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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1891
Page
9
A Herald of Health piece advises nervous fatigue remedies for women, promoting air baths of five to ten minutes with doors locked, followed by fresh dress to improve appearance and calm nerves. It also suggests scalp massage and hair care as soothing, restorative routines.
A tribute recalls Miss Farley editor of The Offering, her literary talent and the magazine's reach of 4000 subscribers. It notes Lowell Institution lectures to factory girls, the impact on their lives, and the magazine’s influence across Atlantic circles.
The piece notes US gold and silver output, new rapid rail switching tech, and a discussion of the English Parliament due life in 1893. It mentions Chicago’s sparrow bounty, smoke nuisance, and prizes by the American Composers Choral Association for native music, including a $100 gold medal for a 15 minute cantata and a $50 medal for a part song, with awards next winter. It closes by praising America as a home of music, composers, pretty women, and fast trotters.
Dr Charles Eastman the Sioux husband of Elaine Goodale drew student ire at Dartmouth for disturbing class. Eighty students confronted him. he defended himself with revolver and dumbbell and was not expelled. Charley Gibson ex congressman from Maryland noted for terrapin cooking and canvas preparation skills.
Allerton lowered his record to 2 13 on Independence Day in Independence Iowa. Hal Pointer trimmed the half mile pacing mark to 2 14 at Mansfield Ohio.
Notable example of vast profits in California fruit growing shows A. T. Hatch of Solano county with 400 acres bearing and 400 acres juvenile. Last year his net from the 400 bearing acres after orchard costs was 109000 dollars, about 290 dollars per acre, with higher expected returns due to strong yields and high prices. The other note discusses advances in photography aiding astronomy, allowing long exposure dry plates to capture nebula details unseen by the naked eye.
A mare owned by G W Young pulled her tongue from a crack while eating from a wood trough, an unheard of accident. She remains able to eat and prospects of survival are favorable. The item is from the Egyptian Press and mentions other unrelated notes about people and ships.
Miss Sarah Fenner Lee daughter of diplomat James Fenner Lee secretary to Brazil departs amid Washington society after her first winter since coming out. Her education was completed in Vienna with Countess von Heussen staumm. She is described as blond with hazel eyes and admired by Brazilian grandees. Colonel John A. Cockerill, former New York World editor, now Morning Advertiser and Commercial Advertiser editor, born Dayton Ohio 1845, credited with building The Post Dispatch and The World and called a popular figure in journalism.
The article notes A E Turner of Cumberland Presbyterian College Lincoln Neb likely the youngest college president, born 1862, presiding since 1888 at age 28 after early roles as principal and science professor. It also mentions William Rainey Harper born 1856 at New Concord, Muskingum County Ohio, entering college at ten, Yale PhD at nineteen, later president of the University of Chicago.
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