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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1892
Page
4
Six month push of a 25 volume Britannica reprint at 1.50 per volume, with English edition priced at 8.00, Scribner at 5.00. Over half a million volumes sold in six months. Delivery on easy payments. Volume 1 offered at 0.60, 40 cents extra for mail. KS Peales & Co., 315-321 Wabash Ave Chicago.
Best and quickest line to Hot Springs New Orleans Las Vegas Hot Springs Galveston San Antonio City of Mexico Los Angeles Mobile Nashville Savannah Charleston Florida and all the famous winter resorts in the South Two Through Trains Pullman Palace Cars Low Rates See Agents.
Columbus battles east winds and a raging tempest on the return voyage. The Pinta is lost to view, while Columbus prays and vows to sacred shrines as he drives his frail caravel toward Spain amid wrecking seas and mounting anxiety.
The American Farmer journal will be published from Springfield and Cleveland to expand facilities. It has enlarged features and remains non political. Free to old subscribers who pay a year in advance and to new subscribers who pay a year in advance. Sample copies available at the office.
A poem fragment notes a man’s ardor for a woman and his escape after seeing her gown bills. The snippet frames tragedy of desire and finances within a Cloak Review context.
Little Willie Ware appears in a short verse about a sealskin cap lost in snow and a stern father. The poem ends with the child refusing to sit when Willie Ware visits, concluding with the word truth.
Dialogue captures a flirtatious exchange as a college student named She pleads for a simple letter on return. He hesitates, citing writing skills, while She lowers expectations to a plain spoken note. The Princeton Tiger period voice frames the scene.
Article notes Sir Erastus Wiman promotes whole wheat bread and discusses the benefits of the germ and bran for health. It also covers a Vassar Alumnae Association gathering at the Hotel with 150 attendees, where a discussion on wage equality for women led to increasing the Marie Mitchell fund for the astronomy chair from 40,000 to 50,000 dollars and a target of 19,000 more to be raised.
At the February Sorosis meeting in New York Mrs. Ada M. Brown led a discussion on whether women's business training should reflect possible roles as wives and mothers. She argued nature assigns motherhood, yet women can pursue books and professions, insisting women need dual preparation for career and home while avoiding machine like gender roles.
In Philadelphia Henry B. Foulke claims to possess Mme Blavatsky’s astral portrait and letters from the masters. Witnesses report occult paintings and scented paint while Foulke asserts a Blavatsky legacy and priestess echoes. The piece also notes a 3,500 strong Irish American Military union ready for action amid wartime talk and Egan’s influence.
A Troy woman who gave up her seat to a crippled man in a crowded car recently received a diamond necklace as thanks. Baltimore hosts a strong health dress reform surge, appealing to its famed fashionable women. Dr Caroline Bertillon is named visiting physician to Lycee Racine in Paris, first such appointment. Illinois exposition board offers twenty five dollar prize for best seal design limited to Illinois women.
Lady Henry Somerset will stay in Chicago all winter and has taken lodgings on the north side near Dwight L Moody's Bible institute.
The total national debt stands at 842 617 836 dollars. No modern nation has repaid debt so rapidly. The ten richest men together could cover the remaining debt. January 1892 receipts fell 6 500 000 from January 1891, mainly due to lower customs duties.
A Chicago Tribune report notes that girls from the Jewish Manual Training School learned sewing well but avoided doing housework at benefactors homes after training. The writer argues they sought evening freedom and were not trained for domestic tasks, preferring clerkships and evening classes despite low pay.
The Boston Post discusses the rise of athletic young women in higher education, citing Lasell College as proof. It notes forty-two students gained significant body mass through calisthenics and physiology, praising health and independence as part of culture. Record weights include gains up to twenty-three pounds in four months.
Mrs. E. L. Newport, pastor at two Wisconsin churches, supplies both pulpits weekly. Boston licenses its first woman undertaker, Mrs. Julia Brown, authorized by the board of health to run the business of her late husband. Lady Dudley continues to be feted, seen in white satin with pearls and a diamond tiara.
A compilation of brief remarks about figures including Senator Kenna a British minister Lord Dufferin General Meigs and General Sherman Bismarck and his pistol practice at Friedrichsruh and a reminiscence of Senator Gordon after being wounded at Sharpsburg with a humorous misapprehension about his head.
A collection of brief curiosities cites a twelve century sacred fire in India, a Turkish dowry set at 81.70 with Thursday weddings, a dowry feast avoiding spoons forks and wines, a literate fifteen-year-old girl in Platte County Missouri, a self-oxidizing mineral in Montana, a magnetic rock in Texas, and women as laborers in Japan with distinct roles and dances.
Paris reports surface electric cars covering four miles between the Opera and St Denis with motors now capable of pulling nearly 30 000 pounds. An electrical stop watch wins a bicycle race by a mere one hundredth of a second. Edison plans a lecture at an electrical exhibition. An Italian journal offers prizes for best small scale batteries. Vinal Haven Maine lacks telegraph and telephone links to the mainland. laying a coast cable at about 33 000 dollars could spark a regional project.
Curiosities in Arizona note deer bunting crossing an old ruin atop a high mountain nine miles north of Phoenix. Stone walls stand ten feet high, the old buildings span about two acres, and large stones are covered with hieroglyphics. Bolivia, with improved transport, will ship coffee and rubber to the seaboard as a new railway to the Amazon headwaters eases movement.
While away, a traveler in Ohio received within fifteen minutes three telegraphs announcing the unexpected deaths of three different family members at his home.
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