A Boy's Reasoning on Why Apples Fall
A classroom scene shows a teacher quizzing pupils after a Newton and apple story. A small boy raises a dirty hand and answers with blunt honesty, saying the apple falls because it is rotten.
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1894
Page
2
A Sure Hemedy
Adams and Brown discuss tobacco use with a blunt exchange about cravings and quitting. Brown admits initial hardship then jokes that resuming smoking eased the urge, illustrating a humorous take on quitting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Brown
Misery After Meals and a Stomach Bitters Remedy
An old defense of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal tonic. Claims relief from dyspepsia heartburn flatulence and liver issues. Promotes better appetite sleep and digestion with a wineglass before or after meals and at night. Also advised for malaria kidney rheumatic troubles and constipation.
Man who lives to please himself has a bard master
A short aphorism notes that a self centered life lacks virtue while a gifted poet guides such a person to higher aims. The saying contrasts egotism with artistic mentorship.
Midnight Photographs of Broadway Audience
A new photographic method by Mr. Rockwood captures a Broadway Theatre audience between eleven and twelve at night using a pyrotechnic compound. The result shows pictures at midnight rivaling noon daylight, suggesting future morning papers may publish events from the prior day and night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway Theatre
Mr. Rockwood
Phoer
Rockwood
An assortment of plant notes and a seafood crossfish fact
A collection notes plant origins and dates including the aniseed tree in Florida noted in 1722 the first American coffee by Dutch planters in Surinam 1718 and the trumpet honeysuckle first observed in 1656. Also mentions a pink crossfish in Chinese waters and California wine production per national population last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
America
Surinam
California
United States
Little Tom Thumb and Barnum Aboard Havana Tour
The narrator recalls Charles Stratton, the American Tom Thumb, age ten though billed as sixteen, performing in New Orleans and Havana in 1848. He notes Stratton’s size, manners, chess skill, and a $1,500 two horse coach gift from Queen Victoria, with Barnum’s restrained yet engaging persona and friendship during their travels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Sherwood Stratton
Tom Thumb
St. Louis Hotel
New Orleans
Frederick the Great
Duke of Wellington
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon
Washington House
Obra Pia Street
Havana
Barnum
Europe
Jeffrey Hudson
Charles S. Stratton
Sid Poe
Tom
Quebec Fortifications Face Decay Threat to Citadel
A New York Sun Quebec correspondent reports alarming neglect of the citadel and city walls. The 1823 earthwork system, rebuilt at cost around 25 million dollars, risks collapse without stricter maintenance and an enhanced artillery and engineering detachment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old City
Quebec
New York Sun
Old Plains of Abraham
Canada
Royal Engineers
Department of Militia and Defense
Panet
Bigot
Louis XIV
Duke of Wellington
Exasperated Customer Strikes Dressmaker in Court Row
A Pittsburg justice's court heard a case where a woman who waited years for a dress hit the dressmaker in a fit of anger after repeated delays. The judge dismissed the action, sparking discussion that such rulings could influence future gendered liability in trade disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Bouncer Applicant Brags of Injury-Relief Museum Past
A restaurant owner seeks a muscular man able to handle trouble. The applicant claims bold readiness and cites past work as an injury-rubber man in a dime museum. The exchange hints at doubts about actual bouncer skills despite confidence.
Oregon family traps huge squirrel harvest saves crop
At Heppner Oregon three sisters aged 11 and younger trapped 1864 squirrels in a year. Their father also shot and trapped over 1000 pests and their combined effort saved the family crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heppner
Oregon
Married, of Course. Yes
A sharp exchange reveals a husband boasting of his independence and a wife rebuking his claim, underscoring their tense dynamic. The dialogue hints at relational power and personal autonomy within a marriage.
