02 Jul 1903
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1903
Page
1
The Tupusele people live on piles above a submerged coral reef in Torres Strait south of New Guinea to avoid attacks by enemies and Dyak bead hunters from the mainland village nearby sits high among palm trees. Both communities choose elevated or submerged sites to stay safe.
The kipu, a knotty string system used by Andean communities across Peru Bolivia and Ecuador, served as an ancient form of accounting since before Spanish conquest. Different colored strings and ten knot types denote items and numbers enabling accurate tallies on large transactions without a written language.
The excerpt counsels maintaining a prosperous appearance to gain social and economic advantage. It warns against visible extravagance while urging small home economies to hide hardship. Aims to project confidence, noting charm and cloaks of fortune as protective disguises for those in need.
Dr Charles A Eastman in Reader argues the Indian side has been ignored in history. He contrasts Wounded Knee with Little Big Horn, noting the massacre framing of Wounded Knee and Custer's defeat despite public praise.
A sweep of social notes from Ames details visits and travels from Boone to Booneville and Des Moines. Residents such as Mrs W A Woodruff, Sheriff Boyd, Mrs Roselle Payne and Miss Maud Parker are cited with trips to Clinton Denver Chicago and Ogden, plus many short calls with relatives and friends across Iowa and neighboring states.
The Washington Star notes the word cravat entered English around 1036 from Austrian cavalry wear called the Cravate. It traces later adoption by France, then England, with the Steenkirk influencing today’s neckwear through later modifications.
A finback whale skeleton, believed to be the largest on land, is displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The female whale measures sixty eight and a half feet long with a thirty foot circumference, and could hold about fifty men inside. It washed ashore dead near Forked River New Jersey last November. The exhibit ties to theories that whale ancestors were land mammals that adapted to aquatic life.
An Irish sutler in the Civil War falls asleep on the Bull Run battlefield. Confederate scouts wake him and question his allegiance. He deflects with humor, claiming to be from Washington then from Beauregard’s army, eventually sparking a playful exchange about origins and truth. The tale is cited from the New York Tribune.
Earthworms are not soil formers but renovators. When they descend, they bring fresh earth to the surface and fertilize the subsoil by creating passages. These passages aid deeper root growth, with worm casts supplying nourishment. Darwin measured about eighteen tons per acre on meadow land and around ten tons per acre on good arable land.
A London man staying in a west of England village kept asking daily for deviled kidneys, a rare breakfast, while a butcher balked at the demand. After five days the butcher angrily warned him that sheep are not bred for kidneys.
Describes ivory’s medicinal use through the eighteenth century, citing Schroder’s Zoology (1659) translated by T. Bateson. The text lists cooling and binding effects, jaundice relief, nerve and digestive aid, and notes preparation methods including spodium and ivory jelly as nourishment.
The ancient code of King Khammurabi of Assyria dating to about 2200 B C describes divorce. A notable clause states that if a wife wastes her husband’s house or impoverishes it, she is judged, and if the husband says he puts her away, she leaves with no dowry.
The Home of Musical Fish at Lake Batticaloa in Ceylon is noted for sounds described as sweet and melodious like a series of harps. Boat travel across the lake lets listeners hear the melodies clearly, and dipping an ear into the water intensifies the sound.
A Meggendorfer Blatter line notes a husband forbidding a visitor from seeing his sick wife if the guest wears a striking new hat, citing the doctor’s instruction to avoid any excitement. The quotation underscores concern for the wife's health and the social tension around attire.
The article traces early gunpowder use across civilizations, citing Hindu, Greek, Arab, and European records. It notes fire weapons in Alexander the Great era, sieges from 668 to 1218, and English manufacture by Elizabeth I, with later use at Crecy in 1846, per Cassier's Magazine.
English statesman Joseph Chamberlain recalled a nurse’s rhyme to rebuke Beaconsfield and Belisbury after their Berlin talks with Bismarck. He quipped that if seas were bread and cheese and rivers ink, the lakes currant cakes, all would have been left to drink. The line electrified the audience and became a memorable oratorical feint.
A glacier dislodges and sails across the Arctic Ocean with a train of companions. Eskimos call the process the duck and ducklings. Moss grows on resting ice and slowly decays into soil for seeds like buttercups and dandelions to take root and bloom. The poppy is said not to bloom in the brief northern summer.
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