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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1892
Page
7
Mary and Jim pursue a secret romance in a Georgia hollow as Mary hides a basket of berries and a marriage plan unfolds. Jim, a shiftless neighbor, schemes to marry Mary despite her mother's disapproval while evading scrutiny on the way to town.
Describes Columbus sighting land on October 12 1492 and the crew landing ceremonies aboard the Pinta Nina and Santa Maria. Notes U S government honors, naval vessels named for the caravels including Columbus the eighty gun battleship and the St Marys school ship, plus other ships Palos Pinta Nina Triana.
The article recounts Christopher Columbus marrying Dona Felipa Muniz in Lisbon after devotion and social ties in Portugal, mentioning two of Felipa’s brothers and cannon once aboard Columbus’ flagship sent to Chicago for exhibition at the world’s fair. It notes the cannons’ worn condition and ties to a West Indian fort linked to Columbus’ son. The piece also includes a midsection vignette about a romance and elopement in a separate local story.
Old Jacob Bloom boasts of a three foot blacksnake that killed a lengthier rattlesnake in a box. Jim Brewer bets against the feat, but Bloom demonstrates the victory as proof of his claim. The tale ends with the claim that the event is a factual account never questioned.
A crowded Fo avenue Eleventh Street car confrontation ends with a parrot popping from a bird cage. Conductor demands offload amid chaos as passengers insist the old man sought no dog. The scene recalls Jessie of Luck now myth debunked by New York Sun findings.
The Marquis de Lacaze of Paris offers to lend a portrait of George Washington by American painter Stewart to the Chicago world’s fair. It was brought to France by his wife’s grandfather, a former Minister to the United States. He proposes shipment if the government covers the charges.
The Bath Enterprise recalls a tale about a wooden angel statue on the steeple of an old Universalist church in Bath Maine. A former pastor reportedly pressed a Universalist parishioner with a quip about angels wearing high heeled shoes and the reply questioned whether any angel could be seen without them.
A discussion in England argues for moral superiority of spinsters over matrons citing remarkable unmarried women such as Queen Elizabeth Charlotte Corday Joan of Arc Florence Nightingale and Sister Rove Gertrude as examples of greatness and valor.
At the opening banquet there were 0 waiters 100 cooks 4000 dishes 24000 forks and spoons 12000 knives 12000 glasses and 15000 plates. The dessert included 500 pounds of grapes 100 baskets of strawberries and other fruit. Tables and cloths stretched for a mile and a half.
A Texas observer argues mesquite beans sustain border communities during droughts. He explains how the beans are dried ground into flour and coffee like products, used as bread, tea, and fodder for animals, reducing famine fears along the Rio Grande.
The Paris Figaro notes Princess Galitzen of an old Russian aristocratic line, who came to Pennsylvania a century ago as a missionary, now works as a stable maid in a French circus. Prince Kropotkin, once powerful, drives a cab in Moscow. Prince Soitikoff cleans stalls in a St. Petersburg market hall.
A clipped dialogue segment shows a boarder and landlady quarreling over a perceived mind reading. Mr Spindler hesitates and asks a question while the landlady smiles, then pauses to inquire about a mysterious topic.
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