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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1898
Page
11
A feature on chance meetings among women and the resulting regrets appears alongside fashion notes for both young and old. The piece blends social observation with style guidance, reflecting Humble domestic life and wardrobe ideas.
Fragmented verses speak of brave endeavor and enduring faith as loved ones wait for reunion with the Lord. The poem contemplates peace, salvation, and a pilgrim’s homecoming, ending with a prayerful plea for the Light of life to display salvation.
A discussion of how winter chance meetings can become intimate acquaintances, with advice on discretion for ladies traveling without male relatives. It surveys where meetings occur, the risks of semi intimate ties, and how to maintain or end ordinary friendships formed during travel. Includes fashion notes and light humor items.
A discussion on how travelers meet and mingle, noting that social position affects recognition and introductions. It describes how couples bonding during holidays ease future meetings, and how wives often drive introductions. Also includes a craft note on a white nainsook apron for a girl, suited to school wear.
For the coming winter the elbow sleeve is touted as the most popular sleeve for theater and reception gowns. It is worn with long gloves, reflecting a new French fashion trend shaping evening attire.
Shell and remove skins from peanuts. Soak two cups overnight in one quart water. In the morning add two quarts water and boil an hour. Add onion celery stock and boil until soft to mash. Return to stove, add lemon juice salt and pepper, and serve.
Nearly all costumes featuring elaborate trimming at the back of the waist are designed to be worn without wraps. They suit visiting or evening occasions and are paired with a large cloak, opera wrap, or cape that does not crush the trimming or reveal a rounded shoulder silhouette.
A new fashion in baby cards features cream white cards bearing the baby's full name and a birth date in the lower left corner. Enclosed in an envelope with the mother’s visiting card marking the christening or home day.
One cupful of granulated sugar and one cupful of nut meats melt the sugar in a spider without burning. Pour the melted sugar over the nuts in a well buttered tin, cut into squares.
A compact collection of humor featuring original and selected gibes and ironies. Mamor presents a varied slate of sketches and quips to amuse readers with clever lines and witty observations.
A lone girl remains at the seaside managing her father's hotel as companions fade. She endures loneliness while tending the family business.
A distressed wife declares she will return to her mother after her husband's late intoxicated homecoming. He questions whether it is a threat or a promise in Harlem Life's vignette.
A brief domestic dispatch notes illness in a home scene. Mrs De Platte asks Mrs Brownston about health, reporting her daughter has la grippe or influenza and a servant girl has a cold, while her country cousin also suffers influenza.
A fragment notes Duncemore was enlisted as an im mune and a person’s remark questions his ability to take a joke. The brief implies a light, social line in a historical setting.
Quote from Cleveland Leader questions election integrity claiming 163 votes bought in the second precinct versus 155 recorded. The speaker calls the election system rotten and references vote totals and fraud concerns.
A struggling young genius remarks that poems should be paid on publication though he must also cover meals upon acceptance. The quote from Pick-Me-Up highlights financial pressure in pursuing writing.
A satirical remark notes that many people act as actors on life’s stage, often without genuine purpose or meaning, highlighting a critical tone toward public personas.
In a quip captured by the New York Journal a woman named Geraldine taunts a man named Gerald that if he refuses marriage he will “go to the dogs.” She warns there is a dog waiting at the gate.
A War Department inquiry reports General Shafter praising the Santiago expedition as a military success with five hundred lost, while General Miles criticizes Alger for sickness and mismanagement. Corbins and Howard testify on logistics, Camp Alger, and medical and supply failures. Cultural vignettes on title women and a Chicago prep school anecdote follow.
London reports a sudden revival of war preparations by the English government with unusual activity in naval depots at Davenport Wortsmouth and Chatham and at the Woolwich arsenal. Large shipments of military stores and ammunition head to Gibraltar Malta and Alexandria as officials say more materiel is sent to foreign stations than ever before with January orders to India at unprecedented levels.
Vienna dispatch reports that several hundred Montenegrin soldiers perished in a snow storm in the Lava Pass. An expedition sent to rescue them found snow drifts so heavy that they could not save the men.
The London Chronicle reports the first continent crossing in a steerable balloon. It left Beachy Head at 1:30 and landed in Havre, France, at 4:35, confirming a historic air voyage.
Ten Ohioans named Foraker Hanna Baker Carter Alien Kyle Elkins Fairbanks Turpie and Allison are listed as the forthcoming senate entrants. The piece notes political figures and the era context.
A letter to the Duluth Evening Herald extols Calgary Alberta as better for poor settlers than Minnesota. Charles N. Scott recounts mild winters, rapid crop growth, profitable hog and beef markets, cheap railroad land on long terms, and opportunities north of Edmonton for farming and ranching. He claims health benefits and cites recovered consumptives now in work.
A brief, playful item notes a young woman repeatedly attempting to persuade a bachelor to adopt the annexation theory, framed with light humor and social curiosity.
Product promoters claim Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh at all stages by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. They offer a hundred dollar reward for a failing case and urge readers to send testimonials to F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Pills sold with the same brand are recommended.
Receivers Cowen and Murray of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad report that nearly all new freight equipment will be delivered by January 15. Orders total 3,000 standard box cars from Michigan Peninsular Car Co, 1,000 box and gondolas from Pullman, 2,000 box cars from Missouri Car and Foundry, 1,000 steel coal cars from Schoen, and five 50-foot mail cars from Pullman, each with Westinghouse air brakes and H O P automatic couplers.
The notice extols favorable single and round trip rates to California with daily through first class and tourist sleeping cars. It details personally conducted tourist car parties weekly to California and Oregon, many routes at no extra charge, and invites inquiries through Chicago & North-Western agents. It ends with an unrelated, fragmented question about a woman’s warmth.
The Chicago Great Western Railway reports its first week of December 1898 earnings up by 18,446.76 over December 1897. Cumulative gain since July 1 reaches 109,470.47. A few men with a grievance can tell the truth.
An old ad touts Dr Seth Arnold's Cough Kittler as a fast cure for coughs and colds. It claims availability at all druggists and country stores priced at 2 cents a bottle.
The advertisement claims Vitality Pills can help unhappy married couples by curing liquor and tobacco habits and improving marital harmony. It lists a $1 price, physicians' testimonials free, and promotes Scientific Remedy Co. Box 118 Boston Mass. Also notes large bank deposits of National City Bank of New York and remarks on discerning hoodoo from mascot.
An old advertisement promises a one day cure for colds with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It states druggists refund the money if it fails and notes the product bears a T. BR. stamp on each tablet.
A public claim circulates that every politician believes he is suitable for any elected post. Experts note confidence does not equal qualification, while voters weigh past records and stated platforms in assessing fitness for office.
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