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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1895
Page
5
A clipped exchange from a youth reader titled Now tell. Nell and Neil discuss a mystery that runs but never walks and a talking key, in the playful, moralizing tone of a 19th century Youth's Companion item.
Audrey Lovel helps Lady Latimer flee a New Year ball after coercive pressure to disguise as a ghost at a party. The plot centers on saving her from scandal and a fatal love triangle involving Colonel North and Lord Latimer. Isandula and a sudden death deepen guilt and lead to Latimer’s heir Lionel Fleming.
Former U S senator Van Wyck and family occupy a Massachusetts Avenue church as their residence. The building remains usable for worship and is furnished as a home with parlor, bedrooms, dining room and gallery on the ground floor. The couple has turned the vestry into a kitchen and uses organ pipes and chancel decor as decor. Servants provide daily comfort in their unusual quarters.
A misplaced greeting story from Truth recounts an American hostess instructing her old negro butler to address a visiting English lord by title. Uncle Josh, unfamiliar with lords, exits with My God Have a biscuit prompting laughter and a note on the fraud of the deity. He then quips about following strange gods when told the master lost money.
An applicant for a job answers questions about her previous placements. She states almost three years in her last position and that she previously worked at the reform school, then notes she was not engaged. The dialogue hints at a cautious interview by Mrs. Hoyt regarding a new domestic position.
Practical crafts and dress notes for home entertainments and ribbon garlands. The piece counsels mothers to plan rainy day regimes, avoid chaos with a designated craft area, and use scraps like empty spools for quiet activities while noting fashion trends and a Monterey tale of the Pleiades students forming a self-made home.
A practical tip advises washing bread and cake bowls promptly. if delaying, soak in cold water to loosen dried dough. The same method applies to kettles and skillets. Keep an oyster shell to quickly scrub surfaces instead of setting aside utensils, as burnt crusts and crusted gravies clean more easily after soaking.
Braces or suspenders of satin or gros grain ribbon in black head a list of ribbon trims. They start at the belt and rise to shoulders. Collars show plain folds with center seams and side rosettes. Bows and rosettes decorate sleeves to counter excess fullness.
A poem from Chambers Journal describes a plain country maid with sun kissed violets for eyes and a fearless gaze. Her modest attire and pearly teeth contrast with her warm smile and guileless heart, and yet she captures the speaker's affection.
A heritage recipe for a baked ground rice pudding using milk five pints eggs five nutmeg lemon rind juice lemon grate wine sugar to taste. Heat milk and ground rice then stir until thick. add butter and eggs with remaining ingredients. Bake three quarters of an hour until set.
Slice stale loaf into thin pieces, toast and cut into squares. Beat two eggs and yolks and whites, melt butter in a stew pan, cook two minutes. Spread toast with the eggs, cover with grated or minced ham or tongue, and serve very hot.
Beat eggs thoroughly and stir in flour to make a very thick batter. Add a little salad oil and optional nutmeg and mace. Dip each fish piece into the batter and fry in boiling lard or oil until cooked.
A recipe method describes boiling five eggs until very hard, removing shells, coating whites with seasoned forcemeat, brushing with beaten egg yolk, breadcrumbing, frying to a brown finish, and serving with gravy.
Legislative summaries show Jan 9 to 16 events in Washington and Nashville. Bills on homestead relief pass Wisconsin Michigan. currency tariff talks and attempts to close debate fail. Senate considers urgency deficiency, income tax constitutionality challenges, and private claims. Nashville postpones governor vote amid fraud probes.
Tennessee Senate postpones governor canvass pending fraud investigation. California reports Gov Budd inauguration. Idaho passes woman suffrage amendment. Kansas Gov Morrill inaugurated. Pennsylvania Gov Hastings sworn in. Nebraska U S senator Thurston elected. Washington debates income tax urgency defeciency bill. executive session. Montana senators Mantie and Carter elected.
The statutory revision committee will present its report to the legislature during the coming week. The group has worked since the last general assembly adjourned and has much of its work ready for lawmakers. A bill for a state board of arbitration is planned in the House this week by Representative Jones of Cook, stemming from last summer’s railroad strike in Chicago.
In a campus meeting on January 9 the Wyoming legislature chosen Francis E. Warren as senator for the long term and Clarence D. Clark as senator for the short term, both Republicans.
In Cleveland on January 12 a relief alert cites over 30,000 near starvation across Athens Perry and Hocking counties. A flour theft reveals dire conditions as families eat raw flour with bread scarce and widespread hunger noted in the region.
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