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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1885
Page
1
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Advertising rates include cards five lines or less per year and 12 per inch for changeable monthly ads. Local ads are ten cents per line for first insertion, five cents per line for each further insertion. Ames is described with railway access, county seat details, and notes on Iowa State College and local schooling. County officers listed include County Auditor G McCarthy, Treasurer J A Mills, Recorder H H Boyes, Sheriff De O Ror, Supt of Schools BR Mitchell, Surveyor Joan Hosterrer, Coroner AN Freeland, J Q Burgess, Anthony Hare, and Board of Supervisors for Union Lincoln and Collins townships.
Methodist Episcopal and Baptist church schedules list services Sabbath School and midweek prayer meetings with pastors H J Everly and G H Starr ing. Masonic Arcadia Lodge 249 and United Workmen Ames lodge notice dates, G A R post meeting times, and fees. Local attorneys and doctors listed with office locations in Ames Iowa. Real estate and loan agent Nervapa offers farms for sale and farm loans at 6 percent with 3 percent commission.
Poem verses urge silence on suffering and hardship, warning that poverty sickness and sorrow are ignored by others. The speaker counsels not to voice grief, noting a cold world that shrugs at pain and mocks those who complain.
In Venice Miguel Foli rules with pride and Celena the beloved daughter falls for Guido a gondolier. Their secret love triggers charges of conspiracy, Guido is imprisoned for life, Celena dies from heartbreak, and five years later a Parma prince reveals Guido is a noble son of Parma and Marino Foli’s kin, ending in a tragic fate.
A playful verse exchange ends with a blush and a smile as a flirtatious couple echo the sounds of kismet with a rose and a glove. Separate vignettes discuss engagement bracelets and a cautionary tale about embezzlement and women in clerical roles.
A fragment from a Chambers Journal item pairs a comical domestic quarrel over installing a stove with a grim London coroner’s inquest into the death of a man crushed by an elephant named Blind Bill. The elephant’s backstory includes previous eye loss and a cross eyed groom, with the coroner noting the tale as a just retribution.
A Philadelphia Press excerpt notes that 1800 years ago Chinese produced paper from fibrous pulp and each province now has its own variety. It mentions rice paper resembling wool and silk, made from compressed pith cut spirally by knife into wide six inch strips. Funeral papers and paper imitations such as window frames doors and yard long visiting cards reflect customs. A British envoy in Pekin was presented with a vast roll that unfolded to reveal the Emperor’s visiting card.
Dr M E Wadsworth argues Earth’s interior is heterogeneous viscous and elastic with a crust above. He suggests crustal upheavals mirror ice behavior to explain volcanism and earthquakes. The piece notes bath perfumes remain in fashion and opera perfumes fall out of favor for comfort.
In Naples narrow ancient lanes prevail aside from the port area and La Chiara. Most streets limit vehicle passage and rise steeply between tall gray to yellow houses with green shutters, shops on the ground floors, and upper dwellings. A bustling street scene shows water-sellers, liquors, and cool mineral waters, amid hawkers, cargo donkeys, and hanging laundry with a fortress silhouette above.
Paraffine wax stands as an unmatched insulator for electric wire with demand rising alongside electric lighting. Its price halves bees wax, driving use in candies, waxed paper, coatings for barrels, and rust and moisture protection. From waxed paper to cosmetics and confectionery, this hydrocarbon underpins modern comforts and luxury.
Jefferson Davis delivers a lengthy farewell on January 10, 1861, denouncing withdrawal of the garrison at Fort Sumter and urging unity and peace among divided states. He vows allegiance to Mississippi and remarks on the flag, pride, and legacy, as reported by Ben Perley Poore in the Boston Budget.
The Duke of Willington once expressed to Isquierdo his wonder at the enormous number of charlatans in the world. Isquierdo replied I beg your pardon I do not think there are enough in proportion to the dupes.
A philosophical remark urges making use of present time to achieve a sufficient length of life. It emphasizes personal choice over merely counting days. The aphorism highlights agency in shaping one’s duration of meaningful living.
A collage of wry quips, verse fragments, and brief notices from a 19th or early 20th century paper. Bits touch on elopements, poetry, whiskey as antidote, a depot agent’s baby report, a prisoner's pig, and playful wordplay. The tone is terse, humorous, and miscellany in nature.
A Philadelphia Press note describes Mexico as stove free with no fireplaces, lifelong sixty degree warmth, and clothing advice. Dutch ovens and coal cooking are used, coal costs $25 a ton from England, wood costs $20 per card carried by men and donkeys. It urges self reliance and pluck for success.
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