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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1896
Page
19
Senate and House consider penalties for disturbing religious meetings. Debates on medical examiners audits swine disease laws water crime penalties and inheritance tax. Bills pass on library funding sewers fire policy study code work and taxation measures amid adjournments.
The state department confirms via cable from United States Minister Smythe in Port au Prince that President Hippolyte of Haiti is dead. The message simply states “President dead” with no further details provided.
Report from Wellington March 27 describes a major fire-damp explosion at a Brunnerton mine. Five men died at once and about sixty are entombed with no prospect of rescue. Authorities fear further collapses and are coordinating recovery efforts.
A playful verse set, then a bold tale of Miss Blanche Maynard the Maxwell district schoolteacher in New Jersey who tames pupils by firm measures. A dramatic scene follows with a classroom fight, discipline, and a public display of authority.
The piece extols Fitzsimmons and attributes his knockout force to enormous shoulder blades and back muscles. It cites Maher Hall and Sullivan as past victims and notes his fearsome punch. It also mentions stage imitators and his manager Martin Julian celebrating his strong back and chest.
The article explains how high wheel bicycles used wheel diameter to denote gearing, with 56 and 48 inch wheels as examples. It describes crank revolutions matching wheel turns and provides a table by Charles Schwalbach showing feet rolled per crank revolution for various gears from 49 to 90, linking gear numbers to distance traveled.
A ten year old barefoot boy stands before a Broadway shoe shop when a richly dressed lady on a fine carriage stops and asks why he looks in the window. He replies he prays to God for shoes. The woman leads him inside to obtain help from the proprietor.
A visitor at an Eastern Africa missionary station marvels at the unselfishness of native children who share biscuits and old shoes, turning even a lop-sided kite into a moral lesson as a little boy notes their things go up while theirs go down.
A touching story recalls three young men by their mother’s bedside as she dies. Her final line, spoken softly, declares that no mother was blessed with better sons. Decades later, the brothers live to honor those enduring words amid life’s bustle.
Rev. F. B. Meyer preached that each person has a guardian angel and that life’s path is watched not only by angel eyes but by the eyes of kindred loved long ago and lost awhile.
Max O'Rell notes in his observation that the most beautiful types of womanhood appear both in the streets of Buda Pesth and in the drawing rooms of Dublin.
W. W. Hamilton, the Denver cyclist, gains prominence with a 1 minute 30 and 1 fifth second mile unpaced mark at Coronado Beach California. He also set two unpaced records for two thirds and one third mile and caused a disputed pacer aided split in Sanger's mile record last year. Hamilton aims to dominate the national circuit next season.
Charley Reilley secures release from Philadelphia and will manage and captain Syracuse. J Earle Wagner cites at least six League clubs seeking First Baseman Cartwright. George Burnham quits umpiring and returns to sales work. Sid Farrar backed for Melrose selectman. Cleveland signs catcher Lewis Creiger from Kalamazoo for Ft Wayne. President Johnson notes Indianapolis as only Western League club not playing Sunday at home.
A Des Moines advertisement by Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. promotes furniture and related furnishings with a call to visit their store and purchase what is offered.
The article notes a daily claim of twenty million meteors totaling several tons. It discusses a Cardiff enameler firm introducing a cheaper, unbreakable insulating material for telegraph use. It cites London barometer readings on Jan 9 1896 and a Chester reading, plus speculative notes on the Sea of Galilee sinking changes and Mr George B King on insect heat.
Eastern society prizes golf as a major pastime with Theodore Havemeyer as a leading benefactor. The Astors uphold private links at Ferncliffe on the Hudson, while private courses appear at Seward Webb’s Vermont farm Rudyard Lang’s, and Hyde Park on the Hudson. English players like Mrs. Rider Haggard and Princess Beatrice are noted golfers, and golf attire features Norfolk jackets and ankle-length skirts in dark colors.
The article notes authors visiting Japan Persia and the Dutch Indies to report impressions and mentions Robert Louis Stevenson discussing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with a Washington writer. It also includes fragmented tips on banana flour yeast and pickle jars with eggs and beets, plus a stray numeric reference.
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