10 Apr 1890
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1890
Page
1
A poetic monologue asking a lover if devotion lasts as aging shaves the head. The speaker imagines aging, the loss of hair, and the transformation of appearance while pleading for continued affection and loyalty. References to tombstones and the future contrast with intimate vows.
A night journey to a building leads to a three by two by twelve foot trap as a reporter falsely believed a burglar and is imprisoned behind iron doors. After hours of ringing the bell and clawing at doors, he is freed by police and recounts the harsh treatment and a chastisement for the officers.
A stagecoach party of artists mocked a passing landscape while a sedate elderly woman beside them grew increasingly anxious. Insensitive chatter about paintings and a church sparked her alarm until she cried stop and paid her fare, grateful to have escaped the allegedly mad group.
A Washington Post quip collection describes a man at large through a string of puns and wordplay about risibilities bound boys and artesian wells. The dialogue highlights misheard phrases and casual banter as observers react to a street scene.
A wife recalls discovering her husband’s tobacco habit on their porch wedding morning. He confesses his addiction and requests forgiveness. They agree to quit together, with she admitting she was ready for him despite never using snuff before marriage.
A shopper seeks a fully covering woven mask for a masquerade in New York. The exchange notes popular mask options and references a Chicago Tribune item about a fundraiser for the Grant monument, hinting at a social event with concealment needs.
A wealthy Spaniard Senor LaBarrier dies and his widow Lenora flees after prussic acid is found. Detective Black Pedro trails her to an elegant room where she escapes by posing as a messenger. A mulatto youth and a disguise of aging conceal her, and she boards a steamer before capture. The chase ends with her safe departure.
An Essex man signing as Samuel Morse writes to us about a lifelong voracious hunger. He claims to eat endlessly, with one pound of steak triggering more cravings, and reports a heavy coated tongue and nocturnal feasts. Doctors find no cure and skeptics call his tale curious.
A South Boston paper relays a comic wedding misadventure witnessed by a minister in St. John New York. Two middle aged lovers struggled to locate a lost ring as the clergyman, nearly deaf and forgetful, fretted while relatives hunted under a sofa. The scene ended with the regular minister arriving to complete the ceremony.
J B Shepard of Arizona recounts a clash with Apaches taught by Gen Crook. The tale describes a sun chase at Crazy Jim's Gulch, a prairie fire distraction, and Crook halting a slaughter to spare lives. The piece also reflects on California and its violent history and pugilism culture.
An East Grand Circus Fark patrolman stops a man sitting beneath a tree at midnight. The man boasts of fighting ability but admits fear when grabbed. He laughs at himself as a mere bluffer and agrees to be taken in after the officer proves his courage.
A New York Weekly excerpt shows a boy asking about volt amperes and ohms and the father urging him to look up terms in the dictionary. The dialogue defines volt as electromotive force one ampere through one ohm of resistance and clarifies ampere and ohm with simple explanations.
Miss Andreste and Mrs Prinehap overhear Miss Haynack say the heat makes her wish to strip and cool off. Mr Rounder notes the quotes are unpleasant. Andreste quips Haynack is not strong and needs covering lungs in the heat.
The excerpt presents a preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s son about Calvin E. Stowe’s love letter to his wife. It envisions the letter as prophetic of her literary power and as a model of female virtue for households. It praises balance, harmony, and encouragement for both spouses and children, urging the wife to cultivate intellect and health while the husband recognizes her excellence.
A description of a lavish dinner where every dish matched in cost and quality, and Epicureans in the capital praised the meal as a culinary poem.
An Amtrak style scene aboard the overland flyer depicts two drummers overhearing a Pennsylvania widow and a North Platte girl, Minnie, discovering she is to wed Charley Stanton. The mother praises the couple and the drummers express admiration, tears, and hope as the train continues west.
