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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
7
The tale recalls a Georgia backwoods justice of the peace who jokes the jurors with a demand for a dollar and a half per head. A doctor and a prankster stage a skeleton scare for a newspaper boy, who cries out in fear yet keeps selling papers to the amused crowd.
Oriental Lyric translated by Fanny Raymond Ritter presents a lyrical meditation where the speaker identifies as every natural and human force from sunrise to sea, fruit to flame, love to crime, existence to end. The poem traverses dualities of good and evil through vivid personifications.
A New York woman raised in genteel circles marries an adventurous man with many ups and downs. She stays loyal through poverty and disgrace, even after he serves a forgery sentence at Sing Sing. She moves near the prison to be near him and helps win a commutation, but in later life leaves him declaring he is a villain after learning his love letters were copies for his first wife.
A 1905 magazine tale recounts Marie daughter of a minister and a doll kidnapping plan. In 1906 the missing doll reappeared under a tree and Marie asked where the chickens had she seen that face before.
A visiting Mr. W. H. Gilbert teased a wealthy woman by saying Johann Sebastian Bach is not composing nowadays but decomposing, highlighting a witty remark about the famed composer.
A famed miser arrives at heaven's gate and lists two small good deeds. St. Peter questions the acts, Gabriel confirms, then Gabriel verdicts the man must return three cents and go to hell.
In Atchison a doctor, friend of Senator Ingalls, faced a pestering newsboy in his office. The boy’s audacious visits provoked the physician and sparked a local tale recounted to a Tribune reporter.
A vignette from a family scene reveals Minnie asking for fashionably stylish behavior during prayer. The line shows a child's earnest but humorous plea about keeping up with the latest fashions within a domestic setting.
A cow wearing a bell was run over and killed on the railway. The owner sued for damages. The driver blew the whistle to frighten the cow off the track, but the farmer's lawyer showed the cow rang her bell and scared the engine. The jury ruled in the farmer's favor.
A boy punishes by withholding prayers for papa, then mother appeals to his better self. As he starts to pray the father returns, and the child whispers he will risk it and stays in bed. The anecdote ends with the paternal entrance implying the boy’s abstention is challenged by the real danger of losing a loved parent.
A guest at a restaurant asks for a Welsh rarebit, broiled lobster, imported ale, and mince pie and instructs the waiter to write and sign the order. The waiter explains it is to serve as an alibi for the house for the coroner.
A tale of three boys shows how differing approaches yield fame: a bookseller, a doctor, and Helmholtz the scientist who inferred the true time by measuring his walk. The piece ends with a caution on jury panels amid London Guildhall mentions and suspicions of impartiality.
An officer rides to Grant during Shiloh and reports Schwartz's battery is taken. The general asks if the guns were spiked. the Dutch officer protests, insisting they charged the German brigade and retook the guns. The tale lampoons miscommunication in battle.
A constable endorses the warrant noting arrest of the offender as directed and the attempted seizure of horses blocked by Warren Wiles and Biger Wiles by force. The defendant Biger Wiles was removed by a writ of Habo Scorbous.
A bishop in a mining region questions an Irishman shoveling ore about sun exposure. The governor replies to a Senate inquiry with a humorous veto message explanation, joking that the Kansas Democratic Party would rise with the words set em up and take the same.
A compact wartime garrison style reflection on resilience. The speaker rejects fear and laments over failure to face adversity with a cheerful grit. The message centers on effort and attitude rather than outcome, urging courage and dignity.
A dying old man declares he never refused a chance to enjoy life and dies contented, while a priest stands by to hear his last confession. The exchange reveals his philosophy as he faces final breaths.
A New York preacher, Rev. B, draws daily visitors for counsel. His young daughter greets a visiting bishop with grave courtesy, inviting him in and offering prayers, saying, “mother will pray for you,” and calling him a poor dying sinner.
A girl asks about an undertaker named Mr Melrose whom her aunt Mrs Littlefield identifies as the village undertaker. The girl answers she recalls him from when he undertook her grandmother, in a humorous recollection from Harper's Bazar.
A preacher buys time with a parishioner’s hay load spilling on the street and the boy at dinner time fears his father’s wrath. A professor pays a bootblack for a wash and a sixpence but the lad refuses, declaring the money unnecessary and telling the old man to get a haircut.
In a street scene the prince of Wales avoids Brummel by greeting a companion alone in a park. Brummel asks his escort to identify the stranger, then words the famous line Pray who is your fat friend.
An old South Carolina tale from Lippincott's describes a Black patient named Nathan at St. Xavier Hospital in Charleston. A nurse assists with a thermometer before a doctor asks about nourishment. Nathan replies he feels tolerable and that a piece of glass was given to suck, highlighting a troubling image from historical reportage.
An illustrated portrait of Lord John Russell noting his small stature and fame from the reform bill of 1832. Anecdotes recount his memory for faces and moments with colleagues, plus a Scotch farmhouse encounter with a Whig ally and a door-to-door breakfast tale involving a minister and a clever egg riddle.
Governor Hoch vetoed the bill as the legislature had already enacted similar law, noting in his message that the introducer should "set em up." An opposition member warned the remark could be dangerous.
A small boy misbehaves and is told he must be whipped. He hides under a bed as the father returns. The mother explains, and the father crawls under the bed where the boy whispers hello to him, asking if mom is chasing him too.
In a classroom exchange, the teacher asks James how he answered insults from Ed ward. James recalls the saying about a soft answer turning away wrath and admits his response was to throw a rotten tomato at Ed ward.
A lawyer counsels a German farmer who reveals he remarried three weeks after his wife’s burial. He explains with blunt humor that his new wife is as dead as she ever will be, highlighting stoic acceptance in the face of loss.
General Butler recalled a Brooklyn street railway rule that required conductors to ring fares as soon as passengers entered. He used it to cross-examine a conductor in a $15,000 damages suit, prompting the jury to verdict for Butler’s client.
A letter carrier describes a remedy for avoiding dogs during routes. The piece notes frequent encounters with dogs and suggests practical, nonviolent methods for preventing bites and ensuring safe delivery.
A Wall Street man showed a visitor old letters he planned to burn to stop wastebasket leakage. He said cleaners were sorting mail from wastebaskets and selling names to firms that compile lists for speculative uses, prompting him to protect clients from nuisance mail.
Real estate notes advertise multiple tracts in the Texas Panhandle near Dalhart, Dalhart vicinity towns, and Hartley. Listings include prices per acre, cash and installment terms, rail right of way access, well and windmill improvements, cattle counts, and a call for inquiries with map printing options. Exclusive agents promise timely price changes and map services for Moore Sherman Hartley and Dallam counties.
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