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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1894
Page
1
Nevada Region Notes Amid Rail, Religion and Building News
Nevada representatives Mead and son Fred travel east with horses while W M Day seeks a Ames machinery post. Ames votes down a library tax. Editor Wilson elected mayor. Reports cover county missionary work, asylum trustee selection, new churches, travel to California, and a low cost suspension bridge in Bilbao aiding cross river traffic.
Collins High School Graduation Planned at M P church
The town announces the Collins high school graduation exercises will be held Friday evening March 16 at the M P church with inviting attendance and good music. A program will be furnished next week. The notice also urges planting trees this spring to improve the city’s appearance and durability.
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Collins High School
M P
Maxwel l to See Much Building Next Season
Indications point to extensive construction in Maxwel l during the upcoming season. Edgar John bought an interest in Willard John & Co hardware at Cambridge and will relocate there in days. In Mondays town election W M Starr was elected Mayor, L R Shepherd Recorder, Clark McLain Treasurer, J G Wells N L Gridley Councilmen, J H Wood Assessor, A Loughry Street Com. K Corne moved to Mir 7 town to take pastorship of the Christian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar John
Willard John & Co
Cambridge
W. M. Starr
L. R Shepherd
Clark Mclain
J. G. Wells
N. L. Gridley
J. H. Wood
A. Loughry
K. Corne
Mir 7
Ye Christian Church
Pollock Bros Formed After Powers Sells Interest
J C Powers sells his share in Pollock & Powers to W A Pollock of Iowa Falls. The firm becomes Pollock Bros. Judges at the Lee schoolhouse debate last Friday night ruled for the affirmative. Landlord McCall of a hotel is set to publish a new register this week. Miss Ollie Mabohn appears before the insane commission at Nevada and is declared insane. She is widely known in Zearing as the eccentric "old maid" living on West Main Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. W. Cheek
West Liberty
Iowa
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Gilbert
Lie
J.C. Powers
Pollock & Powers
W. A. Pollock
Iowa Falls
Pollock Bros
Lee
Cep. Mead
P. 38
O'Neil
Landlord McCall
Ollie Mabohn
Insane Commission
Nevada
Constable Bean
N. A. Perry
West Main Street
Story City Builders to Raise Many Homes This Year
In Story City the builders hammer is heard as a large number of residences are planned for the year. The local election results show one ticket with T. T. Henryson mayor and W. A. Kelley recorder receiving most votes. Holm Gandrup and Molster won council seats with Holm and Gandrup secure full terms.
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Story City Herald
Story City
T. T. Henryson
W. A. Kelley
T. T. Holm
W. D. Gandrup
John Molster
Fred Jensen
H. L. Dale
Riley Stevens
John Molstre
Residents Attend Visits and Farewell Sermon in Slater
Mrs Abbie Jenks and a niece visited Ames friends. Mr E G Rayness of Ames visited the editor's household Tuesday. Rev H C Holm to preach a farewell sermon in Sister church next Sunday. Rev Tvedt expected April 1. Slater election produced 48 votes with one ticket, 39 straight tickets, two unmarked, one scattered. new officers are Mayor W P Viland Recorder Ole Langland Assessor L G Johnson and Councilmen W C Fread and P T Newman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Holm
Siater
T'vedt
Slater Last Mont
W. P. Viland
Ole Langland
L. G. Johnson
W. C. Fread
P. T. Newman
Madrid Register Purchased by Editor Lawbaugh
The Cambridge Press reports the Madrid Register has been purchased by editor Lawbaugh. The sister and the News will consolidate and improve Madrid’s paper, with plans for a clean and readable sheet for readers. Eight Cambridge teachers attended a southern Story and Polk counties teachers meeting in Maxwell last Friday and Saturday. Three hunters arrived Monday from Des Moines with a complete outfit and plan duck hunting in the coming week. Steps are underway to erect a church of the U denomin ation in our city in the near future.
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Madrid Register
Lawbaugh
Madrid
Cambridge
Association of Southern Story
Polk Counties
Maxwell
Des Moines
Church of the U. & Denomination
Social Gatherings Past Youth Views on True Social Life
The essay argues social life should blend young and old, valuing mature manners and shared experience. It contrasts colonial courting gatherings with European salons where wit, music, and cultured discourse elevate society. It urges parents to remain young in spirit to teach children about genuine sociability.
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Europe
Diamonds to Price Drop Soon Warn Investors
The passage urges buyers to purchase diamonds in the next year or two, claiming prices will fall. It notes smaller stones in London cost about half what they did a year ago, suggesting a broad market decline.
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London
Radcliffe College to Be Incorporated and Diplomas Sealed by Harvard
Historical notes recall Radcliffe College's origins as the Society For Collegiate Instruction of Women, its anticipated incorporation, and the plan for Harvard signatures and seal on diplomas. The piece discusses women's access to Harvard degrees and the broader economic debates of 1893-4, including food shortages and factory labor hardships.
