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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1894
Page
2
Dr Sargent of Cambridge measured thousands to define the average man. He tabulated chest neck hips forearms back height and other dimensions detailing a strong, clean physique and a finer female figure. The piece contrasts athletic male forms with a contemplative view of women and includes social notes on a dowry society.
Meehan's Monthly advises protecting stored vegetables by lightly covering with earth while avoiding water. Cabbage and turnips rot if exposed but keep well when inverted under boards or coverings. Avoid setups that invite mice. use leaves hay or straw with proper drainage to prevent rot.
The New York Times notes St Paul’s Jim Hill House is famed for its size and beauty on St Anthony’s hill. It reportedly requires 20 servants plus a housekeeper per floor, vs a Minneapolis mansion boasting 17 for the entire establishment.
Lord Exmouth has secured a perpetual pension of £2,000 a year for a lump sum of £53,890 representing 26 years purchase. The admiral earned a baronetcy near the century's end for capturing a French frigate and later a viscountcy and pension for Algiers bombardment and piracy destruction.
Instructions describe breaking up suet, melting fat in an oven, and squeezing out melted fat. The liquid fat is cooled in water and used for cold sores, chapped lips, and cuts. Wounds are kept clean and covered with a linseed-tinged bandage dipped in melted suet.
French chemist M. H. le Chatalier compresses calcium carbonate to 2000 psi in a steel cylinder and heats a platinum spiral with electricity. The crystalline, translucent material resembles marble under the microscope, suggesting future artificial stone production.
A New Jersey photographer invents a method using two plane mirrors set at 45 degrees, placing the sitter at the junction to yield five different views in one photograph. The method promises value in criminology and anthropology beyond ordinary portraits.
A diner in Chicago voices frustration at a waiter over steak preparation and dining service. The exchange highlights a tense interaction in a local eating house as the guest demands better cooking and service.
A vintage tip describes tracing words on a glass surface with a pin or pen, then breathing on the area to reveal the writing. Readability improves when viewed at an angle, especially by candlelight with the writing on a mirror for nighttime effect.
Instructions describe making a brown holland cover shaped like a broom head with a self colored braid binding. Tie a string around the bottom to pull tight and secure around the broom handle for dusting ceilings.
Advice on cleaning tortoise shell items suggests polishing with soft leather after use and notes using rotten stone and oil. The tips emphasize keeping combs and pins bright and in good condition.
Galen R Edson a famed traveling man narrowly escapes a Toledo hotel fire. waking to find his retreat blocked he ties sheets to flee from the third floor. the fire chief warns against sliding down in that costume. the crowd cheers as he descends the ladder in red flannel and improvised garb.
The United States embraces a craze for bigness with skyscrapers climbing ever higher. New York’s Chamber of Commerce building stands at 200 feet, the Masonic Temple at 270 feet with 20 stories, and the Manhattan Life Assurance building will top them all at 350 feet with 18 stories.
The Colonial Dames of Maryland held a tea on October 19 to honor the Peggy Stewart burning in Annapolis harbor in 1774. The event recalls a brig named Peggy with tea cargo mistaken by many as a Dame.
A white buzzard was killed by a hunter several miles north of the city last week. It differed from ordinary buzzards only by its color and was seen flying with black and brown buzzards by several witnesses in the area.
E M George of this city shot and winged a monster gray eagle while fishing at a lake on Red river twenty miles north. The bird measured seven feet from tip to tip and fought so fiercely four men were needed to secure it without harm.
Knowledge notes Lionel Deele describes Matabele marriage customs where the husband does not buy his wife and the wife remains her father's property. Upon birth, children may have to be purchased by the father from the paternal grandfather or revert to the mother’s family, reflecting lineage rights in this account.
The piece argues state colonization tends to fail and pioneers must rely on themselves. It suggests the crofters might have succeeded if, instead of Canada, they had been aided to migrate to the United States, where individual effort could prevail.
The notice lists several dinings of property sales and warranties. Savilla A Fosha transfers to Lewis H Hankey for 2560 dollars. Peter Koenn to Ole Monson for 1625 dollars. Sam Minear and wife to Mary Hale for 25 dollars. Frank Kelley to Lars Hanson for 3200 dollars. Geo F Waud and wife to James O Callaghan for Cambridge lot 10s 24ft. J D Seeberger and wife to James O Callaghan for Cambridge lots 850. S W Snider and wife to Osmund Sheldahl for 1 dollar. S M McCalland and wife to E J Lane for 700 dollars. Anna McCalland to E J Lane for MeUalis. H A Armstrong and co. J Fitch patrick for 4442 dollars. H A Grandy to Geo H Grandy for 300 dollars. ad Zearing.
Summary of meteorological observations for December 1893 by Isaac Young southwest of Ames for the Intelligencer. Highest temperature 66 on the 24th, lowest 8 below zero on the 1st, mean 21. Greatest daily temperature range 32 degrees on the 20th, least range 2 degrees on the 24th. Monthly range 64 degrees.
A wedding north of the region and a birth south on Yankee Street occurred one night last week. James Bell and family plan to move to Palo Alto county town soon. An Illinois man, Mr Akin, brother of the one who brought a farm here, surveyed the Raff farm Saturday. A frequent hardship grips Mr Ball against his will. William Templeton spent Christmas plowing, an unusual sight. Mrs Mary Wiltse hosted a select reception Thursday morning with Dr Templeton as committee chair. A young guest arriving at the event did not wear wedding attire but was helped by a matron. Mother and son are reported to be faring well. Pap William has become calm, now sitting on the floor behind the stove reciting nursery rhymes.
The paper pledges to cover all Iowa and world news, practical horticulture, agriculture, and commerce with full weekly summaries. It highlights the coming congress and Iowa legislature sessions and features Prof J L Budd in horticulture. Subscription offer: one year both Weekly Reg ister and Intelligencer for $1.50.
On December 6 1886 the Story County Treasurer sold the Ames Lot Twelve block Fifteen Born's addition to R H Mitchell for delinquent taxes. Redemption ends ninety days after service of this notice, otherwise a deed will transfer the property to the purchaser. D J Vinge executor for R H Mitchell Estate.
The Story county Iowa Treasurer sold Lot twenty three in block four in Story City to Kr A Mitchell for delinquent taxes on December first 1890. Redemption expires within ninety days of service. a deed will be issued by the county treasurer upon failure to redeem. J Viewne, estate executor of R H Mitchell.
On December 6, 1856, the Story County Treasurer sold all of block B in New Philadelphia for delinquent taxes at the Nevada courthouse. Redemption must occur within ninety days after service of this notice, or a deed will be issued to the purchaser. D. J. Viner, executor of R. H. Mitchellee's will.
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