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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1911
Page
7
A wife accuses cruelty after her husband throws things over meals. The judge refuses divorce but censures the husband in private, noting his wife’s cooking and new salad experiments as the trigger. The couple clasp hands and weep as the scene ends.
The article recalls antique funeral rites with life like effigies carried before the corpse and set in glass cases above vaults. It notes wooden and plaster heads, poetry attached to hearses, and poets like Skelton Ben Jonson earning epitaphs for abbey use. It cites Westminster Gazette as a source.
An overdressed woman cuts queue at the box office in the theater lobby but is rebuffed with a reminder of line precedence. She insists she wants only change for a dime and leaves after being told no tickets will be sold until others are served.
Annual rite during the seventh Chinese month honors land and sea devils. Seven priests chant and beat clouds of noise while worshipers pay fees for twelve hours of performance and optional red paper boats with lights to guide sea devils. The ritual is viewed as a yearly insurance against illness and drowning. Thousands of lighted boats float on the Yangtse kiang each season.
A high ranking official states the revenue flag flown over U S customs houses has no legal standing and is not protected by law from public display or destruction on land or at sea. The tradition sustains its use though the banner legally lacks recognition.
The article recalls the 1700 act establishing the revenue cutter service and the 1799 act authorizing an ensign for cutters and boats. It notes the ensign’s role to distinguish service vessels and its historical display over custom houses, with mentions of revisions and presidential prescriptions.
The article describes a rapid beauty routine with a paste of almond meal and warm water, followed by skin care to soften reactions. It advises lemon application and a cool rinse, ending with a facial patting ritual and a final look in the mirror for a promised cosmetic result.
The New York World explains how a ship must balance center of gravity and buoyancy to withstand contrary winds and waves. It warns that poor design risks capsizing, with stern light or heavy, and warps in buoyant forces affecting stability.
A Harpers Weekly piece notes the silkworm Bombyx mori is highly domesticated, unable to meet global silk demand, and kept in slavery by humans for 4500 years in China. It also explains wild silk from Saturniidae, especially Antheraea mylitta producing tussah silk in India.
In a midwestern coal mine examination described by Joseph Husband in Atlantic Monthly, workers halted operations and stayed above ground for days. Luke Pavis, a sixty year old miner, voiced widespread complaints about air quality and health after the shutdown.
One party claims to be first to leave a gathering while mentioning a beautiful umbrella as proof. The exchange between Mr. and Mrs. Jawback appears in a Toledo Blade snippet, reflecting domestic humor.
In a Sunday School scene a teacher asks what conscience is and what a monitor does. Johnny and Tommy respond with brief, quirky lines reflecting classroom shorthand and urban slang. The Chicago News snippet captures a humorous, fragmentary exchange.
The piece argues against idol worship and constant revision of history. It lists figures like Helen, Nero, Henry Wil, William 17, Eugene Aram, and Cain as victims of sensational critique. The author warns that overcorrecting praise could erase genuine villains and heroes.
The article explains that sound is a wave in air and can be focused using a rubber or collodion lens filled with a heavier gas, forming a conjugate focus where a distant watch is heard most clearly. drawing a parallel to optical lenses and light.
A woman plans to read the riot act to Maria while wearing a party gown. The home dressmaker objects about grease in the kitchen but the speaker insists clothes will force respect and possibly reform. The quote, sourced from the New York Press, notes Maria’s judgment of others by attire.
Mrs. Leslie Milne recounts building a bamboo house at Nar Kham in the Shan States. Work stalled until a wise man required an extra large offering to please spirits of Saturday and Sunday, after which construction began the next day.
Peculiar sands in Kauai and Colorado are described as singing or barking when clapped or shaken. The article notes that Kauai’s favalian sands emit shrill noises, while Colorado desolate sands move with the wind across the clay plain.
The text describes desert sands that hum or sing due to their perfectly spherical grains. Under a microscope the grains roll easily, explaining rapid movement across the desert. A theory suggests a thin film of cas that coats the grains causes their vocal properties to vanish when removed.
A Penys Diary entry from Septesby describes a claim that a cousin of the town sent a force to Winchcombe in Gloucestershire to ruin the toonees tobacco crop. The report says locals would resist, viewing the act as dangerous and a longstanding burden on the port. The Loudon Globe is cited.
The text explains a European class organization called the Congress des Masses Moyerne translating to Congress of the Middle Classes. It notes the French middle classes align with the German mith stand and include town and country middlemen, contractors, master builders, and clerks. It mentions an annual luncheon where France’s most distinguished men are invited to speak.
