11 Apr 1878
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1878
Page
1
The Intelligencer invites readers in Ames Story County Iowa to submit news items and notices for publication. Rates of advertising and contact details are advertised, with a call for items of general interest from the community.
A reflective poem contrasts the length of weeks months and years with a young person dreaming of growth and achievement. Repetitive counting and images of seasons, labor, and aging frame the meditation on time, duty, and seizing opportunity. The piece meditates on youth, the future, and the crown of honor earned through effort.
Col. Pritchard recounts the 1865 capture of Jefferson Davis at Irwinsville by the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, after a night march from Macon. Davis wore a woman’s disguise. the detachment gathered prisoners, noted mistaking Harnden’s Wisconsin men for the enemy, and secured a large party including Davis, his family, staff, and servants.
A mixed column blends farming advice with moral reflections and curiosities. It references hogs and pigs, feed costs, chalk for calves, and forest planting, then pivots to a sermon on happiness, character, and the universal access to joy as a spiritual aim. Notable names include Col. S. D. Parse and Rev. David Swing.
A clipped scene shows a cautious courtship between Alice and a suitor as a family and old guardians hover nearby. The dialogue touches on proposals and financial concerns while an exhibition of Edison’s phonograph looms in the background.
A recipe collection describes polishing steel with soap and emery, cleaning with lye, and pre treating stoves with turpentine or kerosene. It lists remedies for burns, summer rust prevention, and several baked goods and confections with measurements and steps.
A Pathological Society discussion notes mosquitoes transmit the filaria parasite from infected humans. After feeding, mosquitoes deposit eggs in rivers, enabling larvae to reach others who drink the water. In an experiment, 120 filariae were found in a single mosquito’s stomach.
The report describes Erzercum as a Yast channel house with heavy wartime losses. In three months about 9,500 Turkish soldiers and likely as many civilians died, totaling around 20,000 deaths in roughly twelve weeks. A January expedition of 800 troops to Erzercum met a deadly snowstorm. 300 arrived, the rest perished. A colonel and his wife and three children died in a covered araba. Erzercum hospitals are crowded with frostbite cases, including twenty seven soldiers without feet under one surgeon's care, all frostbitten and feet amputated.
The speech recalls earlier concerns about public interest and credit risks to Pacific railroad companies. It notes officers in the Senate chamber during a bill’s consideration and criticizes ostentatious displays while remarking on editorials and small payments for influence.
A brief notice records a lightning strike that removed a man's boots without injuring him. The incident occurred near Georgia waters and involved a lone Black man described as the victim. No further details are provided in the fragment.
Des Moines report outlines approved public laws and appropriations, detailing state revenue measures, tax policy, and bills passed. It notes the Senate’s resistance to several revenue bills, lists hundreds of thousands in expenditures for institutions, and lists railroad commission actions and assessed valuations for 1878.
The Job Printing department advertises latest type and materials with neat dispatch. It pledges quality work at low prices and stocks legal blanks. It lists bill heads, letter heads, books, pamphlets, posters, auction bills, cards, etc.
The article describes how canceled stamps are saved by visionaries in China to aid infants at risk. Stamps, considered scrap, are bought and used to fund or decorate asylums where babies without parents are cared for under civilised laws and customs.
A report describes a confrontation on Woodward Avenue near a Chinese wash house where John orders several young men away and roughs up one who resists. The crowd mocks him with taunts and insults referencing holidays and a plan to "git even" for the disturbance.
A Vienna mechanician has successfully plyed OC1 rock-work as a motor for sewing machines. The device can be wound up in a year and run for several hours with speed fully controlled. The innovation promises practical use in textile manufacture and machine automation.
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