The Cleveland Leader notes lavish cost for New Year celebrations in Washington with terrapin at $25 a dozen, canvasback ducks at $6 a pair, $1 plates of ices, and flowers priced from $1 to $10 per dozen. It recalls Roswell P. Flower’s wedding spending and strawberries at 25 cents each for dignitaries, with guests dining on gold and silver plates and lace napery at a grand Stanford–Grant dinner.
A veteran railroad worker recalls a rare accident on the East Tennessee road between McRae and Scotland. Two trains on a single track met as a construction engine attempted a switch, forcing multiple lever reversals and near misses before derailing the wrecking engine, which survived with minor damage.
A country school ma'am disciplines Willie Smith for lateness blaming Miss Jenkins. The dialogue reveals Willie’s claim that Miss Jenkins, a town youth, sees him seven times weekly, that they talk sweetly, and that he gave her a ring. The scene hints at a potential courtship and impending marriage between Miss Jenkins and the local man.
A dialogue notes Strauss new minute waltz is lovely while one character dislikes the poky figures. The other praises the melody and describes a moment where dancers hug after the music changes. Source: New York Weekly.
In a city scene a man recounts meeting a drummer who had been on the road three years and made only one sale. The drummer asks what he sold and JT replies suspension bridges. The tale echoes across Atlanta and Birmingham papers with wry hope for the youth’s future and a pennywise punchline.
The Iowa Senate and House clash over World’s Fair exhibits and a flood of bills. Measures range from city control, street railways, and bond issuance to school fund rates, tax reforms, and property protections with Governor Boies naming labor statisticians and legislators advancing joint-rate and anti trust bills.
A miscellany from Iowa towns reports a two headed calf in Cherokee County, railroad tax figures for 1889, several dairy and mill developments, burglaries at Hamburg post office, and local anecdotes about society life, crime, and oddities across Clinton, Cerro Gordo, Dallas, and other counties.
The material lists average earnings for locomotives about ten dollars daily and costs for palace sleeping cars up to seventeen thousand. It notes one million railroad workers, eight wheel high class locomotives at eight thousand five hundred, and 208 749 railroad bridges spanning 3.21 miles. It calls out the Kinzua viaduct as the highest at 305 feet and the Poughkeepsie cantilever span as the longest at 548 feet. It also mentions the Alpine tunnel at eleven thousand five hundred ninety six feet and a mile build cost near thirty thousand, with Canadian Pacific running east to west from Quebec to the Pacific.
Henry French buys royalty rights to The Senator from Sydney Rosenfeld. Harry Harwood and Alice Haines of Shenandoah to wed soon. Prouty Inn Bucksport Maine now owned by Richard Golden. Miss Eastlake may visit the U.S. in 1912 season seeking a new drama including Jerome K Jerome script in repertoire.
The text lists measurements for all five Great Lakes including lengths, widths, mean depths, areas, and surface elevations. It notes Lake Superior as largest, Ontario as smallest, Huron as deepest, Erie as shallowest, and that Ontario lies entirely outside the U S.
The article recalls Secretary Tracy who lost sight in one eye years ago and taught a winter term at Cananna in Owego New York. A violent incident ended when Wesley Tappin threw a slate that struck Tracy, injuring him and causing the school to adjourn, after which he did not return.
The journals note the death of a famous elephant named Sello once owned by the Kandyan kings. Taken by the British in 1815, the creature was said to be 15 then and died naturally at 89. Boston2 Buiget.
The piece recounts how Americans and Britons spar over whose English is purer and how travelers joke about language habits. Anecdotes show Americans praised for English clarity in Boston while encounters in Berlin and Germany expose cross Atlantic pride and miscommunication.
Citizens in a Virginia town attended a late evening talk at the Baptist Church where Mr Barnes presented illustrated views. The assistant handled the apparatus as the audience watched a scene said to be the National Bridge of Virginia and a village landscape. A heckler interrupted from the gallery with a sharp rebuke about lovers and strolling in cross.
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