Vanished beauty remembered in sighing lines
Poem recalls a beauty once seen and longed for, now gone. The speaker laments that beauty lingers in the world yet cannot return, expressing a melancholic ache that it will not come again.
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1881
Page
4
Poem recalls a beauty once seen and longed for, now gone. The speaker laments that beauty lingers in the world yet cannot return, expressing a melancholic ache that it will not come again.
A speeding engine thunders toward a cottage boy on the track. Fireman Herbert saves the child, blocking disaster with a bold catch. He later meets the grateful widow Brown, and a reunion with Viola reveals a hidden past and renamed son Herbert Dave Graham.
The correspondent portrays the Czarowitsch as tall and broad with a deep chest and fair complexion. He notes light gray eyes, auburn hair, a distinctive head shape, and a small mouth with good teeth. In St Peters burg he dresses in uniform, while abroad he wears a shepherds plaid suit, and his frostbitten fingers and a temple scar hint at battles in the Turkish War.
A mother dressed her squalling infant in its finest robes, admiring a fancy dress bow as she arranged the child for the moment. The scene captures a tender domestic gesture amid a bustling household.
An advertisement asserts that back pain can be permanently cured using Day's Kidney Pad, stating a lasting remedy for readers seeking relief.
An overland mail story describes the steamer Glenaryney leaving the Straits of Malacca with a large black panther aboard in an iron cage. The beast escaped its cage, prowled the tween decks among 300 passengers, and was later killed by Captain Bolton. The tale is followed by notes on Old Joe the Florida alligator, killed in 1880 after decades on Joe's Island with a stomach containing a hog, wood chunks, rocks, and a chopped ax.
Mendovi Wisconsin resident W H H Amidon, an early Gilmantown settler, suffered rheumatic pain for years until St Jacobs Oil brought relief. The note claims many locals also found relief and that the medicine is widely available. A quoted critic notes eighteenth century Italian music valued the human voice, now altered by mechanical devices.
Cincinnati citizen John Miller reports cure by St Jacobs Oil for ten year rheumatism. A local young man is warned over parlor wood use. the next day two cords of hard wood are bought and stacked in the yard with a sign reading for use nights only.
A Dallas Center couple extends thanks to Hawkeye Insurance Company for prompt full payment after a January 13 1881 fire destroyed their home and part of its contents. They credit the policy for honest loss indemnity and acknowledge many similar expressions of gratitude.
The article argues that western and southern regions suffer malarial risks due to rainfall and river floods. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a reliable preventive for intermittent and remittent fevers, claiming long standing efficacy where ordinary remedies fail. It urges using the tonic to avoid local ailments rather than temporary measures.
The Kentucky assassin of Judge Elliot, Col Tom Buford, remains confined in the lunatic asylum after acquittal. Physicians note a growing mental malady likely softening of the brain though Buford denies lunacy, claiming insanity plea hid a greater crime by the courts. He speaks clearly, recalling marriage and calling his wife Minerva dear and nervy at times.
A collage of medical advertisements praises various remedies and patent medicines. Claims tout improved health for women through Hop Bitters and Carboline hair products, with endorsements from public figures and farmers. Other ads promote Hale's Honey of Horehound, Pike’s Toothache Drops, Dr Halliday’s Blood Purifier, and various tonics, syrups, and liniments for ailments from indigestion to rheumatism.
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