Ames Post Office Notice and Local Landmarks
Fragmentary OCR notes place Ames at a railroad junction with references to Des Moines and the capital, Iowa. Mentions include the state college of agriculture and local fruits, soils, and orchards, with partial street and road names.
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Ames
Chicago and North- Wetern
T Des ‘Hisines
Minneapolia
Des Moines
Iowa
State College of Agricultue
X. A. Beverly
Legislation Progress and Budget Proposals in Iowa Senate
Special correspondence reports three daily sessions as the legislature nears adjournment. House passes a temperance bill requiring district court permits via registered pharmacists with a bond. election of three railroad commissioners proposed. Senate targets state printing savings and a long list of bills on education, prisons, road funding, taxation, and municipal powers. Governor’s council faces a tax dispute over Pallman Place cars. Arbor Day set for April 27 with school tree planting.
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House
Senate
Ite
Permms
Ste So
Everett Pien
Agricultural College
Hines
Segnas Coeenc
Mount Pleasant
Independence
Clarinda
State Normal School
Anemosa
Fort Madison
Inceens
Sixteenth General Assembly
Congress
Tuesaday
Pallman Place Car Company
Illinois
Iowa
General Grant
Tur
Mary
Pacific Railroad Companies
Treasury
Cou
Struble
Sioux City
McMillin
United States Surveyor General
Nebraska
National Capital
United States
Michigan
Uebio
Col
Bay Cig. Mich
W. B. Hurnett
Voorhees
Virginia Wis Taylor
Washington
Annapolis
Mills
Ameondoents
Ways and Means
McKinley
Crain
Memphis
Peggy and Sally Westfield tale of a dumb watch Christmas
A Western alms scene tells of Peggy a bright Westfield child living with Sally the caretaker. Peggy believes a dumb watch could stop time for Sally’s nightmares. Lem reveals Peggy may become Sally’s guardian while rich Mr and Mrs Fenton plan to adopt Peggy, sending four bushels of four o’clock watches to share Sally’s desired gift.
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Westfield
Sally
Joe Johnson
Peg
Peggy
Joe
Uncle Dan
Dan
Lem
Margaret
Mr. Fenton
Westfield Almahouse
Papa Cai
Margaret Penton
Margaret Fenton
Matrons and Maidens in 19th Century Matrimony Debate
A long moral article argues educated women improve home life and marriage prospects. It discusses variations in female roles, heredity, and the impact of virtue on family stability, warning against dissolute behavior and predicting fewer divorces and stronger homes.
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Nime
Caesar
Wellesley College
Marriool
Empress Filial Pure Bright Passes After Prolonged Illness
The Baltimore Sun recounts the sudden worsening of the empress's health despite daily inquiries. On the 24th she mounted her fairy chariot and traveled, leaving mourners in deep grief as they recall her kindness and maternal favor and lament the loss of her affectionate countenance.
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Baltimore Sun
Unclear dialogue hints at Upholstery Remark
In a terse exchange, a tall angular woman is identified as the wife of Bicks. The first speaker jokes that if he were Bicks he would have her upholstered, prompting the judge to intervene.
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Jones
Bicks
Judge
Forming A New Trust Scene A tete a tète
Dialog examines forming a trust as mutual advantage. A tableau hints at a Lowell Citizen note about a Russia themed graduation story with 779 women students and a humorous wedding mishap where a bride forgets her veil and comedic wardrobe malfunctions at the church then in the carriage.
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Angela
Adolphus
Lowell
How to Stop Snoring with Mouth Breathing
A humorous medical note explains that snoring results from sleeping with the mouth open and the soft palate vibrating. It offers two odd remedies a baseball in the mouth or sitting up all night to prevent snoring, attributed to Burdette and referencing Mr. Sullivan in London.
A Literary Little Miss Nellie W
A Detroit Free Press anecdote notes Nellie W daughter of a literary mother amused herself with a book before learning to read. When asked to do a chore while turning pages she quipped I have read the story but I was just looking up the argument illustrating early reading curiosity.
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Nellie W
Nellie
Detroit Free Press
Quote on clergy and duty by Canon Wilberforce
A sharp critique on religious leaders suggesting some priests resemble corpses in holy robes and stressing that active good works are needed to thaw their coldness. The zeal calls for red hot service rather than hollow ritual.
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Canon Wilberforce
Card players at the club room not acting as waiters
A readable fragment notes that card players in a club room refrain from acting as waiters and that one may frequently be seen with a tray in his hand. The item implies social habits or etiquette within the gaming space.
A Lady’s Rules of Conduct from the Philadelphia Times
A Philadelphia Times admonishes proper behavior for a well bred young lady. It lists numerous prohibitions from accepting gifts, alighting with gentlemen, dining unaccompanied, sharing seats, attending dances, or public carriage etiquette. The piece emphasizes restraint, modest dress, respect for mothers, and discreet social conduct.
