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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1899
Page
5
The Philadelphia Record describes a new mareorama panorama of the sea, a full voyage experience. Visitors board a moving deck simulated with pistoned anchors, turning seas, and land stops at Algiers Naples and Constantinople.
A piece offering fashion guidance for Lent and Easter, describing gray palette ensembles with a steel gray cape and aluminum hat, and detailing graceful postures and exits. It frames modest colors until Easter, then urges refined movement and proper room departure techniques.
A Ladies' Home Journal excerpt counsels against habitual grumbling and urges addressing issues directly. It advises stopping first lies, seeking remedies, accepting unchangeable conditions, and bearing known ills rather than seeking unknown ones.
A French period anecdote recalls a spring driven horseless carriage tested in Paris by the Duke de Mortemart and M. de Lauzum before the Academy of Sciences rejected it. The Ghent cityscape features twenty six islands linked by eighty bridges with three hundred streets and thirty squares.
Calico print works use 40 000 000 dozen eggs annually while wine clarifiers consume 10 000 000 dozen. Photographers and other industries also use many millions, and these demands grow faster than table demands.
A speaker notes that Mrs. Jones-Ann Smith no longer visits the club while another suggests a private belief she is rooster-pecked, framing social tension in a terse neighborhood exchange.
A ball room boarder jokes about cultivating a taste for strong drink while propping his coffee with spoons, prompting Mrs Graball to respond in playful alarm.
The dialogue portrays a singer and soubrette arguing about performance support. The porter questions a remark about a quarter. The victim confirms a talent claim and insists on not acting on talves, revealing tensions backstage.
Katz notes the mother-in-law has not forgiven him and is living at his house again, signaling continued tension and unresolved issues surrounding their relationship.
The article argues that grace is earned through steady effort not gift. It links elegant poses to daily discipline, elastic muscles, and centered balance. It notes working and social women can learn from refined models, and highlights rising gracefully by leg and torso control. It also mentions Princess Metternich writing memoirs, spanning Austria and Napoleon era.
A fashion note describes the diamond bodice style featuring a satin or silk large diamond across the bust halved and set to meet at the front. It notes optional lace insertions or passementerie and removable trimming from the armholes, with satin trimmed sleeves completing the look.
The piece laments fashion cycles dictating costly wardrobes for women and urges legislative restraint. It spotlights shifting trends from black maire velours to watered silks with bold brocading, plus new velvet embossed silks used for tea gowns and wedding costumes, all accented by black lace.
Fragment describes a fashionable Paris court admired for style while attempting to mask its tawdry origins by imitating Bourbon era etiquette and costume.
A German technical paper notes paper as a bath robe material. The thick blotting like paper clings to skin and dries the body quickly. It also is a poor heat conductor, protecting against rapid temperature changes. Slippers and hoods are made from the same material.
The report notes that close to 1,000,000 women are employed as day laborers in Spain. The figure highlights the scale of female participation in casual seasonal work across the country.
An advertisement explains a free little book on stomach digestion and indigestion from the F A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan. It highlights digestive health as key to preventing disease and lists symptoms, diet tips, and a mail request to receive the book by postal card.
A dated reader letter notes Manila houses use oyster shell translu cent panes instead of glass. Included is a Denver address and a mention of a local slogan Piso's Cure for Consumption as a cough remedy. Plaid stockings are described as showing multiple checks and declining in fashion.
The ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a sure treatment for catarrh, a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, offers One Hundred Dollars for a single failed case, and invites readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio. It also mentions Hall's Family Pills as the best.
In a cheerful exchange a druggist notes business picking up after a plumber thawed water pipes last month. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children is briefly mentioned as soothing and comforting. The dialogue hints at social observations about husbands and their reputations.
An advertising notice offers $3,000 for aNew corn yielding 813 bushels per acre and lists farm products incl Big Four Oats 20 bushels per acre Salter s Rape for pasture at 25c per acre and potato prices at 1.20 per barrel Bromus and beardless barley yields 60 bushels per acre with 100 kinds of grasses and clovers. Send to SOHN A A SALZER REED CO La Crosse Wisconsin with stamps for a free catal. The closing line warns that the easier a man is to approach the harder he is to get away from.
A mixed excerpt includes a sales pitch for Perfection Poultry products with Parsons Kansas addresses, a dubious claim of medical cures by Dr Seth Arnold, a ministerial endorsement, a schoolyard anecdote about a drawing misinterpretation of The Old Oaken Bucket, and a humorous WWI era style chessboard diagram explanation by Frederick the Great and General Von Ziethen about strategic blot figures.
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