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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1894
Page
3
A nostalgic verse painting gardens as living memories with flowers and scents. It recalls mothers pots and night goodnights, pairing blooms like hollyhocks larkspur primrose lilies with quiet rituals and cherished family moments.
Audrey Lovel narrates a sprawling family portrait from King's Lorton, detailing the loving yet stormy dynamic of nine siblings, their vicar father, generous but wary mother, and the Latimer mansion Lorton's Cray, which promises romance when Lord Latimer returns with a young wife. The scene culminates in Audrey’s first sight of Lady Latimer at church, a beauty she vows to love always.
Audrey Lovel narrates being invited by Lady Latimer to Lorton's Crag as May sunshine contrasts with Lady Latimer's loneliness. Audrey is drawn to the Lady, while Lord Latimer's stern moods hint at tension. The visit promises social elevation but foreshadows hidden unhappiness behind luxury.
In dialogue from Texas Siftings, Eliza learns her husband is a widower whose love letters to her were copied from those he wrote to his first wife. A friend notes he will not send more letters, highlighting the deceit.
The article notes that early French missionaries discovered coal in North America, citing Father Hennepin as making the first recorded interior discovery in Illinois over two centuries ago, per MacFarland's Coal Regions of America from the St. Louis Republic.
A traveler from the South recalls burgoo as one of Kentucky’s oldest favorites. The hearty stew simmers for six hours in a big pot at gatherings, with peppers potatoes tomatoes corn prairie chickens farm yard chickens soft shell crabs and squirrels, stirred with a hickory stick for flavor.
Workers digging a waterworks reservoir at Montpellier uncovered a cemetery with human skulls of 28 31 and 32 inch circumferences and equally large bones. The bones were sent to Paris where a savant claims the relics belong to a race of men from 10 to 15 feet tall.
A barber shop owner recalls a former barber who was skilled but careless about business. He fired him for not suggesting a baldheaded customer trim today. Separately, a snow event reached the furthest south in Florida near Key West, a rare occurrence.
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