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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1880
Page
4
Victoria Magazine reflects on life’s burdens and joys. It notes sorrow and poverty, yet urges faith and prayer to strengthen the heart, guiding readers toward brighter paths and endurance through hardship.
Nellie A Holbrook recounts a rainy day story from Alderwood about a quarrel between Tom and a sister that leads Tom to threaten running away. Mother intervenes with discipline and kindness, Tom returns soaked but forgiven, and the family learns a lasting lesson about temper and mercy.
The article tells of an aged Detroit washwoman named Jen who faced years of hunger and scorn. In her final moments strangers offered sympathy, she reclaimed faith, spoke of a son in heaven, and died with a smile, claiming salvation despite society's neglect.
Farmers urged to restore soil fertility with clover on worn southern farms, detailing successful crop rotations, hay making challenges, and long term land benefits. Also covers peas planting, seed treatment, and practical home garden recipes and cattle feed notes.
Paris letter notes Hugo’s birthday dinner where the aging writer, now frail and emotional, delivers a large printed speech. He thanks the audience as he moves to coffee with the pythoness, while hotel guests crowd windows to glimpse his crown of snowy hair and Sarah’s shoulder in a silent, rapt audience.
A fragmentary OCR passage references Grand Union Hotel and nearby depots in New York. It mentions horse care and careful service at a corner location, though the garbled text limits clear events or dates.
Poetic meditation on life’s roses and grass turning green as winter ends. It speaks of a child’s love and simple acts of goodness that weave life’s web with a willing heart, urging cheerful duty over idle pleasure despite hardship.
A plantation owner seeks medical help from a enslaved healer who administers rosin and alum instructions saying the alum would draw parts and rosin would solder them. The patient survives, and the anecdote underscores flawed medical practices of the era.
United States Army ordnance officers favor the Middle Forge property on Green Pond Mountain Morris county New Jersey a 1400 acre parcel near Dover as the site for government powder storage and manufacture. A bill to acquire title has passed the New Jersey Legislature and Congress awaits action. A 100 000 appropriation has been requested with similar steps anticipated from the Navy Department.
A reader notes a family habit of keeping Dr Bull's Cough Syrup on hand at breakfast time. The message suggests continued use and recommends the product as a staple, with a bottle price cited.
An advertisement from a New York depot at 112 Liberty Street promotes Dr. Genere Cough Syrup as unequaled for coughs and colds. It warns against the saleratus soda remedy and notes medical doctors from both allopathic and homeopathic camps agreeing its health claim is unfounded.
An 19th century advertisement essay extols various patent medicines for rheumatism stomach ailments worms and general health. It promotes Hostetter s Stomach Bitters Jaques German Worm Cakes Uncle Sam s Nerve and Bone Liniment Kilert s Liver Pills and other tonics claiming relief from pain fever cholera infantum croup cramps and bodily weakness with promises of safety and durability.
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