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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1895
Page
7
Laura Catesford and Harlow Graham marry and face a sudden crisis when Harlow loses his sight. Laura adapts by steering the business and guiding their home while planning a cheerful, hopeful future. The glow of recovery returns as the clot dissolves and vision returns.
A London Truth writer lauds Italian literacy rapidity noting that children learn to read and write quickly while English readers struggle despite long study. He suggests mis-spellers may be better readers, hinting that practical use in reading matters more than conventional spelling.
In Valois Switzerland a child’s birth is marked by a cheese kept for life and shared at the funeral. A rich man may also stockpile wine for his funeral, placing a goblet on the coffin. Mourners drink the contents to symbolize meeting the departed again.
In a Texas Siftings note, Repecca appeals for a fine engagement ring while Sha cob dismisses luck and danger. An imitation bearl von stock is mentioned as a safer alternative, signaling a wary bargain in a rustic exchange.
A Woodstock Virginia veteran Levi McInturff who served in the Mexican and Civil Wars recovered after four years of paralysis following the grip. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills his condition improved within days enabling him to handle tasks again and walk across mountains. He praises the medicine and offers to affidavit his results. The pills, sold nationwide for 50 cents a box or six for 2.50, are advertised as harmless and effective for various conditions and even children.
A correspondent describes six thousand-foot St Moritz with 225 English and other guests enjoying perfect weather. Skating, tobogganning, and Alpine air lift spirits despite minor illness, with clear praise for Engadine air over bromides as a nerve tonic.
A regal cannibal king in faded silk and bamboo pomp awaits a deputation of white politicians. The secretary notes officials arrive and the king questions their purpose before ordering the kitchen staff to extinguish a stove fire.
A Pittsburg Dispatch writer asserts domestic fowls use distinct calls. Hens sing while feeding, warn at sight of hawks, announce laying eggs, and mothers issue clucks and coos to guide chicks. intruders trigger alarm cries prompting human response.
Meehan's Monthly argues that plant evolution includes self sacrifice as much as selfishness. It cites Southern pines tapped for turpentine producing about 10 million dollars annually with no evident harm to the tree, challenging the view that saw self interest as primary in evolution.
Liverpool offers a unique fortune telling trade where a manicologist reads a person’s future from discarded gloves. Send a pair of gloves and stamps to receive a full character report detailing disposition and life prospects.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a peddler haggling with a husband about mottoes and a joke about a divorce. A second line mentions a wife applying for a divorce and a pun about perseverance. Another fragment notes a first eating experience involving arti chokes and boiled pine cones.
The article highlights a Napoleon craze shaping spring and summer outfits with back-pleated skirts and evolving hairstyles. It notes a revived Langtry knot, the rise of fine china awareness, and the shift to sensible shoes for women, alongside velvet ceremonial gowns and hand painted chamois cloths for refined table use.
Denver July meeting of the National Educational Association offers Western trunk lines at one standard fare plus two dollars for the round trip with variable routes and reduced side trips to Colorado points. California Oregon and Washington extensions available. Through cars Chicago to Denver by Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. For details contact Geo H Heatford.
The Chicago Great Western Railway offers excursion tickets to western and southwestern points on February 12 March 5 and April 2 1895 at regular first class fare plus 2.00 for the round trip. Tickets are valid returning for twenty days from date and stopovers may be arranged by applying to a ticket agent or F H Lord G P T A Chicago. The true Christian will keep right on growing in grace whether he can have his own way or not.
A jumble of ads and notes urges readers to request a 32 page Burlington Route booklet titled A New Empire about Sheridan county Wyoming. Other items promote Syrup of Figs laxative, Wabash Line excursion tickets from Des Moines, a cough remedy, Harison's Corn Salve, Parks Tea benefits, and a curious claim about pink hair on Easter Island inhabitants.
A century ago imprisonment for debt was common and there was no public library in the United States. Gentlemen wore queues and powdered hair. An old Connecticut copper mine served as a prison. Most furniture came from England and only one hat factory made cooked hats. Crockery was shunned for dulling knives. Virginia held a fifth of the population. Mocking a preacher or sermon could incur a fine.
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