21 Sep 1893
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1893
Page
1
Services every Sunday morning at 11 and evening at 7 30. Prayer meeting Wednesdays at 7 30. Sunday School after morning services. Christian Endeavor an hour before evening service. Y M RickMAN pastor.
Byron Clark, pastor, invites the public to attend church services on Sabbath mornings at 11 and evenings at 7 50. Sunday school begins at 10, Y P C U meets an hour before evening service, union praise at 3 30 p m, and a Thursday prayer meeting is scheduled.
Raters Cys Mes Lodge No 309 1 O C F meets Tuesday evening each week in Odd Fellows Hall Ames Iowa H P McLain N G directs meetings with the group seeking fraternal fellowship and community service opportunities.
Sedan chairs return to London life with the charm of old times and the Japanese jinriksha appears, yet safer and cheaper than carriages. A Plea For the Little Ones discusses summer dangers to poor children, urging free medical care, fresh air homes, and mother training via visits or mothers meetings to reduce infant mortality.
Alexander W. Terrell, a Texas figure and minister to Turkey, was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1849 at age 20. He moved to Austin in 1853, became judge of the second judicial district at 28 in 1857, served in the Confederate army, and later served two terms in the Texas state senate. Born November 3, 1829, in Patrick County, Virginia.
The Belvoir mansion in the northwest Washington suburbs served as the presidential summer home. Washington stood on its steps proclaiming the capitol should be built on that site or the later chosen location. Belvoir was once jointly owned by Philip Barton Key and John Plater, brothers-in-law, and Francis Scott Key spent much of his youth there.
Mrs. A S Lewis of Cambridge England uncovered a Syriac gospel manuscript at the Convent of St Catherine on Mount Sinai. The palimpsest, nearly 400 pages, was found in dreadful condition with leaves stuck together and dirty. She separated, cleaned, photographed, and sent negatives to Cambridge for deciphering.
The Chicago correspondent argues high and extortionate prices prevail at the fair, yet visitors can avoid victimization with precautions. Managers should stop unlawful extortion and ensure reasonable prices for food and transport to boost attendance and the exposition’s financial success.
The article compares vote buying in Britain and the United States, citing Sir Robert Walpole and historical bribery in the union of England and Ireland. It notes large sums paid for votes, likens streetcar horses to military needs, questions boycotting the World’s Fair on Sunday, and mentions Rev. Moody’s evangelization plans and a new vase design with decorative tendrils.
The Manhattan Life Insurance company is erecting the world’s tallest office building on lower Broadway NY from Broadway to New Street. It will be 16 stories on Broadway and 17 on New Street, with heights from 242 to 253 feet to roof, and a domed tower 84 74 feet high to the flagstaff base, taller than Trim ity church spire by 61 feet. The structure rivals famous models worldwide.
The report notes Rev William Lawrence S T D successor to Phillips Brooks as bishop of the Episcopalian diocese of Massachusetts. He has been dean of the Cambridge theological school for four years and a professor there for ten. He is about 43, Harvard graduate 1871, with Andover and Cambridge theology studies. He is Massachusetts native, married to Bishop Parker’s granddaughter, with three daughters and a son.
Short sketches name notable figures including Lord Wolseley described as medium height and slender, Princeton’s President McCosh noted for his love of flowers, D W Hughes of Mexico Missouri holder of a Confederate patent, Mukhtar Pasha praised as a brave Turkish general, and Mr Asquith shown as capable verbally yet awkward in addressing the Commons.
A report notes a proposed settlement of Japanese settlers on fertile agricultural lands in the southern Mexican states. The item mentions testimonial materials published in support of Hood's Sarsaparilla and asserts their reliability and trustworthiness.
The report lists Hobart horses valued at 180550 and sold for 108895, with Russia sending forty imperial stables horses to the World’s Fair. It notes a breeder’s auction forecast of 1500 yearlings, carrier pigeons at Paris tracks, Strathrose in the American Derby, and Wash ington park. It mentions St Clair as sire of Fred Crocker line, Flying Childers’ late start, and detailed heat times for Roy Wilkes. Prizes across vintages are listed and Isidore Bonheur designs a bronze trotter statue for the Columbian exposition.
Conigsby Disraeli at Hughenden Manor resembles his uncle Lord Beaconsfield in appearance. James Bailey of Zanesville Ohio hits his forehead with a hammer and his hair turns black like a raven. Congressman William Steele Holman of Indiana is a medium height, high cheeked, clean shaven man with iron gray goatee and chin beard. Deacon Hiram Cramp of New Haven celebrates his eighty second birthday with a large prayer meeting. Secretary Carlisle jokes about crowds at the treasury on election day. Dr. William Everett, Massachusetts congressman elect, is a dining expert, good storyteller, and noted for eccentric manners.
A dense OCR fragment lists sheriff fees, witness and juror fees, med services, mdse for poor farm, salaries, and various petty expenditures across Ashford and Ames areas. Numerous names, items, and totals show administrative disbursements for jail, poor relief, surveying, printing, and public services.
A descriptive catalog of decorative items includes turquoise and enamel bonbon boxes, medallion paintings, a long oblong shell basket converted into a silver pin, new brooches with crossed swords and wreaths, large floral silver draperies, slender gold fillets for hair, moonstone sleeve buttons, a cylindrical frosted silver vase with rings and handles, and tiaras signaling the bob jewel once worn by Queen Elizabeth.
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