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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1896
Page
4
Eyewitness recounts Tiburcio Vasquez calmly facing execution in San Jose. He spoke softly with visitors, accepted death with dignity, and asked to discuss other topics as deputies prepared the gallows.
George C Miln revives Julius Caesar at the Broadway New York with Mary Shaw as leading woman. Isabel Irving shines in The Prisoner of Zenda while Julia Marlowe and others draw attention in New York theaters. The piece critiques stage plays and reflects on actor worship and public fascination with stars.
A New England studio project by a famed designer yields the golden net portiere a delicate yet durable drapery built from fish net and golden shells. The Drapery Club collects studies from Maine to Florida meeting weekly to plan display pieces for Moorish inspired rooms and fashionable homes.
A Texas Sifter excerpt quotes a San Antonio gentleman praising a young man who, when proposing, immediately visited a lawyer to learn the cost of a divorce suit. The remark highlights his forethought and habit of weighing consequences before each mistake.
An aged Detroit Tribune line recalls a battlefield moment where a courier shouts grape shot while a wounded warrior, gasping appendicitis, endures a mixture of fear and fleeting glory. The fragment captures intensity and dramatic grit of combat reportage.
Nancy McIntosh may stay in this country and Otis Skinner plans no cast in the next year. The Bostonians may net about $75,000 this season while Virginia Harned moves to star next year under Augustus Pitou. Georgia Cayvan may headline next year as well. Margaret Craven replaces Annie ONeil in Crane’s company after her marriage to H C Miner. Rose Coghlan scores in Madame Morin sky and Robert Hilliard may team with a leading comedienne later. Henry E Dixey heads to Frohmans in spring amid play piracy rumors. Bernardt’s Magda delays act two, and Free Cuba is seen as lacking war-play punch.
An New York export house received a sample watch by a Swiss maker whose hands move from right to left rather than left to right. The design targets markets in Turkey Japan and other oriental regions where people read from right to left.
Popular Science News summarizes Balzac’s color theories, noting orange or green gowns signal quarrelsomeness while white implies coquettishness. Pink suits gentle women, pearl gray marks misfortune, lilac attracts overripe beauty and older mothers on weddings, with color meanings tied to fiery red yellow and bilious green blue tempering.
J Colin Forbes, the artist painting ex President Harrison’s portrait in Indianapolis, has long resided in New York where his Gladstone portrait of 1890 brought him major commissions. He recently kept a Sherwood studio after a blaze at the Castle Hotel last year destroyed his portrait of his father, a prized work. Forbes is of medium build with black hair and beard.
The meteorological office reports a new statistic showing London’s average January sunshine total over the past twenty five years is twenty six hours. This finding was noted in American Amateur Photographer.
A mosaic of brief clippings covers Paris wine saturation, colonial ignorance, a Bangor death at 89, Massachusetts shoe production, global soldier costs, Max O Re ll reflections, Egyptian harps recovered, a Gorham shop butterfly, a California prospector’s Minnesota gold claim, and Florida’s education enrollment lead with recency policies.
Leavitt recalls a day and a gift from Theodore, a box of stationery for himself and envelopes addressed to Professor Michael Foster the physicist. The physician attributes fatigue to cerebellar poisoning.
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