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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1905
Page
3
The page features social gags with Mrs Passay and her maid. a line about an alleged fortyish lady. a remark about finding a new job. catalogues to entertain the postman. and a quip about overly polite Dr Veriswell during illness.
A column detailing loon peculiarities such as tough hide and on the back births, observed diving behavior, and calls. It contrasts with the discovery of giant skeletons in Sicily near Palermo and Magrino, with heights claimed at thirty to forty-four feet and massive teeth.
A survey of reported giants from history and lore. Notable specimens include a ten foot giant exhibited in Rouen in 1830 and a fifteen foot head found in Tenerife caverns. Other tall remains include Isolent at thirty feet, a nineteen foot skeleton near Rouen in 1590, and a twenty-two foot Baert.
Dr Sanderson Christison notes deep sea fishes can swallow prey twice their size. The Chiasmedus niger, six and five eighths inches, reportedly swallowed a ten and a half inch fish. Deep sea foes endure immense pressure and cold, with bodies stretched and bones often fragile on ascent.
A London Truth letter recounts a nurse who shows a patient photographs to amuse him during severe illness. The images include a mortuary chapel a hospital skeleton and an operating theater with the nurse in the scene. The patient recalls distress from the grim pictures despite the nurse’s professional credentials.
In Cunningham’s Uganda and Its Peoples a village prophet decides a sick person’s fate, allowing death to fulfill the prophecy or prompting no medical help if recovery is foretold. A native explains goats’ flesh is forbidden for women simply because it is the custom with no further reason.
Advertisement claims a tired worn out woman cannot sleep eat or work and offers Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy to restore nerves and blood with 35 cent tea or tablets from L. M. Bosworth.
The article surveys historic footwear from ancient Rome to medieval Europe. It notes Greek shoes reaching mid leg, 1633 English fashion, wooden footwear of early princes, Jews using leather linen and wood, soldiers wearing brass or iron, Richard II era long shoes tied to knees, William Rufus era pointed shoes nicknamed horns, and Roman soles like the solea for home and calceus for outdoors.
A quip from Youth's Companion contrasts Patrick Henry's liberty or death with a Dutchman and his wife. The wife writes Victory or Death for a knapsack inscription, but the husband corrects with Victory, or come back again, reflecting on Revolutionary zeal and practical hope.
A Universalist minister at a Chicago Jewelers' club dinner intends to resume smoking for life after receiving a smoking set as a keepsake. Toastmaster William Porter Williams quips about the minister's pledge and its odd limits, noting the irony of a lifetime habit versus death.
After the Confederacy fell ex Senator Wigfall, a Texas Confederate congress member, joined a party of Union troops in the state. Disguised, he spoke with the guard and asked what they would do with “old Wigfall” if captured. They said they would hang him. Wigfall replied that he agreed and would help pull at the rope himself.
On April 29 1905 the Story County District Court appointed Mary S Buchanan administratrix of the estate of John A Buchanan deceased. All debts must be paid to the administratrix and all claims presented legally authenticated to the court for allowance. Gilbert Iowa date April 29 1905.
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