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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1895
Page
6
The article highlights how the fair sex among society’s four hundred are taking up bowling with startling averages. It notes exclusive social circles fueling enthusiasm for the sport and the growing participation of women in competitive bowling events.
In New York City clubs bowling is a popular pastime with Fidelio, Freundschaft, Washington Irving and others hosting women's rounds. Notable bowlers include Rose Goldsmith, Stella Weit, B De Liew, Gans, Kaliski, Metzger, Spellman, Frelingstein, Jostana, Guionfelds, Hellman, Strauss, Love, Wise, Rogensbagh, Schwab, Pauline and Agnes Frank, Clarinda Brownold, Daisy Bach, Carrie and Flora Itzler, Cora Vollman, Klein, Eisler and Stern as top competitors across Monday Tuesday and Thursday circles.
In a club circle married women dominate and unmarried women are scarce as both groups maintain separate sets and coexist in their own environments. Prize bowling and grand dancing highlight a Fidelio "phure day night" gathering with several named Misses and ladies among attendees.
The Progress club hosts Monday and Tuesday practice with a strong roster led by Miss Berliner and Miss Hahn. Married women join the Wednesday circle, while the Freundschaft and Harmonie clubs maintain precise, exclusive groups. Prize results show Miss Florence W. Content and Miss Josie F. Isaacs among top finishers with scores reaching 165.
Mrs Coulter of Dover recounts severe paralysis and facial deformity from illness tied to medical bills. After ineffective treatments, Dr Williams Pink Pills allegedly restored her health and facial expression, and her son’s St Vitus dance also reportedly improved. Pills sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady at 50 cents a box.
A collage of jokes and light quips from Sunnytown and papers like New York Recorder and Washington Star. Laugh lines include Africa travel, a temperance quip, a bone of French bont vivant pun, and a dig at free coinage.
A seven year old cat named Blossom amuses and vexes in a household as she ages toward ten. An invited guest teases her, provoking like a scolded child. Blossom retaliates by shredding nightshirts and pillowcases until the intruder departs, then resumes her normal domicile behavior.
The New York Sun reports a method for continuous rails using a portable foundry cupola on wheels drawn by horses. In St Louis joints are cast by surrounding the joint with iron in special molds heated near the line, with mold linings renewed every twenty joints. The process pours iron from a ladle, yields a weld like join, and avoids rail contraction by casting alternately in morning and afternoon sessions.
Daniel Goehler a merchant tailor in Anderson reports in Kokomo that William McDonald a cutter left his job and blew out his brains. Earlier John Koehler who took McDonalds place went to Green Castle and killed himself. Two years earlier Gottlieb Bower also quit and shot himself within ten days. The table may be replaced.
A new device uses electro magnetic coils on a vessel to influence a chemically prepared compass six miles away, triggering an instant bell signal during a test to prevent maritime collisions.
The De Kalb Fence Company of De Kalb Illinois claims the industry’s largest plant and most extensive wire fencing lines. With over 40 machines and capacity of 22 miles daily they supply Cable Steel Hog Fence Poultry Fence steel web picket and park cemetery fencing nationwide. They offer wood or steel gates and iron posts and invite inquiries and a 44 page catalogue.
In a bizarre exchange a judge questions how long the couple has differed. O’Mally admits their quarrel worsened after illness but claims his wife now seems the better man of the two.
In a small exchange two men argue about a thermometer that supposedly cannot read above thirty three degrees as one insists it works and the other confirms its limit. The odd device becomes the center of a local office joke.
The passage criticizes calling things in style or out of style as improper and urges using phrasing like at Philadelphia instead of in Philadelphia. It treats fashionable language as a social distinction and mocks the smart set for policing style terminology.
A London theatre superstition holds that whistling in dressing rooms may ruin the career of the actor or actress closest to the door. The belief warns performers to avoid whistling near stage doors to prevent misfortune.
The item surveys women in society and work from various regions. It notes 24 school ma'ma in North Paris Maine and describes fashion trends, earnings by women writers in New York, royal godmothers, Albania gender roles, and profiles of Mrs. Alice Shaw the whistler and Mrs. Flora Ann Steel. It mentions Emmons Blaine’s church gift, Charlotte Fowler Wells as the first woman publisher, and Agnes Briggs entering nursing at St. Luke's Hospital preparing for deaconess vows.
An Indian chief swallows mustard that makes his eyes water and claims he weeps for his son killed in battle. A second chief also eats mustard and says he weeps because you were not killed when your son was.
The joke lines mock a dictionary editor asking for a bicycle definition and the expert definer replying with a playful stereotype about bloomers. The editor congratulates the definer on a raise.
An ad promises a cure for tobacco habits with No-To-Bac from Sterling Remedy Co. It claims to restore vigor and vitality, offering a free book and a guaranteed cure by druggists, with addresses in New York and Chicago.
A witty dialogue reveals Mrs Newridhe asking about notable ancestors and Mr Cynic replying that one ancestor was Noah the admiral who commanded the allied forces, implying a grand claim with a playful twist.
In a curt exchange Van Braam asks about his new clothes and Shingiss replies his partner asked where he bought his misfit. The line suggests social scrutiny of clothing and personal presentation in a casual conversation.
Advice to take Syrup of Figs on trips for kidney liver and bowel relief and to prevent fevers and headaches. Available in 50c and 1 bottle sizes from druggists. California Fig Syrup Co. promotes the product. A Chinese proverb about women and home is quoted.
The Rocky Mountain region along the Northern Pacific line remains rich with moose deer bear elk and mountain lions inviting true sportsmen to seek them. A small book Natural Game Preserves published by the Northern Pacific Railroad can be obtained for four cents in stamps from Chas. S. Fee General Passenger Agent Saint Paul Minnesota. The note about early rising parades a punchline about sitting on a tack.
A jumble of regional notes contrasts Southern California fruit districts with Colorado Grand Valley. The passage cites inventors, cures, and patent medicines, with adlike lines for Piso's Cure, Dr. Kime's Restorer, and other tonics. It reads like a miscellany of notices and product pitches.
The article notes carp ring records suggesting ages over 160 years, cites a Madagascar black Vassa pa that lived 54 years in England, and mentions geese reaching 60 to 70 years. It also recalls a 1888 Philadelphia Zoo cockatoo over 100, a Paris parrot death at 103, and French ravens over 100. Smallpox is unknown in Patagonia.
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