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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1895
Page
6
A Family Resemblance
A fragmentary note shows a family scene with Uncle Jim and a child near an animal cage. The text hints at Mehitabe and Sim as speakers and mentions goods or garden items, with a casual, wandering dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Mehitabe
Wheat prices rise on speculative demand at Rialto Market
A garbled market note indicates wheat futures are set to move higher with speculation that prices may reach $1 per bushel. The report cites Rialto Building as a venue and mentions daily market coverage with narrow margins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rialto
Fragmentary overheard quip at St Peter’s gate
A museum-like fragment shows a dialogue about heaven and a candidate for eternal bliss referencing Petar and Parkhurst, with a remark about going elsewhere and inviting entry if desired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peter
Petar
Parkhurst
Looking Back Twice Aesthetic Divination In Verse
A poem about a woman described as dainty who looks back twice at every passing woman, earning her gift of second sight through a sharp, unsettling glance. The verse emphasizes a haunting, perceptive gaze.
Offer of Coin Financial School book series in Chicago
An advertisement touts W H Harvey coinage and financial books with prices and prepaid postage. It promotes six titles including Coin's Financial School and A Tale of Nations and offers a full set for one dollar, directing orders to Carrier, Gen. Agt., 14 So Clinton St, Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Mares
S Financial School
Tage
W. H
Upton’s Financial School
W. H. Harvey
Henry G
Chicago
Dublin
Ireland
Gen. Agt
Clinton St
Living Shadow from Typhoid Cure Story
Interview with G A Baker from Greenville North Carolina details his battle with typhoid fever starting in October 1893 and recovery after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. Baker credits pills with restoring appetite strength and curing dys. he praises the remedy and urges others to try it. The ad-like testimony promotes the pills as a universal tonic and lists ailments treated. The piece cites the medicine company in Schenectady New York and prices per box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
N. C
G. A. Baker
Isaac A. Sage
Beaufort County
Pitt County
Col. Sage’s
Dysand
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
The Ladies Use of Syrup of Figs and Other Items
A collage of old remedies and notices highlighting the safety of California Fig Syrup for women, aging patents, teething remedies for children, magic salves, and various historical notes. Includes references to Sun day school beginnings, theater reads, and a note on English beer licensing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ornia Fig Syrup Co
Diverse Factoids From Global Life And History
A string of curious notes covers global trivia from clerical rites in Burma to beards taxed in Italy. It cites nuns shaved heads, Danish city cab speed, a Spanish Pyrenean paper, population growth in Germany, ship to cruiser conversions, and local justice by community vote in Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burmah
Pyrenees
German Empire
Japan
Bombay Zoological Garden
Tay
Italy
Campania
Etruria
China
The Course of True Love in a Cold Dilemma
Mrs Houskip accuses Bridget of jilting the ice wagon man for the milkman. Bridget explains the damp doorstep marks from the twenty pounds of ice. Bridget is urged to belong to both or seek another place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridget
Inauthentic Identity Confession on a Bank Check
A paying teller warns identification is needed while the check owner insists no one would recognize him now. The man claims pride in possessing the check and banters that his own mother would not know him anymore.
