09 May 1895
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Newspaper
Benton County Times
Location
Vinton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1895
Page
1
A lone traveler recalls a June visit to a solitary Iowa house where a beautiful daughter Amelia hints at a hidden past. The family hide a dark secret about a lover’s death, elopement, and a planned asylum, resolved years later with moral reflections on humility and friendship.
An elderly widow stored a small box of mementos in a safe deposit company including a child’s primer picture hooks and a fish hook. She visited biannually to check the contents, cherishing items that amused her deceased child. After her death her husband retrieved the box and its treasures.
The piece argues that France and Germany will likely never become true friends. It cites deep temperament differences and a mutual aversion, with historical grievances like Napoleon’s era and the Alsace Lorraine issue fueling lasting hostility between the two nations.
In London a Spinsters Club is proposed to admit only women who are legally spinsters and who intend to retain that status. Membership ends upon marriage. A key challenge is preventing mingling with bachelors during annual club cleanings and preserving spinsters as a group.
The Countess de Castellane when Miss Anna Gould attended the fashionable Ogontz school near Philadelphia. She was famed for pranks and rule violations and narrowly avoided expulsion. Her notable misdeed involved flirtations through school fence rails with Cheltenham Military Academy youths.
Mary Parke Foster wife of John W Foster ex secretary of state and peace commissioner for China becomes president general of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She has lived abroad mastered languages and written papers on varied cultures. Foster is a charter member and hosts annual entertaining functions at their Washington home.
The text describes native singing with deep meaning where bodies sway and hands beat time. A "Song of the Bell" imitates bell motion as a tongue strikes and quivers. A second song narrates a family's forest to coast journey as listeners at a doorstep join in, chanting and clapping throughout the procession.
The article notes King Cecco of Naples, through his mother Christine of Savoy, once entitled to 80 000 pounds a year. Count Cavour confiscated the property as a public safety measure to fund United Italy. The king’s maternal heirs Don Carlos Alfonso and Duchess Leopold of Bavaria plan to seek restitution, though success appears uncertain. Humboldt is praised as honest, but Italy remains financially strained.
The piece contrasts death certificate language by old and young doctors. The aged physician states the disease in plain English while the younger one uses Latin terms like phthisis pulmonalis. It notes a future shift toward Latin medical terminology.
Greece currently has more than 2000 miles of wagon roads built through mountainous terrain at an expenditure of about 10 million dollars.
O E Dallimore of Madison describes Locomotor Ataxia diagnosed as Landry's Paralysis. After rapid decline he began Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People on April 28 and recovered by October, walking stairs and returning to work. Notarized affidavits dated December 8, 1894 confirm the tale. Pills sold by druggists or mail order from Schenectady at 50 cents a box.
Puddle of pudding tips include custard and macaroni puddings with milk eggs sugar and vanilla. Also sorrel soup uses leaves, butter, flour and broth. Notes on women’s fashion veer into necklines, then a hockey of travel adverts from Great Northern Railway and a humorous exchange about marriage prospects.
A blonde passenger on a streetcar heckles Shakespeare claiming Romeo and Juliet boring and dated. She suggests modernizing the play with ballet lights and wing dances, critiquing the balcony scene and the death ending while proposing an alternate wedding finale to please all audiences.
A palatial 112 ton fishing schooner is highlighted beside the Mariner of Gloucester as the Portland sights. The tale contrasts crew earnings, noting 10,000 pounds in a single trip versus £5 0s 7d per crew on a shorter voyage, and recalls earlier profits of sailors vs professors. The column weaves tales of colorful names and a chicken opal episode, ending with a quip on printers ink as a path to fame.
A wry line unfolds as a fisherman’s appearance is mocked in a scene where Bridget asks if he wore frog legs and a mother replies the man was clothed, the exchange blending humor with a hint of misdirection about visibility.
A collage of satirical quips and snippets from 1893 era newspapers. items touch on influenza jokes, a Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph sneeze gag, maid notes on manure heaps, a Yonkers prodigy, a cable remark, river jumpers, coin jokes, a Fourteenth International convention in Boston, rail fare deals, home cure ads, and a Greek queen crafting undergarments.
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