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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1896
Page
7
The Washington household relies on Black servants due to wartime arrivals and market surplus. The piece notes racial dynamics, wages, and class tensions, with anecdotes about servants, the mammy figure, and social expectations in Washington society. It also mentions McKinley Osborne and Lillian Russell in separate mini profiles.
The piece recalls a humorous streetcar anecdote about Eugene Field and his wife from Washington Star and a joke about establishing a bird day. It includes a quip by Meandering Mike about celebrating spring with a skin and a Wayfarin gent, and a Youth's Companion retelling of Field’s boarding car joke.
Mrs. Arthur Sewall wife of the Democratic vice presidential candidate hails from Bath Missouri daughter of Charles Croker once shipyard rival Nina her health is poor and she is described as a nervous invalid She studied languages in Berlin and Paris is an accomplished water color painter and amateur photographer with a prize winning collection She travels widely but leads a secluded life and dreads the publicity of her husband’s nomination
A Divinity Hall student at Yale fired a toy rifle at a lamp, sending a bullet into a professor of science. The professor traced the ball to an innocent colleague, and the student confessed, requesting the matter be dropped.
Senator James Kimbrough Jones of Arkansas is named the new chairman of the Democratic national committee. Born in 1839 in Marshall county Mississippi, he served in the Confederate army and later became a lawyer, state legislator, state senate president, congressman, and senator with multiple re-elections. He is described as tall dignified and grave yet gentle.
A New York exchange notes a defective fruit cover may not seal even when tightened. Apply putty around the gap between cover and rubber, screw the top tightly, and press the putty to fill the crevice. Once the putty hardens, the jar should be airtight.
The Chicago tower project plans a 1150 foot tall steel structure 300 feet square at the base. An incorporated company with $800000 capital and President D R Proctor will lease the old baseball property for years to build theaters restaurants searchlights telescopes and amusements including airship flights balloon ascensions parachute drops and rope performances. It will feature 14 elevators and aim to outdo Paris Eiffel Tower in design magnitude and appointments.
A London paper recalls Princess Maud shopping incognito when a street arab seller with brown eyes and a tangled crop offered flowers. He whispered he would keep it dark and not reveal her identity, insisting, You’re the princess Maud.
An uptown man, a bank director, arrived to meet his fellow directors when his 10 year old son barged in with a note. The boy said his mother forgot her bathing suit and left it in a shoebox on her dressing table, asking the father to mail it with a stamp. The scene occurred as the directors discussed an investment.
The piece notes that reading palms, card divination, and fortune telling are highly fashionable now. It suggests that anyone unable to provide glimpses of the future faces social discount.
A scientist recalls finding a building filled with strange inscriptions during travel in the southwest. An energetic friend shares a parallel experience after returning from a political convention in Washington.
A city man notes a good hay crop and the farmer agrees but cites no market. The dialogue pivots to an odd demand for fodder for bicycles, a joke attributed to the Chicago Post.
Two Sylvania residents toured a local dairy in Savannah and discovered a nearby crematory. One visitor asks about its purpose, and the other jokes that it is where they make the cream, reflecting a humorous misinterpretation of the facility.
A Cincinnati Enquirer snippet captures a man asking a woman to marry him with a boastful “once for all” line. She accepts but questions the notion as a delegate’s moaning in the lake breeze underscores a city’s unsettled mood.
Mrs Matronly complains of fatigue after a downtown trip and a three and a half hour session to have baby’s picture taken. The Detroit Free Press notes the novelty of instantaneous photography causing the long wait.
A Chicago Post exchange questions a politician's knowledge. The dialogue contrasts a claim of average understanding with doubt about readiness before or after nomination.
A clipped dialogue notes the irony of small strawberries priced highly while a joking remark about them being full of sand underscores the absurd contrast in value. The exchange preserves a humorous newspaper voice and local flavor.
A succinct aphorism notes that wealth cannot guarantee happiness and poverty likewise cannot prevent it. The quote contrasts riches with poverty, highlighting the nonlinear link between material status and well being.
A fragment from the New York Press quotes a blunt question about Kittie's expected marriage to Mashem and mentions an anecdote about “pricing automatic phonoo graphs.”
A fragment recalls a fabled term whispered by goblins and elves in a moldy library. The verse hints the word could aptly name the weather once unleashed, yet remains hidden among grim shelves and flickering lamplight.
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