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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1894
Page
4
The piece discusses white pique pelisse fashion revival borrowed from babies and suited for facings and coats over serge skirts with yacht styling. It also notes outfits pairing cornflower serge skirts, holland coats, black skirts with a black tie and Panama hats, plus a humorous hotel table anecdote about wine and a newlywed couple.
The article describes a dinner gown of Nile-green moire antique with a plain skirt trimmed by moire tabs and steel buckles, a moire jacket waist opening to a pink chiffon vest, and a basque over the hips. It also covers hats, a refined walking hat in various colors, a delicate bride style, a tale about selling hair for money, and ballroom decoration trends with autumn leaves, rhododendrons, and Watteau motifs.
Marie Mahoney, twelve year old mascot of the California veteran volunteers of firemen, marches with the unit from San Francisco. She wears a black skirt and small helmet, salutes with a silver trumpet, and travels with bands of music across cities, receiving medals and praise from crowds. Leo the Count Leo is a highly intelligent St Bernard in San Francisco with a pedigree, who opens doors, retrieves hats, and can sing along with piano accompaniment.
A man asks for the return of bacon borrowed from a friend inRichmond and promises to honor his parole to return the same piece. The general consented immediately to the bacon’s return.
The Courier Journal recounts a Christmas 1864 supper in General Lee's weathered tent for five officers including Longstreet Gordon and Kershaw. A lone piece of bacon atop boiled cabbage tests restraint as Ephraim, his servant, hesitates to share the scarce treat before the meal ends with another cabbage to be cooked later.
A wartime tribute poem urging continued support for soldiers and veterans. It envisions future praise for those who served and calls readers to aid needy veterans, stressing government action and collective generosity to ease distress.
A charming German tale known to children in America centers on a pretty peasy flower. The big petal acts as a bad stepmother in the garden with her two children while she pushes the two stepchildren away.
The passage presents a fragmented reminiscence with nautical and weather imagery. It mentions wind, cloud, and references to people nearby, portraying a tense, emotional scene with limited readable names or clear events. The tone is nostalgic and troubled, echoing a memory under stress.
A selection of brief anecdotes on absent mindedness including barrister Peter Burrowes misplacing a mirror and a servant reporting the removing of a looking glass years earlier. Also includes a classroom scene with Willie Wadles and a mother’s anxious inquiry about a fall.
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