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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1899
Page
3
Neighboring towns report society meetings moving plans. The Ladies Aid Society meets December 28 at 2. Many families plan moves to Oklahoma California Iowa and Michigan. The Maple Grove school hosts a literary society and a large party gathers at A. N. Littles. A Christmas to New Century note closes with 1900 ambitions and blessings.
The article lists multiple small items from families visiting relatives, including Mr. and Mrs. Chet Davis, Mrs. Frank Morris, Mr. and Mrs. John Oliver, and George Dodds visiting relations. C. D. Plumb buys a fine flock of sheep to try sheep farming. Frank Gilbert's young people host friends, and L. C. Allen travels to Pennsylvania for winter stay. A Bible class lamp is thanked, and Bert Bell with cousin Ethel Bell plan to visit southeastern Iowa. Miss Ethel has been…
William Owen and the excellent company present Richelieu at the Armes Opera House on Saturday December 30. Owen is hailed as a premier Richelieu with strong reviews from cities where he starred. Tickets priced 25, 35 and 50 ers.
Ten room brick house with two lots. Four room frame house with two lots. Also two good building lots. Will sell reasonable or trade for a farm. J. S. Hoover, 34-26. Buy your Groceries of Lotus, Try our Nose Such New England prepared pumpkin. T. J. Mituer & Son.
TILDEN and LOUGHRAN announce a sale on Passe Portrait Paper and picture frames with extra bargains. T. J. Minter & Son offer one hundred piece disk sets as part of the promotion.
The article describes a va grant dog as ideal, noting a dog with seven or eight strains of common dog is in demand. It claims such dogs are cheerful and food motivated. It warns against fancy dogs with blue ribbons that snap at children and endorses keeping a yellow puppy from a negro boy.
A winter trial of salt on roadbeds in New York aims to prevent top soil freezing and reduce thaw mud. Prof Burr of Columbia University says salt would lower surface soil freezing and absorb moisture, potentially eliminating mud.
The Income Tax commission reports that of 12.5 million adults more than 10 million earn under 860 dollars yearly. Tax is 16 cents per five dollars above 860 with total revenue over 100 million, paid by at most 2 million people. Baltimore Sun.
The article notes cosmetics are ancient and valued by biblical women who favored unguents oils pomades and perfumes while modern standards demand strict cleanliness. It contrasts ancient fragrance with today’s emphasis on personal hygiene as the breeding standard.
Report claims Manchester mills once held about 64 million yards of cloth on hand when they shut down The figure is described as sufficient to loop around the world with a yard to spare for a grand drive way from New York to Tokyo.
It is estimated that at least 4,000,000 turkeys were eaten in the United States on Thanksgiving Day, totaling about 45,000,000 pounds of birds. If arranged end to end, they would form a procession from Boston to San Francisco.
A shipment of American black bass to France thrived and became common in hotels and restaurants. When first introduced the French streams were nearly deserted, but the new fish are now widespread as a notable diet item.
A boundary artesian well on the Queensland New South Wales edge of the Australian desert strikes a daily yield of 4,009,000 gallons. The discovery promises substantial water supply prospects for the region and local development.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a simple natural cure for “female weakness” and related health issues. It argues poor health stems from female organ disorders, urges avoiding unnecessary examinations, and offers a free Medical Adviser with 21 one cent stamps to Buffalo, New York.
A. C. B. Modia and Java Coffee for 25c are mentioned alongside T. J. Miller & Son as a deal for a 100 piece imported dinner set priced at $7.50.
At Wellock near Worksop a Portland vine bore a 19.5 pound Syrian grape which four peasants carried to Rockingham’s Wentworth House. Hampton Court houses the Red Hamburg vine with 1500 to 2200 branches, and its age equals the oak with trees of 100 years seen in its prime.
Collier's Weekly notes that ship gender varies by language with feminine nouns in Romance tongues while Germanic terms are genderless. In English sailors, ships are always female symbols with features like waists and laces, even in warships, reflecting a linguistic and cultural contrast.
