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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1886
Page
1
Advertising rates listed for Ames locals include ten cents per line for first insertions and five cents per line for subsequent insertions by contract. Rates for large quantities are set at 500 lines for $25.00 and 1200 lines for $50.00, with monthly and weekly changeability. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Ames post office.
Ames sits on the Chicago and North Western Railroad at a junction with the Des Moines and Minneapolis Road, thirty six miles north of Des Moines. It is the seat of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with several hundred students, a well appointed public school, and surrounding farming lands that produce abundant crops.
The text lists Sunday and Wednesday worship times, a 12 o'clock school session, and a prayer meeting at 7 pm every Wednesday, with H. W. Wilson named as pastor. It indicates a church program format including alternate Sundays and regular services.
ING at 10 45 and evening at 7 30 Sun g School immediately after the morning service Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7 30 E C MOULTON Pastor Sie a EVERY SUNDAY MORN-
A cottage householder story shows a young couple starting May 1 and planting a rose to bloom over the door. Despite poverty and trials they grow closer, the home and love enduring through hardship until they live in sunlight again. The poem urges builders of homes to plant love before spring ends.
A farm girl struggles with a stubborn churn on a sunlit May day. A handsome suitor, a public fall in town, and a family narrative of romance unfold as butter, dress shopping, and a bustling country store color the scene. Joe Brewer and Nannie’s courtship moves from kitchen to town amid chores and small town merriment.
A discussion on domestic taste urges professional training for women in interior decoration to elevate homes and communities. It cites evolving stylistic trends and a lack of organized supply, urging architects and designers to guide couples starting housekeeping. The piece includes a tale of labor law enforcement in Ohio where a boy mandated two weeks’ notice wins wages, shaping compliance.
Selection from Harper's Bazar urges women to adopt household decoration as a profession after studies in art schools and market research. It promotes practical, precise work, collaboration with dealers, and potential nationwide reach, citing Col. T. W. Higginson.
A humorous exchange at Vassar College as a professor intends to lecture on human anatomy while students bustle about in bustles. Misunderstanding leads to decorum restored and a playful quip about bustles being stylish.
A bachelor writes to the Pall Mall Gazette that the ideal time to judge a woman is at breakfast and in the forenoon. He links health, tidiness, and energy to morning appearance and warns against the cold, late, or hurriedly dressed young woman who wastes the morning on letters, predicting she will be a bore and a poor wife.
The piece recounts encounters on hotel piazzas where women eavesdrop, overhearing intimate conversations. It contrasts social scrutiny with sensational gossip and notes exploits of Mrs. Hendricks and Mrs. Smith amid dining plans and weather, highlighting gossip’s reach.
The scene at a wedding breakfast features the bridegroom and the bride’s little brother as he asks if the hook hurt when it bit him. The mother orders him away while the bride’s brother quips about poverty driving marriage. A new couple starts life with minimal crockery, an ink bottle and a China chart.
The Salt Mines of Nevada describe rich rock salt reserves along the Rio Virgin in Lincoln County and at Sand Springs in Churchill County. The Humboldt field spans about fifteen by six miles with surface evaporation yielding salt, while nearby borax and soda deposits suggest future railfed markets.
A guest at a St Louis party urges departure for excitement but the host reveals he cannot leave because he himself is the party giving the party. The exchange humorously exposes social dynamics at a gathering.
A bronze felt capore features a pale pink velvet bound brim and a cluster of nodding ostrich feathers at the front. An aigret form Pecae adjoins a short pink velvet ribbon tied with matching strings.
Madame Dumas identified the corpse of her husband in Lyons Morgue after it was found in the Rhone. The shock of the sight caused immediate fainting and she died within minutes. Medical notes suggest violent emotion as the likely cause of death. Latimer tribute follows.
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