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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
7
In this sale section customers can choose from black blue and fancy suits, priced initially from 22.50 to 30 dollars but now at 1 dollar per suit. All wool worsteds cashmeres are offered in light to heavy weights, originally 18 to 22.50 dollars, reduced to 14 dollars at the store.
A New York Sun article quotes a captain lamenting that Chinese sailors cannot learn to tie proper knots though they excel at splicing and line repairs. He notes others like Lascar Malay and Kanaka learn knots quickly, while Chinese hands persistently make the familiar granny knot. He warns knots are critical in storms and highlights cultural bias in training aboard ships.
The article notes many eye problems stem from habits and work. Tobacco is linked to color vision impairment and some authorities cite a tooth alignment connection with blindness. It describes nystagmus, often called miners' disease, as involuntary eye movement and contrasts it with glaucoma.
A brief tale recalls a humble Methodist minister passed over for lack of zeal and business acumen by a presiding elder. He is reassigned to a small, demanding settlement where hard work and meager means define his days, and sorrow lingers in his reflections.
An optician notes many rimless glasses are damaged when polishing lenses with a handkerchief. By gripping the nose piece, wear is placed on screws and threads, causing loosening, wobbling lenses, and wearer discomfort, with a suggestion it creates business.
Warm moist air rises and cools when forced by mountains causing condensation and rain. The height of peaks controls cloud formation and rain patterns. snow on tropical peaks forms persistent clouds that rarely break into showers, with moisture deposited on the peaks as air passes over.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote recalls a horse race crash where a driver urged another to rise, illustrating the value of keeping a bright outlook as the crowd prepared to return to the grandstand. The colored driver, later smiling through misfortune, embodies that mindset.
In a clipped exchange from the Cleveland Leader a man explains his boy sent on an errand hurt himself while running. The conversation reveals the errand never happened. instead the boy uncovered why a horse had fallen in the street.
A brief Detroit Free item notes amusement at a friend who watched billiards for an hour without offering playing tips, remarking on the observer’s favorable impression and the stranger’s unintrusive demeanor.
A fragment quotes Life saying faith means believing in what you cannot see. The passage contrasts an unseen sleeping baby with the certainty of belief, framing faith as conviction beyond perception.
A woman's great idea is to improve attractiveness through health. Constipation and kidney poisons cause pimples and a dull complexion, but Electric Bitters purify the blood, regulate stomach liver and kidneys, and improve nerves and skin. 50c at all druggists.
The article describes Earth’s daily rotation and yearly orbit, its axial precession, and planetary perturbations. It notes the Moon orbit around Earth, the Sun and system’s motion through space, and posits Alcyone in the Pleiades as a central reference point while the broader motion heads toward Hercules.
A fragment reflecting on a sunlit world and its orbiting contexts in Taurus, pondering the star’s silent twinkle and its significance to mankind as presented in the Chicago Tribune.
A mill manager printed stock notices on asbestos and mailed them in asbestos envelopes with Please Forward. He forgot to update addresses for some stockholders and a widow received her late husband’s notice with the instruction to forward beneath the address.
Leslie's Weekly describes a Portuguese courtship ritual where a suitor shadows a woman to her door, notes her address, and resumes with a balcony signal and elder inquiry before entry. The process ends with mutual approval and similar courtship to American towns.
A senator mocks a remedy as impracticable and cites George Washington’s cherry tree anecdote. He recalls the boy’s answer to his father about undoing a wrong by “chopping it up,” illustrating a jab at the proposed bill.
A witty exchange features Timpers boasting of a discovery and Twigg teasing him about knowing something others do not, ending with the jest that the joke is on his friends. The quip plays on the idea of cleverness and misperception.
A fragment notes Hoax-Yes and Hoax-Poor old Henpecke minds the baby. The Philadelphia Record remarks on the baby taking after its mother with a tone of wit.
A compact aphorism asserts that affectation is poverty’s attempt to sound opulent. It frames pretentious style as a misrepresentation of true means.
In the sixteenth century natives plotted to kill Spaniards. They tested methods by staging a staged drowning of a young Spaniard to prove their ability to kill. After the ruse, rebellion leaders began a general attack while authorities pondered the outcome. Redness hints at Chicago standings with a simple marking device.
An old advertisement promotes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as prompt treatment for cuts, gunshot or knife wounds, burns, boils, sores, skin eruptions, eczema, chapped hands, piles. It claims prevention of blood poisoning or gangrene and lists a 25 cent price at druggists.
In a humorous exchange a Mrs Newlywed accuses her spouse of marrying for gold. He retorts that if wealth were his aim he would have chosen easier means in South Africa or Alaska.
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A Chicago streetcar encounter shows a mourning grandmother obsessed with baseball. The gray haired grandma asks about the Cubs box and the day's game outcomes while the city breathes baseball in season.
The article extols blood transfusion as highly dramatic in surgery. It notes the rosy hue of health in patients and immediate recovery under the operator’s eye. It warns adults must not receive normal blood volumes, while children with severe hemorrhages may recover fully without convalescence after surgery.
The fanmaking craft in Pengshow Ampow near Swatow dates back centuries and remains a family enterprise. Open fans are crafted with split bamboo ribs, silk gauze faces, brush painted artwork, and bamboo or ivory handles, yielding shell shaped shells and delicate finishes.
A quip between speakers features a dramatic fall joke where one asks if a man survived a two story drop and another clarifies the setting is a fifty one story building, cited by a judge.
A brief quotation notes that the prodigal robs his heir while the miser robs himself attributed to Bruyere, reflecting on wealth and ethics in a succinct moral observation.
A caustic exchange aboard an ocean steamer shows Dr. William Everett quipping about a Harvard Boylston prize win. George Babbitt recalls voting for him as a first prize judge, noting an 8 to 2 vote with Everett as one of the dissenters.
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