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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1896
Page
3
The Iowa Senate and House consider tax and revenue measures, hospital and asylum appropriations, and public works. Key actions include social and state finance bills, railroad rate provisions, and a pending extra session vote as adjournment nears.
The Rhode Island Republican state convention met in Providence to nominate Reed men for the national caucus in St Louis. The sole platform backed by the Providence board of trade urges gold standard and a national arbitration board and denounces free silver coinage.
The Oregon Republican state convention adopted a platform supporting a bimetallic policy and instructed delegates to back McKinley at the St. Louis convention. A plan for free silver was defeated by a closed vote in Portland. Lynching threat looms as Iowa residents search for two peddlers accused of attempting an assault on 15 year old Mary Moore in Eddyville. a posse aided Ottumwa pursuit.
The column notes bright colors for Lent era gowns including emerald greens and violets with new modest hats. It highlights married men as ushers becoming common at weddings and introduces matron of honor as a near staple role as bridesmaids, citing Brooklyn wedding of Miss Dike and sister Mrs Murray Boocock who serves as first attendant.
The Chicago Chronicle describes spring millinery with emerald greens and black satin straw hats, jeweled trims, and bold roped details. It highlights jaunty hats, Neapolitan gauze-like brims, violet bows, and capes lined with Persian fur for warmth and style.
A dramatic account traces the affair between John Ruskin and Millais with Ruskin's wife and the resulting divorce. The piece chronicles their marriage breakup, the awkward joint confession before Popes, and the later fates of Ruskin and Millais as revered figures in art.
Instant chocolates and cocoas improve when boiled. To remove grease on wallpaper press blotting paper with a hot iron. Small cakes fall out of favor at evening parties. Dainty fruit sandwiches replace them. Bread is sliced thin buttered and spread with chopped dried fruit moistened with orange juice sherry or madeira rolled and tied with ribbons. Lemonade or punch accompanies.
A Reverend hails tenement and factory workers as heroic examples of self sacrifice under God’s righteous measurements, urging the removal of human inequalities through faith and labor.
Ten years ago the heaviest locomotive on the Pennsylvania expresses weighed forty to forty eight tons. Today through express engines weigh sixty five to seventy tons, increasing hauling capability and efficiency.
The Crown Princess of Denmark stands tall at four over six feet, while American women on bicycles draw praise from Max O Rell. Notices mention Lucy Ann Hart's will giving 30000 to Chelsea aid groups and church, and a royal wedding to be held at Chapel Royal with Sandringham honeymoon. An Athens export ban on figs and the term sycophant’s shift in meaning wrap the column.
Des Moines Linseed Oil Works and Hawkeye Linseed Oil Works offer a premium book on dairying with orders for Old Process Ground Linseed Cake. Des Moines and Marshalltown stock-feed firms invite inquiries for prices and pamphlets, urging dairy owners to contact for details.
A unique betting game in Ostend used oysters as players with stakes placed on which would gape first. After hours, one oyster finally opened, earning its owner about $35,000 in winnings and attracting thousands of onlookers to the Casino.
A survey of visiting costumes in ser ies blue crepon with lace fronts and pi al taffeta sleeves. Describes shirt waists with square or rounded cuffs, standing linen collars, and coats paired with skirts. Notes evening gowns in gauze, peau de cygne brideswear, and Louis XVI influences. Paris coats gain popularity over waists. mentions a Charles hat with rhinestone band and velvet brim.
A compact review note catalogues Emile Zola at Pat Bouttie, Ella Wheeler Wilcox with Poems of Passion, Stanley Weyman and the Gentleman of France, Robert Louis Stevenson and David Balfour, Margaret Deland and Philip a His Wife, John Preacher, and Marion Crawford with a surprise assessment of Zero in later works.
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