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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1895
Page
3
A London stage illusion at Egyptian Hall shows a young woman seated on a light table with four electric legs. A ceiling screen closes, a pistol fires a blaze, and the screen rises to reveal blackened bones and a skull on the table, implying the woman’s destruction though presented as illusion.
Miss Nellie Fuller, a Plainville Rhode Island teacher, spoke after five years of muteness dating from a severe 1889 illness. After sixteen doctors and various treatments failed, a Boston nervous disease institute could not help. on Tuesday she finally uttered words, calling it a divine interposition and a miracle witnessed by her family.
The article details Hood's calendars for 1895 including the heart shaped design by Maud Humphrey. It notes massive production in Lowell with 162 workers and multiple machines producing about 140 000 to 190 000 calendars daily. The edition reaches 10 500 000 copies, enough to stretch thousands of miles, promoting Hood's Sarsaparilla and related products.
The article recalls four renowned stone labyrinths in churches. Sens cathedral features a circular leaded maze sixty eight feet across. St Owen’s maze uses blue and yellow tiles. St Quentin’s vanished in 1792 after children played a game during services. Bayeux displays a black square grid with yellow griffins roses and armorials.
Sig. Palmieri, after years studying earth currents at Mount Vesuvius Observatory, found the current direction shifts during high volcanic activity. From 1889 to August 1893 the flow ran from Resina to the observatory, implying ascent. In August 1893 it reversed as activity rose, then moved up again in January and February 1894 during quiescence before turning downward with renewed activity.
In England the Windermere lake area is set to host a major water power scheme. A company plans turbines and dynamos to generate about 40 000 horsepower and distribute high voltage current across ten miles to Kendal and Alleswater. An electric tramway from the same source is also proposed, offering a quiet alternative to steam railways.
In Schillgallien Germany a 73-year-old widower Jurk after proposing to a fourth wife was rebuffed and hanged himself in a nearby forest. He had already buried three wives.
Pakhoi in China exports over one hundred thousand dried lizards valued at 2500 dollars yearly. The lizards are used to make lizard wine, a medicine said to aid eye troubles.
A prosperous lawyer recalls early practice days. He could often tell by the stair footsteps whether a visitor was coming to his office. He explains that his accuracy came from assuming people would not come, and he was right ninety-nine times out of one hundred.
A woman argues about taking off her hat during a play. She claims theatergoers deserve suffering for not appreciating her hat, noting the show costs $1 while her hat is worth $17. The exchange reveals class and taste tensions in a public setting.
A reflective exchange finds a young man calling life a poem in varying tones and Miss Passeigh noting many people face rejection of their manuscripts. The dialogue underscores how art mirrors human experience and persistence despite disappointment.
Level headed party describes the incident of a returned bride and her friend who doubted they appeared as a bridal couple. The bride explains they tried to act as a couple to hide the truth.
On his deathbed a patriotic New Yorker ordered burial in a coffin lined with red white and blue silk. The funeral proceeded at 9 PM with torch bearers and fireworks as part of the ceremony.
Hope Crashed to Earth will rise again in the bosom of a dyspeptic wise enough to substitute for the pseudo-tonics which have bamboozled him out of his belief in the possibility of cure. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters provides a genuine tonic with vegetable ingredients. Malaria is prevented and remedied by it and it infuses vigor into the weak and sickly. A wineglassful three times a day is the average.
A fragment notes a broken engagement over Christmas. The man tried to use the engagement ring as a Christmas present, prompting questions about the couple’s motive and the awkward gift choice.
Frank J Cheney and Co testify that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The document notes the oath in Toledo and describes the medicine as acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered by mail.
Scientists critique potash and ammonia treatments that turbidify cocoa without real dissolution. German and Dutch methods are said to harm flavor and aroma. Walter Baker and Co. of Dorchester, Massachusetts is praised for pure soluble Cocoa without chemicals or artificial flavors.
Political aphorism noting that bad leadership harms society as corruption and malfeasance gain power. The saying frames elections as enabling moral decline and systemic harm through faulty governance.
The Burlington Route offers Personally Conducted Excursions to the Pacific Coast from Chicago on Wednesdays and Omaha on Thursdays. Through travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles with uniformed staff and second class comfort for $600 from Chicago and $5.00 from Omaha. The Scenic Line of the World passes the Rocky Mountain canons with Denver Salt Lake City and Sacramento en route. Contact Burlington Route offices in Omaha and other listed cities.
Two solemn men discuss faith and healing with a dry twist as one jokes about being an undertaker highlighting religious reliance and mortality themes.
Official figures report eighty six dead and six hundred injured from the recent Southern Italy earthquake. Residents in Pike county Missouri urge Governor Stone to appoint Mrs Reed as recorder after her husband’s death. In other items New York Paris and Berlin cover vast areas and California redwood railroad ties are near exhaustion.
An advertising pitch urges readers to subscribe to a Des Moines Iowa newspaper offering a twice weekly edition at no cost for a year. The note cites a figure about 145,000,000 pieces of paper money in circulation valued at 1.107 billion dollars.
Royal Baking Powder Company located at 106 Wall Street New York appears in the listing. The note highlights the firm’s address and presence in the financial district as a historical business reference.
Dialogue sketches a family scene with a mother asking what troubles her crying son Tommy describes their master who has been ill. Tommy reveals the master has recovered from illness. The exchange captures worry and relief in a domestic moment.
A biblical student questions why workers quit the new post during rain and reflects on the comfort others might have found in the forty days flood.
A caustic critic asks for a rationale behind a new year dress design. The art editor replies that the year ends on December 31, so the question remains moot until then.
An infant tells a nurse she won’t say prayers tonight, arguing God is busy tomorrow and won’t have time to listen. The playful dialogue captures a child’s quip about divine attention as they ascend to bed.
One fare round trips offered to Tennessee Kentucky Alabama Mississippi Louisiana and Florida on Louisville and Nashville and Nashville Chattan and St. Louis railroads. Tickets valid January 8 February 5 March 5 April 2 and 30 1895. Inquiries to P. Atmore or Geo B Horner.
The nation's railroads carry aggregate bonded debt totaling 5405649069 dollars. This figure reflects total outstanding bonds across major rail carriers and related financing obligations as reported.
Advertises fertile lands across Missouri and Arkansas for sale along a new Kansas City to Gulf of Mexico route. Promotes a free Missouri and Arkansas Fruitman and Farmer publication via James Donahue Ltd addressing Delaware Streets Kansas City Missouri. Urges buyers to act quickly to secure valuable lands in a blizzard and drought free region.
Sir Edward Arnold states he never tires of journalism and calls it the cleanest of professions, expressing enduring enthusiasm for the field.
A pamphlet offering valuable information about Nebraska and nearby areas will be mailed free on request. Include a sectional map of the country and details available by writing P. S. Eustis at C B and Q Railroad in Chicago Illinois.
Proverb notes that a man who is honest in a horse trade proves trustworthy with money, implying integrity in financial dealings and personal reliability in transactions.
An advertisement proclaims biopathic physicians cure acute diseases in one treatment with pay only if not cured, offers free advice by Dr. John Shelby from Sheeley Block in Omaha Nebraska. Notes Montana selects Bitterroot as state flower and comments on custom being antiquity of error.
A customer asks where to find the “A of the Breakfast Table” and the clerk suggests the nearby store across the road stocks fi mackerel. The exchange shows a rural shop scene with a stranger seeking a reference.
Fragmentary report notes a dispute involving Miss Fanny Miss Jennie and Min Jones. A heated exchange includes a reference to an offer accepted to punish him, with a claimed wealth of half a million dollars.
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