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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1895
Page
9
A collection of household tips covers how to plan a Boston tea party, arrange a fashionable table, and pick a veil. Includes advice on menus for twenty and choosing modest, tasteful styles for women in their forties.
A descriptive article on cooking dried beans including flageolets from France and red haricote, with methods for soaking simmering and finishing in butter wine and parsley. It contrasts French and American bean practices and notes regional preferences for white beans and baked beans. It also mentions legal gender rights debates and reforms affecting paternal custody and maternal rights in Pennsylvania.
A dressmaker marries a penniless consumptive man who dies and leaves no estate. A will revealed after birth supposedly bequeaths the child to the husband’s parents in Michigan, taking the baby from the mother. The case highlights widespread injustices under current guardianship law, with Iowa and six other states cited.
Poem describes a woman aged forty summers with beauty and contentment until a closing reflection on winters and summers in life. The piece contrasts perpetual summers with inevitable winters, praising resilience beyond youth. Published in Monthly.
The piece notes veils can enhance a pretty or homely woman when chosen with taste. It highlights black, brown, white, and navy blue as popular, with a black ground veil having white sprays favored in Paris. Cream white suits pale wearers, black hats pair with any veil though can age some, spotted black preferred for colorless complexions.
A woman singing the opening hymn at church experiences a wardrobe mishap as her outfit reveals a line of underwear. A neighbor comments softly, she blushes, adjusts her skirt, and continues worship while the choir belts out Stand Up Stand Up for Jesus.
In a St Nicholas report, a large mole freed in a five acre clover field tunnels eastward for 25 hours. It produced 104.5 feet of tunnels including 68 feet of main line and 36.5 feet of branches, with tunnels staying about 4 inches below the surface. The diggings formed elliptical and triangular cross sections as recorded by W. T. Horna.
A Scientific American article explains how speed in skating derives from initiating momentum at the skate head, with steady outward heel to toe pressure and rapid alternating strokes. It notes a long heavy skate with a blade extending beyond the foothold as part of a design to maximize propulsion.
In April 184, while under Captain Charles Stewart on a return voyage, the Constitution encountered two large English frigates and, outmatched, sought Marblehead. Marblehead fishermen manned batteries at the harbor mouth, forcing the pursuers to retreat as the ship safely reached port. The tale appears in The Last Voyage of the Constitution.
The article notes a modern umbrella design that folds into a grip sack and adapts to bicycle attachment in six positions. It features aluminum multi section handles and parallels a carriage top in essentials. A prior hat or shoulder fitting version aimed to free hands, hoping to aid tropical labor and soldiers, but it failed to gain traction.
The article notes various iceberg detection ideas with natural signs. It explains that entering colder water near bergs speeds a ship's propeller, signaling crew to heightened lookout for ice hazards. Such phenomenon could be quantified into warning data.
A big blast in the Toledo High School laboratory caused a rapid fire that gutted the four story brick building before dawn. The explosion likely stemmed from chemicals in the lab. The main wing was destroyed, with the Scott manual training department saved. Loss estimated at 159,000.
Four fires swept Duabue yesterday led by a blaze at the Boston dry goods store. Damage was about 10000 dollars, fully insured in twenty one companies, caused by an electric wire.
Fire at the American Hotel in Washburn Wisconsin caused 35000 in damage to building and furniture. An explosion of a lamp sparked the blaze and 1500 dollars of insurance coverage was noted.
The senate will consider Humphrey race track bill allowing nonparimutuel racing for up to ninety days. Crawford street railway bill faces opposition. Coon woman suffrage bill grants voting rights in some townships as a special order. Wall bill sets Assembly pay at 1000 for regular sessions and five a day for specials. Needles constitutional convention resolution is a Wednesday special order. Elections committee to advance Weston municipal suffrage bill Wednesday for final action.
Fire in the Old Aire mine hoist house at White Oak New Mexico traps seven workers. The mill is undamaged but access to the mine is blocked and rescuers have not reached beyond the third level. The entombed men are Charles Sherrick F J Williams Frank Wilson John Davis G Baxter Jerry Conover and W H Mitchel. Wilson Davis and Baxter are married.
A fire in St. Joseph Missouri yesterday destroyed the St. Charles of Wymore Nebraska and its contents. Several other buildings were badly damaged with losses under 12000 dollars, partly insured. Origin of the blaze is unknown.
The Universalist Church in Bay City Michigan was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. Loss estimated at 12000 dollars with 7300 dollars insured. Cause reported as a defective flue.