World Notes and Curiosities from Across the Globe
Australia leads in places of worship per capita. A Heckmann violin sold at Mannheim for 3000 dollars to a Dutch virtuoso. Moscow builds a czar funded conservatory for 1000 pupils at 400000 dollars. Landseer’s St John’s Wood home to be torn down for a rail line, studio walls still bearing his paintings. Walbrodt defeats Tarrasch in 51 games with 42 wins 5 losses 4 draws. Baden to fund 10000 dollars for sulphur baths for rheumatic horses. Two London sisters aged 60 and 54 in long domestic service totaling 75 years with one 40 and the other 35 years served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Robert Heckmann
Mannheim
Holland
Moscow
Conservatory of Music
Sir Elwin Landseer
St. John’s Wood Road
Nuremberg
Herr Walbrodt
Tarrasch
Walbrodt
Baden
London
Cure Deafness with Constitutional Remedies Warned
An advertisement claims deafness stems from inflamed mucous tissue and Eustachian tube issues. It asserts nine of ten cases come from catarrh and promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for uncured cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
C.a
All's Family
The Best Evening Ties for Staying Home After Dark
A concise guide notes that the finest evening ties help a man remain at home after dark, balancing style with comfort for late hours. It emphasizes practical design and versatile, dark tones suitable for relaxed, informal evenings.
Luxuriously Appointed Electric Trains Promote Warm Travel
An old Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul advertisement touts warm steam heated vestibule cars for Chicago to St. Paul Minneapolis and Chicago to Omaha Sioux City routes. It invites readers to obtain passage and sleeping car tickets via coupon agents, with contact for Geo H Heaford in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Omaha
Sioux City
Geo. H. Heafford
Invest Now In The Youth's Companion Reading Offer
An advertisement urges subscriptions to The Youth's Companion at 1.75 yearly with free issue access until December 5, 1895. Notable contributors include Mr Gladstone, Queen Victoria's daughters, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, and J T Trowbridge. Also notes a Vicks/ Piso remedy claim and a quip about truth in horse trades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone
Queen Victoria
Rudyard Kipling
Mark Twain
J. T. Trowbridge
Boston
Mass
Teething Syrups and Curious Quotes Ad Pack
An old advertisement compilation lists Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, Hegemann's camphor ice, and Hanson’s Magic Corn Salve with price. It intersperses assorted aphorisms and observations on happiness, time, and distant relatives, reflecting a miscellany of late 19th or early 20th century ad content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanson
Varied Oddities Reported From Across The World
A Georgia school pupil is described as a forty three year old negro woman. A village church on the Ottawa river houses a Virgin Mary statue gifted by Louis XIV. A North Carolina man has a head thirty two inches around. The shah of Persia owns a twelve inch Shetland pony. London sells a ton of cat tails for ladies wear, implying nearly two million cats killed. One West India island is said to be inhabited solely by large turtles that undermine homes and attack inhabitants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Oka
Ottawa River
Louis XIV
Abner Dorsett
Hickory Mountain Township
North Carolina
Shah of Persia
Burdett- Coutts
London
West India Islands
Coarse sunflower stalks lift paper and other notes
A period piece notes a coarse wrapping paper made from sunflower stalks and mentions glassine parchment as a new book cover protection. It also compares animal brains with humans and quotes sea level visibility for objects of 100 and 500 feet high. Prices for aluminum are given, tracing a drop from $16 to about 50 cents per pound over time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Feminities and social notes in a late 19th century paper
A collage of remarks on women’s progress and social norms. Topics include women admitted to the New York bar on equal terms with men, women in Johns Hopkins medical training, quips about cooks and wives, phrenology advice on choosing a wife, a Vienna widow leaving fortune to weavers, Egyptian burial vs home priorities, and a deaf girl in Long Island regaining speech after an electric storm shock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State
Johns Hopkins University
Frau Kathi Hoffman
Vienna
Long Island
They Were Twins and Other Notes on Names and Birthplaces
A mother shows two half fare tickets for her twins at a railway station. The clerk asks ages and birthplaces, with the mother noting one twin born in New York and the other in Paris. The text closes with aphorisms about treasures in heaven and Moses and the promised land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thar
New York
Paris
Also Mentioned on This Page
California Fig Syrup Co
DR. McCrew
4Th & Farrawm Sts
Ner
Im Hgh
Oxford Mfc. CO
Clothing Dept
Cape
Wabesh Ave
Ili
Lion Nerve
Lilliputian
P. T. Barnum
Over the Sea
Hegemann
C. C. G. Clark Co
New Haven
Liang
Cana
Dian
Royal Baking Powder CO
Wall ST
Heaven
Moses
Scott & Bowne
N.Y
Dr. Pierce
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Main St
Bupfalo, N. WY
Burbank
Stark
Louisiana
Rockport
Colchester
Shestrer Prulber CO
W.L. DougLas
Brockton
W. L. Douglas
W.n. U
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