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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1894
Page
8
A fashion column reviews the season with a focus on white pique pelisses and new gowns. It notes its stiff texture but suggests uses in facings for drill gowns and smart coats over serge skirts, plus pairing ideas with colored linen, black skirts, and a Panama hat.
The article surveys Nile-green moire gowns with narrow trims and a moire jacket, the New English Walking Hat in various colors, and a tale of hair trade for pin money. It notes decorative dinner and ballroom plantings and Watteau style ornamentation for balls. It closes with a vivid portrait of a pale gray bride and a domestic vignette.
A guest recounts a honeymoon encounter where a newly married wife politely but firmly restricts her husband from ordering wine at their hotel. The tale includes playful admiration for the bride and a remark by the narrator praising her practical authority, ending with a brief drink and a meeting with the proprietor.
Four year old American dancer Ruby is in demand for private London parties this season. She wowed guests at the Prince of Wales club and later danced for the Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. The Princess and other royals including Princesses Victoria and Maud and the Duchess of Fife enjoyed the performance.
A veteran recalls the 1865 Homestead oil well near Pithole Pennsylvania, linked to John Wilkes Booth. He details the well’s explosive blaze at Booth’s assassination moment, and townspeople’s belief that Providence visited the tragedy. The surviving locals debate whether the fire fulfilled a grim coincidence and mourning symbolism.
A friend in Richmond borrows bacon with an oath to return it. the general consents. An old veteran, blind, visits Gettysburg’s cyclorama in New York and recalls the fateful charge, noting the missing artillery and a caisson explosion that blinded him forever.
A Christmas Day dinner in 1864 featured General Lee with five officers including Longstreet Gordon and Kershaw. The menu was cabbage and rice with a small square of bacon as the prized dish. Ephraim, the cook, hesitated to share the bacon and refused to save it for later.
A feature recalling the soldier’s labor and the value of service as centuried heroes are honored in memory. It notes movable coast defenses on a London railway armored train and a five year old girl mascot Marie Mahoney of San Francisco veterans.
A short children story from Germany about a pretty pansy flower and a harsh stepmother who sits in the garden with her four children. She keeps her own two children beside her while pushing the stepchildren down, showing a strict, upright posture and a domineering stance.
A Chicago Times feature describes Count Leo, a highly intelligent St. Bernard owned by Mrs. L. M. Kirkpatrick. Leo greets guests, fetches items, dresses with a box hat, and even sings scales to piano music, astonishing all with his near human comprehension.
A mix of fragmented verse and odd anecdotes includes Peter Burrowes and a dressing room scene with a missing glass. A teacher and Willie Wadlles joke ends the set, reflecting light humor and curios in a clipped old newspaper style.
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