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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1896
Page
8
In a damp day scene at 11 o'clock, Anstruther meets Miss Luther in the billiard room. He teases a game with Miss Anstruther and offers companionship as they discuss playing cards, while Miss Anstruther hints at emotion and reluctance to confess.
In a billiard room dialog, Miss Anstruther and the narrator navigate engagement doubts with Mr. McDonald overhearing. A playful yet tense scene unfolds as hints of love, wealth, and parental duty mix with coaching on technique and a near kiss.
Two old bells cast in 1600 and 1720 travel from Panama to Cincinnati, each with a storied past in colonial churches. The small bell weighs 100 pounds the large 200 pounds both show wear from rough handling and hang in a battered crown. The bells face exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum after acquisition.
A beggar with a chain bound dog wore a placard reading Pity the blind. A passerby gave sixpence thinking the man was blind, only to learn the man joked the dog is blind not him. The piece ends with a note on quenched quill toothpicks from a Paris factory near Paris producing 20,000,000 yearly.
Count de Castellane advances a new palace project at Avenue Malakoff and Avenue du Bois de Boulogne costing 4.7 million francs. Excavation plans suggest a Grand Trianon like design about half its size, 200 by 200 feet, with a 120 foot façade along the Bois de Boulogne. Architect M. Samson is to keep details secret.
A collage notes playful quips about bicycles and marriages, a hiring miscue, and witty exchanges. It shifts to a Philadelphia versus New York opera season clash and praises Miss Julia Marlowe and Georgia Busby, highlighting their rising stage reputations.
A long handbill on Miss Wendoline North traces her birth in London in 1872 to Welsh parentage, her early stage work in England, and arrival in 1895 with Leavitt's Spider and Fly company. It notes her marriage to Master Martin, her talents as soprano, pianist, and linguist, and remarks on her stature as a photographed American actress. It also recounts tensions with manager Daly and the frothy debates around Mrs. Potter and Juliet roles in New York and San Francisco.
A fragment from a humorous column features a modern woman with typing skills contrasted with a vain employer who replaces her with a new typewriter. A racing metaphor and a joke about bicycle face punctuate the piece, ending with a casual remark on a natural sequence.
Rumor has it Mrs. Potter and Kyrle intend to come back to the United States for the next season. They are reportedly pursuing a London play and, if secured, will set aside their antipathy to America. Contracts are said to have been signed with Frank L. Perley and Frank Hennessey for an American tour.
In England there are said to be over 20 000 actors and actresses. Sarah Bernhardt heads to London at the end of her American tour. The American Theatrical Syndicate promises influence in coming amusement circles. Key figures include Charles Dixon and May Irwin in forthcoming productions, and notable dramatists like Sardou earning vast sums. Lieutenant Winterhalter of the U S S Bennington is the final trip completer. New York plans a new uptown theatre at Third Avenue and 142nd Street.
A frank advisor tells Senator Sorghum to branch out from the machine phase of his career and aim for fame. Sorghum replies that his busy schedule tending to payrolls for the government leaves little time for such ambitions.
Uncle Abner laments birds on hats aboard a train car. He recalls a well dressed man bragging he earned over $4,000 this year skinnin jays, highlighting odd fashion and wealth in a rural setting.
Dialogue humorously debates whether Shakespeare was a mason. The claim rests on writers noting he often went home with a brick in his hat. The exchange mocks the idea as a pastime for literary figures.
A brief Harper's Weekly quip contrasts a farmer named Silas and the militia set for target practice. Bill Jones received sixteen dollars for a cow they killed last year, and the speaker claims both no need for the cow and a need for sixteen dollars.
A short dialogue notes an employer asking for a sound worker while the applicant mentions drawing a pension for twenty years, implying a mismatch between expectations and worker eligibility.
A terse exchange reveals Sandford asking what I told a woman about being a Yale tutor. Merton recalls she asked if I would back the coaching plan her friends were organizing.
A young man sends a lyric titled There’s a Sigh in the Heart to his sweetheart. The paper reaches the girl's father a stern physician who dismisses it as unscientific rubbish and argues sighs arise from the lungs and diaphragm.
An Arizona editor wrote to an eastern firm seeking an advertisement. The firm asked where his paper went. The editor replied it circulated in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa and that is all he can do to prevent overreach.
A playful exchange shows a mother warning about swimming on a full stomach and Johnny offering to swim on his back if allowed to go. The lighthearted dialogue highlights parental caution and a humorous workaround.
The Sultan questions recent protests and demands more Armenians be killed, pressing the fire chief for a stronger response to what he calls a shameful neglect. The fire chief confirms no nation has recorded a protest, prompting the Sultan to insist on harsher action.
Maud asks about the graduation essay. Mamie confirms, saying it was dreadful work. She buned up words and checked the dictionary, fearing she would never finish.
A young man recounts eight burglars entering his house last night. He claims he did not see them but knew the number was eight because they ate one of his wife’s cooking school pies, proving the count with a humorous twist.
Pruyn and Popper joke that a baby is like a small animal, but Popper notes the child’s changeable behavior makes classification difficult as he crows one moment and bellows the next in a Puck cartoon dialogue.
A political wife questions printing a card while the accused faces proof. The politician reacts with contempt, rejecting the accusation and declaring he will not concede. The fragment sketches public distrust and defiant stance.
Two men quarrel over Shakespearean lines and epitaphs of the dead. Pemberton jokes that rich decedents’ tombstones weary the living, while Blenkington muses on churchyard yawns. The exchange reads as wry, philosophical banter.
The Life magazine snippet reports a quarrel between neighbors with a note that the boy’s father visited the office about the incident. It adds a light line about hoping both parties fared as well as each other.
A husband compliments a photo of his wife and jokes about framing it in the club. The wife replies with a playful prompt about displaying the photo, revealing a light domestic moment.
A light exchange about travel worries ends with a joke on buying accident insurance. The brief quip attributes calm to practical planning and assurance from a spouse.
A terse exchange from a life magazine style dialogue ponders breaking off a lengthy engagement. The woman notes that the longer the commitment, the easier it becomes to end it, inviting contemplation of commitment versus freedom.
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