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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1895
Page
8
Notes on fashion trends from Paris to Chicago highlight bonnets and hats for children and adults. French design gowns, lace wedding details, and crepe materials influence garden party outfits while elderly women are advised on colors, fabrics, and modest accessories.
Yokohama correspondence describes Japan’s police as strict and honorable with low bribery, salaries modest, and a four-tier system. It notes the imperial authority, samurai heritage, and extensive duties from crime to civil matters, plus a notable superintendent Koo Yoshida’s career.
Colonel Yoshida rose from Yokohama police chief in 1893 after surviving a sword attack during Japan's 1876 land tax revolt. He earned honors from the government and Emperor Franz Josef, and farmers later built shrines to honor him for enforcing the tax. John A. Cockrill.
The article extols the home practice of burning garbage and scraps on the coal fire as the simplest and cheapest method. It recommends using a colander or perforated container in the kitchen sink to drain scraps and feed them to the fire, and mentions a perforated cage device for stovepipe installation.
President Dole stated during a special session of Hawaii’s first legislature that annexation to the United States remains the government’s policy. He emphasized the need to attract desirable American immigration.
A report estimates that only one wage earner in ten thousand in the country qualifies as a millionaire. The figure highlights the rarity of extreme wealth among workers.
Etta Moody of Hollister Florida lay in a trance from April 20 until 3 am Sunday when she spoke and then died shortly after. Doctors could not explain the long seizure and revival as she described journeys and angels before fading away. She was about 12 and had grown thin from constant motion prior to her apparent death.
The Harper's Round Table summary describes Bella Coola tales of a world doomed by a divine offended creator Mesmesalandik. A twisted walrus hide rope to the moon failed, flooding the earth except a man and wife in a canoe who survive on a mountain summit. After the thrash, the thong is fished up and land is repopulated.
A stylish Frenchwoman Marie Latouche aged twenty two appears before a B- magistrate for shoplifting rib bones. She refuses to name an address, claiming misunderstanding German while the lawyer explains her nationality and language.
A Twenty fourth Regiment soldier near Port Arthur barely survived an Iraqi style firefight when a bullet from the enemy pierced his rifle barrel just as he prepared to fire at a conspicuous Chinese target. The weapon exploded but caused no injuries and the soldier kept the shattered stock as a memento.
Bob Burdette argues that Christians may dance and should not be identified by dancing alone. He notes some Christians dance, while others who do not may still be true believers. He suggests joining in dance but warns against misreading faith for ritual.
Frances Power Cobbe recounts in Life the Irish famine caused by potato blight that ruined crops and left nearly eight million people dependent on the staple. She recalls a dinner trip in which a blossoming potato field smelled fine, then hours later the field darkened and famine spread across Ireland.
Ethel Ingalls writes in Ladies' Home Journal that men prize sweet simplicity in women not a simpering pose but an absence of bold mannish airs. Sincerity and candor are valued if not abrupt or self-assertive for the charming girl in society.
Mme Poneaux, the Belgian poisoner, has had her sentence commuted to life imprisonment. King Leopold has not allowed a death sentence to be executed since he began his reign. Lady Norveys decries rational dress as utterly horrible in England and notes that even fashionable peers would not appear in public without a skirt over knickerbockers. In Paris, dancer Otero remains a prominent figure with recent carriage decorations of orchids and roses and elaborate outfits described in vivid detail.
Night watchmen in French grape districts ring frost bells to alert vineyard workers when frost threats arise. The Berlin Street Car Company paid 250000 dollars to the city for crossing Unter den Linden. New Zealand preserves two islands for wild birds and animals with hunting banned. London School Board children could span 300 miles to Carlisle if they joined hands. London Zoo attendance reached 625538, down 87111 from last year due to bad weather. M Bryden proposes a 50000 hectare South African national park to protect scarce giraffe rhinoceros and antelope, like Yellowstone.
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