first and third Tuesday of each month through April. Through tourist sleeping cars available. Inquiries to any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago Illinois.
Story County Bank invites property owners with existing loans to switch to a flexible rate loan allowing payments on any interest day and any amount on any day. No commission is charged on this loan option.
J H Weber of Cascade Iowa endorses Chamberlain Stomach & Liver Tablets noting repeat purchases prove their merit. The ad urges readers to try them for dullness after meals bad taste biliousness loss of appetite or constipation and promises prompt relief from all druggists.
Mayor P. Sheldon issues a February 10 1908 refer end to extend Ames Iowa city limits to include the west fourth and northwest quarter of section 9 township 83 north range 24 west. Qualified electors in Ames and annexed territory may vote from 8 am to 6 pm at city hall.
Eminent scientists and chiropodists foresee the small toe vanishing from human anatomy within this century. Darwinian ideas about the tail and appendix are cited, while coaches stress the big toe, and narrow shoes curb use of the little toe.
Mrs Hastings visits her friend Mrs Warren who has become deaf and bluntly writes on a slate. Mrs Warren quips that deafness is a blessing while recalling Henry Warren's tongue and temper, turning sympathy into a sly exchange.
The robin snipe, frigate bird, and sandpiper have never had their eggs found. An English zoologist pursued a robin snipe egg along Labrador but failed. The birds breed in remote northern regions, making nest discovery by scientists nearly impossible and eggs exceedingly rare.
A planter's wife teaches a fourteen year old house girl Betsy the alphabet. Betsy knows A and B but cannot recall C. The mistress asks what to do with eyes and Betsy answers with a phonetic mispronunciation.
The redwood possesses a unique growth pattern from dormant stump buds and from seed. When trees topple, shoots emerge around the stump circumference forming circles. Over time these circles mature into large trees, and as they fall new circles of shoots rise, creating concentric rings of forest growth.
In a dialogue between Clerk and Porter a hotel worker hints at a dangerous incident as Mrs Ilibawl reports her husband has fallen from a top floor window prompting urgent action on the front pavement. The line conveys a tense moment in a hotel setting.
Puck notes a rumor or witticism about Casey Cassidy’s engagement and a character named Farrell who doubted himself until he impressed a widow. The column carries witty quips and social gossip typical of the page.
A reflection on catching a cold by chance and how the illness behaves. It notes that letting a cold run its course prolongs it, while stopping treatment can shorten the duration. The piece contrasts persistence of symptoms with natural recovery.
A Detroit Free Press snippet notes a parent remark about a son being a philosophical student and the father's puzzled response. It captures a playful exchange about understanding complex ideas.
In a contested will case a witness describes the testator minutely. The lawyer teases the witness who says he never saw the testator, then reveals he married the widow. The courtroom turns on the irony of intimate knowledge through marriage.
In the era of George III bars used sleds of beef bone runners, but a clever inventor created jumpers from a single barrel stave with a midships seat post. The craft proved widely copied, then stabilized by two or three staves, though slower than the single-stave design.
A historical note describes umbrellas from a century ago weighing about three and a half pounds. They used leather or oilcloth covers and wooden or whalebone ribs with heavy oak sticks. Feathers atop umbrellas aimed to shed water but often leaked despite feathered tops.
A London audience celebrated the first production of Arms and the Man with cheers for Bernard Shaw. A single booer in the gallery drew Shaw’s line about agreeing with him yet asking what two can do against a full house.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recalls an elderly woman astonished by electric light. She visits a grocer and asks how the big light is made, hoping to replace paraffin. The shopman explains currents, prompting her joke about weighing a pound to bake puddings if they are used for lighting.
A cubic foot of dry air weighs more than moist air under identical temperature and pressure. Vapor addition expands the mixture if allowed, and since water vapor is about two-thirds as dense as dry air, the mixture’s density falls below that of dry air.
A bystander in a northern Kansas town witnessed a butcher and a customer collide on a sawdust floor before the man intervened. The customer had come to buy dog meat and the butcher asked if it should be eaten there or wrapped for takeout.
In a dialogue quoted from Richmond Dispatch, Miss Flash accepts Mr Foreman after a quip about inheriting her late father’s lateness, as a suitor asserts respect for his late father’s wish in courting Miss Flash.
A playful dialogue where Penniless Percival asks the meaning of a lyric. Wise Wilfred explains that the line invites wine reading but stops short of deeper interpretation.
A Galveston News aphorism notes a sharp view on timing for sentiments and obituary phrasing, contrasting timely remarks with late epitaph tradition.
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