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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1894
Page
8
Paris market women known as the dames de la halle arrived at the Luxembourg palace to protest against market middlemen or yegrattiers. Police and guards watched as the deputation announced its official visit to the senate, aiming to influence national policy.
In Warren Tennessee area a four year old boy, never schooled, astonishes his parents by reading aloud from a family Bible after declaring he can read like his mother. The mother finally shows him the text and the child reads passage after passage with ease, prompting confusion from the family and a physician.
Valparaiso Ind Dispatch reports Thomas Pratt longtime city resident was found dead in his bed Saturday morning. He had told friends Friday night of a dream in which he died yet could see events around him including pallbearers and burial in Memorial Hall and a grave procession. the dream foretold his own funeral with pallbearers who later carried out the burial.
Mayor Carter tells an entertaining tale at a Chelsea dinner about a fair featuring costumes representing book titles. A pair of sandwich-board outfits displayed Chicago and Chelsea, challenging guests to identify the title The Quick and the Dead, according to the Boston Traveller.
The Bank of England disclosed a return to the house of commons showing notes worth nearly £10,000 issued over 40 years ago that have not been presented for payment. The piece notes that like paper slips, banknotes may be destroyed by accident through fire or sinking ships and even eaten by rats. It mentions a stray tale of a spendthrift using notes as gun wadding.
A long catalog of patent medicines and household cures. Ads praise Park’s Cough Syrup Hood’s Sarsaparilla and DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve among others, with testimonials and notes on spring tonics and tonics for digestion, blood purification, and general health themes.
A St Louis report notes Donald H Farquhar concentrates electric light to study brain tissue and other body parts. An 800 candle power lamp probe penetrates tissue to reveal injuries unseen by standard methods. Also cited are wartime casualty rates in France Germany and Russia and a remark on Gibsonville Michigan as a communistic village.
Reward offer of one hundred dollars for an incurable catarrh case. Testimonial affidavits from West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin Toledo druggists. Cure taken internally. 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free.
The issue features a portrait and biography of W. K. Boardman. It notes Park's Sure Cure as a product claimed to aid women who are run down and suffer from backaches headaches and similar ailments.
The New York Post notes on striped velvet shot and malted as a spring novelty along with bayadere stripes in rose and sea green on fawn corded silk. It mentions reversible shot silks, Persian brocatelle, English silks in fine reps, gilt star stockings, stamped florals, and glistening fabrics like petunia brocade and heliotrope cloth with gold braids and buckskin dotting.
A column recalls fairy tale pins turned into music by elves and a fossil shell powder touted against whooping cough in Britain and Ireland. It notes Boston undertaker signage satire, and hints at social clubs in Berlin Vienna and London known for whimsical titles and eccentric habits.
Palm leaves on the Amazon reach thirty feet in length and cotton with a red hue is being grown in parts of Georgia. A Tulare County tree measured thirty three feet in diameter at the base. The late Bishop Trollope is described with antiquary ties and church roles, though his episcopal title stems from a town with no official link since the creation of the Diocese of Southwark.
The British navy spends £211 annually per man. A Krupp gun test at MepPen sent a projectile 13 miles in 70 seconds. The Mannlicher rifle recently tested in Europe is claimed to be inferior to the French arm.
A recipe using gelatin eggs milk and sugar to create a quaking custard. Soak gelatin in cold water half an hour then boil milk. Beat yolks with sugar and mix into boiling milk, add gelatin and cook briefly to thicken. Off the heat add vanilla pour into a mold chill. Beat egg whites with powdered sugar to stiff foam heap around mold and serve.
Instructions describe making a snug head cap and a chin cloth secured by elastic bands just above the ears. The design aims to keep the mouth closed to reduce snoring by blocking mouth breathing during sleep.
Clean trays with soap and water and rotten stone, then dry. Mix copal varnish with bronze powder and apply to bare surfaces. Bake in an oven at 212 to 300 degrees until dry. Two coats restore the look and protection.
Dissolve an ounce of isinglass or gelatine in half a pint of hot water. Add an ounce of sugar and a pint of wine. Cool the mixture in a mold to form jelly.
To ebonize wood mix logwood from a druggist with warm water until dissolved. Apply with a large soft brush and rub with cloth to avoid a gummy surface. After drying for a few hours, apply a second coat of vinegar steeped with nails or filings.
Eratosthenes first estimated Earth's circumference using shadows at Syene and Alexandria around 250 BCE. His method, relying on distant locations on the same meridian and a 7 degree 12 minute solar zenith difference, yielded about 81,260 miles though distance accuracy was limited. Later refinements came with telescope and triangulation advances.
Across multiple outlets the destruction of the World’s Columbian Exposition’s White City is mourned. Editorials note beauty lost and calamities tied to the fair’s grandeur, while recognizing post fire regret and the fair’s doomed buildings.
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