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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1895
Page
4
A compact feature notes a colonial style village scene with figures described as matrons and maids. It mentions a reprint of an old image and a new photograph frame display alongside a reflective looking glass and a view across the street.
A woman hesitates over a deal then accepts $2 from a man who hands her the sum and the signed title. She delights in the silver dollars, laughing at her luck and declaring the money hers to spend as she wishes. The account is recounted by the Indianapolis Sentinel.
Mrs. A G Lewis describes a large scale bazaar designed to mimic a Maine Vermont or New Hampshire village from the past. Centered on a village green with a liberty pole, it features period shops and crafts, beverage stands, and entertainments, inviting regional visitors to trade, socialize, and celebrate a bygone era.
In an essay from The Woman at Home the author cautions that mirrors flatter or distort a woman’s appearance. The piece notes pale tinge in plate glass, waves or straight hair, and gray hairs as minor flaws that vanish in reality. It argues the owner, not friends, judges her reflection most critically.
An elderly Indiana couple who built a farm and sold possessions for 16000 dollars could not complete a deed transfer. The wife insisted on personal compensation before signing, saying she had never realized anything from the life long work, and the husband could not satisfy her demand. The buyer sought a workable price.
Poem recalls a man watching a woman across the way from a barred window. He longs for companionship and warmth as dreams of love rise and fall with each scene of daily life and passing crowds. The speaker pleads for love and asks her to come with him across the way.
A revival of delicate house caps for young matrons is described as a time honored custom returning. The cap is crafted from crisp white tulle with velvet knot or violin string ribbon accents and signals eligibility when the nursery holds a resident. The bow, breakfast gown, and gown variations reflect turquoise, mint green, black taffeta, satin dots, and lace kerchief details.
Mrs Rover provides a cake croquettes recipe using stale cake crumbs soaked in milk then thickened with heat. The mixture is cooled formed into pyramids breaded and fried, then dusted with sugar and served with liquid pudding sauce.
Combine two cups of boiled white hominy with butter. Beat four eggs until light and fold in as it cools. Stir in one pint of milk gradually then half a pint of corn meal. Batter should resemble rich boiled custard. Bake in a deep pan.
In a January 25 1895 message to Congress President Cleveland withdraws support for the Carlisle plan and urges radical finance measures to restore confidence. He cites bonds as the only path to gold and outlines terms aimed at preserving national credit and solvency.
East Livermport Ohio Jan 28 A three days celebration marks the fiftieth anniversary of the First Presbyterian church of the city. The congregation’s charter signer is the sole living charter member. Prominent clergy from Iowa Pennsylvania and Maryland attend the festivities including Rev Dr Marshall Rev Frank Talmage Rev McGowan and Rev Milligan.
A Harper’s Weekly view argues demand for ordinary horses has waned due to bicycles golf and transport advances while insisting the horse will endure. Even with modern mobility horsepower remains valued for conversation status and potential excellence, not mere economy or novelty.
A collage of social tidbits from 19th century life. Notes on Napoleon teas in New York, a fashionable Oakland ladies club, a patent purse guard, 200 women preachers in the U.S., and a rise from one ordained minister to many. Other items cover Orange New Jersey bathhouses, library catalogue quirks, Siamese noblewomen hair fashion, a rubber sole idea, Greenland hair ribbon signals, London tattooing, Brooklyn burglaries and an anxious woman with an hourly alarm clock.
A lady complains of swelling and difficulty fitting shoes while a dealer jokes about mis-marked sizes and high insteps. After a pause the shop humorously supplies altered stock numbers to a customer, illustrating a lighthearted onlook at apparel fit and retail quirks.
West Virginia mountaineers have remained largely undisturbed in their fast ness and politics. They defend untaxed whisky as a personal liberty and distrust strangers who may be revenue officers, reflecting rural attitudes during the Civil War era.
A man in the main balcony asks a woman in a large hat to swap seats claiming the seat is better and reveals he was ousted by another man after he dunned him. He says he wants to even the score with the supposed “scoundrel.”
One thousand seventy three U S Army personnel deserted in the year ending June 30, down from three thousand six hundred seventy two in the year ending June 30, 1884. The improvement is attributed to better rations bar racks and improved promotion prospects.
A Pittsburg family renovating a fifty year old wardrobe uncovered about 75000 dollars in bank notes and government bonds, transforming a household eyesore into a windfall. The discovery occurred during an interior clean out of the antique piece.
Washington reports track a sequence of bills and votes from January notes. Key items include Nicaragua canal bonds approval totaling 70 million with 30 million extra, a 39 million sundry civil appropriation, Hawaiian annexation debates, and sugar differential repeal progress. Officials Sworn In Turpie, Pritchard, Burrows, and others.
In St Paul on January 24 the legislature chose Governor Krute Nelson as U S senator, defeating Senator Washburn in a tight party race.
A Vandalia line wreck at Coatesville Indiana killed two people and injured thirty-two as rails spread at full speed. President McKeen’s private car jumped the track followed by the parlor car and the ladies' car, with the rear car plunging ten feet down an embankment before rescue crews arrived.
A major blaze in Fennville Michigan yesterday wiped out the south side of the street causing about 50000 dollars in damage with little or no insurance. The fire prompted Holland officials to report the loss and investigate the cause as residents assess the destruction.
The Taylor Newell Co of Des Moines gains a patent for a pants trade mark The Boys Friend A Hardin county reader asks if an inventor can sell area before patent approval The answer: yes with earnest money and a balance note The Hohensbehn of Waverly receives a centrifugal cream separator patent E P Fox of Gamer Indiana gets a grading and ditching apparatus patent Four U S patents issued to Iowa inventors on the 22nd Printed copies of patent drawings and specs available for 25 cents Free valuable information for inventors Orwin and Ralph, solicitors
A Crawfordsville resident claims to know Taylor the defaulter treasurer’s hiding place and asks for the arrest reward. The Minneapolis Journal confirms the tip and notes the informer will not disclose the location until the reward is guaranteed.
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