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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
6
The article describes how fireworks shells are made from tissue paper casings and how set pieces are designed by artists and executed by chemists. It details the creation process from drawing a color plan to building a rattan framework, placing gerbes, wiring quick match, and timing the ignition for a brief dramatic display.
A Detroit News Tribune report describes mescal and hashish visions of a scientist and a Kentucky subject, followed by a Mexican Indian village execution. The botanist dies. his killers are sought and punished by old chiefs with lime and burning bones for the white stranger who loved flowers.
A New York Times account details a gold beaters shop with a towering gilded sign. Workers, mostly girls, weigh melt and beat 22 to 23 carat gold into thin sheets using breath and hammers, packing 70 books a day for 2.5 to 3 cents per book.
An old Zapoteca convert recalls an ancient Oaxaca case where an American botanist traveling with a local servant was beheaded with a machete after the servant learned of hidden gold sewn in the botanist’s jacket. The tale reflects primitive law among Mexican Indians told by a missionary-era observer.
A Judge notes sales pitches in a hat shop where each woman, regardless of body type, is told a hat improves a trait and is sold. The scene underscores fashion marketing and social perceptions through witty dialogue about appearance.
An ardent young mill ionaire seeks marriage now with a chorus girl after securing a license. She objects citing press notice space since grand opera stars occupy the headlines, joking a vital statistics line would be the best wedding notice.
A classroom joke from Professor Cube Root's geometry class frames a half circle as a straight line caught bending, as Teddy answers when asked to define a half circle. The London Express records the playful explanation in a light educational moment.
A man explains his cheerful return home to a puzzled observer noting his wife is an amateur elocutionist saving her voice for tomorrow night’s entertainment. The exchange hints at a domestic scene with a light humorous tone.
In a remembered exchange, Shadbolt jokes with Din about a past illness and a humorous claim of receiving a hundred dollars during an appendectomy, as quoted from the Chicago Tribune.
A fragment from Illustrated Bits shows a French exchange where Madame asks about a late return and Monsieur claims it is not his fault explaining the cafe just closed. The snippet captures language play and social etiquette of a cafe scene.
The article surveys more than 10 000 earthen mounds across the midwest and beyond. It argues the builders were not to be confused with North American Indians, noting geometric design skill, fortifications, mining, and advanced arts. It speculates on origins and disappearance.
The piece recounts Napier’s struggle with Mehemet Ali over a treaty, halted until the pasha, believing England and its luck to be guided by a lucky woman, finally signs. It also notes General Gordon’s Taiping era fame as blessed by luck and a talisman cane. The article cites London Truth on belief in invisible power shaping outcomes.
In England belief in the sympathy of the vegetable kingdom endures. A gardener recalls praying all night as his employer lay ill the flowers drooped then revived toward morning signaling the master’s improvement. The same revival occurred with flowers sent to the bedside.
A playful exchange traces pin disappearance as a pun about directions. The wife laments missing pins while the husband offers a quip that pins are always pointed one way and headed another.
A local horse owner reputed for excellent care is asked by a farmer how he treats ill horses. The boy replies that for slight illness he medicine, but for serious illness he sells the horse. The farmer’s question and the boy’s answer illustrate a blunt, humorous view of horse handling in Upstate county.
Retailer announces new 1910 stationery line and marks down prices for a limited period. The ad highlights appealing discounts on the range and invites customers to visit the store to view the new products.
The London Times surveys man eating tigers arguing young tigers can be dangerous and that mothers teach cubs to hunt. It notes tigers kill roughly every second night and revisit kills, with some individuals killing dozens to over a hundred people in long campaigns, including English sportsmen and native shikaris.
Old Billyuns asks Arabella to relay a message to her young man Whatshisname. He does not object to him staying and running up the gas hills but objects to him taking the morning paper when he leaves. London Answers.
A brief comic exchange shows two speakers debating attention to a group of performers. One reveals he leads a real estate improvement company and notes the subject is a vacant lot, highlighting a humorous clash of interests.
A brief note from the Kansas City Journal recalls a man who found a dollar yesterday and is called a lucky boy. He breaks his eyeglasses when stopping to pick up the dollar, altering the outcome of the small find.
The transcription describes a doctor advising to expel all and embark on a sea voyage, while a character quips about getting the cart before the horse in a Boston Tran script.
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