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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1896
Page
15
A preacher uses a dramatic stage metaphor to urge personal duty. He warns alcohol abuse, indolence, and selfishness ruin lives while praising steadfast faith, family devotion, and parental prayer as the true inheritance guiding children through trials.
The Washington Letter reviews Senator George Vest of Missouri and family life. It notes Mrs Sallie West’s southern roots, children in St Louis and Capitol Hill, and Mary Wheeler West. It also mentions the Brice and Stevenson households and Julia Stevensons upcoming Kentucky wedding.
Anewerire discusses whether papers or magazines aim to answer every question posed, noting that publications with correspondence departments should address important questions. Phrenology is unrelated to teeth aside from overall health, since sound teeth have nerves and a nerve dead tooth remains non perfect even if strong.
George W Smalley, longtime American correspondent for the London Times, was effectively barred by New York’s Century Association for being anti American and pro British. Critics say his letters reflect English views and he favored the senate over the Bourgeois ministry in a French crisis.
In San Francisco the intrepid William Astor Chanler, son of John Winthrop Chanler and related to the Astor family, rose to fame after Harvard. He traveled to Arizona and New Mexico aiding U.S. soldiers against Apaches, circled Kilimanjaro, and led expeditions in Masailand with Zanbiris and 200 rifles. His 1894 book Through Jungle and Desert records adventures, and he hints at future expeditions despite Africa's disturbances.
A collage of trivia and observations: distances and capitals, birds that sing year round, a year long fast by a big rattlesnake, and the origin of the word Guinea tied to Charles II. Also notes on rulers, bicycles, and a courtroom quip.
Senator Butler promotes a new Southern historical materials society. Alexander Dumas fils and the General to be honored with statues in Paris. Antonio de Navarro collects his wife Mary Anderson photographs in Tunbridge Wells. Leopold Strouse funds Johns Hopkins rabbinical library with 300 volumes from Frankfort.
A compilation of terse historical facts including weights, speeds, and dates. Items cover the first Atlantic cable 1858 the first steel pen 1830 lucifer match 1829 and musical notes 1838 among others.
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