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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1898
Page
6
A customer in Ames Iowa rejects an overlong sales pitch for a Cook's Delight range. The expert clerk extols features with price and aims to impress but the customer remains firm and orders at a fixed price, leaving the salesman defeated.
A nostalgic guide to hosting a rose whist evening with pink invitations, progressive whist scoring by red cards, rose themed prizes, four roses at each table, pink bonbons, pink ice, and a pink decorated supper table. It suggests roses everywhere, soft pink lighting, and a hostess in rose pink to enhance elegance.
Hendricks and Dr. Lampkin chase a fugitive aboard a moving train after a tense confrontation in a back room. The suspect escapes by leaping from the train and vanishes into the city, leaving investigators unsure where he is headed next.
A New York Post tip suggests using a piece of old kid leather cut from the best part. Fold a narrow strip with coarse string rolled inside and sew it neatly with strong thread to the garment for a sturdy hanger.
An odd Jamaican delicacy is described as a large white worm found in the heart of the cabbage palm. When cooked it reportedly tastes like almond and is noted as one of the arch treasures of local cuisine.
A poem presented as a reflective speaker claims vast empire over land, sea, and industry, smelting resources into wealth while acknowledging a competing force of knowledge and art. The speaker admits bluntness and greed yet asserts guiding civilization through roads of progress and the spread of learning.
Detective Hendricks visits Mrs. Champney to inform on her brother Tom Champney about a murder case. He cites strong evidence linking Tom to the killing of Richard N. Strong, who was robbed by the brothers in mining ventures, as Mrs. Champney fears the accusation may be true.
A poor beggar woman in St Louis is consoled by a flower girl who offers a rose. The old woman, faded and weary, accepts the gift, kisses the bloom, and a quiet joy returns as she calls herself somebody's grandma. The scene unfolds amid midday street bustle.
George A. Benham reports that despite economic hardship the Nickel Plate Railroad has expanded facilities and service. Public support funded improvements, lowering travel rates and boosting comfort, with ongoing plans to offer even faster, safer east and west travel.
A traveler and a native converse about political arguments and self confidence. The native explains his strength lies in practical skills rather than academic political science. He jokes about boxing and wrestling as analogies for expertise.
An old woman comforts a crying street urchin and buys him a dime after he confesses his father uses money for beer. She urges him not to drink and asks where he lost the coin as he explains it was during a penny-pitch with friends.
An English paper notes sailors use four hour dog watches and explains a lawyer’s question about timing a collision. The judge’s summing up emphasizes the danger of entrusting lives to merely a ship’s watch.
A terse note mentions sharks approaching and a reference to a metal E. The source reads as fragmented chatter with unclear context and no clear event or outcome. Entities are weak and no date or location is specified. The text appears as stray OCR fragments rather than a coherent report.
A reflection quoting Montaigne on how life’s utility comes from purposeful use rather than mere duration, emphasizing meaningful deeds over long existence.
Mrs W Pickett of Van Sieienan Blake Avenues Brooklyn N Y praises Piso's Cure as a wonderful claim for conv medicines in a testimonial dated October 20.
Victorian ad style copy touts St Jacobs Oil as soothing neuralgia and curing pain. It contrasts gentle treatment with cranky reputation and notes better times come to those cured, while joking about excuses for drinking hard water.
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