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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1894
Page
4
A youthfully bold essay extols women hunters and anglers as embodying vigor and independence. It spotlights Miss Eveline Parker and Miss Marie Clark, detailing Clark’s hunting exploits, attire, and camp prowess. It also notes Lady Margaret Grosvenor’s engagement and the Grosvenor dynasty’s renown and wealth.
Prof Langley studies firefly light to show illumination can occur without heat. Dried eggs shine when moistened, beetles stay luminous after electrocution, implying light from chemical combustion. Notes on glow worms, lightning bugs, and Geissler tubes contrast with real firefly luminosity and biology.
The article describes a silk or wool painting technique using tapestry dyes. A perforated manilla paper sheet marks the design, a tracing bag with charcoal and burnt sienna outlines the image, and careful manipulation is required to avoid background staining before applying local color and background.
Burlington society reflects on early settlers White, Amzi Doolittle and Keokuk era figures. 1829 crossing the Mississippi led to Flint Hills becoming Burlington. William Garrett, arriving in 1836, among the earliest settlers whose descendants remain prominent in the community.
A portrait of Senator Jones of Nevada a former Republican turned populist from New England who built wealth in mining and politics. The piece honors Burlington pioneers and musical figures Miss Grace Cleghorn Frances Wyman and others highlighting their education at Berlin Moszkowski influence and local social life.
A vivid, anatomically charged description of how a mosquito lands, bites, and inserts its proboscis to pierce the skin. The narration details the careful descent, the pressed-together tip forming a single boring point, and the multi-part insertion that creates a very small wound while drawing blood.
The piece surveys ancestry pride in Iowa and Burlington's social life across four hills North Hill South Hill West Hill and Prospect Hill. It notes intermingling among sets, leaders in social matters, and a Chinaman secret society incident in San Francisco. It includes a brief dialogue excerpt from the Seuourg Chronicle.
A Limoges dinner service made for Sarah Bernhardt features unique dish designs. Handles show three ducklings converging on a center, a cock crowns a vegetable dish, peacocks support another, and other creatures like snails and dragons decorate the tableware. The items reflect the actress’s taste for the grotesque over the commonplace.
R G Dun & Co. reports the last week of October shows little overall improvement in business. Corn prices rise while pork and hogs dip. wheat gains. cotton and wool markets weak with uncertain spring orders. Failures rise in the U S while Canada records fewer.
In Milwaukee the ex parte hearing of vice-president William Plankinton revealed bank rot as William Van Dyke testified Day and Plankinton were stockholders in the CM&LS Telegraph company and the bank used its funds. Charles W. Sisley said the clearing house loaned $200000 on $260000 in securities to aid the bank. Robert Hill noted Lappen had been bankrupt for two months. The hearing was continued to November 16.
John Jacob Astor plans a monumental hotel on Fifth Avenue described as the biggest on earth. The 350 by 100 foot building would rise eighteen or nineteen stories beside the Waldorf, aiming to be the nation’s premier habitation edifice with lavish equipment and remarkable design for public enrapturement.
In CHiLLicoTak Ohio John S Johnson powered a third mile in 32 2-5 and a half in 51 2-5 seconds on a damp, light wind kite track. He broke the world marks previously held by Sanger at Waltham Mass last week.
A large Berg company fertilizer factory in Kensington Philadelphia burned early yesterday causing about 60 000 dollars in damage. Fire brigades battled the blaze through the night with no immediate word on injuries or total loss.
Port Blakely news confirms the Ivanhoe sank September 23 in the Pacific. The vessel carried a crew of twenty from San Francisco and passengers including Hon. Frederick J. Grant editor Allen B. Folger Mrs. Mattie L. Bara Mrs. Irene Mullen and stowaway Edward Allwardice. Grant, ex U S minister to Bolivia, was aboard.
Des Moines reports 370 US patents issued last week to U S inventors and 38 to foreigners. New York leads with 43 followed by Massachusetts 49 and Pennsylvania Connecticut 20. Missouri 10 Nebraska 5 Minnesota 4 and Iowa 4. A total of 5 672 applications are awaiting action with examiners behind by one to four months. Printed drawings and specifications for any patent can be sent for 25 cents. Useful info for inventors is free. Ralph Orwig Solicitors of Patents.
Gallus Mueller chief clerk at Joliet penitentiary shot himself in bed at 6 30 yesterday morning. He pulled covers over him and fired under them to avoid noise, the ball piercing the heart and causing instant death. An hour later his daughter found him. only Eda Frieda and the grandmother were present. Mrs. Mueller and Alice were in Philadelphia.
The steamer Lahn from Bremen and Southampton endured gales and heavy seas during the voyage to New York. Two cabin passengers suffered bruises from falls, but no serious damage occurred. Pilot Power could not be dropped at Southampton and was brought to port.
Two well dressed men robbed G. W. Brethauer & Co wholesale store at 71 Washington street yesterday afternoon. They fled with $6,000 worth of watches neck chains and diamonds after locking the attendant in the vault. Police have no clue to the thieves.
The Detroit Tribune quotes a husband lamenting a broken heart caused by the hired girl who he says intends to take or ruin the household bric a brac. His wife reacts with urgency and suspicion as she paces the room.
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