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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1903
Page
4
In Tupuselei, residents live on piles over a submerged coral reef far south of New Guinea to access galt water baths. Across the water a mainland village sits high among palm trees. Both communities choose these sites to avoid surprise from enemies and to shield against Dyak bead hunter incursions.
The Kipu, a system of knotted strings used by Andean peoples in Peru Bolivia and Ecuador, records all accounts. It predates conquistadors and remains a highly accurate method, with colors indicating items and knots signaling numbers. Large transactions are tracked as precisely as double entry bookkeeping.
The text urges maintain a look of prosperity despite hardship to attract favorable treatment. It warns against visible extravagance while promoting small, practical economies. It highlights confidence as key, noting Dame Fortune favors those who appear capable of coping with adversity.
Dr Charles A Eastman argues in Reader that Indian perspectives are missing from accounts of the Wounded Knee massacre and Custers Little Big Horn. He notes bias in official reports and press coverage and calls for balanced historical narration.
A long list records visits and travels of residents and visitors around Ames and nearby towns. Names include Mrs W A Woodruff, Rev O L Baxter, Miss Maud Parker, Dr C W Gay, Miss Anna Cooley, Mrs T W Sheldon, Prof Frazier, Gen Lincoln, and many others visiting family, friends, or staying for short visits in Boone, Des Moines, Webster City, Colo, and surrounding areas.
An old veteran recalls a Civil War sutler Irishman who fell asleep on the battlefield and, after a comic exchange with Confederate scouts, asserts he is part of Beauregard’s army while claiming to hail from South Carolina. The tale ends with a humorous reversal about mistaken allegiance. Worms as Soil Renovators described. Earthworms renew soil by bringing up fresh earth and enriching the subsoil, with measurements from Darwin noting worm casts of eighteen tons per acre on meadows and ten tons on good arable land.
The Washington Star notes the word cravat entered English about 1636 from Austrian cavalry wear called Cravate. It describes the evolution through Croatian Royal Cravates, English adoption of crabat, and the Steenkirk neck scarf after 1692 influencing today’s styles.
The American Museum of Natural History announces a land exhibit of what is believed to be the largest whale ever shown. The female finback measures sixty eight and a half feet long with a thirty foot girth, and could house at least fifty men inside. The specimen washed ashore near Forked River, New Jersey last November, illustrating the theory that ancestors of whales were land mammals before becoming aquatic.
A London resident with a taste for deviled kidneys wandered to a remote west of England village to request the dish made from local sheep. Believing mutton a luxury and kidneys rare, he repeated the demand at the village butcher for five days, who finally rebuked him as a lunatic for thinking his sheep provide kidneys each morning.
Historical notes describe ivory’s medical use from 1659 in Schroder’s Zoology translated by T Bateson. Ivory was boiled into infusions and powders, said to cool, dry, bind, strengthen, aid jaundice, nerves, obstructions, stomach pains, epilepsy, melancholy, and combat rot and poisons.
The 2200 B C. Khammurabi code deciphered from a Susa pillar covers divorce. A notable clause states if a wife wastes her husband’s house and he bans her, she may leave with no divorce settlement.
The lake in Ceylon hosts musical fish whose sounds are likened to a row of harps. Boat crossings reveal gentle melodies and dipping an ear into the water amplifies the tune, making the aquatic music audible.
A man declines a visit to his ailing wife after a visitor arrives wearing a new hat, quoting the doctor’s order to avoid any excitement. The remark appears in Meggendorfer Blatter.
Cassier's Magazine traces the ancient origin of gunpowder and artillery from early civilizations. It cites Hindu codes, Alexander the Great's era, sieges of Constantinople and Toulouse, medieval use, and English manufacture, noting early 14th century knowledge and Crecy in 1846.
English statesman Joseph Chamberlain used a nurse learned rhyme to lampoon Beaconsfield and Salisbury after their Berlin mission and Bismarck talks. He quipped that if seas were bread and cheese and rivers ink, the joke lingered with the audience.
A glacier drift story explains that large ice masses float with smaller companions in their wake. Moss forms soil as it decays, inviting buttercups and dandelions to root. Arctic travelers note the poppy does not bloom in the brief summer.
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