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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
3
A reader recalls the opsonic test showing blood efficiency against germs and explains smoking reduces this power. The piece notes scarlet fever deaths are dropping as doctors shift from heavy drugs to cleanliness, air, and antiseptics, emphasizing prevention over treatment.
Desolation Island or Kerguelen Land lies in the Indian Ocean as a desolate, inhospitable area. France claims nominal possession since 1803 though much of its interior is snow fields and treacherous mudholes with a brutal climate and rare fine days.
A Kirk class reading the tale of Joseph and his brothers prompts a visiting minister to question the pupils. One boy answers, “They sold their brother Joseph,” and adds, “they selt him over cheap,” highlighting the lesson with a child’s wit.
Horace Higgsworthy claims to love his wife for her mind and heart, while she mocks his vanity. She ends by darning his socks with renewed energy, torn between scolding and crying in a light domestic vignette.
The article notes scarlet fever as a long-standing eruptive disease now rising as a major threat after smallpox declines. It cites Thucydides and medical authorities, describing scarlet fever as a centuries old malady that has plagued white populations worldwide despite strong medical efforts.
Uncle Silas describes a homemade attic telescope that lets him enjoy the sky. He notes Hester used it to pry into neighbors' lives, seeing how the Pritchard family dries apples and other private details, sparking a caution about nosiness.
Lossing recalls 1848 Oswego meeting with Major Cochran then nearly eighty, a Schuyler in law who recounted his Adams era election to Congress. A lake vessel launch drew distant visitors and a dance ended with Cochran performing on a fiddle. A guest praised him as "fit for congress" and he was elected to represent New York west of Schenectady. He claimed to have fiddled himself into Congress.
A young Chicagoan visits a publisher to say he will write a book and wants the publisher to handle it. He hints the work will be a livelier version of Les Miserables. The exchange appears in Lippincott's.
A serving lady tells Lamson that every dish at the church supper was cooked by his wife. Lamson replies he is not hungry, calmly accepting the remark and ending the moment with a wry show of disinterest.
Evelyn and George discuss Clarence a conversational foozle who mixes golf and romance. Evelyn recalls meeting Clarence and notes his odd behavior as illustrated in Bits.
A patient’s wife reports the husband swore at every dose as the doctor asks if he followed instructions and took the medicine religiously in a recount of a medical consultation.
Wertz received an old fashioned clock and hung it in his bedroom. After winding it, he slept and woke to eight cuckoo sounds. Startled, he listened, then slept again until the clock struck 2 AM. A light sleeper, he stopped the clock the next evening.
The senior Wertz offers Ford the heirloom clock if he winds it every morning. The next day the boy seems tired, claiming restless sleep hour by hour, while the family breakfast conversation reveals little beyond his fatigue. The item appears in the Kansas City Times.
In a Solomon beach encounter the narrator stops a mob from killing a girl and her mother. He asserts leverage with his rifle, defends the child’s life, and agrees to buy the girl to avert a mass conflict, transforming himself into a de facto slave owner per the account in Among the Man Eaters.
The century plant, though named for a long cycle, actually blooms once in a span of 15 to 50 years depending on climate. Native to northern Mexico where known as maguey, it provides pulque and, when flowering, produces a tall twelve to twenty foot stalk with tassel like blossoms before the plant withers away.
Capt Jones warns recruits that a well disciplined soldier should ignore insults in public and walk away. He tests comprehension by asking Private Jenkins what to do in an inn quarrel and Jenkins replies by humorous misstatement. The London Pick-Me-Up item reflects wartime military etiquette.
Dialogue features Bones and Tam bo Ah with a joke about pastry and paste. The line underscores a playful exchange on differences in puff pastry versus pasty filling in a minstrel context.
A witty exchange notes that it takes six generations to make a gentleman but only one to unmake him. The remark contrasts boastful self-image with a calm judgment on character.
