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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1899
Page
2
A collage of advertisements and brief notes includes Dr Hartman family remedies and Pe-ru-na testimonials, Piso's Cure for Consumption, Dr Kline nerve restorer claims, Allen's Foot Ease footwear aid, and general moral snippets about happiness, weddings, and charitable acts.
A man from the suburbs carries a neatly packed lunch in a yellow parcel. He drops it after stubbing his toe, bread and cake spill on the sidewalk, and he frantically pockets ruined food before boarding a train. He hides his distress behind a glare as he endures the crowd's smiles.
A memorial tablet for Winnie Davis will be placed on a wall of St Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church in Richmond Virginia. The five by three foot bronze work is commissioned by Ambrose Innis of New Orleans and sculpted by George J. Zolney in New York. Mrs Davis approves the portrait as a faithful likeness and the vestry acts for Mr Maginnis.
The text lists Napoleon favouring boiled mutton with onion sauce and mated meals that made him ill, George III enjoying boiled mutton with turnips, Queen Elizabeth liking salt beef and rolls, and Mary Queen of Scots preferring French fare. James I liked eieLeekie while Charles II hosted lavish banquets with hundreds of guests and fifty dishes. Dr. Johnson favored polled pork and veal pie with raisin sugar and plum pudding with lobster sauce.
A column on why men do not marry citing women’s extravagance and laziness, with remarks on fashions of the day. Includes a brief mention of a costume for a young Milas and guidance for young girls with undeveloped figures and tight attire.
The piece describes fashionable summer wear with basket cloth and cheviot fabrics, detailing a brown and green cheviot outfit with brown braid trimming. It then shifts to a moral critique of young women relying on parental wealth, urging thrift and modest homes, followed by discussion of professional matchmakers in Japan promoting arranged engagements.
A garbled exchange hints at someone regretting teaching to eat cactus and referencing removing barbed wire, with disjointed phrases about killing and keeping the barrier. The text is partial and lacks clear context or complete events.
The item describes a braid trimmed in military fashion with a heavy brown silk ribbon belt and matching streamers, indicating a ceremonial or dress uniform detail.
Forcement balls for soup mix flesh of small lobster half an anchovy boiled celery crusts of bread a dash of cayenne mace salt white pepper two tablespoons bread crumbs oyster liquor warmed butter two eggs beaten form into small balls fry to a rich brown.
The text warns against counterfeit ers and substitutes when requesting carets candy Cathartic and other products. It promotes Cees Cough Balsam as reliable and old, notes cautions about mislabeled goods like Alabastine cement, and includes humorous asides on office life and demanding employers.
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