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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1895
Page
7
Violet Lingard, a glamorous New York author, travels west to write local color novels. She spurns rancher Jack Weatherby after using him for inspiration, leading to a fatal pursuit and Weatherby’s violent leap from the canyon edge.
New York Press reports a steady stream of worshippers kneeling before Roman Catholic images on Barclay Street. An elderly man visits daily for prayers beside a large Virgin statue, with several women also seen kneeling outside shop windows, many appearing Italian.
Dr George M Bassett of Vandalia Illinois and Miss Allen Bumgardner alias Mattie Murphy alias Mattie Howe of Hillsboro Illinois were arrested in St Louis for masquerading as a man. At the station they declared their sex. The woman was kept at the dispensary and doctors confirmed she was a woman. Bassett lamented a spree and spoke of his two children and unhappy marriage.
Dr Ward Howe states that prime bodily health yields the best life and affects the mind. He notes a food engine example and argues maturation length hints at 105 years for a 21 year maturation, saying such longevity is possible but rare due to errors in living.
Thomas Carlyle's house in Cheyne Row, Chelsea London, bought for 100 000 dollars to become a Carlyle museum, opened to the public with a large crowd of admirers. Many pieces of furniture and relics have been restored.
The passage surveys footwear from several regions. It describes Portuguese wooden soles with patent leather ramps, Persian raised shoes with inlaid wood and a strap, Muscovite handwoven sandals, Siam canoesome sandals with ornate inlays, Egyptian leather sandals with colorful stitching, and Mussulman heavy leather shoes fastened by a strap with feather plume decoration.
A poem on how actions shape futures and shared wisdom on how words affect others. The article then moves to a science pass with Ella Wheeler Wilcox lines and a discussion of atmospheric electricity, describing cloud formation, moisture transfer, and electrification observed on ships and the Ceylon coast.
A column argues the good roads movement linked to bicycle era improves charity and governance. It claims better roads lessen cruelty to animals, save time and money, and strengthen morals and religion, urging ministers to preach on good roads and churches to care for beasts.
Butterworth, owner near Harrison Cape May residence, struck a mosquito on a president’s neck while a trolley ride ended with Harrison thanking him. The incident occurred during Harrison’s residence in Cape May and led to a cordial exchange and a souvenir mosquito.
Professor Schuster confirms cloud formation often accompanies electrical activity. While descending Dent Blanche in Switzerland at about 12 000 feet he noted an air current in a valley and observed a cloud forming just below the snow line as night fell.
A farmer tells of Billy a fourteen year old who procrastinates on hoeing a potato patch. He frets he will never finish yet finally acts and hoes the entire patch in forty minutes once he starts. The tale illustrates the old maxim that starting is half the work.
Two inventors, Julius Gregory and Frank Devay, devised a rapid ticket printing system. A sentized end of the ticket is developed by staged baths and a flash exposes the image during payment. The process occurs in under a minute, producing a non-transferable ticket with the purchaser's portrait.
Scranton Truth reports Lillian McMullen 11 died saving two younger girls and a dog after all three fell through Peconic Bay ice on Long Island. The heroine urged the children to climb, aided the 8 year old, then helped the 10 year old before perishing.
A story contrasts two girls, one gloomy with a fixed view of being plain, and another who brightens with a smile. A passerby mistake reveals the speaker felt unseen until her mood changed, showing happiness can alter perception and self esteem.
Mrs. A. G. Lewis notes in the Ladies' Home Journal on birthday party plans for about fifty children. She suggests engraved invitations with a child friendly device such as animals or birds, proposing Brownies carrying large envelopes with monograms.
Lightning struck the Henry Benseman home at Sixty seventh and Halsted in Englewood. A chimney streak scorched a cat behind the stove, singeing its fur in a straight line from back to tail. the animal suffered no injuries.
An estimate indicates that about ninety thousand conversations occur daily over telephones in New York.
A pastor asks a crowded congregation to stand who pay debts and who do not. One hungry man remains seated. he explains he publishes a newspaper and the others are his subscribers, prompting the church to pray.
Liberty New York residents attended a double-faced dance with all participants wearing masks and facing both directions. The description notes women using back hair as disguise and men reversed in dress, while observers remark on the confusion of two-faced appearances.
The article notes two new battleships are planned with a maximum cost not to exceed 4 million dollars each. It applies a census labor rate of one dollar per day to estimate labor time, equating to 4,000 workers for 1,000 days, about three years, covering all stages from coal heating to iron and steel production, lumber, minerals, and fuel.
A quirky note asserts horse hoof paring as a prized dog treat at blacksmith shops. It claims dogs seek the soft frog parings first and save the harder portions for last, with a Chicago fancier feeding his dogs this weekly.
Fenner of Auburn Maine has devised a unique lawn irrigation method. He builds a fence top rail from iron water pipes joined to allow continuous flow and perforated on the inner side with small holes. Connecting fence and hose, water is sprayed evenly over the lawn.
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