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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1895
Page
6
In a village scene Phoebe confronts Miles about social snobbery and vows to marry him despite pressures. Miles frets over vulgarity and future life while Phoebe defends true affection and rejects fashionable but empty pretensions. The pair acknowledge love and agree to marry, choosing partnership over status.
A Chicago correspondent profiles Sara Steenberg Sara Johnson and Bertha Eppstein, women who rose to high pay in fire insurance and real estate. Steenberg built an insurance leadership role while Johnson ran a major dressmaking department without sewing. Eppstein oversees forty one flats near Indiana Avenue excelling in occupancy and management.
Red foxskins lead with $5 value used in rugs and furs while cross and arctic varieties fetch higher sums up to $200. A black silver gray fox skin near $200 headlines luxury furs and royalty, as store managers discuss origins. Separately, women like Mrs. Steenberg and Misses Johnson Blood and Babcock run Chicago departments, manage three roles, and balance social life with prominent business leadership.
The 1894 trade lists note 19,000 pounds of tiger bones valued at about $4,000. The powdered bones are sold as medicine across the Flowery Kingdom, with beliefs they transfer the tiger’s strength to invalids.
The article notes Siam uses porcelain for its coins while Japan favors iron in its currency, highlighting material choices in Asiatic mints and potential metal strategy differences.
Milton West Virginia forms an all girl company drilled by a state militia captain. They plan to appear in public when proficient, demonstrating their discipline and preparedness.
Frieze once known as falding and silk brocades first appear in men's dress. Shoes with heels originated in Paris in 1527 while wrist ruffs were called hand-ruffs. A Chaucer era gown was a cote and leather gloves were sold across Europe by 1247. The apron is called barme cloth in his writings.
A collage of curiosities and statistics: London shelves at the British Museum, a New York cafe sign, insanity treatment hints, Baltimore’s population, German prisons liquor offenses, Thames mud ammonia, dew cues at sea, and hollow cast steel billiard balls in Stockholm with lathes shaping them.
A child asks if he should be a welder doctor lawyer or something else. The boy replies he wants to be a syndicate, saying they make all the money nowadays.
Fragmentary note recalls chatter about a possible engagement involving a person nicknamed Miss Sweetie at home. The text shows garbled dialogue and refers vaguely to a new girl and a signaling crush, with no clear names, places, or dates.
A fragment advertising Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for dyspepsia malaria rheumatism nervousness and kidney trouble urges that proper order in powers and tuition measures require the tonic to keep them in good working order.
A humorous exchange features Mr Jones claiming he has never acted in battle while being teased about charging batteries, revealing his occupation as an electrician. The dialogue preserves a wartime morale feel and local color.
An advertisement touts Drs. H. H. Green & Sons of Atlanta as the world’s greatest dropsy specialists claiming to cure more patients than any army of physicians. It promotes a purely vegetable preparation promising rapid relief and offers a ten days treatment by mail, noting no case on record of God blessing a man against his will.
In a spring health appeal a Connecticut woman endorses Hood's Sarsaparilla as essential to vitality. She says it sustains nerves, aids blood richness, and assists with house cleaning and farm work, noting personal benefit for heart palpitations and overall well being.
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