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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1894
Page
7
A lyric scene about a lone sandpiper and a speaker sharing a beach walk. Vivid imagery in a sea weather landscape describes driftwood, white lifthouses, and looming storm clouds as the bird skims the shore and calls mournfully. The speaker asks where the sandpiper will shelter tonight.
Audrey narrates joining Lady Latimer at Lorton's Cray a frame of luxury and isolation. Latimer frets with boredom while Audrey learns of Lionel Fleming the future baron and the two drift between quiet country joys and courtly temptations. Audrey accepts a £150 annual stipend to live as companion as mystery and longing loom.
Daniel Doran of Pond Creek, known as Judge Doran, recounts hairbreadth escapes from border days. He recalls Wild Bill Hickok in Junction City where a drunken Bill forced a pastor to dance and a Mexican snare with a lasso saved the preacher, leading to Bill's removal and later apology.
A newspaper clipping describes Willie Wilde, Oscar Wilde's brother, famed for borrowing money from Americans in London and abroad. anecdotes recount his audacious maneuvers in restaurants, his unshakable calm when pressed to repay, and the amused reaction of English society.
An English electrical company unveils striking lamp shades made from natural feathers dyed in colors and arranged in artistic shapes. Designs include flower motifs assembled on skeleton frames and floor and table lamps. The styles depart from silk and lace shades and are patent protected with many designs registered, created largely by a young woman designer earning a good income.
A colored woman seeking confirmation in the Florida diocese struggled with the Ten Commandments after passing the creed and Lord's Prayer. She told the clergyman in a confidential tone that she hadn't been practicing the commandments lately.
A Chicago Tribune snippet records a truckman quoting a two dollar charge for hauling ashes to a distant dump. He notes authorities limit dumping nearby and describes repeated trips and rising costs as people stockpile ashes for cement walks and fill.
The ameer Abdurrahman Khan, about 60, liberal reformer, opened factories in Kabul teaching European trades. A trip planned by Sir Mortimer Durand to Queen Victoria would signal political aims and affect British Russian border dynamics. His death could trigger tensions and potential war between England and Russia.
Professional fortunetellers travel from house to house in New York seeking fools and offering to disclose their future for 50 cents to 1 dollar per person.
A traveling preacher Bowman resolved to ridicule dueling by using potatoes. In a rural Kentucky district he faced a desperado, selecting half-bushels of large Irish potatoes as weapons at fifteen paces. Bowman struck five times, the sixth to the ribs, ending the duel and ending dueling in the region.
The text notes that Ashantee law forbids any man from seeing the king’s wives. A sighting leads to death, and the king may have 3 333 wives and no more. The wives reside on two streets in Coomassie, in quarters called Heaven.
A brief note describes a symbolic bridal rite where the bride washes the groom’s set as a token of subjection within a wedding ceremony. The ritual’s meaning and origins are discussed in the context of tradition.
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