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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1892
Page
4
In a prison scene the speaker is chained by two guards named Regret and Doubt. An angel appears, frees the speaker, and leads them to a kinder world, challenging the master of the oppressive keep named Lie.
Polly Bender revealed as Polly Shattuck plots revenge after learning Handsome Jim killed her brother Harry Shattuck. She lures him in a carriage, handcuffs him, and exposes his past, forcing his capture and sending him to prison while she returns home shattered by the ordeal.
The piece notes Carlyle and Dickens as brilliant men whose marriages suffered. It portrays Carlyle as consumed by books while his wife bore poverty and neglect, and Dickens as celebrated yet distant at home. It suggests both marriages ended unhappily with separation and public adulation masking private tensions.
Harry Fenton and his wife share a cold reaction to news that Jim was shot dead during an attempted prison escape. The couple’s silence contrasts with the tragedy as details of the incident emerge.
A Chicago Herald report describes a Barca region in Abysinia where wives own the home and can eject husbands by night after a provocative word, taking a third of the possessions if they leave. Emancipation comes only when wives fully support their husbands, a system contrasted with daily rest and evening theater outings.
A Boston Journal report mocks a cooking school class with humorous answers on kitchen basics. A student misdefines bread rising as a draught, confuses swine with veal, and mislabels sirloin and bacon amid an ad laden scene.
Dr. Talmage tours English cities and speaks to crowded halls in London and beyond about heaven as a holiday in glory. He envisions a vast, diverse heavenly host from all nations, ages, and dress, robed in white and singing Salvation to our God, with Christ as universal ruler.
An account outlines three tiger hunting methods in India: by elephants, from trees, and on foot. Elephants, musicians, and bait sheep lead to a shot that ends the tiger as priests pray. Tree hunting uses prepared perches by youths. foot hunting features Maharajah Ripon with spear and shield, delivering a decisive coup de grace.
A woman recounts leaping into a river to deter theft and sinking repeatedly as a steamboat crew member aided her. She describes visions of paradise and helllike imagery, then awakening in pain yet with a clear mind, noting the drowning was oddly pleasant after the near death event.
Jakey declares a gentleman fallen in the coal-hole while Isaac threatens to arrest a man for attempting coal theft or sue for damages. They debate covering him and detaining the suspect amid tempers.
Dialogue snippet shows Jinks correcting a misattribution about a wife and servant in a domestic scene with informal banter and mistaken identity.
In a terse exchange two principals face off. The onlookers identify the two pacing on the ground as seconds and the small man as the tailor, a claim disputed by others who note only four injured in the duel.
Prof Charles D. Walcott of the United States Geological Survey presents a world fair exhibit on geology. It will illustrate the earths crust through rock strata placements and characteristic fossils, showing their formations and relative positions.
A Harlem resident newly widowed jokes about how well black attire suits her, quipping that if her late husband had known how she looked in mourning he might still be alive. The remark blends humor with a somber moment from a local social scene.
A jumble notes a ton of gold worth 600000 dollars and a five by eight inch Bank of England note. A Georgia shoemaker makes a long pair of shoes. An 1864 Richmond bill lists wartime prices for soup beef ham oysters coffee bread tea and liquor. Kudzu vine rapid grower from the bean family spreads in America via Centennial era introduction.
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