The article notes Lake Geneva between the Alps and Jura moderates climate by heating waters in summer and releasing heat slowly in autumn. It warns that over 64,000 years the River Rhone will shift its course, turning the valley into a broad plain by carrying soil from the mountains.
The Templars began about 1118 to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land. Baldwin II of Jerusalem is named as founder. Jealous rulers seized wealth and pressured the order, leading to persecution that ended in 1312 after a long decline following abolition in 1312.
A Louisville Courier Journal exchange shows a merchant questioning the value of political interviews while the reporter defends their public interest. The merchant jokes about exposing bargains if interviewed.
An excerpt features Uncle and Nephew discussing health risks of bacteria on paper money. The nephew pleads for notes as he expresses exhaustion with life, while a caption Freie Dinge Flugende Blatter appears.
A terse remark advises silence when no message exists, championing restraint over chatter. The line emphasizes value in saying nothing rather than filler talk.
The largest flower in the world is the rafflesia native to Sumatra. It features five brick colored petals about a foot wide with yellowish swellings, a cup nearly a foot across, and a fleshy disk with horn like projections. The cup holds about twelve pints and the flower weighs about fifteen pounds.
The rhinoceros horn often reaches four feet in length and was once used as royal drinking cups. The practice involved placing poison in the horn to reveal itself by bubbling. The idea appears in the London Telegraph account of ancient uses and the horn’s chemical properties.
A New York Sun summary notes that colds are infectious fevers spreading mainly in cities, not caused by weather changes. Contagion via intimate contact in crowds explains outbreaks in churches theaters and offices. People with frequent winter coughs or crowded workplaces are especially susceptible.
The article describes entreurage exposing beef fat to odors in closed boxes to extract flower scents for perfumes. It lists flowers such as violet jasmine tuberose rose and cassie, and notes dozens of scent pairings. It also covers essential oils including sandalwood bergamot lemon rosemary nerol patchouli and attar of roses, with musk as a common but costly ingredient.
The London Mall describes Cettinje Montenegro as housing prisoners without walls or hard labor. Inmates live comfortable lives with ample food and cigarettes, and workers can leave by being sent on errands and return unaided. A guard-dependent system allows breaches without fear of escape.
A Norwegian and northern German bread tradition explains gristle bread as a loaf with an outer crust formed by a first bake, then flipped and returned to oven to set the gristle. Bakers in Norway and immigrant bakeries serve Norwegian patrons who favor it.
A blushing girl questions her fiancé about parental consent. Egbert says the father did not commit, leaving their engagement unclear as Eeby recounts a failed attempt to secure approval. The scene ends with a violent interruption during the confrontation.
The text argues theater emerged in Athens from Bacchic feasts as tragedy and comedy split. Aristophanes is dubbed father of Greek comedy for lampooning Athenians, while Aeschylus is hailed as creator of Greek tragedy born in 525 BC and praised for unparalleled sublimity.
In Midlothian 180 campaign notes, Gladstone soothes his strain by private organ practice. An Edinburgh organist recalls the scene of a key provided for silent sessions, listening to familiar hymns as the political fight rages outside.
A Washington Star fragment recalls a man noting widows are attractive yet a widower faces uncanny issues. He tells his daughter he loved her mother, but the child cheekily corrects him to say do instead of did, revealing a wary wit about remarriage.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer humor item recalls a man returning from Mexico with a box of six human teeth. His wife asks about the odd gifts and he dryly calls them Mexican drawn work, delivering a pun in a light, dated tone.
A Pittsburg Post quote contrasts audience understanding with humor in a lighthearted line about a grand opera performance. The exchange suggests confusion is part of the experience, with a casual jab at the show's entertainment value.
A terse moral maxim adapts Plato style urging restraint from covetous desire toward wealth and possessions as a guiding life principle.
The butler at the British embassy described a distinguished English man who arrived as the dust settled. The editor pressed the question about his looks, and the butler offered a single admiring line about an intelligent face.
The Washington Herald reports a humorous exchange over dinner music. A guest requests five suggestions priced at £9, and the host replies with a quip about playing “tingley” with the soup course, signaling playful banter about menu mood and timing.
A brief, quirky comparison notes golf starts with nothing while motoring begins with everything, highlighting a playful contrast between the two activities.
A brief quotation reflects on intellect challenging fate and the belief that freedom follows from independent thought. It cites Emerson’s insight about self-determinism and the limits of predestined paths. The line underscores philosophical tension between thought and destiny.
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