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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1895
Page
19
The article highlights a new girl’s frock with a yoke blouse effect in old pink and pale blue on cream, featuring a satin ribbon trim, lace, and ribbon belt with rosettes. It notes adaptable designs for silk, wool, and cotton fabrics and mentions an Empire Fan dress with scarlet sarah fabric, plain godet skirt, and white moire lining.
The article extols a definite skirt silhouette and argues last year’s garments are unsuitable. It notes city shoppers buy ready made skirts, solves length by department store tailoring, and cites prices for black serge at five dollars and moire silk near twelve, as moire falls from favor.
A pair of funny anecdotes are recounted by a farmer-looking man with a sling and eye bandage who visits a superintendent. He describes a crash near Plankville, a lavishly chaotic scene with a hook-nosed storyteller and astonished responses, then flees as the superintendent reacts. Another item notes a released prisoner quipping about being discharged by a judge.
A collage of vintage fashion observations covers gown textures like crepon and satin, rib bon trimming with gauze ruchings, and bias cut skirts. It notes embroidery being accessible to home needleworkers, popular Dresden ribbons, and decorative collars, with a humorous aside about stenographers and a peddler.
A lawman arrested a drunken prisoner while the judge presides and awaits a full hearing. Details on charges and disposition remain untold as court proceedings continue.
Anxious diners sent a comic scene as an impatient customer complains about oxtail soup while a waiter defends the delay. Harold Gump seeks advice after a poker night insult from Polecat Pete. Alkali Ike suggests a drastic step.
A Detroit Tribune snippet shows a converted counterfeiter rising in the pew and vowing to raise church money if someone else will pass it. The line captures a dry, ironic moment in a religious setting.
A prison dialogue notes the prisoner asking the judge to hurry so he can reach prison in time for soup, remarking the noon meal as the reason for wanting swift proceedings. The exchange reflects a witty, dry tone from Le Petit Français Illustré.
A humorous exchange features Puck remarking on marriage and a scene of social satire. The dialogue contrasts a resigned bachelor with the idea of shocking marriage proposals amid troubled times. The tone is witty and lightly critical of contemporary courtship norms.
A humorous exchange notes a large table that could sleep fifteen, as Mine Host points to its size. The remark comes from Fliegende Blatter, reflecting social dining wit and practical furniture stretches in a playful tone.
A hotelkeeper and guest exchange lines about a wine being in the category of the blessed. The guest references the saying blessed are the poor in spirit. P. IL. P.
Magistrate notes repeated court appearances as the prisoner quips with defiant wit. The line "I have the courage of my convictions" lands as a pithy courtroom moment.
A humorous French caption notes how Gent-Mademoiselle becomes more beautiful daily and recalls a long running joke about looking horrid at first. The quote from L illustration frames this playful exchange as a light social vignette.
In a humorous exchange from El Dia a child Juanito says he wants to be an orphan, prompted by his strict parents. The joke contrasts parental rigidity with the boy’s imaginative answer.
A Lazyman asks for a 5 o'clock call tomorrow morning to suit an early schedule. The hotel clerk notes the hour is very early, while the caller explains a separate 11 o'clock engagement downstairs.
King Khama of the Bamangwato people tightens liquor law enforcement in his domain while lamenting white settlers’ demand for alcohol. He reports personal lifelong abstinence and gratitude for temperance advocates, yet laments inability to enforce prohibition on outsiders and their government.
A Sun reader notes that colored workers in the southern United States sing while laboring, unlike Italian railroad crews. The essay recalls Ouida describing Italy twenty years ago where villagers sang while toiling, but now such songs are rare as labor becomes less musical.
A past event in Waynesboro recalls a tramp found dead beside a haystack with a laudanum bottle nearby. A German resident, hearing of the incident, recounts the tale to his wife describing the sequence of events leading to the man’s death.
A Birmingham, Alabama gardener known as Uncle Bill Safety explains his method. He works white folks' gardens in March and waits until April to tend his own plot, then sells those early vegetables back to the same neighbors.
In Pennsylvania courts witnesses will no longer be required to kiss the Bible when sworn. The rule change aims to protect health by preventing the spread of microbes and other unwholesome things.
Hunter reports large flocks of wild geese flying northward in early March. The farmer notes the almanac confirms their behavior, implying the birds’ migration follows seasonal cues.
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