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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1895
Page
8
American sculptors contest a model for a Gen Hancock statue to stand in Washington, with a $49,000 government contract for statue and pedestal. The 26 ft 10 in height statue rests on a revolving circular platform and uses a special never drying clay from a French maker.
In St. Louis, a principal figure faced direct opposition to military regulations from a closely allied companion, highlighting a clash between policy and allied stance amid ongoing tensions.
A letter from C L Fox of Weg Liberty Iowa suggests a $250 cure for rats to save post office funds. He notes annual cat stipends at St Paul New York Omaha Richmond and others and imagines felines displaced if the plan adopted. Washington Post reports the idea with wary humor.
An article describes a German visitor promoting a lifestyle philosophy for women focusing on mental clarity cheerfulness and self care. It links poetry music dancing and flowers to counter jealousy grief boredom and ill temper and notes accompanying bicycle fashion including sweaters bloomers and jaunty hats.
The article details Ellicott’s clay model for a Hancock statue to be molded by Gorham in Providence and cast in bronze, with full regalia and equipment patterns. It notes plans for a Sheridan statuette, a potential Sherman statue for $100,000, and a push to move Hancock’s remains, plus a note on sequoia pencils depleting cedar forests.
The article lauds Japan for leading in ivory wood carving lacquer work and pottery while praising painting of flowers and birds as unequaled. It notes Japanese artists cannot paint a horse or a foreigner’s portrait due to lacking suitable horses, describing them harshly as runty rough-looking knotty brutes.
France was hailed as the greatest wheat growing country in Europe, surpassing Russia. Stockholm reportedly records the world’s highest death toll from alcoholism with ninety in a thousand dying from intoxicants. Crocodile tears were noted as an ancient superstition linked to a crocodile’s after-killing display. Sir Robert Ball is cited as predicting future sun powered machinery. The text argues display love reflects patriarchal property norms.
The London Spectator notes that female stateliness stems from inner independence and self justification, differing from male displays. It argues stateliness can appear aloof and chilly to observers, provoking mixed reactions in both sexes, and often misread as hauteur or unkindness despite many stately women being charming.
A fashion item describes brides favoring modest necklines and covered shoulders for a year after marriage. Evening gowns favor extreme simplicity with ivory gray broadcloth, dull blue satin sleeves, and gray satin epaulettes edged in blue silver and green. Mirror chiffon folds reveal subtle gray blue and green tones.
A Brooklyn Eagle editor argues for sewing as a public school subject. Proponents note sewing skills empower girls to earn livelihoods and reduce dependence on cheap goods, citing daily practicality and worries about sweat shop conditions.
Divided skirts bloomers and knickerbockers are worn by wheel women in New York. The preferred outfit for this exercise features a short skirt and Eton bodice with a pale brown covert suit and riding habit fit. The bodice includes a coat back and clean finishing along the edges.
The piece notes that Hebrew women inspired spring cleaning with thorough house freshening for Passover. It claims Gentile Americans adopted Mosaic ideas to remove taint from homes, and compares human housekeeping to birds building nests as May approaches.
Gentle cleaning tips for silver and ivory brushes, combs, and table ware. Keep brushes in covered cases, avoid dust, and use a monthly wash with warm water ammonia and pearline. Describe new china patterns with cheerful motifs and colonial delft.
A playful verse chronicles two small children in a church setting as they learn to walk. The speaker explains his difficulty standing and remembers to sit after a misstep, noting the floor may “rise up” and give a hard blow.
Two Kansas City children aged five and four left Sabbath school for the front pew with their grandma. After hearing a preacher say the word devil they grabbed their papers and ran home. They later visited another grandma before returning home.
A professor explains that ancient English boys and later generations dropped the h in words like hit and shouted it as it. He notes Americans later reinserted the h and warns boys not to tell the teacher to avoid trouble or extra shouting at recess.
A Chicago hunting party in the Rockies camps above Ute Pass. The narrator, without weapon, faces a big she grizzly at a rock shelf over a trout pool. He recounts freezing and allowing the bear to feed, with an audience including a Boston man reacting with suspense.
A traveling man recalls a frigid journey to Glinton last winter. The fireman shovels smoke from the engine to fight the cold while the conductor, bent on shouting tickets, shatters breath against the door. The word tickets sits visibly frozen in the air at the car front.
A passenger in a crowded car smiles despite a grim accident as the smiling conductor passes along. He fractures his little finger against a seat, but calmly pockets the severed digit, saying the incident suits the run.
An elderly country woman waits on a street crossing and chats with a quick talking boy about electric cars losing track. The boy swears safety is a joke and the girl senses his mischief as he scampers away down the street leaving a wary, knowing look.
In Perak, Malays use a granite river rock as a natural toboggan slide. They sit with legs straight and steer by hands as about 200 people ride in sequence down a 60 foot slope into a pool. The sport, a sunny morning favorite, carries little danger.
A pupil in an English elementary school writes about sailors with vivid but humorous stereotypes. The piece describes sailors as fat men with red and brown faces wearing loose clothing, blackened boots, and tied clothes in red and blue handkerchiefs. It mentions emotions toward family and a belief they drink to stay upright, reflecting playful misconceptions.
A New Orleans woman notes the first humming bird of the season visiting her garden. The bird hovered near annunciation bells on a spike, then a lily bell closed, trapping the bird inside. The bird may have overindulged on nectar causing the flower to collapse.
A narrator recalls a mother sheep with twins, one blind and wandering. The mother and its sibling show attentive care, rescuing the vulnerable lamb from danger with gentle nudges. The author questions whether something beyond instinct guides these acts of protection.
A clerical friend quotes a sobering illustration on mortality. He recalls a man leaping from a moving horse car, asserting the world rolls on as if nothing has changed, reminding that one day life ends and the world continues unchanged.
Douglas Henderson and Frank Jeffrey were executed in Murphysboro Illinois for the Campterville murder of last winter. Henderson walked to the scaffold smoking a cigar. Jeffrey showed nerves yet both climbed thirteen steps and faced death. Jeffrey said he would die for a crime he did not commit.
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