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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1899
Page
5
Local notes include Ames Grocery Co. offering grapes at 20 cents a basket, community visits from Illinois guests, and a young attorney joining the Whitaker home. Reports cover area residents building homes near the college, the Chapel Ridge Willing Workers meeting, newspaper moves to Dunlap, a Stanhope principal appointment, and a lecture series funded by library benefits.
Report notes a new ventilated shoe with a bellows in the heel and an air stream through the inner sole at each step. Also included are brief items on Maine forming a naval reserve from Montauk veterans, a Kansas cotton mill in Independence, and other diverse notes.
A compilation of humorous anecdotes from the Atchison Globe depicts women in hurried dress, jelly making compared to oratory, elopement judgments, fashion shocks after forty, preacher desires, marital views, and a novel subplot about a woman awaiting proposals and finally marrying a sick man.
A mix of moral reflections on belief and virtue follows with ads for Shiloh’s cure and Clover Root Tea. Train schedules announce New Day Train to St Paul and Minneapolis via Northwestern Line with through vestibuled coaches. Exposition and carnival excursion rates via Chicago & Northwestern Rwy are offered with limited dates.
The piece quantifies ocean sizes by weight and volume. It states the Pacific at 948 quintillion tons and a tank a mile by a mile by a mile daily for 440 years would hold it. The Atlantic at about three miles deep weighs 325 quintillion tons, needing a 430 by 430 by 430 mile tank. It notes all world sea water would take 2 million years to flow over Niagara, requiring a 1,000 mile sided tank.
A column of eclectic notes cites figures from politics, science, and culture, including Gov. Stone's Pennsylvania library, Edison in workwear, Stanley on African exploration, and McKinley’s famed memory. It closes with a testimonial to Dr King’s New Discovery for asthma and lung ailments.
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