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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1893
Page
7
The Hardin editorial urges swift budget reforms and prudent spending to stabilize finances. It argues for transparent procedures, stronger oversight, and targeted programs to ensure fiscal health and community services remain funded.
The page mixes shop notices for Baker's jeweler J P Watson and Canter Bros with Ames Steam Laundry adopting cash payments from November first. It includes medical endorsements for Chamberlain remedies and local political salvos overheard in Boone and Story counties, plus light humor captions and jokes.
A collage of quirky anecdotes and brief notes on health fads phrases political quips travel curiosities and scientific curiosities. It mentions a “diet of brown bread and fruits” for obesity vaccination of New York police thought experiments with babies and a variety of short humor vignettes involving public figures and everyday life.
A glossary listing origins of everyday terms. Marigold from Queen Mary Stuart. broadcloth from its width. shawls from Shahs, Topaz from Topasas island. Cognac from Cognac. coffee from Caffa. tobacco from Tobago. tulip from Persian for turban. dimity from Damietta. Blankets from Thomas Blanket in Bristol 1340. Calicut’s Clice. Musin from Moussul. Lager beer from lager cellar. Money from Moneta. Bock beer implying strength and a goat motif.
The passage notes the first envelope making machine by idvit Hill of Rowell Hill and De La Rue’s folding machine patented in 1845. It recalls a 91 year old man and wife celebrating 70 years of marriage in St Norvert Quebec, a robbery attempt by four masked men at George Bossier’s home, and a widow’s brave defense. It mentions a curious epitaph about a missionary killed after twenty years of labor, a scarlet fever outbreak linked to a pet, and diseases spread by cats. It ends with Loyal Legion members urged to rise and uncover their heads when the Star Spangled Banner plays.
A collage of brief notes including John Barstow a Norwich printer still at work at 25, Alexander Beckwell the freed slave who took a new name in New Orleans, a Boston notable Lucy Cotton buried near King's Chapel, and Schoharie New York’s Vrooman railroad run by Cornelius with a tiny crew and minimal rolling stock.
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