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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1895
Page
3
A girl on a ship wishes for gentler pavement in the ocean while a later scene shows a family teaching dental care to young Bessie. The dialogue covers teething, growth, and good habits, with neighbors and relatives reacting to the child’s fears and curiosities.
In a humorous vignette a rustic maiden speaks to meditative oxen about her daily visits. She worries the cows may be offended, only to learn the oxen fear she will be turned into beef the next day. The piece blends whimsy with a moral nod to mortality.
La Nature reviews two young American fire eaters at Olympia Paris in vivid detail. They swallow flames and emit brilliant jets from fingers and lips while wearing tight red costumes. The smoke or odor is not detected. the mystery of the volatile essence remains unsolved.
A frightened child, Bessie, fears losing her loose milk teeth. Mrs May, the aunt, explains the process and the milk teeth shed to make way for permanent teeth. The Reverend uncle and family calm her, and within a week two new teeth appear, ending the scare.
In St Nicholas East Flanders a 15 year old boy Clement Smedst weighs 420 pounds with a 6 foot 6 inch chest, 36 inch leg, and 28 inch arm while his 8 year old sister Bertha weighs 224 pounds. Despite their size they play energetically and attract crowds to the village. Their features are handsome and Bertha nurses a doll, a sight in sharp contrast to their giant stature.
In Harper’s Bazar a boy named Ollie points out two knots in a panel and exclaims to his mother that the board looks cross-eyed. The lighthearted scene captures a child’s amused reaction to a simple woodworking detail.
Jane Brooks aged 70 once convicted of first degree murder in New York City in the early years of the 1900s. Her death comes after a sentence commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Seymour due to popular sentiment against hanging women. She died at the Woman's Hospital in Peoria.
An old tale recalls a farmer named Uncle Mose who borrows a friend's rooster to tell time for a possum hunt. He explains he would return the rooster by dawn, using the crow to gauge when visitors arrive, in a humorous rural Texas setting.
Paddy Kelly visits Mickey Dolan in a sick room and recalls a wager with Widdy O'Brien's second husband. Mickey fears a fragile stomach and the shell of a chicken egg inside him, hoping to avoid breaking it as he contemplates the hatchling inside and a Shanghai rooster that might claw within.
A child notes the church service parrots a responsive reading pattern. Harold says the congregation grumbles after each reading, prompting the minister to repeat sections amid visible discontent. Mercury reports the amused observation.
A humorous note from Texas Siftings describes Pat wearing two glass plates strapped over the shoulder to see the opera from the front row without obstructing others. The anecdote humorously compares Pat’s headgear to women’s hats.
A playful exchange between a wife and husband turns on rheumatism and a joke about not the mind but the joints being the issue. The husband laments pain while the wife asks humorously to try the mind.
A brief clipped exchange notes a wife troubled by recurring headaches but reveals the wife’s habit of buying a new hat every four weeks. The dialogue hints at social pressures and possible satire on fashion and domestic concerns.
A man in a poorhouse envisions marching to war and advancing through battles from Antietam to Fredericksburg. He experiences wounds, hospital scenes, and promotions, while marching with a victorious enthusiasm before darkness returns.
A battle scarred sergeant recalls Gettysburg as earth shakes and musket fire rages. He envisions poverty and duty, then a funeral pall bears six men and a marching drum. He finally beholds the dead man on the pall—his own face.
An aging editor lectures Balkney on newspaper prose as he returns from college. The exchange mocks high toned phrasing and demands clearer reporting as Balkney faces a journalism test and a tongue lash about wording. A bar motto pun closes the vignette.
Washington reports new treaties between Nicaragua and Honduras. The accords, proclaimed April 15, create a defensive and offensive alliance, remove commercial frontiers, and require arbitration for disputes. A second treaty sets up boundary arbitration with Spain as arbitrator if needed.
A report describes driver ants that form boats from their bodies to ride floods. They raid, kill snakes and other animals, erect arches of grass and earth for safety, and float as a solid ball larger than a baseball to reach trees during freshets.
London reports renewed rumors that the prince of Wales may travel to the United States this year to attend the America's Cup races in September. Some cite his Mediterranean yachting season with an American family, while others note Queen Victoria’s health could block a long journey.
May 27 Canadian Army officer Lieutenant Dennison of the Seventh Fusiliers forced entry into Richard Wagner's grocery in Lonpox Ontario and lowered the Stars and Stripes from his second story window. Wagner, a German-born British subject, filed a formal complaint amid local anti American sentiment linked to a Toronto family.
At the General Assembly in Pressure Pennsylvania on May 25 the body debated the use of fermented wine for communion. The assembly adopted a resolution declaring that unfermented fruit of the vine fulfills all conditions, citing the duty to avoid the appearance of evil and perceived danger in fermented wine.
Iowa Patent Office reports Rev. N. P. Mickelson of Des Moines received a patent for an article of manufacture that attaches to a church pew to retain cards hold a pencil and hang objects. Six Iowa inventors were issued patents last week including W. Britton and W. H. Sutton Boone for a locomotive boiler diaphragm J. Greff Kemsen for a manure scraper M. and R. Hawkins Beacon for a hoisting bucket W. Louden Fairfield for a hay sling L. M. Rich Cedar Rapids for a pump and G. A. Triggs Lake Park for a timer's fire-pot. Printed drawings and specifications can be mailed for 25 cents. Valuable information for inventors free. Thomas G. and J. Ralph Orwig, Solicitors of Patents.
An English clergyman in a Scottish country church preaches on the Prodigal Son. The sermon contrasts the son's departure and return with his father’s response. A local farmer interrupts, quipping that it would have been a cow instead of a calf if he had been there.
Mrs. Meekton calls to her husband on a tax matter that turns out to be a jury summons. The scene unfolds on the front steps as neighbors quietly speculate from behind closed windows, curiosity rising with the unexpected notice.
An old advertisement touts No-To-Bac as a cure for impotence and weakness. The pitch highlights vigor and energy, claiming tobacco harms health and offering a free book from Remedy Co located in Newark or Chicago.
The judge questions a prisoner about supporting his family and suggests becoming a labor agitator. The complainant acknowledges her husband could work but calls him lazy even as they face hardship.
The family narrator quips about tightening safeguards as thieves are named. Maud Edith exclaims in surprised fashion about a wardrobe mishap, revealing a domestic moment amid the theft talk.
A dialogue asks why the nickname Jack is used and whether it is an abbreviation. The response notes it is just a nickname and may not derive from a formal abbreviation. The exchange centers on name origins and informal usage.
Mr John M F Erwin offers binder twine sold direct from factory to consumer to save middlemen profits. He is noted as honest and reliable. Also mentions platinum wires heated by electric currents used as saws for cutting trees.
An old advertisement claims Wanson's Magic Corn Salve cures or money refunded with a 15 cent price, urging readers to ask their druggist.
The statement notes that the saline matter dissolved in sea water makes up about one thirtieth of the solution's weight, indicating the concentration of dissolved salts in seawater.
An 1800s advertisement style piece promotes Winston's Sopraine Syaud for teething babies and cites Piso's Cure as life saving. It mentions Parker's Ginger Tonic and a claim about Dahomey, plus musings on influence and thought measurement.
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