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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1895
Page
3
Two elderly women peering from behind lace curtains watch newcomers arrive at a modern street. A big, lively woman in a short blue skirt and bold jacket lounges by the gate, while a powerfully built young man exits the cab with a pink sporting paper.
In a suburb carving up fields for villas, two elderly sisters witness newcomers move into three adjacent houses. Admiral Hay Denver and Doctor Balthazar Walker arrive as imposing neighbors, while Mrs Westmacott and nephew Charles bring new tension as a bull pup unsettles the scene.
The Northwest was seized during the American Revolution by armed conquest led by George Rogers Clark. Clark, a Virginian hunter and Indian fighter, gained support from Gov. Patrick Henry to raise a backwoods force to claim the region then under British rule and part of Quebec.
The article describes fashionable traveling outfits and winter wear with detailed fabrics such as crepon, sage-green silk, mackintosh lining, and tweed ensembles. It includes opinions from a New York Ledger piece on dressing for safety in cold weather and a brief Life column quote, noting practical travel garments like capes, leggings, and coordinated coats.
The article surveys popular bag front bodices and gowns with removable yokes and front embellishments. It discusses beadwork, metal inlay, harmonized coloring, long shoulders, and the continuing use of yokes as trimming for summer outfits. It also cautions on weather appropriate outerwear and propriety in varying social contexts.
Lord Clarendon credits personal success and happiness to surrounding oneself with more learned and virtuous people. The reflection emphasizes moral cultivation and social influence as keys to fulfillment.
The state boasts 1,009 miles of canals that support irrigation and produce more than 6,000,000 bushels of grain each year.
An advertisement from Des Moines urges readers to mail orders from the storefronts at East Sixth and Locust Streets. The notice emphasizes mail order shopping options and solicits customer inquiries.
The Association German Hotelkeepers, about a thousand strong, debated tips in Germany and Europe. They decided not to meddle with the time honored custom, despite desire to curb it. Travelers should expect waiters in swallowtail coats and ready to accept tips.
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