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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1908
Page
4
Dr. Edward Ayres notes in Harper's Magazine that many insects possess compound eyes made of thousands of unit lenses. Locusts and houseflies show how lenses create vast vision, with eyelets ranging from 50 in ants to over 60,000 in certain beetles and butterflies, enabling extensive environmental awareness.
A four-year-old boy Clyde and his father stroll a meadow. Clyde spots tadpoles and asks what they are. The father explains tadpoles, suggests bringing them home to form a pond family. A large frog crosses the path prompting Clyde to ponder the papa.
A London Standard report describes Mexican schoolmasters rewarding diligent students by permitting cigars during lessons and a class smoke when group work pleases. The master, with a larger cigar, drinks liquor from a bottle kept on his desk, a privilege the pupils cannot share.
A British lieutenant in the Second battalion Lincolnshire regiment announced by advertisement that he renounced the names Quintus Tollemache-Tollemache Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache and would henceforth be known as Leo de Orellana Tollemache.
Various church and fraternal groups hold regular meetings on set Fridays and specific dates. Articles note Halloween events, library activity for October 1908, and engagements, with many clubs meeting at halls, homes, or parsonages across Ames.
Invitations from Mr and Mrs J B Cagwin and Mrs Mary Dunning invite guests to an at home next Tuesday Nov 10 Miss Sybil Leatner will give a monologue Priscilla club held a social in Alumni hall with music and guests in attendance Methodist ladies held tag day raising about 75 and lunch in O Briens building Entertainment led by Mrs Marian Kilbourne moved to Nov 14 due to large Omaha game crowd
Last Thursday evening the Baraca class of young men and the Philathea class of young women held their first annual banquet at the Church of Christ Bible school. Thirty two Philatheas and thirty Baraceas attended with Supt Arnold and wife, Mrs Leland and Mrs H D Williams. The Gamma Kappa class served the three course menu. After the tables were cleared the follow- up.
A Denver Post verse humorously praises a mother's skill with a hairpin solving common fixes. The poem recounts using a hairpin to fix a doorbell, a door lock, and jokes about repairing a busted watch and a bicycle, imagining how she would cure hard luck herself.
Frank A. Woodruff advertises a sale of fine apples at a low price at the North Western freight depot. Any quantity available and the apples will be sold until gone. An additional note reads I’m not a Dago.
An advertisement extols Chamberlains Cough Remedy as reliable and effective for colds and flu, noting it relieves lungs and aids restoration. It claims no opium or narcotics and can be given to babies, with J. E. Cagwin as the seller.
An invalid describes ivory jelly made from ivory dust from Sheffield. The jelly, prized for its supposed health benefits, is sold on a large scale by a Sheffield firm. The narrator and his doctor both approve after trying it, noting its pleasant taste and curative claims.
A French marquise hosts a hunting season at her country house and offers a guest register for desires and criticisms. Notes appear about debts, meal faults, and flirtations, including Louis owed and a baroness’s flirtations. The warguise has withdrawn the register.
An American Naturalist argues from air and eye color that blue eyed straight haired parents yield blue eyed straight haired children. Two wavy haired parents may have straight, wavy or curly offspring, with curly hair rare. Curly taired parents likely produce a lot of curly taired offspring.
The London Chronicle notes the bolster as a misused bed accessory. Dr Cantile claims wives used it lengthwise as a back support while lying on the side. It persists on beds of those who have not learned to discard it.
Memoirs describe Caroline as one of the most courageous figures. during a runaway carriage she kept speaking calmly to her husband the Duc de Berry, who asked if she saw the danger. She replied she saw it but could not stop the horses, and the carriage overturned without injuries.
In a Chicago Tribune storefront exchange an evangelist named Bill Snoo reconnects with Tom Grigson after twenty seven years. Grigson, now an insurance solicitor, asks about church membership and pitches life insurance from a leading company.
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