The article charts rapid expansion from 60,873 telephones in 1880 to over 1,000,000 in 1898 and a leap in wire mileage from 137,223 to 1,158,000 miles by this year. It notes 3,500 independent exchanges with 750,000 instruments by year end and states the United States leads in telephone use globally.
Hardwar lies on the west bank of the Ganges where it leaves the sub-Himalayas and attracts vast crowds for ablution. The orthodox pilgrimage peaks at the end of March and early April with a great fair, drawing 200000 to 300000 pilgrims, and in every twelfth year the festival brings about 2000000 people.
Edinburgh's local governance displays lamp post honors with city arms. Two posts stand outside the lord provost’s residence while bailies the dean of guild the convener and the treasurer each enjoy a dedicated lamp post near their homes.
The latest English dictionaries hold at least 260 009 words. German ranks next with 80 000 words followed by Italian with 35 000 French with 30 000 and Spanish with 20 000. Arabic is noted as the most copious among oriental languages with a richer vocabulary than English.
Melbourne experiences its first snowstorm with light fall yet enough snow to spark snow-bailing among residents. The event, seen as a novelty similar to an earthquake, draws enthusiastic participation from the youth and mirrors a rare tropical-urban phenomenon.
A new engineering triumph features the construction and shipment by steamer of a 4200 ton displacement steamer, transferred to railway transport and finally afloat on Lake Baikal in Siberia, about 5000 miles from St. Petersburg.
An old method to rid cockroaches uses common red wafers obtained at stations. Insects eat the wafers greedily and die from the effects, according to the New York Evening Post.
The record lists ocean areas: Pacific 71,000,000 sq miles. Atlantic 35,000,000. Indian 28,000,000. Antarctic 8,500,000. Arctic 4,500,000 square miles.
The plant in Austria uses 22,000 pounds of phosphorus each year and ships 2.5 billion matches. It produces 160,000 feet of wood for its boxes.
A December 9 1899 Ames Iowa letter to Santa Claus asks for candy cigars nuts oranges and a coaster if there is snow. The post office fulfilled most wishes though snow and coaster arrival were delayed.
Charles Davis of Bowerston Ohio narrowly avoided a fatal outcome from a severe lung disease after using Dr King's New Discovery. He credited instant relief and a lasting cure with the remedy praised for five years for throat chest and lung troubles. Price 50 cents and one dollar with guaranteed bottles and free trials at Tilden and Loughran's drug store.
Dr Tanner, once famed for a forty day fast, remains alive in New York at 77. He argues the body endures lengthy abstention, advocates vegetarian living and a 120 cent per day diet, and blames pork and poorly cooked food for ill health. He criticizes hotel and restaurant cooking for masking natural flavors.
The article describes Eskimo winter huts as partially underground with stone, bone, turf, and moss finishes, often built with ice blocks and clear windows. Access is via a tunnel-like entrance and lighting and heating rely on oil basins with moss wicks, sourced from whale, seal, or other fish, or white bear fat.
A German emperor's black stone talisman is said to be handed from dying monarchs to successors. Legend claims a huge black toad dropped the stone on a princess at her birth of a son. Frederick the Great's father wore the stone in a ring. documents exist in archives and the Kaiser displays it on major occasions.
Mr. Landers of the Amestolarging Studio travels to Story City to establish a new branch studio in that locale.
Do You Want a Home Here is an opportunity to secure one of the best appointed homes in Ames at a reasonable figure A ten room house with six acres of land about six blocks from Main street Good barn cave outbuildings well cistern etc The house has four large bedrooms upstairs with closets attached floors carpeted with carpet almost new which goes Down stairs large hall parlor sitting room dining room kitchen bath room large basement furnace hot air heat and in fact one of the best appointed houses in the city finished in hard pine and is a modern house If you want to buy it inquire of Jas Hale or Wester man & McLain
A full blood Poland China boar is offered for sale by G. H. Maxwell. C. F. Letts advertises very cheap apples available locally.
The Daily Iowa Capital announces a one day offer to take the entire year 1900 for two dollars. Des Moines publisher Safe Young promotes the plan as bringing the paper to every home and business in Iowa while the nation enters a presidential year and state legislature session. The paper promises full Associated Press coverage of world events and wars. Personal checks will be accepted.
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