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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1896
Page
6
A young couple from Ellis avenue in Chicago reveals a three year courtship culminating in a Christmas marriage proposal. Nettie persuades Joe with warmth and kisses in a parlor, declaring love and asking for marriage as Christmas cards go out. The piece captures small town romance tone and timely holiday sentiment.
The Washington Post recalls Milton Barlow a veteran minstrel who has portrayed negro characters for over 25 years. He recalls early work as newspaper manager in the 1860s including a Paris Kentucky paper The True Kentuckian and a tale of using his father’s tombstone as an imposing stone for a first issue.
A veteran hotel clerk recalls a novel grievance from a guest who offered $2 per day for her room and demanded gas to heat curling fans for her bangs, criticizing the miserable electric light. The anecdote, sourced to the Washington Post, highlights changing hotel fee disputes.
Dr J L Withrow of Third Presbyterian Church Chicago periodically times his sermons with a pulpit alarm clock. On a recent Sunday the alarm rang loudly under his feet startling him and the congregation, who joked the alarm woke the audience on purpose.
Various tribes use grasses herbs and flowers along with plant roots and cane juice to craft drinks. Early practices included tapping spruce fir birch and ash trees whose sap was fermented to produce stimulating beverages.
The London Chronicle notes Queen Victoria writes hundreds of private letters yearly to relatives and foreign monarchs and sends birthday gifts with greetings. Her day starts early with open air meals and reading newspapers aloud, while she quickly expresses sympathy for calamities.
A Montreal Star writer contrasts Russia and Turkey in historic treatment of royal women. It notes czars selecting wives from subjects, strict seclusion, courtyards, and restricted medical access, praising Natali Neryschki as a reformer who won open carriage rides and signaled a shift toward European civility.
A humorous reminiscence from Ladies' Journal about a clever pig that keeps escaping the common field and evades being driven back by the log trick. The narrator observes the pig repeatedly entering the hollow log, returning to the home field, and finally vanishing after a final dash toward the other pigs.
A Russian grand duke visiting Germany mistakes a large bird for a single headed eagle. The huntsman explains it is an eagle, but the duke challenges the idea, noting the imperial double headed eagle everywhere in Russia. The anecdote reflects limited education of grand dukes in that era.
The heliotrope is described as an emblem of devotion due to its habit of turning toward the sun. The comparison to Moore’s sunflower lines is argued as unfounded. The sunflower does not turn to face the sun.
A Chicago Record quote reflects on old fashioned politeness by described as asking about health and patiently listening to the reply. It frames politeness as a courteous social norm once common in daily conversations.
The scene at dawn shows Generals Meade and Grant preparing for potential action while a bold newspaper reporter joins breakfast uninvited, drinks coffee, and eats with disregard. Horace Porter notes the general's calm, imperturbable poise amid the intrusion.
The visit of Liliuokalani, now Mrs. Lydia Dominis, brings a faded royal figure back into public view. Once a Kanaka chief’s daughter, she rose to queen, then was deposed and adrift, seeking a larger pension than the $3,000 yearly offer. Now nearly sixty, widowed and childless, she remains a notable but diminished historic presence.
The New York Tribune quotes Dr. Cyrus Teed of Chicago founder of Koresh as proposing a hollow earth with a 100 mile crust. He claims the human race and all celestial bodies reside inside the earth, leaving the outer surface unknown.
In all the cities of Arabia dried locusts are sold as food. They are strung on threads like dried apples, a practice used historically in this country.
To nail in position 1 000 feet of scoring 88 pounds of tenpenny nails are required.
Moses Thatcher, a 40 year Mormon and 16 year apostle, faces Mormon church opposition in a high stakes Utah senatorial race. His bid, after expulsion for running without 12 council, risks a church split if he wins while opposing personal liberty restrictions.
Charles J Bell, prominent Washington banker and cousin of Alexander Graham Bell, has been chosen chairman of the general inaugural committee. He will oversee social functions for the inauguration of President Elect McKinley and aims to make the event the most brilliant in U.S. history.
A lake on Kildine in the North sea sits behind a narrow land barrier with surface freshwater supporting water life while the subsurface seawater remains salty and teems with sponges cod and other marine creatures.
A youth learns truth and promise matter after tempted by a homemade orange. He pretends honesty but bites the fruit, confesses to his mother, and must apologize to Aunt Margaret, ending with a life lesson about keeping one's word. Based on A Boy I Knew in St. Nicholas.
A Washington Star quotation captures a captain claiming oyster quality is judged by smell not taste. He says expert tasters for tea or whisky rely on smell to gauge flavor, and that he can predict oyster prices by smelling the hold, usually correct in eight of ten cases.
The Detroit Tribune recalls a backstage quarrel where a playwright warns of new drama and the manager proposes voltages from 15 to 20. The exchange highlights evolving public tolerance and art steering itself amid changing standards.
An advertising notice extols SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR as a safe purgative alterative and tonic for liver and stomach derangements. It promises relief from biliousness headaches dullness poor appetite and insomnia and suggests keeping the remedy at home to avoid doctor’s bills. J. H. Zeilin & Co. of Philadelphia markets the product.
An old advertisement urges readiness for the green apple season and promotes DeWitt's Colic and Cholera Cure for sale by D. D. Bales.
Harry Bennett of Council Bluffs Iowa writes that after suffering sick headaches and stomach distress he found relief after using Dr Kay’s Renovator. He claims complete cure and high praise for the remedy. The ad also touts Cruggists price and mentions De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve sold by Dr Bales for eczema and piles.
A Omaha resident from 6th and Martha Streets says years of sick headaches and stomach pain ended after taking Dr. Ayers Renovator. The ad notes the product is sold by druggists or mailed, pricing 25 cents and one dollar.
Advertises a cough cure and hair renewal products. Claims One Minute Cough Cure prevents huskiness and throat issues, while Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Regenerator is promoted as the best gray hair remedy. Includes seller name D D Bales.
On November 28 December 1 and 1897 the Northwestern Line will sell excursion tickets to many points west and south at very low rates with favorable time limits. For tickets and full particulars apply to agents Chicago & North-Western Railway 30-6.
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