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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1896
Page
12
A scene unfolds with Naney Balzer and Mrs Carr as a prodigal father arrives for milk and the town discusses his restless life. Kendall’s visit to Melford prompts talk of his distant ventures and the family’s rising fortunes.
A sermon centers on the idea all are astray like sheep and Christ bearing the iniquity of all. The preacher contrasts worldly pasturage with divine comfort and urges repentance, faith, and accepting Jesus to lift sins from believers.
A collage of verse, dialogue, and ads features Susan Simpson and Stephen Slocum in playful rhymes, quips on poetry and manners, and snippets of advertisements. Includes product pitches, seed company catalog blurbs, and a notarized catarrh cure testimonial from Hall’s. Also notes a joke about women’s instincts and a western land feature.
A mine worker waiting for dynamite sticks saved his life by catching a falling stick as it zigzagged toward him. He stood at the shaft bottom when the buck et struck a obstacle and the stick began its dangerous descent. His quick catch, likened to cricket, prevented a fatal explosion.
A year end tally records Americans aged 100 and over who died in 1895. Two thirds were women, mostly white, with thirteen colored centenarians among the dead. The oldest was a colored man at 125, while a white man in St. Louis claimed 140 but was likely 121. The oldest white woman reached 120, and fourteen people were aged 119 to 125.
An article notes Africa’s ant hills as the largest structures on Earth relative to builder size. Some mounds reach fifteen feet high and nine feet in diameter, implying a human habitation scaled similarly would tower about seven miles high.
Rev Dr Ferguson in Glasgow lauds three African chiefs visiting Scotland as a powerful temperance lesson. He cites gospel as salvation for all and calls the chiefs a temperance missionary force teaching Queen Victoria and Mr Chamberlain, arguing prohibition should spread to home shores from King Khama’s territory.
A religious leader urges voters to carry faith into politics and vote against corruption. He argues that integrity will be judged by God and rewarded in the end, even if one votes alone.
A meditation on thanksgiving as vital breath and life. It argues gratitude survives only if expressed and warns that without expression one loses the sense of thankfulness.
In Mangles dialogue, the citizen notes every man in town is devout except for a Tuesday and Friday morning hour when they gather to trade nine horses.
A professor admonished a student for omitting a critical fact in a rescue story. He noted the boy was saved just as he went under the third time, stressing the need to include the dramatic rescue moment in the report.
A caller complains of chronic insomnia despite low wages and brief awakenings. The physician notes the condition and proposes treatment after the exchange reveals the caller’s limited sleep.
A humorous exchange about advertising in business and marriage. The daughter’s suitors are implied by a merchant who says he advertised his business rather than seeking a husband for his daughter.
A fragment shows a dialogue about pain during a dentist visit and a bill from Fergus. The sparse text implies a question about experiencing pain and a reply noting pain only when Fergus presented the bill.
Two unnamed shades converse in a dim passage asking for the paved path that aligns with their good intentions in a surreal setting. The dialogue hints at guidance and moral direction within a moody realm.
A comic exchange shows Mr Tait asking about a typewriter bell and Miss Ribbon explaining she borrowed it briefly for her bicycle causing confusion. The dialogue showcases light quirky wordplay and domestic humor between two characters.
A dramatist recalls his greatest success when Sinbad, a 40 to 1 shot at Morris Park, won. The remark reflects on a career high point and the joy of a dramatic victory.
A fragmentary exchange shows a bank cashier and a rounder arguing about identification in a daytime setting. The text hints at a nonstandard banking scene with tension over entry and security in what seems like a historical reads.
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