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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1900
Page
5
Night bells and their signal in city life
A New York Sun piece surveys how various trades use night bells to signal service after dark. Drug stores, undertakers, plumbers, and wrecking companies all deploy illuminated bells to guide customers to urgent help through the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrecking Company
New York Sun
Napoleon Proclaims Retirement Over French Throne Offer
The Century records Napoleon Bonaparte telling Dr. O'Meara on St. Helena that accepting the throne again would force him to executions and bloodshed. He says he wants retirement, deeming his power too great a risk to oppose Europe and calling it madness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon Bonaparte
Dr. O'Meara
St. Helena
England
Bourreau
France
Europe
Vegetable ivory palm harvest in Ecuador floods Pacific forests
In Ecuador’s Pacific slope forests a palm yields hard white nuts known as vegetable ivory. Germany buys two thirds, with the rest going to the United States, France and England. Harvest peaks in the rainy season as rafts carry nuts down swollen rivers. Workers are Indians and mixed races. unpeeled nuts fetch about 60 cents per 100 pounds in native markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Ecuador
Germany
United States
France
England
Rat Tail Sutures Highlighted as Wound Materials
Medical note describes rat tail tendons as a source of strong sutures. A bundle of five or six tendons per tail can be obtained and used as is, with easy threading for wound closure.
Market gardeners in Paris grow and sell dandelions
The Philadelphia Press notes Paris market gardeners cultivate dandelions on a large scale and fetch good prices at the market. A casual remark about a proposal by Pay-Oh and a joke about accepting him appears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
Paris
Forbes’s midnight scramble beats rivals in early reporting
A humorous sketch shows Archibald Forbes rising before others, writing reports by candlelight, delivering them ahead of rivals while colleagues Jones and Smith stumble into a 24 hour delay. Forbes returns to bed by 4 am, securing the scoop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forbes
Archibald Forbes
Jones
Smith
Jove
Lazy Bones
Smith and Jones
Offenbach receives grand but misread welcome in Etretat
Offenbach visits Etretat to a dramatic welcome organized by friends. Halberdiers march, fireworks explode, and a silver platter is presented to him, prompting a moved but serious reaction from the composer who says this is too much. The event blends playful mock honors with genuine emotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Offenbach
Etretat
M. 1
Train Schedule Fragments Show Limited Service Changes
Rail timetable notes list multiple trains by number and route including No. 38 Frei No. 8 Atlantic Ve sumes No. 16 Sioux City Omaha and other forward connections. Times range from early morning to evening with several through services, baggage rules, and a notice that some trains will not run on Sundays or carry baggage while allowing passenger travel to Boone Carroll Missouri Valley and Omaha with baggage checked prior to arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Express
Frei
Atlantic
Sioux City
Oma
Overland Lim
Chicago
Dakota
DM & S.C
Dak & DM
Desm
GOM
Psgr
Ames & DM
Boone, Carroll
Missouri Valley
Omaha
Coast Connection
G. W. Rogers
Unique Mocona waterfall in Uruguay described in travel sketch
An 18th century style note details the Mocona Falls in Uruguay two miles below the Pipera Assu mouth. A rock splits the river creating two arms with a 22 foot lower fall and a two mile long watercourse visible in winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mocona
Republic
Uruguay
Piperi Assu
Antonius Sepp
Tyrol
Proportions of Man in Light Verse from Freeport Journal
A whimsical note compares human growth, speed, and features to animals. It imagines a man growing like a silkworm, navigating like a house fly, possessing many butterfly eyes, and leaping like a spider, ending with the line that man isn’t the whole thing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Freeport Journal
German process makes artificial sponges from cellulose
The text describes making synthetic sponges by treating pure cellulose with zinc chloride then using alkalikaloids to prevent swelling. A paste is formed and salted, molded, dried to create canal-like internal structure, then washed with alcohol and water to finish. It also includes brief humorous quotes from Richmond Dispatch and Chicago News.
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Germany
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