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Philadelphia Times
An Education or a Husband
The piece argues that more college women delay or forgo marriage as they pursue independence. It notes educated women can earn homes and status, working as artisans and professionals, and challenges the belief that marriage is required for fulfillment.
Tea as poison debated by readers and scientists
An article argues tea is a slow poison with toxic effects similar to cocaine and tannin. It discusses tea's chemistry, health impacts, and parallels to coca, noting nerves, wakefulness, and constipation, and cites Popular Science News and congressional summaries.
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Gen. Grant
Popular Science News
The Necessary Costume in Carthage Fetes
A San Francisco Chronicle item notes a banquet in ancient Carthage for mercenary barbarians with princely guests. An invited Libyan gentleman declines due to missing a specified costume RS. V. P. Red shirt vest and pants. The tale closes with Ezra seven verse twenty one containing all alphabet letters except j.
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Carthage
Salambo
RS. V. P
San Francisco Chronicle
The Boys and the Bee-Gum Folly
In North Mississippi a band of boys tried to buy a bee-gum from a stingy farmer who refused to sell. They took a large gum of ashes by night, hoping for honey, only to find it was ashes instead, amid suppressed laughter. Walker County News reports the misadventure with a chivalrous tone.
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Mississippi
Samson
Walker County
Brain regions tied to speech in postmortem studies
Paul Broca’s idea that the brain is a collection of specialized organs is supported by Mathias Duval’s postmortem examinations of eleven individuals lacking speech or word memory during life. Findings show damage to the second and third convolutions where speech and word memory reside, with Gambetta’s highly developed Broca’s area contrasting Bertillon’s simple third convolution.
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Paul Broca
Mathias Duval
Gambetta
Bertillon
Duval and
Chudzinsky
Russia’s public health crisis and dire death toll
Dr. Bubnoff notes Russia houses about 5,000 medical men for 109,000,000 people and lacks a functioning sanitary system. District death rates reach 60 to 50 per 1,000 with a low population growth of 1 percent despite high birth rates. About 1,000,000 of 2.8 million annual deaths are blamed on preventable causes.
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Russia
Bubnoff
Arkansaw Traveler
Brass book rests for a small room reading rack
A dainty brass book rack fits a small room except the library. One lady curates a single line of reading and quickly refreshes with poets, then art or essays. When mood shifts the rack displays Paris Venice Rome or the Alps by different authors.
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Paris
Venice
Rome
Alps
Needle embroidery in luxury silk and gold thread
The article notes needle embroidery using silk and Japanese gold thread on bead rolls slumber blankets and sofa cushions. It suggests application to an almost endless array of fancy items made from plush brocade bolting cloth satin and similar fabrics.
American engineers win Eiffel Tower elevator contract
An American mechanical engineering firm secured the contract to install passenger elevators for the 1000 foot Eiffel Tower being built for the 1889 Paris Exposition. British coverage in the Iron and Journal praises American lift perfection and criticizes French claims of greater progress.
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Paris
England
The
Iron and Journal
London
America
Siberian Stone Age Finds Reported in Yenisei Research
M Savexxorr reports from the Is vestia of the Russian Geographical Society on Yenisei discoveries. He identifies mammoth and rhinoceros bones showing marrow extraction by humans, a rare Siberian stone age relic. Stone implements and bone grooves indicate transitions from stone to bronze and into iron ages.
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M. Savexxorr
Isvestia
Russian Geographical Society
Yenisei
Siberia
State Senate Debates School Funding and Tax Measures
The session discussed printing economies, bond use, and school system funding. Debates covered half mill levies, soldiers relief, and state uniform book standards. Bills on railways, water works, and telegraph charges moved through the House and Senate with various endorsements and amendments.
Desi Handkerchief Case Described With Ribbon Detail
A historical handkerchief case described with Sieranged green ribbon and Spanish tap style overlaps like a fan. The design features pink satin edging, white lace, and ribbon bows, with a chamois leather option and oblong or square satin shapes mentioned.
Tur Somerville Journal Leap Year Delusion Questioned
The Philadelphia Call questions superstition and asks why leap year beliefs persist amid widow fears and public concerns.
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Somerville Journal
Philadelphia
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Richmond
Chamber
Ann
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H. Maxwell
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Travelers’ Insurance Co
C. Rice
Rice & Son
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Lemus
Carrie B. Smith
Peggy Fenton
Bunker Hill
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Old Sally
Yonkers Gazette
D. McCarthy
J. L. Stevens
Dyer & Fitchpatrice
Opera Block
Nevada
H. M. Templeton
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E. B. Plumb
City Drug Store
Albert Richmond
Eres. & McLain
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Amex
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Russias
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Mar. Fannet
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Interese
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Centennial and Memorial Association
Valley Forge
Washington Carters
Science of
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Tale
Nomne Tal
Larrebes
Ran Campbell
Newton
State Railways
Utes
Geo. C. Beach
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