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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1896
Page
6
The York hussars descend on Weymouth and a shy Phyllis Grove faces a delayed betrothal to Humphrey Gould. Her father Dr. Grove, a retired thinker, watches family fortunes change as distant courtly movements overshadow a secluded inland manor.
Phyllis, a village girl, watches the York hussars camp on the downs. She befriends Matthaus Tina a 22 year old corporal from Saarbruck as his melancholy hides in letters from home. Their cautious exchanges across a garden wall unfold a tentative love tested by distance and duty.
Phyllis Grove contemplates eloping with Humphrey Gould as her secret suitor Matthaus Tina plans a midnight departure from Weymouth by boat to Cherbourg. Phyllis weighs leaving her father’s control and home to follow a dream of love and safe country with her charming, steadfast partner.
Tina plans a secret late night meeting with her lover at a highway junction before a harbor pickup. Christopher will precede them to row the boat around Nethe Lookout and return after crossing the harbor bridge to the Lookout hill. Tina hides near a fence to observe approaches unseen.
The Corn and Clover Belt area around Helena in Phillips County Arkansas is highlighted for fertile soils and small fruit and early vegetables. Rail access with three trunk lines offers cheap rates to northern markets. Helena, the county seat, is praised for box factories saw mills canning plants and other industries drawing settlers to nearby rich lands along the line.
The North Western Line offers half fare excursion tickets to St Louis Missouri on July 19 20 and 21 1896 for the National Populist Convention and American Silver Convention. Round trip one fare return passage valid until July 27 1896 inclusive. Tickets and full information from Chicago and North Western agents.
A. L. Wooster of Osseo Michigan suffered piles twenty years and was cured quickly by DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve, touted as an absolute cure for skin diseases. The preparation is widely used and sold by D. D. Bales.
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