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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1886
Page
1
A speaker challenges a young man about falling for a girl under a chestnut tree, discussing appearances wealth lineage and deception. The dialogue mocks arts of courting as traps while the narrator discovers the girl is Miss Pink, the beloved of Fred, in a tale from St. James' Gazette.
Grace Chaloner rejects Horace Woodworth for city life and high society. After a railroad accident injures him and a new romance with Dr Rashleigh, she learns she loves Horace. She travels to him, confesses love, and abandons her fashionable world to marry the farmer and find happiness in his rural life.
A vivid sketch of the family album as a centerpiece in village and country parlors. The narrative catalogs aunties uncles cousins and grandparents with humorous, affectionate detail, tracing names places ages and the lively tales behind each pictured face.
An editor seeks a sensational writer and tests a man by asking for plausible deceit. The applicant admits no newspaper experience but claims war articles have trained him to craft believable lies. The editor accepts him, declaring the hire.
Three years after a country dance in Arkansaw a Washington report praised Mrs. Poppleton wife of Congressman Poppleton as one of the handsomest women in the capital. Her attire a claret velvet gown with court train and iridescent beads.
A historical method describes slicing beeswax into thin flakes and laying it on coarse cloths stretched on frames. The wax is turned, occasionally dampened with water if needed, and left to bleach for about four weeks.
A Dublin incident saw Aarrt strike her croquet partner on the head with a mallet. Brain fever followed, the man nearly died, and the girl was held in custody until his recovery. Once he recovered she married him, and now he regrets he survived.
A Gourmet prescribes cooking method for leefsteak by holding it over red hot coals and counting forty four while turning the spit four times. This odd tip reflects period kitchen lore and practical grilling steps.
Fashion notes highlight Chantilly lace dresses with heavy jet detailing for the season. Designers showcase refined silhouettes and intricate embroidery aimed at formal events and upscale occasions.
A lyrical letter expresses deep affection for Irene, pairing romance with introspection. The speaker vows steadfast love, contemplates absence, fate, and patience, and ends with a ceremonial farewell and enduring devotion. The verse blends tenderness with hopeful resolve across celestial imagery.
The text argues that women gain value to employers yet face marriage pressures from male colleagues and suitors. It suggests liberal employers would prefer women retain opportunity to work over removing all workers due to marriage, valuing independence.
A column from Little Rock Life argues women are superior to men, asserting men are dust while women are created in God’s image. It praises women as helpers and resents wage disparity and denied rights, urging unity among women to claim their due.
A Philadelphia note praises a breakfast dish named seapple as a compromise between sausage, mince meat, and hash. One tester calls the taste an acquired one akin to the love for Katisha in The Mikado.
A woman presses a hesitant suitor about marriage within two weeks of 1885. He evasively responds while she schemes to buy a wedding dress, as the Philadelphia Herald notes the state's marriage license revenue will rise by 50 cents from another license.
Olive Logans letter notes the Baroness and Mr Burdett Coutts at a venue. She praises her outfit, mentions a black dressed girl presenting lilies and tuberoses, and extols Burdett Coutts mirthful disposition and white teeth.
The San Francisco News Letter notes a local girl famed for concise yet voluble talk. She merges words, avoids grammar stalls, and coins new terms to convey meaning, with an intercepted exchange illustrating her fast, inventive diction.
A compact newspaper snapshot blends anecdotes on women leaving work for marriage with tales from Christmas dinner and a civil exchange about engagements. It references Maine liquor law debates and a character Mrs. Smiley, plus brief notes from Texas Siftings and an Exchange item.
A historical collage notes brutal early 19th century newspaper items describing wives sold at market, auctions in Hereford Hull and Sheffield, plus later political maneuvering around Webster Tyler and Cabinet reshuffles. The piece blends social scorn with political commentary and satirical quips from 1800s era journals.
A Sandersville Georgia notice describes a tree on J. C. Duggan’s plantation that forms a unique shape. Its diameter is about twenty inches near the ground and it stretches seventy feet with a first angled section, a horizontal midsection, and a second angled rise before a final horizontal top. The trunk allows a child to reach the upper boughs and a person to walk forty feet along the body and jump to the ground.
A witty Dresden Letter compares how French and German phrases for I love you sound to an American girl. The author notes Je Cadore and contrasts it with Ich liebe dich and English. The piece ends with a humorous miscommunication about language and affection.
A short aphorism notes that all men desire to conceal poverty from others and their own laziness from themselves, highlighting human vanity and self-deception in everyday life.
The article describes indigenous Alaskan dwellings as earth mound homes with sod coverings and a central fire beneath a smoke opening. Exterior clutter includes dogs and food scraps while interiors feature simple furniture of skins and grass mats. Coastal areas shift to above ground log sod houses with timber nearby.
A Grascow theatrical company staged a church setting so convincingly that many audience members reportedly fell asleep during the scene, celebrating the realism while noting the sleepy reaction.
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