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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1896
Page
3
A shortippet of moral maxims urging self exertion and good deeds. It extols personal effort as path to happiness and warns against conflicting desires of mind and purse. The piece suggests gratitude pleases God and giving brings returns.
Wisconsin lake regions spread across Michigan Minnesota Iowa and Dakota offer hundreds of summer home sites near unfished lakes. Railways including the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line provide easy access with varied resort styles and prompt trains. A description of principal resorts with hotels boarding houses and rates is available upon request from H Heatford General Agent Chicago and by Paris.
A dated sampler notes the Corn Belt illustrated monthly by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy RR offering farm land information for 25 cents yearly. It also parades assorted quotes and ads about summer books, cures, and remedies, with scattered humorous lines and catalog-style snippets.
A travel itinerary traces a grand circuit from Atlantic cities to Omaha and San Francisco then Yokohama and Hong Kong to Calcutta Bombay Suez Alexandria Brindisi and London with rail and steamship legs. Total distance 23639 miles time 82 days fare about 1100 dollars plus 4 per day meals totaling 1500 dollars.
Article surveys women filling ministerial duties during a pastor’s absence in Bar Harbor Maine. It highlights recent books on Joan of Arc and mentions Oliphant’s biography in The Heroes of the Nations series. It notes Miss Gladstone’s Cambridge Liberal club leadership and Kingstown Massachusetts naming a woman school superintendent. It also praises a New York German-born woman dentist and lauds the New England Conservatory of Music for its breadth, teachers, and low charges with prospectus offered.
A collection of dated etiquette notes covers love loss and marriage behavior. It discusses wedding timing gifts introductions calls with gloves on and hats in hand and avoiding overt display during a wedding tour. It also mentions the Prince of Wales and social habits.
A targeted appeal invites all women with sex specific illnesses to communicate with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. Women may discuss private health matters with a woman, ensuring confidential guidance. The notice touts extensive experience advising over 100000 women and claims high relief from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
A collection of practical remedies and care tips for skin, cooking, clothing, illness care, mouth hygiene, hair care, and general housekeeping. It covers facial tonics with benzoin, proper disposal of soups, sugar timing for preserves, dust removal, skin protection during illness, a mouth rinse recipe, canning infusion, and a hair curling method using borax gum arabic and camphor.
Notes report that the London common council received 1 892 cricket club applications for use of 227 grounds. It mentions plans for a London play with roles filled by actual criminals. Other items note Pope Leo’s June anniversary in Rome and a bore hole for rock salt in Stemnberg.Prussia, 675 fathoms deep, two thousand three hundred forty nine eight hour days.
A fragment describes an attempted pairing between Pilkerton and a pretty inn resident. They had seen each other at the windows early in the morning, suggesting a quiet, unseen courtship interrupted by circumstance.
A brief fragment shows two voices, Airy Speculation and Indolent Ivers, joking about endless eating and sleeping. The lines convey light mood and playful banter with no concrete events or names.
The text refers to Queen Victoria ruling over 82 612 448 people and an emperor over 402 580 000, with cryptic remarks on age and psychology. It mixes dialogue about persons Jess Jack Hess and mentions English mates.
A Kansas or Missouri station reports three years of corn trials noting Golden Beauty and Leaming as top yield varieties. Manure applications boosted yields, with 10 tons per acre twice in three years giving large gains. Shallow tillage and careful hill density affect corn yields. tile drainage shows limited benefit.
In Ohio Farmer Mrs. John Gaillard notes D B J of Constantia seeks plain pole lima bean guidance for winter drying. Growers favor pole over bush types after trials, boasting huge crops from small areas. They use fish offal near pound nets at planting time, prepare ground, mark three feet, and plant poles three feet high.
A child asks what a historical epoch means and learns it is a period of time that once spanned ages but now can cover a week to ten days depending on usage.
In a witty exchange Mrs. Smith asks about the height of her staff and Mrs. Jones replies she prefers staff whose heights ensure her clothes will not fit others. The dialogue turns on wardrobe concerns and social dress standards.
The text extolls the stomach as the body’s main department and promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a healthful aid for digestion and various ailments. It quotes Dr Brinton on human origins and concludes with a moral about lies and deception.
A detailed discussion suggests the plant originated perhaps in Panama or the Magdalena River valley in Colombia or along the Venezuelan coast. It spread along low coastal lands to eastern Texas and Louisiana then moved north and east following accessible grasslands.
The author notes swarming is driven by bees, brood, and nectar with heat as a key modifier. Reducing brood or feed lowers swarming. ample stores and room reduce it, while crowded brood-nest conditions and high temperatures raise swarming, especially in May and June.
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