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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1891
Page
4
A detailed review of Washington Irving's Life and Voyages of Columbus highlights Book I's setup, voyage preparations, and the fleet's formation under Columbus with the Pinzón brothers. It notes the voyage's first steps, pilot awe, and Columbus's clever astronomical explanations amid early warnings from sailors. Continued Next Week.
In early September Columbus leaves Gomera heading west seeking India and new lands. After days of calm and fear at Ferro's sight, he sustains crew morale with grand promises of wealth while secretly falsifying daily distance. By September 18 he notes compass variation for the first time as voyage pushes into uncharted seas.
A baby named Suey Mey Lan, eight months old, was baptized Sunday at the Chinese Methodist mission by Rev. F. J. Masters. She wore a purple velvet brocaded dress imported from Paris, in the Chinese traditional baby style with loose blouse and wide trousers. Her eight-year-old sister was baptized earlier, reflecting a growing trend of Chinese families christening children early with Christian faith.
A mid nineteenth century summary discusses the adoption of a universal gauge replacing narrow gauge, then shifts to a travel piece detailing a European itinerary for $300 including routes, fares, and cost-saving tips. It contrasts cheaper rail options, third class travel, and the use of Baedeker guides for an economical, pluckily described grand tour.
A Beverly Massachusetts Times report recalls George Smith who ten years earlier fell in a New Jersey mine shaft and was confined 125 feet below ground. He was rescued by a rope tossed to him, and years later he discovers the rescuer is now his roommate.
J S Parker of Lincoln Creek Washington killed fourteen bears in one week near his home two weeks ago, eleven full grown and three cubs. He started with five on the first day. A second hunter killed twelve bears in the same area recently. Parker holds the record.
In Bosnia a hospital for female patients will be established soon with all medical officers being women. The British medical register lists upward of 100 women in active work. Eight hospital appointments are held by women, and the issue of women medical charges for girls and women in factories shops and schools is being debated.
A London style passenger climbed to a top seat on a Berlin bus, a move forbidden there, sparking widespread media coverage of the incident and public reaction across newspapers.
Actress Julia Marlowe shows extraordinary memory by committing to memory and reciting the full letter from Baron Fava to Mr. Blaine after it was read twice in her presence.
The piece notes farmers in Europe could work at night during the harvest moon while South Dakota farmers faced heat that kept threshers idle. It explains the September full moon seems large due to perigee, but its timing aligns with European harvest, not a providential boost for American crops.
In El Paso, explosive rainmakers found they cannot induce rain in certain atmospheric conditions. Despite the failure, heavy rains fell within 100 miles of the area after the blasts, believed to be caused by artificial thunder as compensation.
Rev Howard MacQueary, once aligned with church reform within his denomination, resigns from that path and accepts a call to lead a Universalist congregation in Saginaw Michigan.
The census reports 12.5 million U.S. families with 10.25 million living in homes or farms free from mortgage encumbrances. It notes electricity aiding fruit canning in California factories as a new use.
The piece notes opinions on reciprocity as a form of protection and describes decorative jewelry. It highlights a gold scallop shell ornament with pearls, a bowknot brooch with red enamel, a light mother of pearl elephant brooch, a serpent and heart motif, and a dull gray enamel heart with ruby spinels. Paris reports favor long neck chains for lorgnettes and glasses, four to five inches of chain linked by pea sized pearls for convenience.
Leander Richardson predicts he will never write another play on a royalty while Harry Dixey remains unusually anxious on opening nights.
Franco American inventor Bois sues alleging patent infringement on caisson technology used to build the Brooklyn Bridge. District Attorney Clarke treats the case as momentous and has hired a prominent patent lawyer with a $1000 retaining fee. The article recounts how engineers considered a cofferdam, later inverted, with Henry Beam and William Kingsley discussed regarding patent rights and construction methods.
A Boston father, guiding his now adult son, asks twenty four prominent friends for career advice. Each respondent criticizes his own field and urges the father to look elsewhere for the boy’s future prospects, leaving the son idle and the father undecided.
A detailed lunar crater unseen by eye is disclosed by a long exposure photographic plate from the Lick telescope. The newspaper notes the eye tires and misses fine detail, while steady light accumulation on film uncovers new surface features.
In 1888 Captain Joseph Lowe of York filled a bed with grass for cushioning. Mrs Lowe felt movement under her side. the captain dismissed it as imagination. After his death in 1889, the bed was opened last week and a live turtle escaped, having chewed two feet of straw and hay.
Professor Bigelow develops the aurora inclinometer and proposes sunlight as a magnetic field powering Earth rotation like a dynamo armature. The instrument will head to Alaska for aurora research under best viewing conditions. The San Francisco Nob Hill mansion of the late Mrs. Searles stands largely vacant with estimates from 1.5 million to 38 million dollars. The German union petition for women in universities is shelved while salaries for German school mistresses await government review.
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