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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1902
Page
5
The article details various Chinese head coverings worn by different classes and roles. Ensigns wear a sugar loaf like wire structure, chair coolies a flatter version, boatmen a large rat tan hat, a scribe servant a multi- tiered cap, and mourners a grayish yellow turban.
Stephen A. Douglas once worked as a printer aiding Long John Wentworth in Chicago in 1838. Facing a $3,000 debt, Wentworth offered limited office space and asked whether 10 or 100 bills were needed. Douglas guessed 200 and helped by roller boy, getting the job done on the hand press.
A well known business man reflects on his bad breaks in Cleveland, recalling a visit where he and a friend toured a bizarre mansion mixing architectural styles. He likens the house to a monstrosity and notes a dinner at a club due to a headache from the new paint odor.
A man faces a minor punishment of ear slicing in Afghanistan but gains release after a bold ally and the ameer intervene. The ally asks to perform the operation and to see which ear portions will be removed. The ameer brushes them lightly, and the ally quotes a Koran passage declaring anything touched by God's representative sacred. The despot forgives both.
A Kennebec Journal anecdote recounts a Togus veterans home resident who dies and, at heaven's gate, claims to be an old soldier. St Peter asks origin, the veteran cites Togus, and the saint grants entry with a wary remark about the home’s fit.
A serious man warns a young man with a red necktie about betting on races. The young man hopes it all is a dream but acknowledges the likelihood of reality. The dialogue captures tension around gambling temptations.
A reader expresses eagerness to reach the end of a story, admitting to skipping nearly every other page as the suspense grows. The exchange reflects strong engagement and anticipation in a Chicago Record-Herald context.
A reflection on how advice loses value unless its givers accept blame for failures as readily as they praise successes. The author notes advice is often a nuisance until accountability is shared by those who offer it.
A Lincolnshire gentleman sent a swan to the Atheneum club for stuffing as a curiosity. The bird, claimed to be 280 years old and tied to Charles I, was boiled 13 hours and proved nearly inedible. The secretary realized the gag after the meal.
The Ladies' Home Journal lists prominent authors whose names appear with Shakespeare and Woolson. It catalogs figures such as Walter Raleigh Scott Wordsworth Irving Thackeray Longfellow Whittier Bryant Emerson Holmes Whitman Cowper Watts Beecher Webster Phillips Curtis White Howe Cable Howells Warner Gilder Blackstone Wesley Waller Willis Riley Higginson Mitchell Mabie Prescott Woolson Wilkins and many others.
A method for hardening small steel articles uses sealing wax. Heat the item to a cherry red and plunge into a large stick of wax for a minute, withdraw, reinsert, and repeat until the steel is cold and wax-resistant.
A humorous exchange cites marble cake as marble by a lady. Shiney Patches retorts the cake is granite highlighting a quarry joke in New York Herald style.
A San Francisco Bulletin cartoon caption notes that Mrs De Sneere never slanders her friends, implying she does not slander anyone. The line reflects social satire and character portrayal rather than a news event.
Mr. C. B. Whgfield of Fair Play Missouri credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with great relief after 35 years of chronic dysentery. Remedy sold by all druggists. Also ads for Homeseekers' Excursions to many US points, 1 fare plus 2 dollars round trip, return in 21 days, January and February.
Travel notes describe daily on sale round trip tourist tickets for a sleeping car service operated by agents in Chicago and the North Western Bay area to Los Angeles and San Francisco. The item emphasizes convenience and daily availability for coast bound travelers.
A traveler rates English country inns harshly for fraud in charges. He says landlords add fees for service lights and fire, making meals and rooms overpriced compared with Springfield Massachusetts or top hotels in Switzerland or Germany. Baedeker is deemed unable to recommend many English hotels.
The silhouette name comes from Etienne de Silhouette, a 18th century French minister of finance. It describes black profile portraits created by tracing a shadow’s outline on paper then scaling the image by eye or pantograph. Other methods include camera obscura and camera lucida.
In Troy Times prose a child named Georgie is shown an infant cousin and asks where the baby came from. His aunt replies God sent it, a question and prayer follow as the boy looks to the sky and asks for a divine send from above.
An 19th century advertisement claims nagging women suffer from nervous and health problems and promotes Electric Bitters as a cure for female troubles, nervous disorders, headaches, and weakness. It offers a free stem wind watch as a lure and directs readers to write Times-Republican in Marshalltown Iowa for details.
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