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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1895
Page
7
A distressed Dr Westmacott complains of his daughters Ida and Clara who adopt new liberties inspired by Mrs Westmacott. They plan a late supper with male companions, host a risqué scene, and leave the doctor shocked and isolated in his own home.
A girl boards an open electric car with a tame chipmunk tucked under her cape. The animal often climbs to shoulders and laps as curious passengers react with surprise and questions about the creature described as a squirrel. After a brisk ride the girl secures a cooler end seat.
The text notes reindeer frequently shed horns by midwinter with many animals missing one or both horns or only horn fragments remaining.
A moral verse piece for boys and girls praises reverence to God and honesty, with humorous anecdotes about ministers. It reflects on the song bird as a symbol of God’s love and reads like a devotional reading for a family audience, ending with a joke about yams and captives.
A young man in New York refused to commit an unprincipled act when his employer asked him to engage in crooked trade. Promoted to branch manager, he later built a large, multi city business with loans from a Christian merchant. He valued integrity over money, resisting a butterine deception to keep his position.
Westbound train stops on a high bridge after a woman, three children, and a mangy dog push a hand cart into the path. The cart shatters, the children are saved, the woman hangs from the timbers clutching the cart, lamenting she cannot afford to lose the dog.
Quote from W. J. Perry of Elo, Wisconsin recounts a choir issue at Princeton with a wheel horse blaming the reader for hymn tempo. The exchange notes the organist ends verses waiting for singers to finish. Perry suggests no difference in meter reading, yet the choir speeds up, prompting post verse organ retiming.
A playful exchange quoted by Rev E M McFadden contrasts ordinary sights with a cow climbing a tree tail first, framed as a humorous phenomenon. The Scots dialogue highlights curiosity and rural imagery from Philadelphia.
A Methodist preacher on his first circuit tries to make friends with a four year old girl. Her mother urges a kiss and the child coyly retorts that the mother should kiss him instead in a playful domestic moment.
A French New Caledonia governor admiral cites a native chief’s remark about ripe yams to defuse alleged insurrection. The exchange underscores war and peace motives in colonial times as cannibal-era natives face European authority.
A handsome woman and a four year old girl ride a crowded Market Street car. The child asks for a balloon and remarks on Aunt Alice’s dress and hat. Aunt Alice tries to manage the child and eventually exits with her by the arm, likely leaving without a balloon.
A telegraphist travels on royal trains and uses a wire linked instrument to alert stations instantly in case of mishap. On a test along the Brighton line the royal train was stopped and help arrived promptly, pleasing the sovereign.
A humorous tale from the Buffalo Express: a professor who trains fleas searches for his Italian supplier, finds him on a terrace with an ice cream freezer, and learns that those seeking work will find it as Pietro says making ice cream brings more men.
A humorous philosopher compares human life to a table with numerous holes and pins. An orator wryly notes that a round man often fits a three cornered hole, highlighting misfits and the comic fate of humans in mismatched roles.
A short puzzle piece features Harry noting the odd taste-health link. He wonders why tasty foods like pie upset him while bitter medicine helps him feel better, believing the reverse would be more logical.
A solemn citizen declines a free paper due to not reading, while the newsboy offers a shine and a nickel as motivation, showcasing a street scene of quick trades and daily hustle.
A short vignette shows Wallace refusing warmth and his mother's offer of an overcoat, replying with a haughty tone that he is not cold. The exchange highlights his dignified stance in the face of practical care.
Freddie tells Maud he spoke to Mr Loveman about a kiss when he next visits. Maud scolds the boy and asks what he said. Freddie recalls Loveman would only believe it if Maud confirms it herself.
A well-dressed man loses his necktie knot to friends on Chestnut Street. After a playful tug of war he challenges them, then a pretty girl reties the knot with a smile and jokes that her big brothers are just as clumsy.
A short reflective line echoes that consulting past hours reveals what they carried to heaven, inviting contemplation of time and memory in a moral sense.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton staged a silver pay day at the department paying out a thousand dollars in silver coin weighing sixty pounds to all employees. He indicated silver may be used again on next pay day for those known to favor it as currency.
Sheriff Clarke of Princeton and fifteen deputies arrested over thirty members of the mob that expelled the negroes from the location. Warrants served at No. 3 shaft as men came up. suspects placed in wagons and jailed in Princeton. Major Buckner to prosecute for the negroes. Quiet arrests with no trouble reported.
Indiana Senator Voorhees has stepped in on the Waller imprisonment in France. He forwarded Waller’s letter to the State Department and received word that efforts continue through the U.S. ambassador in Paris and the Tamatave consul to obtain documents from Waller’s recent French military tribunal trial to assess possible further action.
The inquest into the Ireland building disaster in New York proceeds before Coroner Fitzpatrick and a jury of experts. Twenty six men died when the W Broadway and W Third Street structure collapsed. Three men remain under $6,000 bail each: builder John H. Parker foreman J E Silleck and plastering contractor Jes Guilder.
Fevers rise in Prorta Illinois as over two hundred cases are listed by the city board of health. The water supply is blamed with reports of a drained reservoir and the discovery of fourteen infant corpses in the tank attributed to the chief engineer.
Iowa patent office reports an interference between F M Ashley of Brooklyn and W Pollock on a hose nozzle patent No 488 220. Pollock formerly of Des Moines sold the patent to a New York stock company for 200000. The action mirrors a court trial to determine priority among originators with hearings and proper evidence. Attorneys Tuos G and J Ratpu Orwie offer prosecution and argument services at reasonable charges.
For centuries chemists aimed to reproduce a diamond by artificial means. After extensive study a limited batch of stones was imported by a leading diamond merchant and pass for genuine. Cutting was done by regular diamond cutters and some stones rival or surpass natural diamonds in beauty and value beyond intrinsic worth.
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