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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1896
Page
7
A visiting politician mingles with farmers in a blackish shop, seeking praise for Judson Blank. A blunt local retort surfaces as a man jokes that Blank is known but not openly celebrated, while a bystander notes others credit his sincerity, revealing public doubt.
The colonel mistakes a living major for a dead man at a political event. He recalls killing someone in a prior election and learns the misidentification came from a strong family resemblance. The major confirms no death occurred, revealing the confusion arose from kinship. Times Herald
A boarding house discussion questions a new cure and hardy living by walking on grass. A boarder notes the steak is tough and hard to cut, reflecting a curious local exchange in the Statesman.
In a terse exchange, Mr Hilltop refuses help to Peram while the tramp complains of being asked for charity. The quarrel highlights want and pride in a brief Chronicle Telegraph report.
The Tribune reports a dramatic courtroom scene as twelve jurors, described as good women, are moved while defense counsel declares they are guilty of murdering husbands and children but plead extenuation. The women dress in black, presenting a somber image as the case unfolds.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution quotes a man asking about a voter and another man who swapped money, exchanging a dollar for two fives and a ten to aid in the vote.
An English language fragment notes a plan to remove a painted sign from a stoop in New York. The dialogue suggests curiosity about the sign and the brush with passersby. The wording resembles a casual street exchange reported in a Sunday World edition.
A Chicago Record quip notes Cousin Louise tricked someone with a box of candy for a birthday. The playful misreading leads to a humorous exchange as she goes home.]
Fragmentary wire notes describe a Cuban insurgent success against Weyler with a dramatic incident referenced as “six barrels of ink” spilled on his ammunition wagons. The disjointed text hints at a disruptive act during ongoing hostilities.
Fragmentary text mentions Baglemmer and his wife facing divorce after a short marriage possibly linked to a bicycle purchase. Context incomplete, names uncertain, no verifiable facts.
A lyric fragment from the Washington Star describes a gentle heroine reacting to a suitor. The fair woman blushes despite withheld reply as their lives drift apart, a scene conveyed with classical imagery and restrained emotion.
Stephen Fiske describes Dickens at Gadshill and in Fechter's chalet. Dickens worked methodically daily from 11 am to 8 pm, drafting ideas, answering letters, or reading proofs, and planning each story with a hero and guiding questions.
The text contrasts child learning methods with natural development and cites meteorologist Sanna Solaro challenging hailstone growth models. It explains hail crust forms from external freezing with pressure creating nuclei and bubbles, while rapid congelation can yield multi piece pyramids.
A New York Tribune report notes doctors and nurses face continued danger from blood poisoning despite precautions. It cites a nurse with a bandaged hand and Miss Sawbones with an inflamed arm and lost thumb nail, yet both are recovering.
After seizing the Moluccas from Portugal the Dutch banned clove cultivation. They destroyed clove trees and ordered death for planting or trading cloves. Expeditions from other eastern colonies attacked any new bushes yearly. The policy left the islands barren, soil eroded, and people starving or deported.
In 1708’s New View of London, James Fair a barber James Fair ran a house near Inner Temple gate later Rainbow. In 1657 an inquest of St Dunstan’s found him making and selling coffee a nuisance to neighbors. The author notes London would grow to 3000 nuisances and coffee would be widely drunk by the first quality and physicians.
From the mid sixteenth century until 1824 the Dutch regulated the clove trade by destroying part of the crop each year to raise prices. The annual burning continued until 1824 when the practice ended, marking the last such measure in clove regulation.
Alfonso VI of Aragon and Naples earned the epithet Magnanimous for releasing prisoners of war on multiple occasions rather than executing or ransoming them.
The Department of Agriculture estimates the cost to sow one acre of wheat at 90 cents in Alabama, with the figure dropping to 24 cents in Iowa. This shows wide state differences in initial wheat production expenses.
The London Telegraph sketches Piccadilly’s fame and disputed name origin. It cites Hon. F. Byng’s theory that Charles II bought cakes called pickadils near Apsley House, and notes Byng’s ashes in St. James Church. It also mentions Old Queenbury, the Star of Piccadilly, buried nearby.
A veteran florist offers a method to keep bouquets fresh for up to a month. Start with a rinse of fresh water, place in soapy suds to nourish roots, then remove daily into clean water briefly before reseating in suds. Change the suds every three days. Continuous care extends life of cut flowers.
A medical association summary notes hot water often aids eye bathing and bruises while cold water can suit certain cases. Drinking warm or hot water in quantity helps induce perspiration during heavy colds. A bedside bowl of water may ease troubled sleep and help purify tobacco-smoke affected air, per the Brooklyn Eagle.
The article notes Chinese ladies carry a small bag of sweet smelling gum, akin to ancient Egyptian cosmetics. It also mentions newly unearthed jars at Pyramida containing perfumes once used by Egyptian princesses, resembling current high rank Chinese fashions.
The city of St. Louis is not in any county under the Missouri constitution of 1875. It was separated from the county and in 1876 made a separate municipality. It appears to be the only city in the country outside county limits.
In a Chicago Record item Dr Goodhead labels the husband’s nervous complaint as catching trains. The quirky diagnosis frames a home frontier anecdote with medical humor.
The Iowa weather and crop bureau reports a week of temperatures about 4 degrees below normal and September deficits totaling over 100 degrees with much cloudiness. Frosts have delayed belated corn, 15 to 20 percent of the crop, reducing total yield but still keeping Iowa’s standing as a top corn state.
The dowager czarina with her children from Denmark has started for Liban on the imperial yacht Polar Czar after visiting the Danish king and queen.
Li Hung Chang reached Yokohama aboard the Empress from Vancouver. He did not receive a formal reception and immediately departed for Tien Tsin.
The newspapers here deny in toxic Sept. 28 that Russia and Japan have agreed on a joint protectorate in Corea.
The steamer G. R. Booth under Captain Nesbitt arrived at Queenstown from Philadelphia on Sept. 28 after nearly foundering in a gale. Water swept decks flooding cabins and threatening fires and the forward bulkhead.
Dixon and White fight declared a draw in the 20th round in New York on September 27.
In Leadville Colorado on September 28 the funeral for Jerry O'Keefe, the fireman killed while fighting a Coronado mine blaze, drew what locals called the longest procession. William Higgins, shot during the same attack, was buried from the same church after O'Keefe with miners from the union trailing to the cemetery.
Berlin reports imperial trade for January to August 1896 with imports rising by 2,570,149 tons and exports increasing by 1,280,750 tons compared with the same period in 1895.
Democrats of Missouri's Eleventh district nominated John Hunt for congress. Hunt is president of the Stosecutters' International union.
In Batrimore on October 6 the Orioles won their third straight Temple Cup contest against the Spiders with strong batting and fielding. The team plans to travel to Cleveland for one more game in Forest City, aiming to clinch the trophy.
Atlantic Indiana reports the Bank of Atlantic closes following an assignment by F. P. Whitney. The bank lists liabilities over 200000 while assets total about 175000, indicating a insolvency and near collapse for the institution.
A New York Times report describes a Montenegrin royal dinner where a boar roasted whole was sliced open to reveal a turkey inside and a snipe, said to be flavorful after its unique cooking. The event underscores princely customs seen as primitive.
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