Grand Junction Peach Venture Promises Profits
A speculative note suggests buying land in Grand Junction where peaches grow cheap, arguing supply and demand favor profitable cultivation. The text mentions various names and playful phrases, implying planning and interest in peach farming without solid details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Junction
Inadequate War Segment Discussion Amidst Poetic Debate
A Chinese poet laureate and Li Hung Chang discuss writing on the Japan war. The dialogue hints at divine guidance and turning to Christ. Dr Holmes’s books are valued at $804 with an estate appraised at $72,117.32.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Li Hung Chang
Dr. Holmes
Mother's Right and Essie's Fateful Choice
Miss Hope Daring recalls Essie Rolfe, a bright 17 year old bound for teaching, driven by a harsh mother to abandon school and wed Guy Raymond. The narrator laments Essie’s lost potential, blaming parental control and class pressures for the girl’s marriage to escape an unloving home. The piece contrasts ideals of refinement with a grim social reality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Daring
Mrs. Lawrence
Guy Raymond
Tom Raymond
Raymond
Raymonds
Essie Rolfe
Esgie
Rolfe
Essie
Miss Hope
Mrs. Morton
Canary
Jealousy as a treatable disease say French doctor
Dr. Maurice de Fleury, a French physician, argues jealousy stems from physical conditions and brain nourishment. He suggests dietary and stimulant measures plus rest to reduce jealousy, and imagines future tablet treatments to cure the mood state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice de Fleury
de Fleury
Science
Strange tale mirrors Napoleonic memoirs in exhumed book
The Pall Mall Gazette notes a bizarre parallel between Rossetti poems buried with his wife and the memoirs of Colonel Planat de la Faye. Exhumations produced three copies, one in the coffin, with executors finally securing a second exhumation to publish the recovered text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rossetti
Planat de la Faye
Napoleon I
Pall Mall Gazette
Notable Victorians Tread Nation's Social Scene
Mir Sultan a Delhi royal descendant works as a clerk in an Indian police office. Miss Julia Grant and Miss Winnie Davis, daughters of famed figures, join New York living pictures under fashionable auspices. Senator Sherman leads his seventh state Republican convention at Zanesville on May 25, with a history tracing back to 1858 Columbus meeting. Senator Peffer foresees returning home amid nationwide joy. The Isthmus railroad builder Winnlett died in Williamsburg New York. Gen John B Gordon, exhausted from speaking tours, finds little sleep due to late-night reunions with old comrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mir Sultan
Delhi
India
Thomas William Winnlett
Williamsburg
N. Y
Aspinwall
Panama
Peffer
Julia Grant
Col
Frederick D. Grant
Winnie Davis
Jefferson Davis
New York
Senator Sherman
Zanesville
Columbus
Congress
John B. Gordon
Arkansas
Texas
Parting Words from the Deck at Departure
A seaman bids farewell to his wife as the steamship pulls away. He tears up and answers her plea to remember to put the cat out at night, amid loud tugs and wailing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Rule of sickness and death from 1860 London congress
The text states a rule from Dr Far and Mr Edmonds at the London congress of 1860. Among 1000 people aged 30, about 10 die yearly, 20 are sick, and 10 are invalids. at age 75, about 100 die, with 300 sick or invalid over the year. It proposes hospital beds for 200 sick and 100 infirm invalids per 100 deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far
Mr. Edmonds
Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away
An advertisement payload claims tobacco use causes sore throat and loss of manhood and offers No-To-Bac as a cure. It promises guaranteed results by druggists and a free book from Sterling Remedy Co of New York City or Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling Remedy Co
New York City
Chicago
A Reformed Man Benefit From Quick Marriage Joke
A New York girl boasts of her husband Charlie reforming after marriage. She claims he quits saloons track races and balls to spend all his time with her. Asked when they wed she replies Day before yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charlie
Flattery and Wealth Themed Aphorisms Collected
A sequence of moral maxims notes greed flattery and wealth as guiding forces. It links flattery to fools wealth to moral risk and time to healing, while contrasting humble noble actions and unequal love. The fragment presents general observations rather than a narrative.
Mary Milk the Cow Pronoun Lesson
A classroom dialogue discusses pronouns as Mary is the implied referent. Tommy explains that the word cow stands for Mary when used in the directive to milk, illustrating gender and person as tied to the subject.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Mary
Eye to Economy on Cheap Tickets by Mr Ipstein
A fragmented request from Mr Ipstein of St Louis seeks a cheap ticket to a capeete destination. The caller asks Springfield options in Massachusetts Illinois Missouri or Ohio and questions which city offers the lowest fare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ipstein
St. Lous
Springfield
Massachusetts
Illinois
Missouri
Ohio
System Overload in School Friction
Tommy complains about the school system as punishment cascades from monitor to teacher to principal. Pa's disciplinary reaction ends with him being turned over his knee for corporal punishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Sometimes the Way Character Sketches a Ward
The dialogue contrasts two local figures: aka yte, an ignorant sort of fellow, and Muzzles, the eminent authority on financiering, highlighting reputations in the ward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yte
Muzzles
Health concerns in family dialogue reveal insomnia fear
In a curious exchange a character asks if another’s father is interested in him and notes concern for his health. The father fears possible insomnia affecting the young man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talate
Ana
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