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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1898
Page
3
A nostalgic lyric fragment recalls Grandmamma’s wedding shoes and a forgotten romance. The narrator seeks the maiden’s name from the “January, 1829” clue while a detective wrestles with a handwriting mystery and a puzzling envelope.
Detectives Hendricks Matthews and Whidby search a rag shop on First street under the bridge for a blue envelope tied to a key clue. A junk dealer helps locate sacks of old paper. Whidby finds a square envelope matching the color, mailed in New York.
Hendricks reveals to Captain Welsh that Mrs Walters crafted a false murder scenario using sensational novels and a staged letter to mislead the investigation. He explains his disguise, taxi swap, and covert search of the Walters household, concluding the motive was attention and deception rather than guilt.
A morning visit at Whidbys introduces detective Hendricks who uncovers a clue from an envelope linked to a Brooklyn address. He explains how a letter from Frederick Champney’s correspondent led him to recall a past case and suspect a connection to a looming New York inquiry. Delmar and Whidby react with growing interest.
A narrator recalls a manipulated delivery system after a telegram and letter to Frederick Champney vanish or are returned. He notices a New York postmark D on envelopes linking districts, then discovers his own letter from New York was steamed and opened, hinting at a hidden crew and deeper plot.
A writer recounts an evening earthquake in Italy observed from a "yellow room" as ten house bells rang unaided. The tremor caused floors to tremble and walls to sway with rhythmic motion, ending after a few seconds. Had it lasted longer, the obelisks and campanile might have fallen.
The piece dismisses old wives tales about toads being poisonous or growing warts. It describes a toad’s eyes and glorious tongue mechanism, noting the tongue springs out to snatch flies and pull them into the mouth. It asks readers to recall a Shakespeare reference to toads.
The tale recalls Count Saint Germain, famed in Louis XV era Paris for legends of immortality. At a dinner, he seeks confirmation from a valet who calmly replies he has served 506 years, prompting the master to note the timing was before the servant’s time.
A terse magazine style snippet quotes Browne praising a man with a right heart and Towne lamenting a death. The brief remarks note repeated misses in wealth from ignoring others’ advice and mention a Journal source.
In winter months a child grows only one fifth as much as in June and July, revealing seasonal differences in growth. The statement contrasts the slower winter growth with the higher summer growth.
A fragment from a Detroit Free article presents two men in a rustic, colloquial exchange about news, family, labor, and prices. It highlights everyday speech as representative of American towns, contrasting with various regional dialects.
Madge Casey, daughter of a wealthy politician, laments her fate after a late night out. Her mother scolds her and her father arrives to offer stern Irish flavored reproach, recalling his warning about ill fitting shoes and bunions on fate.
A young woman, named Gibson, attempted to buy groceries by credit but could not recall her full number. She finally offered a partial number 4621 M, B, causing blushes as she left. An onlooker suspected fraud, but the grocer dismissed the idea, saying it was her first order.
A New York World column parodies a tense scene as a landlord warns tenants amid a rumored midnight meteor display. He boasts of revolver resolve while quipping about three Broadway company members who owe remittance and may “vampus” tonight.
All About Alaska offers descriptive folder with five maps and routes to gold fields. Send 4 cents to F I Whitney of Great Northern Railway in St Paul for the booklet Alaska Land of Gold and Glacier. Great Northern promotes its shortened route from St Paul to Seattle and Portland used by steamers to Alaska.
Miss Manis Elmer of St. Louis reports rheumatism and facial sores cured after six bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla. She credits the remedy with curing catarrh as well and notes Hood's Pills ease constipation, priced at 25 cents.
A major blaze in Attica Indiana wiped out the Sterling Remedy Company laboratory and office building, makers of Cascarets and No-To-Bac. Firefighters fought the flames as hundreds saved thousands of documents and materials, with General Manager Kramer directing makeshift operations and immediate orders for replacements.
A Washington Post letter laments church music choices by organists and choirs. The writer cites Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo, Schubert Serenade, and a Delilah theme sung to a hymn as examples of inappropriate selections during sacred services.
The note describes a limited eastbound train leaving at 7 s and arriving in New York by 3 00 p m next day with a Boston arrival at 5 20 p m. It highlights business travelers reaching offices by morning and recommends the train to ladies traveling alone, noting connections at junction points for New England states and a City office at 119 Adams, Chicago.
A reflective line by Henry Drummond on happiness found in giving, not in hoarding or pursuit of wealth, suggesting moral insight over material gain.
The Hot Springs in the Black Hills of South Dakota are famed for neuralgia cures through its waters. The notice promotes class hotel accommodations and daily tourist tickets at low rates, available on the first and third Tuesday of the month through Chicago and North Western.
Matron of their tourist sleeper arrange addresses H A Cherrier N Pass Agt Marquette Bldg Chicago to coordinate Homeseeker excursion dates via Missouri Kansas and Texas rail lines with passenger accommodations.
A Washington Democrat quote notes that any woman eventually tires of a husband who is a habitual loafer, reflecting a political paper’s social stance on marital responsibility and behavior.
An article urges women to heed early warning signs of health issues and avoid hospital surgeries. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a preventive tonic and shares Mrs. Lyness of Rochester New Jersey crediting it with avoiding a feared operation after miscarriage and heart distress.
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