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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1903
Page
6
A brief advertisement recounts a young woman paying twelve pounds at eight cents per pound for flesh and one dollar for a bottle of Scott's Emulsion, noting gains of twelve pounds. It promotes the product as valuable medicine and offers free samples, with the SCOTT & BURNS chemical company address in New York.
Train schedule notes from the Western District and TRAIL Northern District outline daily passenger and freight services. Details include a mix of passenger numbers, fast mail trains, and through connections with routes linking Iowa City Davenport Cedar Rapids and Chicago, with departures and arrivals noted for multiple units.
A New York World report argues Mohammedanism is not waning. it cites 176 million disciples, with growth in India and Africa, 3 million in Russia, and 169 million in Asia as the future stronghold of the faith.
The Duke of Bridgewater devised a clock that strikes thirteen times after noon to signal workers at Worsley to return after lunch. The device proclaims two o clock with a baker s dozen strokes and remains a curiosity at Worster Hall.
The article reviews ancient gem classification by gender based on depth and lightness of color as described by Theophrastus. It notes sard color varieties, cyanos equivalence to sapphire, and parallels modern mineralist identifications, plus a linguistic aside on the word for mother across languages.
A New York man’s warped admiration for his homespun father surfaces as his son, curious and brave, discovers and questions the family’s odd habit of eating with a knife. The boy’s quivering learning moment contrasts with his mother’s admonition about knife manners.
A fragmentary note describes an imagined island in the Pacific with 609 inhabitants and mentions drink, crime, jails, police, and courts in disarray. The text then shifts to a reference to Brooklyn Life and efforts to civilize it.
A fragmented note outlines a riddle about a biped animal and a family reference. It mentions Little Tomny Papa and Uncle Jane in a cryptic column bus dispatch context with uncertain details.
An attributed quotation from The Manayunk philosopher notes it is better to talk yourself up than to put others down. The Philadelphia Record adds a caveat that silence can mute noise under certain conditions as illustrated by Chicaza Ness.
In Collier’s Weekly a witty exchange shows Liszt shrugging off business talk, saying he “only played some music” and leaves commerce to bankers and diplomats. The piece diverges to Damascus’s Eye of the East, Athens as eye of Greece, and a catfish tale before praising Gounod’s charm and wit.
A study notes Romans used charcoal fires in open pans without chimneys for economical heat in living rooms and baths. Experiments suggest such fires produce little dangerous carbonic oxide and a pan with burning surface could heat a church seating thousands. A mistimed squall disrupts a Scottish party. a joke at a wedding turns on a guest realizing he is the father of the bride.
A London hospital complains that the word horse covers too many meanings from a fourteen year old girl earning two shillings weekly minding a baby to the skilled nurse serving army doctors on the battlefield.
A fragment from a 20th century periodical quotes rural wit and a joke about mule kicks and misadventure. The line captures a folksy, humorous attitude amid rapid change and interruptions by those proving ideas wrong.
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