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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1898
Page
5
A feature notes how chance meetings at home and social gatherings lead to friendships or regrets. It contrasts youthful flirtations with mature discretion and offers fashion tips for both young and old readers.
A poetic fragment reflects on brief earthly trials before eternal peace. It invokes God’s perfect peace, the fading of care, and reunion with loved ones in a blissful afterlife. The voice yearns for the glorious consummation and the pilgrim’s return home.
The piece discusses chance meetings during winter travels and the social risks of renewing intimacy, advising discretion for women traveling without male relatives. It notes how marriages affect introductions and provides a fashion overview of ornate mid late sleeves, including chiffon puff sleeves, scalloped edges, lace frills, bows, and velvet trims from Paris designs.
The text notes how people cross paths repeatedly in various settings and how situations become intricate. It observes that those with known social standing often benefit from this dynamic, whether by design or accident.
The article discusses how social standing affects recognition and introductions while traveling. It notes men may defer visits unless their wives approve and explains how couples meet in hotels, with husbands and wives forming connections through shared relatives and leisure time during holidays.
For the coming winter the elbow sleeve is destined to be the most popular sleeve for theater and reception gowns. They are worn with long gloves. One of the new French fashion trends is described.
A historic bread recipe lists milk yeast batter set overnight then morning sweetening with sugar melted fats eggs and flour. The dough rises then is rolled with currants and peanuts and baked slowly after a final rise.
Shell and remove peanut skins then soak two cups overnight in one quart water. In morning add two quarts water boil slowly one hour. Add an onion a celery stalk boil until soft then mash through a sieve return to stove add lemon juice salt and pepper and serve immediately.
Nearly all costumes with rear waist trimming are designed for wear without wraps. They suit visiting or evening occasions, and outer garments are typically large cloaks, opera wraps, or capes that avoid crushing the trimming and do not reveal a rounded shoulder silhouette.
A fashion in infant announcements shows cream white cards displaying the baby's full name. The birth date sits in the lower left corner, enclosed in an envelope with the mother's visiting card bearing her christening or home date.
One cupful of granulated sugar and one cupful of nut meats. Melt the sugar in a spider, being careful not to let it burn. Put the nuts into a well buttered tin, and when the sugar is melted, pour over them. Cut in aquares.
A white nainsook apron features a square low-neck yoke with embroidered insertion and a wide matching frill. It buttons at the back with four small pearl buttons and a plain hem. Described as especially attractive with a dark red or navy blue school dress.
A fragment from a humor collection notes the last girl of summer left at the seaside to help manage her father's hotel. The playful verse hints at wistful irony and seaside context while preserving a light tone.
A World excerpt notes a humorous exchange about sugar and mortar as one man plans building with lime and sand. A second remark contrasts war’s end with returning home for football season, highlighting campus pride and timing.
A tense exchange unfolds as a husband returns home intoxicated and a wife declares she will return to her mother. He questions whether her words are a threat or a promise, reflecting a troubled domestic scene from Harlem Life.
A brief chatter shows Mrs De Platte asking after Mrs Brownston as illness spreads through the home. The daughter has la grippe, a country cousin influenza, and a servant girl a head cold, all noted in a domestic exchange from New York Weekly.
The fragment notes Duncemore was enlisted as an immune and questions his ability to take a joke, implying a humorous or ironic remark about his character or role.
The Cleveland Leader quotes a figure claiming 163 votes paid for in the second precinct versus 155 recorded. The piece labels the election system rotten and questions the integrity of the tally.
A young poet laments financial hardship, saying payment for poems would help, but meals must be covered upon acceptance. The remark reflects a precarious literary life captured in a Pick-Me-Up style.
A commentator complains that the stage hosts many poor performers while noting art and acting in broad terms, criticizing efforts that lack genuine meaning or craft.
A witty exchange between Gerald and Geraldine is printed in the New York Journal. The banter hints at a threat of misfortune if marriage is avoided, framed as a playful domestic joke.
Washington dispatches reveal General Shafter’s vivid Santiago campaign account noting a successful expedition though costly. General Miles accuses Alger of causing sickness and criticizes Porto Rico provisioning. Corbin and Howard add comments on logistics, refrigerated beef, Tampa confusion, and officer fitness.
London reports a sudden revival of war preparations by the British government with unusual naval depot activity at Davenport Portsmouth Chatham and Woolwich arsenal. Large shipments of military stores and ammunition head to Gibraltar Malta and Alexandria as January orders to India rise to unprecedented levels.
Vienna dispatch reports hundreds of Montenegrin soldiers buried by a snowstorm in Lava Pass. An expedition attempting rescue could not reach them as drifts proved insurmountable. The fatal episode underscores a severe winter hazard during the campaign.
The London Chronicle reports the first steerable balloon crossing the English Channel from Beachy Head to Navre France with times 1 30 to 4 35. Ohio natives are listed for a real senate ticket including Foraker Tanue Baker Carter Allen Kyle Elkins Fairbanks Turpie and Allison. Shops in New York run nurseries for babies while mothers browse. Mrs Evelyn E Tome of Elkton Md is president of two banks the National Bank of Elkton and the National Bank of Fort Deposit.
A visitor in Vancouver orders goods and gives the name Lady Blank with an address. The shopman mocks her, asking aloud if he would take her for a man. A Chicago prep school professor recalls youth as a teen asks permission to ride with her brother. The professor questions the sister’s relation to the brother.
Charles N. Scott writes from Calgary praising Alberta as a better farm land than Minnesota for the poor, noting short seasons, rapid vegetation, profitable coarse grains and hogs, cheap railroad land on long payments, and opportunities north of Edmonton for settlement and ranching. He cites health benefits for consumption and urges workers to move.
A sweeping ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. The promoters offer one hundred dollars if it fails and urge readers to send testimonials. Also notes soap detergent claims freight car orders for 1900s railroad equipment and a quip on love and ignorance.
To California attention is called to excellent service and favorable rates for single and round trip tickets this season. First class and tourist sleeping cars available daily all year. Personal tourist car parties weekly to California and Oregon. Many routes without extra charge. Details from Chicago and North-Western Ry agents.
The Chicago Great Western Ry reports a first week December 1898 earnings rise of 618 446 76 over December 1897. Fiscal year to date increase stands at 109 470 47. The National City Bank of New York holds deposits over 106 million dollars.
An old advertisement promotes a laxative Bromo Quinine tablet claiming a cure for colds in one day. It states druggists will refund the money if it fails and mentions a single tablet dose with a bold promise of quick relief.
A candid line reflects a politician asserting personal suitability for any chosen office. The remark highlights self-belief as a persistent trait among public figures.
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