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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1904
Page
9
County supervisors consider authorizing jail housing for a prisoner due to crowded rooms. The case involves Marsh al Smith and city ordinance violations. The decision hinges on whether to place the inmate in the county jail.
The Nevada Journal reports that Roland teachers must attend meetings in Roland and Story City while McCalisburg teachers are instructed to attend sessions in Roland and Zearing. The article notes meetings occur in Ames and Story City.
Excur sion tickets to the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago available via the Northwestern Line. Tickets sold November 27 28 and 29 with return limit December 5 inclusive. Apply to agents Chicago and Northwestern Railway.
A fish described as a sea wolf caught by Esk fishermen at Montrose Scotland is detailed with measurements of its large mouth and fifty two inch circumference. The creature shows two paw like fins and five fingered membranes. Its stomach contained a whole sea gull and a live eel after the bird was removed.
A quote from Eugene Wood in Everybody's Magazine praises cold baths for elderly vitality. He cites seniors who bathe daily, even wading through snow, and argues cold immersion plus brisk rubbing could boost health and energy.
A Washington street encounter ends with a negro driver avoiding crossing a funeral cortege after a two block chase. He asks the lead driver to pause so he can pass because his passenger is in a hurry while the hearse's procession moves briskly.
In certain towns along the lower Rhine a centuried custom continues. On auction day the town crier gathers the young people and selects maidens who are then bid upon to dance with them for the year. Fees from the sale go to the public poor box.
A dialogue between Holden and Tilden shows a woman refusing marriage while a young lawyer assumes a favorable verdict. The Boston Transcript and London Telegraph style exchange captures social tones and courtroom optimism.
Physicians increasingly argue that heavy athletics harm general health. They claim muscle building is unnecessary for fitness and extreme training strains nerves. They warn built up muscles may degenerate and the heart shared in this muscular risk.
The text argues Cromwell’s execution of Charles I was strategic yet fatal, driven by army wrath and political necessity rather than bloodlust. It contrasts Cromwell’s motives with apparent mercy and notes lasting national and ideological repercussions, including martyrdom’s enduring influence.
The article describes Australia's foster care system with local volunteer societies finding homes for waifs and paying foster parents about $1.25 weekly. It explains the selection process, schooling, and eventual independence, plus a note on state costs and social benefits. It also recounts Senator Cullom’s quip to John Simpson in Springfield during the 1900 campaign, ending with Simpson returning to the Republican fold.
An old railway official argues that a personal pillow solves sleep problems away from home. He notes he always packs his pillow, believing sleeping without one is the ideal learned in childhood, with the next best option being a familiar pillow wherever possible.
A renowned naturalist recalls a Hebrides summer experience where eels left the sea and moved into a small stream flowing from a shallow loch. Sizes ranged from threadlike to two or three pounds. migration lasted a week and yielded about fifty eels captured near high tide. A highland shepherd declined the feast, saying he would be for eating snakes.
Darwin links blushing to heightened self scrutiny when under criticism or observation and describes physiological changes. Melinard offers a contrasting view that blushing stems from confusion about being unmasked, with a child showing no blush when concealment isn’t needed and lovers blushing only while hiding feelings.
Dr Forel lists ant mental processes with examples showing how success heightens both perception and behavior in social insect activity. The excerpt discusses attention, learning, and problem solving in ant colonies.
A patron complains about a two day turnaround for umbrella recovery at a shop. The attendant insists the repair will be done while you wait but asks her not to begin waiting until the day after tomorrow, highlighting a difference between advertisement and execution.
Three centuries ago the great statute of James 1. made felons all who use or consult evil spirits or perform witchcraft. It punished those who raised witches from graves or used body parts for sorcery, leading to executions for more than a century.
An English scientist questions the necessity of nostril breathing for children under exertion while London Hospital argues otherwise. The piece notes North American tribes enforcing mouth closure for vigorous activity and references Catlin’s observations. The scientist asserts nostrils may be too narrow for exclusive nasal breathing yet cites nasal breathing as beneficial for development.
At Madrid Casa de Campo a pigeon shooting match pitted the king against Senor Rivero, notable of Xeres. Rivero first gave the king a horse he admired. The king refused the gift but later exchanged, sending back a superb royal horse. Rivero sent the original horse as a token, and the king reciprocated with a top royal horse.
The term mare's nest traces to a Saxon demon Mara that sits on sleepers, guarding imagined treasure. The phrase marks a claimed discovery widely regarded as false and indicating an imagined prize.
A college graduate agrees to a clerkship offered by a merchant. He worries about whether the firm can afford the pay but accepts the starter role with the stated pay. The exchange appears in the Philadelphia Press.
A woman asks to see the janitor with a request about an apartment. She inquires if there is an appointment, conveyed in Brooklyn Life style.
Mrs. Henry Graham writes in the Onlooker that when acquaintanceship ripens into friendship a serious life unfolds. True friendship requires giving one’s real self and cannot be easily withdrawn, even when pleasures fade, shaping how men and women interact on neutral ground.
The London Telegraph recounts how the i and j originated from the same letter, with the i dot and accent evolving from medieval practices. It explains how the dot began in MSS, the shift to a dot over i and later over j, and the stylistic changes in I during the fifteenth century.
Noted Japanese gardens owe charm to numerous lanterns, many bronze and richly carved. The finest examples, antique in origin, are seen at Nik kho, renowned for exquisite bronzes shaping traditional native designs.
A New Orleans Picayune exchange jokes about living authors struggling to match the steady output of dead writers who publish new volumes yearly. The brief quip contrasts the prolific dead with living writers.
A reflective line on chasing trouble. a wary man learns that pursuing danger leaves little room for escape. The quotation frames risk as an inescapable pursuit.
The article recalls homing pigeons kept prisoner for years and then returning home when freed. It cites Belgian imports drowned at sea and a French homing pigeon captured during the siege of Paris that, after ten years in confinement, immediately sought its home, illustrating strong memory and attachment.
A French academy member reports twenty five animal experiments finding poisoned blood remains active after dilution of one trillion and one thousand. The average homeopathic dose strength lies between the third and sixth decimal, challenging claims that there is no medicine in a homeopathic dose.
A sale event on November 26, 1904 from 2 to 3 o'clock offers free Haviland bread and butter plates with each purchase of a china cups and saucers and breakfast plates set priced at 2.25. The promotion targets ladies shopping at the 29-2 Novelty Stores.
A notice inviting businessmen and manufacturers to obtain a map and Maple Leaflets from W. J. Reed Industrial Agent at 604 Endicott Building Saint Paul Minnesota. The message promotes locating along the Chicago Great Western Railway line with an available map for prospective users and investors.
Tourist tickets go on sale daily in winter for Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo via the Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern Line. Tickets are offered at reduced rates on fast through trains with high class equipment. For maps booklets and Colorado hotel rates contact ticket agents Chicago Northwestern Ry. 28 31.
A cracker jack second hand soft coal heater is offered for ten dollars. Inquire at this office.
An old style advertisement touts Dr. Kings New Life Pills as a cure for dyspepsia jaundice fever and constipation. The copy claims the pills work regardless of age and lists L M Bosworth's drug store as the seller for 25 cents.
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