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Radcliffe College
Harvard
Society For Ff
Arthur Gilman
Hungary’s New Capitol at Buda Pesth
The Hungarian parliament building stretches 1 400 feet by 600, a chained complex facing the Danube with 2 000 windows 700 doors and 21 porticoes. It seats 2 000 across two chambers and galleries for 720 in the house proper, to be completed and dedicated in 1895 for Hungary’s thousandth independence anniversary.
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Buda-Pesth
Danube
Allelogram
House of Lords
Miss Jeannette Gilder a Noted Literary Figure
Jeannette Gilder sister to Richard Watson Gilder and co owner of The Critic is described as a tall masculine looking woman with a feminine personality. A well known New York bachelor woman she has a long journalistic career dating to a first story at age fourteen in the New York Dispatch.
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Jeannette Gilder
Richard Watson Gilder
Critic
New York
Miss Gilder
Philadelphia
New York Dispatch
United States
Rural district power by mills and markets noted
A farming district without big factories is described as likely poor. mills and factories create brisk markets for agricultural products, each depending on the other. Professor Atwater warns Americans eat too much meat and sweets, consuming flesh like carnivorous animals.
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Professor Atwater
Indians Lease Lands Face Pay Payoffs and Fence Cuttings
The passage describes Indigenous land leases to cattlemen and the tendency of some to bypass payment by cutting fences, slaughtering cattle, and consuming the livestock, highlighting tensions over trust and revenue.
Port Los Angeles wharf nears completion at Santa Monica
The Southern Pacific promotes a vast Santa Monica Port Los Angeles wharf stretching nearly a mile into the sea with seven iron tracks and a freighthouse. It will handle ships drawing 28 feet, shorten gulf to Pacific travel by almost two days, and power railway movement directly to ships.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
Mde
Port
Los Angeles
Santa Monica
San Francisco
North America
Ocean
Port Los Angeles
Blue
Gulf
Pacific
An Art for Home Bakers to Master Yeast Dough
Detailed instructions for bread making from mixing a yeast starter to shaping loaves and baking. Includes proportions for flour salt yeast water and kneading times plus tips for rising in warm places and oven temperatures. Mentions variations with butter milk alternatives and a sweet loaf with beef dripping sultanas sugar egg and lemon peel.
How to Make Almond Paste in a Rich Vanilla Tone
A pound of ground almonds and a pound of sifted sugar are mixed. Add the whites of two new laid eggs gradually, beating to froth, until a stiff paste forms. Adjust for variation in egg white. Shape into a thick block and dry slowly in a moderate oven.
How to Renew Ching Silks in Washing Tips
The article explains silk care for washing silk garments. Treat silk gently as an animal fiber, using benzine or gasoline for heavy soil, then rinse in lukewarm water, scour, roll in sheets, and iron on the wrong side after an hour.
Why the Honeymoon Is Named
The term honey moon comes from Teutonic customs where newlyweds drank metheglin mead or hydromel for 30 days after marriage. Attila the Hun reportedly drank hydromel at his wedding feast to excess and died. The word now refers to the month after marriage or the part spent away from home.
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Europe
Attila the Hun
How to Make Bath Bags of Oatmeal
An authority explains a bath bag recipe using 5 pounds of ground oatmeal 1/2 pound of powdered castile soap and 1 pound of powdered roots. Bags are sewn from cheesecloth four inches square filled loosely and used as a sponge to create velvety lather and soften skin with lasting fragrance from the root.
Women’s Governing Rules Against Leg Crossing
The article laments limited freedoms for women and argues that crossing the legs is inappropriate even in private. It claims men stretch their legs harmlessly, while women place body weight on nerves and muscles, risking sciatic pain and other troubles.
Hyacinth Growing in a Sponge Plan Featured
A simple garden tip describes placing a hyacinth bulb in a saturated sponge within a vessel to sprout. Once the bud appears, spread grass seed to form a green bed around the plant. In the same column, commentary notes a months long commercial clash between Germany and Russia and France imposing a wheat import duty.
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Germany
Russia
France
Europe
McKane the Gravesend Boss Sentenced to Six Years
The Brooklyn Gravesend political boss John Y. McKane received a six year term at Sing Sing for conspiring to defeat election laws and for contempt of court. His arrest followed widespread abuses at Gravesend polls where inspectors were controlled by his faction and injunctions ignored. The sentencing, praised as justice tempered with mercy, aims to deter ballot corruption nationwide.
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Sing Sing
John Y. McKane
Lincoln
MecKane
Gravesend
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Bartlett
United States
Europe
Illinois Central pamphlet guides farmers to move south
A seven page excerpt promotes an Illinois Central Railroad pamphlet with seventy pages of letters from northern farmers now in the south along the Illinois Central and Yazoo Mississippi Valley lines. It urges relocation to farms on a railroad with refrigerator cars for fruit and farm products and direct service to northern western and southern markets. For a free copy of the 1894 Guide, write to Manchester Iowa. J F Merry A G P A 406.
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Illinois Central Railroad
Illinois Central
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Manchester
Iowa
J. F. Merry
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