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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
8
A presidential commission on country life circulates questions across the nation. Ames residents mock up answers about farming, schooling, transportation, and government aid, proposing satire from butter to Merry Widow hats. The piece ends with a tale of Mrs. Nuttall supplying iron wheelbarrows to Indian workers who misapply them.
A Glasgow News item recounts Rev Simon Turpie whose sermons loop endlessly. A South Africa bound youth returns years later to hear the same tale about two sparrows for threepence, noting only that the price remains unchanged at the old figure.
Archaeologist Mrs. Zelia Nuttall conducts excavations in Mexico. Indigenous workers move earth away from the dig site using their customary method.
An infrequent theatergoer recalls buying a ticket and probing seat letters. He learns a front row single is in O and discovers the vendor notes no A in the theater and no I in any orchestra in town. The anecdote ends with buying the ticket despite the confusion.
A writer in Near East questions why Slivnitsa’s plain is called a great decisive battle of world history It did not settle the Serbo Bulgarian war of 1885 Austria’s intervention did The battle’s legend rests on both sides believing they were defeated Milan of Servia rushed home while Alexander of Bulgaria rode back in vain effort The village today appears sleepy poor and dirty yet cheerful in sunshine over red roofs
An Irish worker named Mike moved a sign reading To Motorists This Hill Is Dangerous to the bottom of a steep hill. When his employer found it, he scolded him for not placing the sign correctly. Mike replied Share and ain't it. Don't all the accidents happen at the bottom.
Harduppe begs Riggs for a hundred dollars calling himself broke. Riggs jokes that he is broke, while Harduppe insists he is serious, ending with a witty rebuke about being cracked. The brief captures a humorous exchange between two old fellows with a Catholic undertone.
A storyteller recalls a 1990s hunting tale where four squads chased rabbits for an oyster supper. Rabbits were ears only, partners paid kids to bring earless rabbits, and the rival crew outdid them with a larger haul, paying for the feast with a silver dollar trick.
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