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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1895
Page
5
A farmer’s guide to selective breeding and herd improvement. The sled stake rule sorts pigs and guides dairy cattle toward higher excellence. Poultry advice covers hens, turkeys, geese, ducks, and guineas, emphasizing mixed flocks, pure breeds, and cost efficient meat production.
A roundup of farming notes on winter dairying benefits and needed facilities, cow variation and breeding, corn cob meal digestion, Tolima cattle farming, poultry spacing rules, bulk egg shipments, Texas sheep outlook, and general animal husbandry advice including humane horse training and New York veterinary law.
An inventor proposes a universal motor vehicle that flies like a bird and travels on land water or sea. It uses four finlike wings and fishlike fins for steering propulsion and control. The design features a vapor engine powered by various fuels weighs about 200 pounds and could develop three to six horsepower.
In the Fifty-second congress Dan Waugh of Indiana and Turpin of Alabama clashed over a pension tale about a totally deaf interior department employee who attends to the telephone. Turpin pressed the claim, Waugh denied it, and the two fought briefly at the clerk’s desk before peace was restored and the pension story was dropped.
A inventor studies insect and bird wings to power a vehicle that wades, swims, and flies. The 20 by 4 by 6 foot craft weighs 400 pounds and carries four, with five wing pairs totaling about 275 feet of surface. Wings use aluminum framework with palm leaf skin and underflaps. speed up to 100 mph air, 40 mph water, 30 mph land, and 1000 to 1400 pounds buoyant capacity.
A crowded streetcar incident ends with a man threatening violence after an accidental toe step. After multiple apologies the situation escalates and a fistfight erupts in the street as passengers watch in silence.
A. D. notes a telephone newspaper published daily in Puda Pesth with growing circulation, beating traditional journals. It costs two cents and is profitable.
A French journal itemizes coffee ingredients as roasted horse liver roasted black walnut sawdust and caramel or burned sugar, reflecting a curious historic or satirical note on a beverage recipe.
Dr. Michael Singer editor of the Jew reports letters from four governors praising Jewish residents. Missouri Governor Stone calls Jews provident and law abiding. Ohio Governor McKinley lauds their enterprise and civic spirit. Illinois Governor Altgeld lauds intelligence, industry, and patriotism. Kansas Governor Merrill notes Jews as orderly, temperate, industrious, and frugal with many wealthy merchants.
A woman pushes through idle rumors and claims agency in a playful fragment. She asserts independence by taking on tasks she chooses, symbolized through a humorous reference to scratching matches. The lines hint at resilience and self reliance.
A collection of humorous maxims and quips from the Atchison Globe addressing marriage money dogs directors wife and social foibles. It reflects light satire on better living through restraint and everyday human foibles in a late 19th or early 20th century tone.
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