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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1909
Page
7
The narrative recounts a colonel and his young ensign dining at a country house. The ensign fixates on the lady, sensing a whispering behind her chair. A shadowy figure and a rider announce the mistress’s self harm, prompting the colonel to take the distressed servant’s urgent call for a doctor.
The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune recounts Richard Harding Davis recalling an odd tale of a hollow key used to provoke jeers in a theater. A playwright Duval aids a struggling fellow playwright by giving a hollow key leading to a lunch invitation and a manuscript reading, ending with a polite request to return the key.
An amateur prospector recalls a bear encounter while trekking in the Siskiyous with a miner’s pick. He describes a bear climbed a stump and its mother arrived, delaying a photograph, delivering a comic slice of frontier life.
Adelina Patti rose from modest London engagement to astronomical fees, praised by Colonel Mapleson for extracting maximum pay. Her career escalated from 40 pounds weekly in 1861 to 200 guineas nightly in 1872 and $5,000 per night a decade later, with lavish American contracts and deposits.
Haydn settled a timing dispute by asking if the singer was handsome and favored by the prince. If yes, he ruled she was right, illustrating his unusual approach to musical tempo decisions.
A visitor advises Tommy to love his papa as much as the father loves him. Tommy claims deeper affection, but laments his father’s love only when he behaves well. The exchange highlights differing views of parental affection and approval.
A brief quip contrasts a vessel as a boat with a blood vessel described as a lifeboat. The exchange ends with one child told to run to bed, illustrating a witty, lighthearted moment from the Boston Transcript.
The coloring of clouds at sunset comes from yellow and red rays having greater penetrating momentum than blue They travel through atmospheric layers that mostly stop and reflect blue and this effect is enhanced when the air is filled with particles that increase opacity in the sky.
A comedian with a collar length rim of hair asks the barber to cut hair with collar on. The barber quips he can cut with hat on. Succcess Magazine notes the pun in this lighthearted scene with the Lambs club.
The Sporting Editor weighs the idea of poetic license as defined by the Chicago Tribune. It is described as the universe’s provision allowing poets to exist, illustrating the debate over artistic freedom in literary expression.
A Chicago Tribune item quotes Mrs Lapsing on vertigo and fear of heights describing how looking down from a high building provokes an attack of verdigris in a humorous aside.
A terse exchange follows a surprise marriage moment with wifey mocking the husband for being taken by mistake and the husband underscoring the modest nature of his acceptance.
A long list of Ames area residents and visitors details trips to Chicago Washington Texas Nebraska Ontario and Canada. The notices include Prof Kennedy Miss Fay Campbell Mr and Mrs Stratton Dr and Mrs Sandham and many others visiting relatives friends or attending events. Several locals return from trips while others plan extended visits or vacations to coastal cities and midwest towns.
Miss Nellie E. Lucas, recent graduate of the Baptist Missionary Training School in Chicago, visits Ames and will occupy the morning service at the Baptist church next Sunday July 11. She will describe the training school and general missionary work.
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