A 65 to 70 degree north latitude scale of cold describes effects from fifteen degrees above zero as pleasantly warm to thirty degrees below zero as very cold. It notes the need to keep fingers and toes in motion and to rub the nose occasionally.
A fragmentary Chicago Record Herald note recalls extreme cold dangers with advice to stay awake keep eyes muffled and test circulation to avoid freezing. The stark line Fifty degrees below zero marks a perilous survival scenario.
A trainer explains proper horse petting focusing on rubbing the eyelids and between the ears rather than the nose. He notes city dwellers often miss the nerve centers and that country upbringing yields better understanding of horses.
A collection of peculiar English book titles from Cromwell era times. They include playful phrases about saints, charitable biscuits, and vivid metaphors for spiritual devotion.
A seaman quips that the sailor's prayer book name comes from kneeling while holystoning the deck on Sundays. He jokes the chant about work and rest echoes Six days shalt thou work and on the seventh holystone the decks. The stone’s name allegedly stems from old tombstones, adding a paradox of piety and profanity at sea.
A self made itinerant preacher argues that formal education isn’t needed for the ministry, claiming the Lord opened his mouth without education. A college graduate notes a biblical parallel to Balaam.
A Kansas City Journal item recalls an Indian listener saying quote heap scrap about a local candidate. The exchange ends with the mock retort scrap heap and a comment on the election outcome.
The article notes scenic artists craft panoramic effects from a high paint bridge, managing drafts and tremors to maintain illusion. It details the need for foldable scenery five feet nine inches wide to fit six foot baggage car doors and for rapid scene changes within ten minutes, with up to thirty hours to set up.
A New York Press report describes a highly refined London dogs club near Regent Street offering plush rooms, lace veiled windows, and soft furnishings. Membership costs half a sovereign with extra charges for baths, meals, and grooming. a veterinary is attached and quarantines sick dogs in a separate room.
A young woman who spends much of her time copying at the Metropolitan Museum of Art recalls praise from a critic and a gallery guard as her work gains value. The framer proposes a frame costing 3.08 dollars, suggesting she opt for cheaper framing.
A historical note explains how the term temse, an old sieve, paired with Thames pronunciation led to the saying that a stupid person will never set the river on fire. The tale links flour sifts, memory of a sieve, and a famous river in a compact linguistic anecdote.
A woman recalls starting out with a long polite dissertation and now simply asks for “Apartments” “Rooms” or “Keep ’em” from elevator men and janitors to save time. The comment reflects a practical approach learned during difficult searches in New York.
Dialogue humor shows a boy blaming others after being told his class rank. Johnnie protests that the issue lies with peers and actions of Tommy Tull being sent to reform school. The brief exchange captures classroom discipline and juvenile behavior.
In a London Tit-Bits exchange, a caller consoles a driver who survived a motor accident. The respondent downplays injuries, expressing confidence in enduring many more years.
A dialogue fragment shows Little Flora questioning Mamma about being a girl. Mamma affirms she is now a woman and recalls a past as a little girl, prompting Flora to wonder what happened to that former self. Chicago News
The examiner asks what steam is and Patrick answers with confident humor describing steam as something that heat makes chaotic. The remark is playful and captured in a light moment.
A terse aphorism notes that one may master moral suffering through labor and that study protects against discouragement, attributed to DY Abrantes.
Clifton Johnson in Outing Magazine describes logger culture as leisure driven by money and alcohol. He notes the tendency to drink or attend church on Saturday nights, with loggers often traveling in crews by wagon to camp after socializing in town.
The Etruscan vases, though produced in Batruria, are Greek in origin and art. They feature elegant forms with foliage and figures, some with black figures on red ground dating to about 600 B C and others with reversed coloring dating about a century later, spanning 300 to 350 years.
The fragment hints at a discussion on the cost of living and consumer prices. It appears to be a question about whether the price level affects daily life, possibly from an opinion or civic discussion column.
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