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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1891
Page
4
Keppel Darke faces a dramatic turn as Olympia Raven learns she is the intended heiress and Darke declares his love. A surprise visitor arrives with a warrant. dark events unfold when J Harry Trent is found dead, and Darke is arrested on suspicion of murder as Olympia watches in shock.
Olympia Raven awakens aware of a ten o clock appointment as her cousin Harry Trent and portrait painter Keppel Darke mingle in her life. Darke, gifted yet conceited, becomes entwined with Olympia's plans to gift a portrait to Harry on his birthday while the two men navigate attraction, artistry, and propriety. The piece sketches family ties, social norms, and an evening path toward a fateful Trent tragedy.
A woman carries a basket aboard a Crawford Street car. A boy notices the bundle and discovers a large cat hidden under the cloth. The cat jumps onto passengers, then leaps off at the rear door as the woman exits quickly. The crowd laughs at the misunderstanding and the boy shrugs off the incident.
The piece describes a circus keeper feeding a lion twice daily and a poet longing for a lion keeper position. It then details a French Canadians geography game where players name countries in sequence by matching initials and letter patterns, with penalties for failure.
The New York Herald describes a playful geography challenge where players chain names by starting each new entry with the last letter of the previous one, allowing cities rivers mountains or any feature if confined is difficult.
A Sinhalese Buddhist who left Ceylon for Buddhagya reports Brahmin priests hold ceremonies there and Hindoo pilgrims visit annually, harming ruins. A Sambaleeo pilgrim plans action with Brahmin leaders to restore the site, found a Buddhist temple at Bodi Maluwa, and send priests to Buddhagya with a Japanese monk joining the effort.
Chestnuts gathered by H. C. Hughes near Holly Springs in 1850 remain sound and unwormed, stored by sister Mrs. J. W. Reece and later shown by J. W. Reece and J. S. Wood. The find ties to the Civil War era and a family history noted in the Cherokee Advance.
Jones S. Davis of Holyoke urges flax culture on abandoned western Massachusetts farms with one acre per town for a cooperative trial. He also backs forming an association to manufacture flax goods. Professors note mixed results, while local farmers stress demand will drive adoption.
Mr Wheeler an electrician for the New Jersey Central railroad tested a Huntington light of 3200 candle power mounted on the switch signal bridge twenty feet above the track. Bricks in a station building a third of a mile away could be counted while the beam was on the track and ties could be counted to the same distance. Colors were clearly distinguished at half a mile. At 1500 feet an engineer could determine switch positions. The reflector resembled locomotive headlight units, was silver plated and highly burnished.
A tramp challenged by Farmer Johnson to throw him over a fence ends in tragedy as Johnson suffers a broken leg and three sprung ribs. The incident occurred at Johnson's farm in Indiana and was reported by the Detroit Free Press.
A Mary A. Livermore quotation compares women's suffrage to a wounded body needing both legs to move society forward. It argues full political equality will bring a nobler era with shared interests, wiser leadership, and a better civilization for the republic.
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