12 Nov 1903
Page 15
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1903
Page
15
Ben Enge, bound for Norway for the winter, plans to see relatives in Aerne and show a harness. A blast accident near Irwin Newby’s home injures none, when a dynamite blast in a stove explodes the kitchen stove and nearly destroys the room.
The Max well Tribune notes the sympathy of the entire community is extended to the family, reflecting a collective show of support.
A Washington clergyman recalls his first funeral and first wedding. He describes the widow hearing the eulogy from a doorway and the bride who chose to be married while seated due to her discomfort with the size difference. The anecdotes capture gentle humor and humane grace.
The article contrasts upland and hot country Mexicans shaped by two centuries of serfdom. It notes upland slaves built roads and farms under guards, while hot-land Indians preserved land inheritance and community roles. It links climate, land, and governance to different ambitions and social life in Mexican villages.
A Nantucket book recalls a Quaker practice of numbering months and weekdays. A schoolmaster used a chalkboard copy for writing class. The text links to the line Beauty fadeth soon like a rose in sixth month and to a reader’s tale of Robinson Crusoe and his good man Sixth Day.
In a Paris bookstore a customer sought a Balzac volume priced at 40 francs. The clerk suggested checking with the proprietor, who then offered it to the buyer for 25 francs and proudly displayed the bargain after purchase.
A youthful poet asks if his father has read his ode To the Pines. The father replies he has not but offers the axe and a task to cut pines for wood, remarking the pines owe him ten cords of wood.
The article surveys giants from biblical and historical accounts noting health, form, and degeneration. Goliath remains tall, while a second kingly giant had extra fingers signaling weakness. Marcel Donnal at Milan reports extreme height with frail legs. Other giants like Charles J.s porter and Cromwell's porter end in weakness or madness, and O'Brien is described as an enormous sick child who grew too fast.
A Philadelphia Press quip recounts a drug clerk fumbling for stamps and offering “two twos and a one” as a playful substitution. The amused lady jokes that habit betrayed him, highlighting a light urban exchange.
A celebrated statesman offers a formal public apology for a heated remark. He admits calling his political rival dishonest and unprincipled and expresses remorse in a calmer moment. The exchange reflects on temper and accountability in high office.
In London a penny buys space in a public advertisement machine. You write your notice, insert a penny, and the machine prints it in your own handwriting. The system lets people seek rooms a servant or a job by placing short notices for others to read.
The Ames Iowa city council resolves to lay an eight inch storm sewer along a described route from an existing line near lot two to a point two hundred feet east of Sycamore and Duff. The drain will use eight inch first grade tile with a one inch per hundred feet fall and condemnation of necessary land. a public meeting is set for December 7 1908.
City of Ames Iowa resolves to lay a first grade 12 inch drain from Duff and North to Douglass and across Park. Drain will be funded by abutting assessments with city share for crossing streets and basins. Meeting set December 7 1903 in City Council chamber.
Personal notice asks if the woman who collapsed before the post office last Thursday will call at L M Bosworth's shop. It claims biliousness and promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a remedy.
A short ad touts Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a perfect laxative praised by users. It lists 50¢ and $1.00 sizes and notes sale by L. M. Bosworth.
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