Independence Iowa March 12 Residence property belonging to Taber College burned last night logs valued at 16000 dollars partly insured fire investigators work to determine cause damaged structures and contents top the loss list
One woman is killed and two others fatally injured when a Missouri Pacific passenger train strikes a buggy seven miles south of St Joseph. Victims are Mrs Thomas Allen and Mary Allen, 25, plus 12 year old Mattie Dixon. The horse died. the wagon occupants were thrown thirty feet.
Washington reports on Hawaii after the queen's deposition. She is confined in the palace with one servant from Washington place as the only aide. The next Honolulu steamer will reveal government plans including possible sentence or pardon. President Dole and advisers hold decision authority.
Catarino Garza, the Mexican bandit and claimed revolutionary leader, is killed in an attack at Bocas del Toro. Revolutionaries report five killed, fifteen wounded, ten captured. government losses total ten killed and several wounded. US cruiser Atlanta lands marines to protect interests as business halts and town is abandoned.
In Murphysboro Illinois the trial of Frank Jeffry and Avery Henderson concluded with their conviction for the December 20 1894 murder of James Towle. The jurors returned the verdict Saturday evening and the death penalty was fixed with sentencing to follow, marking the county's first legal execution.
In Greenville Alabama on March 12 Major Samuel Blackman aged 80 and Ada Weaver aged 13 who will soon turn 14 asked the court to disaffirm their Christmas marriage. The bride testified she was under the legal age to marry and the dissolution is voluntary.
A fire bug started four blazes in a four story brown stone at 1436 Lexington Avenue New York. Three fires erupted on stair landings by apartment doors and one in the elevator shaft. The incendiary used kerosene. Residents fled in panic but no lives were lost.
The Violet departed Cape Hatteras at 6 AM and steamed to Ocracoke inlet before returning to Cape Channel by 6 PM. The trip was enjoyed by all aboard in delightful weather. Weather permitting, a big day of sport is planned for today.
The Iron Hall fund from Maryland members was sent to Indianapolis to augment the fund held by general receiver James F. Farley. The transfer totals $73,000, with $16,000 retained to meet attachments against the order.
Richmond Va March 12 The man who died last night from starvation and exposure has been positively identified as Carey C Arthur of Ohio. He was found in a box car partially loaded with coal and had been in the car for about a week.
On March 12 in Spring Valley NL a citizens meeting denounced the city council for refusing to recognize an ordinance making all appointive offices elective including police. A five man committee was chosen to seek the mayor and aldermen's resignations to take effect March 15.
Spain's Minister Maruaga has returned to Washington from New York. He says he has no new information on the Cuban insurrection and does not expect any. He refuses to discuss the reported request for United States Consul General Williams' recall from Havana.
Topeka Kansas March 12 twelve counties notified Gov Morrill they need no further outside aid. The legislature had appropriated 100000 dollars to distribute among the destitute in the western counties.
Reading Pennsylvania March 12 Mrs Susan Plautrich aged 60 died yesterday after being bitten on the hand by a strange dog she took in from the cold six weeks ago She displayed hydrophobia snarling barking dread of water and the typical rabies sufferings.
Dispatches report rebels driven from positions at Baire and Los Negros by government troops after a counterattack with heavy losses. Insurgents at Zavallones suffer one killed and seven wounded in another defeat.
Cardinal Gibbons will sail from New York for Rome in the first week of May. A slight attack of influenza currently affects his eminence.
Chicago March 12. An extensive foundry plant, the Bouton Foundry company, was almost destroyed by fire last evening. Loss estimated at 75000 dollars with partial insurance. Origin of blaze not determined.
Haverhill Mass March 12 The strike of the Haverhill shoeworkers is ended. The end came at a largely attended meeting of the strikers yesterday.
Assistant Attorney General Thomas rules that publishers who demand payment by mail with threats of enforcing non existent newspaper laws may be prosecuted for obtaining money under false pretenses. He clarifies these so called laws have no legal existence or legitimate judicial backing.
The senate approved the Nicholson temperance bill after it cleared the house. The measure tightens liquor law enforcement and bans screens and curtains. License applications can be defeated by a township voter petition.
Chicago March 9 President Baker head of the board of trade announces an expert examination of the wheat in Chicago elevators. The move follows rumors that much of the wheat is bad though Baker dismisses the reports as unfounded.
Iowa patent office reports J. A. Norton of Odebolt has a Ribbon Spool Cabinet allowed, with half interest assigned to George M. Riddle of Ida Grove. The note explains patent term limits after foreign patent prior art and six Iowa patents issued last week. Printed patent drawings and specs copies available for 25 cents.
A survey of new reference books and magazine features. It notes the Dictionary of United States History by Jameson, Harper's Weekly California pieces by Julian Ralph, the Atlantic Monthly serial The Seats of the Mighty by Gilbert Parker, and a March Popular Science Monthly article by Bela Hubbard on forest fire policy.
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