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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1894
Page
3
A Boston Transcript cornet discusses the overburdened American housekeeper noting it drives many to exhaustion and nervous prostration. It argues domestic duties have become a spectrum of tasks from sewing and cooking to church work, urging a pause to redefine limits and support.
The narrator tours a kitchen marked by blue white tiling a marble basin and madcap features. Philomena keeps water running from aqua Marcia and a metal range heats with charcoal and fanned flames. Copper saucepans and a tiled cammino complete the vivid domestic scene.
A poem by Mary W. Plummer expresses a mother’s ache for a stillborn son. The speaker recalls children’s voices and starry eyes, then imagines the unspoken bond with the child who never grew, assuring she will not be alone.
A writer prescribes strict infant care rules emphasizing dry bibs and frequent diaper changes. He urges delaying meat until the third birthday, avoiding kisses, keeping the baby clean and clothed, placing him on his side, and training him to keep his mouth closed to protect against germs and dust.
Instructions describe slicing potatoes and cooking them with butter flour and milk to a creamy soup. The recipe adds minced parsley and egg yolks before serving, with steps for melting butter, thickening, and finishing on low heat.
A pint of milk and three ounces of chocolate are boiled with five tablespoonfuls of sugar until smooth. Off the heat add four lightly beaten eggs. Cool in a cold bowl, then fold in a pint of stiffly beaten cream and a teaspoon of vanilla.
Steamed richly flavored apples are washed, cored, and left unpeeled. They are steamed until tender, then served with sugar and cream.
A playful update follows a golf scene featuring the girl golfer, her preferred lad Jack, and a hired Scottish caddie. The piece notes their antics with humor and light satire as they compete and roam.
A verse depiction of a young woman with golf clubs and a Scot caddie, parading on the links. The poem notes her flushed cheeks and sanded shoes, her limp and freckled nose, and her belief that golf is grand yet slow, all framed as a lighthearted English-Scotch joke.
A witty exchange in New York Weekly where an artist compliments a young lady’s work and notes how women all look alike. The brief dialogue captures period humor and social vanity.
A humorous exchange from New York Weekly where a daughter begs to delay romance until marriage and a mother counters with curiosity about inherited traits. The轻 dialogue reflects early 20th century social jest.
A witty exchange from New York Weekly contrasts dire science with a royal mood, noting Professor Longhair-It’s claim of continental subsidence and Miss De Style-Oh’s toast about owning a yacht as a playful rebuttal.
A dialogue contrasts a speaker’s favorite month October with autumn color notes and lower rates mentioned as a practical aside.
Miss Richgirl-Really from pa worries that delaying their marriage until spring will cause George to die if he must wait. Ola Gentleman offers to lend him funds to cover board expenses.
It argues bicycles need a clear signaling system using bells to tell pedestrians what riders intend. The speaker outlines a tentative scheme of five or more signals such as stand still dodge dive jump and spring to guide pedestrian flow.
A dialogue depicts a scientist warning that rapid eating is slow death by one's own action while a drummer counters that on this road slow eating leads to starvation, highlighting a rough exchange about food and pace.
A colorful remark from Truth touts instant bird and even house shots at a cyclone pit. Sir William-Aw is invoked in a brash frontier banter about rapid shooting ranging from killy-lye birds to real estate.
Miss Richgirl and Mr Slimpurse discuss a plan to win Miss Richgirl’s father’s favor by saving him from bankruptcy. The dialogue revolves around manipulating obligations to gain permission and influence. The characters debate clever ways to secure the reward and approval.
A fragment mentions Prof Missem amid a weather forecast context. Report notes he is in shock after a fall and hints at predictions possibly coming true, reflecting a tense moment around his forecasts.
The collector confirms the master performed corrections in the bill and charged a recharge of $2. He notes it took about an hour to locate items and charged $5 per hour for time, with additional requests for more work.
An old dialogue shows a park guard joking with a young couple about wedding plans. The young man apologizes for keeping the guard awake, and the guard teases that he cannot be sure of last year’s marriage, turning a tense moment into humor.
A humorous exchange unfolds as Mrs De Painteur balks at a fabric, claiming it clashes with her complexion, while a new clerk tries to reassure her that it harmonized with her prior opinion when selected.
A clubwoman recalls four late nights at the club and returning home to an absent husband who sleeps through her arrival. She laments masculine indifference and a demand for shared duties in a marriage.
A brief wedding notice notes a marriage in the Pennsylvania coal regions. Guests arrived with humorous slang referencing knives instead of pistols and a jet like ceremony, as reported by New York Weekly.
Erastus from Wayback, a notorious bear in McKean county, terrorized farms and beehives along Sinnemahoning waters. After a year of chases and near captures, he battled Cy Crane and others, stealing milk and cream, ending when Sam Shepard’s shot concluded the bear’s mischief.
Scotland shows fifteen divorces per million while Kentucky whisky output tops twenty million gallons. A Boston author promotes colorized bodés and a boxing glove uses a sponge ink to fake blood. Astronomers note nebulae foreshadow star formation. an emperor is godfather to seventh sons in Prussia.
Dialogue from a society page sketch shows Jones and a bride speaking of thoughts and trouble. The bride says she is busy with an upcoming blemish while her partner ponders how to spell their name if they become rich.
A brief exchange shows a child and mother debating a term while a boy questions the phrase and a girl explains it is to make people laugh at mistakes. The setting suggests a family or classroom scene centered on language play and humor.
Dialog Pierces rural tone as a city hunter is accused of killing game out of season. The farmer notes the law and reveals he pursued the hunter for miles, but the shots go unanswered and no game is taken.
A playful exchange suggests who first coined the line beauty is only skin deep. Little Dot asks who first said it while Little Dick says he never heard her name.
A child dialogue features Little Ethel doubting a peddler's gold rings as cheap. Little Johnny speculates the rings may come from a summer resort pawn broker. The mother praises Dick as ingenious while the father notes a doctor earns from experiments, unlike an inventor.
A Bright Boy explains the saying about maximizing earnings when Congress is not in session. The exchange frames the proverb as a joke about saving money for leaner times when the legislature reconvenes.
The Samoan pigmy cattle are the smallest known in the genus Bos. Males weigh about 150 to 200 pounds on average, with females roughly 100 pounds heavier. They are stocky, rarely taller than a merino sheep, reddish mouse colored with white markings, and have exceptionally long horns and large heads.
A Philadelphia Ledger item notes the season's dainty portfolio in white canvas, bound with blue or scarlet leather and moire lining. One variant is white canvas bound in old rose moire, decorated with pink clover blossoms and a gilt quote about clover blossoms.
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