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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1892
Page
4
A poem by Louise Chandler Moulton contrasts a lover’s immortality with a narrator's aging sorrow. The speaker mourns a beloved who remains youthful and distant, while the speaker grows old and awaits reunion beyond death. In a different fragment, a motherly scene promises soothing bedtime talks and comforting words to ease a child’s banishment to bed.
The piece describes how young girls enter polite society through Janeing class training led by mothers. Debutantes are prepared in weekly gatherings, introduced by cards, and presented in drawing rooms with flowers, gowns, rings, and pearls. After debut, they move in tightly supervised social circles.
In October Ladies' Home Journal Emma Trapper profiles Dr Raymond daughter of the late Henry J. Raymond. The piece notes her professional dedication and active role in the Working Woman's Society which spans forty nine trades and professions. It highlights her charitable medical aid and the society’s aim to uplift self supporting women in New York City.
The text urges long sleep for children, nine to eleven hours depending on age, and condemns waking them early. It notes nervous temperaments, praises sleep for nerve strength, and discusses the conflict with school and household routines forcing early wake times.
Excerpts recount a writer's morning room filled with books and china and a poignant Civil War soldier death scene. The text notes a fallen Union soldier urging “Fall in rank” before dying, his mother at Ohio home, and later a clergyman's order to remove pall-bearers hatted uniforms provoking Grand Army protests.
A guide by Mrs. A G Lewis urges punctual invitations for children’s fetes with costume themes. It recommends two week notice, clear wording, suggestions for costumes, small stylish stationery, and roots in courtesy. It notes children may write invitations and to include the mother’s card in the envelope.
The piece laments perceived threats to female gentility from modern trends and social standards. It urges mothers and young women to uphold gentility, restraint, and grace, warning against loud fashion and coarse conduct in cities and villages alike. A noble upbringing is praised as creating a lifelong lady.
The passage condemns cloth skirts regulation shirts and flare-away coats as masculine and unfashionable for winter. It claims suspenders will fade with summer, arguing women dislike such attire for silencing grace and femininity.
The text suggests mixing nine parts salicylic acid with one part cannabis indica extract and forty eight parts collodion for corn treatment. It also advises care for wardrobe storage and home hands, including corn meal with vinegar paste for chapped skin, glycerine rub, and cold cream with gloves at night.
The account describes Major Thompson of Blythe's Mississippi regiment at Murfreesborough in Col Sharpe's absence. Facing deadly fire from a Yankee battery, the 70 year old officer blustered then ordered a retreat after failing to recall a command word. The Blythe regiment covered the retreat, with Thompson bringing up the rear.
In Paterson New Jersey irate Grand Army of the Republic members confront Pastor G M Dorwart at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion over a funeral flag with Samuel Urmson. Urmson a member of Faragut Post and his companions from Chaplain Butler Post and Hugh C Irish Camp attend the services. The flag was placed on the coffin before the cortege left. At the church door Dorwart ordered the flag removed from the coffin before services began.
An account of the Russian Emperor visiting Denmark describes him sprinting from Amalienborg in slippers and shirt sleeves to rescue the King Christian's favorite black cat after seeing a dog attack it. Guards worried for a moment about his sanity before the incident clarified his action.
The text notes vast prize money from naval captures and its effects on officers and sailors. It cites 1799 and 1762 examples, including Buckworth and Hermione, with amounts up to £75,000 for captains and hundreds for sailors. It then shifts to inventions, highlighting Rothrock’s neck yoke attachment and tungsten-aluminum alloys for enhanced resistance in scientific progress notes.
On the first day of the Wilderness engagement Major Wright’s narrative notes an Adjutant of the One Hundred Forty-Sixth New York wounded by a Milie bullet, seeking aid across a ditch as Confederate lines launched a charge. The ditch filled with wounded. the Union and Confederate sides paused as darkness fell. The Adjutant later reached Union lines and had his arm amputated. The piece then shifts to 1891 railroad statistics: total U.S. railroad miles 170,601 with 4,471 built in 1891, total capital and debt $10.39 billion, yearly increase $267 million, cost per mile $50,820, gross earnings $1.158 billion, net earnings $356 million, interest 4.25%, dividends 1.85%.
At a rail station Gen Robert P. Dechert met a girl who asked him to deliver her small watch to her brother, a militiaman. The watch was in pawn and the girl wished him to have her own timepiece. The General took the watch, found a name inside, and entrusted it to the brother with a warning about pledging valuables.
Prospect arises that Prof. Arthur S. Hardy of Dartmouth College may be appointed to fill the Modern Languages chair at West Point after Prof. George L. Andrews retires. Hardy, a 1869 West Point graduate, later taught civil engineering at Low a College New Hampshire and authored fiction including But Yet a Woman.
A horse in front of the Mills Building has a tube in its neck to aid breathing through a filter tube rather than nostrils. The driver says tracheotomy keeps the horse alive and working, with the tube removed for cleaning every few days.
The Lancet reports M Dantee analyzed New Hebrides arrows. The poison is earth with marsh plant matter containing Pasteur's vibrion septique and bacilli of malignant edema and tetanus. Fresh arrows kill guinea pigs from septicemia in 12 to 15 hours. tetanus may not appear. The absence of horses challenges an equine tetanus origin.
An account describes Reinhardt Mannessmanns method to increase aluminum’s resistance to atmospheric, chemical and mechanical influences as detailed in the Monitor.
The article explains that after carding the cotton becomes tender and loose and must be drawn and doubled on the drawing frame. It notes three or four roller frames and that drawing occurs between the first and third rollers, with the middle roller contributing little to stretching and each pair drawing a portion in two passes.
A method compares meat juice under a microscope to separate fresh from frozen meat. Fresh juice shows numerous normal red corpuscles in clear serum, while frozen meat leaves dissolved corpuscles and yellow brown crystalline hemoglobin in serum. The process must be rapid to avoid drying.
Superintendent Ed Murphy reports a novel apparatus credited to a Japanese inventor that promises to ease wild duck hunting. The device uses three connected floats with a seat and pedal boots to propel the wearer, potentially reaching five miles per hour while carrying twenty-five pounds. Interest grows among local sportsmen in seeing the new machine.
A fragment notes five volumes of air to one of oxygen and mentions a 257 foot Minneapolis electrical light mast now unused. It cites a self lubricating trolley gear, Prof Dewar on liquefied oxygen as magnetic but poor conductor, and carbonic acid gas usage. It also mentions Burgbrohl acid spring near Coblentz and its use in mineral waters.
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