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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1895
Page
4
A column on current theater bodices featuring chocolate chiffon gowns with Valenciennes lace edgings and sable trims. Describes heliotrope and mauve striped taffeta gowns, Medici sable collars, and lace yokes. Also notes Mrs. Gould favoring yellow tones and elaborate yachting outfits with Atalanta motifs.
A vivid account from St Nicholas describes a New York fire at a factory basement. Firemen breach heavy doors with a battering ram, battle dense smoke, and crawl through heat to douse flames. One firefighter collapses from smoke and heat, others rescue him as colleagues pull him to safety. The scene emphasizes bravery and peril in the basement struggle.
The article details fashion items such as Valenciennes lace and apple green velvet stock and girdle for a novel bodice. It praises the convenient wrap called visite for slip on and off use and concealing the gown, suited to opera or a dance. It also describes navy blue serge costumes with white braid, anchors, and blue and white stock, vest, and cap details.
Dealers claim leather covered furniture should not rust if genuine yet some rust does occur. To brighten the leather rub with soapy water, dry in the sun, then wipe with coal oil on a flannel cloth, rub briskly, and air to remove odor.
An ex varsity captain recalls a fourteen year old boy entering the palace life in 1810 as a page. He contrasts dazzling court life with discipline and risk, stressing how self control safeguards a team and how foul play harms the game and others.
Harper's Young People explains the duties of a stage manager and the careful planning required to stage a play. It urges reading the script multiple times, analyzing each character, designing balanced groupings, and mapping entrances and exits for cohesive stage pictures. The guidance emphasizes patience and precise, line by line positioning.
The article traces pearls value from ancient times through Greco Roman stories to explorers. It cites Cesars gift to Brutus mother, Cleopatra’s pearl dissolution, and pearl fisheries in the Persian Gulf Red Sea and off Ceylon. It notes Columbus findings and Spanish exploitation causing native cruelties and a massacre of Spaniards by Indians at dawn.
Dr. Jessus Bloch, a Budapest native with a Turkish patient base, slept as Bulak street collapsed during an earthquake. A ceiling collapse dumped two harem women on him before he and the doctor’s other neighbors escaped. The grand mufti ordered symbolic drowning by Bosphorus, with the two women sewn in sacks and immersed briefly.
Congressional records recount Senate arguments on the currency bill with party splits and proposed amendments, including figures from Democrats and Republicans. House duties cover pensions, post office appropriations, and eulogies, while notices include resignation and filibuster attempts on imitation butter legislation.
A 1 217 ton granite pedestal for the Peter the Great statue in St Petersburg was moved four miles by railway with a brass sphere roller system and thirteen miles by water on a caisson. Other giant blocks include a 650 ton piece from Craig nair near Dalbeattie and a 440 ton obelisk at St John Lateran in Rome.
The article notes near 15 million dollars in voluntary contributions from Japanese people and a $15 million interest free loan from the Bank of Nobility, with noblemen and merchants giving over 100,000 each. It contrasts this public spirit with China’s morale in the China war.
In a candid talk the group schemes to undermine a rival shopkeeper by blackmail to deny his entry to the club. They argue he is a good man but a merchant who threatens their credit line and access to lenders.
In Nashville the Tennessee Senate votes 19 to 1 to postpone the canvass of governor elect returns until an investigation into election fraud charges is completed. California reports Gov Budd inaugurated. Idaho Senate approves woman suffrage amendment without dissent. Kansas notes Gov Morrill is...
Washington Jan 12. The house ways and means committee met after months with no action beyond sending questions to subcommittees. There is expectation of no tariff legislation this session. Revenue gains cited from the woolen schedule. opinions vary on permanence. A beer tax question was voted down as covered in treasury reports. related bills were referred to subcommittees.
Michael Nugent of Springfield died from a blow on the nose after a scuffle with a friend. Physicians report blood rushed to the head and a brain clot formed days after the incident.
In Freeport Illinois a mob killing from three months ago led to a murder trial. Seven suspects were arrested. five were acquitted while Tom Beverly was found guilty of murder and sentenced to hang and Otto Herbig to eighteen years in the penitentiary.
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