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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1896
Page
12
The Iowa Senate and House agendas cover tax measures for railroads estates and homesteads, hospital and asylums funding, and pensions. Bills addressing insurance regulation, highway improvements, and state exhibits pass or fail amid adjournment motions and pardons.
In Women’s Corner notes of the season feature vivid colors for Lent with emerald green turbans and red accents. Describes a blonde bride in a restrained gown with a ten-gem skirt, violet lining, and a velvet and silver bodice with Eton jacket styling, plus commentary on ushers and matron of honor roles at weddings.
A Chicago Chronicle report recounts how John Ruskin befriended and then helped his wife, shared with Millais, leading to a divorce and Millais winning the woman. It notes Ruskin’s later prominence and Millais’s rise, with fashion details on hats and spring capes.
Providence April 13 delegates at large chosen without instruction. The platform backs gold standard and a national arbitration board and denounces free silver.
The Republican state convention in Portland adopted a resolution instructing delegates to back McKinley at St. Louis. It approved a pro gold and silver platform, while a plan for bi metallicism and opposing free silver failed on a closed vote.
In Eddyville Iowa on April 14 a large male population hunts two peddlers accused of attempting to assault fifteen year old Mary Moore. The men may be lynched if captured. A posse searched Ottumwa yesterday seeking the suspects.
Small cakes fall out of favor at evening gatherings as fruit sandwiches gain favor. Bread is sliced thin and buttered then topped with chopped raisins dates or candied cherries moistened with orange juice sherry or Madeira. Rolls are tied with baby ribbons and lemonade or punch is served.
A religious meditation praising noble self sacrifice from tenements to mansions. It asserts that all human inequalities fall under Gods righteous measures. The passage invokes Rev. P A Baker and emphasizes universal duty and moral testing.
Ten years ago the heaviest locomotives on Pennsylvania express trains weighed forty to forty eight tons. Now through express trains are hauled by engines weighing sixty five to seventy tons.
The article notes tall Crown Princess of Denmark and American bicyclists as fashion icons, cites Max O Rell on American girls on bikes, and recalls Mme Modjeska admiring London fog. It mentions New York women touring the Nile with nobility, Lucy Ann Hart's will supporting Chelsea charities, and upcoming marriage of Princess Maud of Wales to Prince Charles of Denmark with a Buckingh am Palace carriage procession. It also references Attican fig export ban and the Greek term sycophant origins.
Des Moines Linseed Oil Works and Hawkeye Linseed Oil Works Marshalltown offer a valuable dairying book as a premium with orders for Old Process Ground Linseed Cake Best of 5 Foods. Write for prices and jars with pamphlets. If you keep one or a dozen cows you should have this.
The report describes 635 quintillion possible whist hands and a minuscule one in 158 billion chance for thirteen trumps. It recalls Nogent Sur Marne’s finning contests, the 200 meter sprint by 67 people, and Ostend’s unique gambling oyster game ending with a winner+$35,000 after hours of suspense.
A survey of visiting costumes in blue crepon with Renaissance lace fronts and plaid taffeta sleeves. Describes shirt waists with turn back cuffs and white linen collars. Coats and skirts return as weather allows, hats of satin and velvet, and haute couture details from Paris and noted authors.
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