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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1887
Page
4
A mother's struggle with faith after a child's death is explored, questioning if suffering hides a greater mercy. The article then shifts to a correspondent's Bulgarian travel vignette from Slivnitz to Sofia, describing roads, transport, architecture, and vibrant provincial embroidery in vivid detail.
A young girl named Hester expresses that God assigns errands for believers. She explains loving Jesus means pleasing Him through daily duties. Her mother agrees that serving God brings joy and lightens burdens as taught by Christian ideals.
A collage of short quotations from Ruskin Barnes Manning Bailie Stillingfleet Whittier and Canon touch on nobility virtue Christian liberty prayer humility and empire. The lines mix religious and moral reflections, noting nobility of character over birth and the sacredness of restraint in faith.
A reflective note urging steady, diligent effort without hurry. It encourages embracing a higher, sublime view, trusting God to wait and applying patience to cultivate celestial fruits through steady action.
A home craft piece prescribes generous quarter yard margins around the mattress for tucking and overlaying, recommends a worn blanket and smooth sheet, a hemstitched bolster positioned for shoulder support, and a neat foot coverlet to balance warmth and fit. It adds anecdotes about dogs showing moral character and a Raleighpost office chat on bird dogs, ending with a humorous retriever tale.
Basset's Persia notes brutal methods used to terrorize criminals and dissenters. Methods include suffocation by plaster in brick tanks with bodies fixed, hanging head down in pits, and dragging enemies to furnaces in governor led retaliation. The account cites executions by Persian officials and village raids witnessed by travelers.
A discussion on boys false sense of honor urges truthfulness to authority and the harmed. It contrasts cowardly bullying with courage and duty, citing examples from Harper’s Young People including a sentinel’s death and John Bunyan’s commendable acts.
A vivid scene shows soldiers hard at work in a freezing night with the young recruit called Helpful John, noted for tending wounded and sharing scarce bread. It includes a Salvation Hawkins guard and a Cromwell psalm, plus an anecdote about Col. Royall enforcing orders in the camp. It also recounts a Boston theater anecdote and the obituary of Old Dublin, a 109 year old enslaved servant in St Andrews parish.
AXPREW L. WHITE recalls historian Von Ranke who would slump in his chair finger raised to the ceiling and mutter in a rhapsody that German students could not follow while others crowded the desk like listeners to a sibyl.
Report notes telegraph operators in America outperform their English counterparts due to competition and pay linked to work. An expert explains speed comes from staying with the instrument, not finger speed, with a wager illustrating higher legibility and word-per-minute. Joseph Thomson describes Moorish-influenced African urban life and credits Mohammedanism as the agent transforming tribes into semi civilized nations.
The passage argues women face fewer immortal achievements in music due to focus on personal feelings and suggests a link to broader health ideas about kidney illnesses. It cites Warner's safe care as a remedy and mentions medical authority, lay innovations, and classical gender roles in the arts. It also touches on improvised performance and teaching.
A vivid sketch from the Home Journal describes life in British Honduras on the Guatemalan frontier. It details Santo Toribio’s village life, election banquets, women in lively dress, scarce liquor, and a calm, festive midnight dance accompanied by the dulcimer-like marimba.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a young man returning home to a wakeful wife at night. The exchange hints at late greetings and drunkenness with hiccups and a line about chickens in the neighbor city paper. No clear names, dates, or events are readable.
The text notes Honduras Congressmen receive five dollars daily while active. It states veto overrides require a two thirds vote against General Bogran and describes a 43,000 strong drilling-ready force from ages 18 to 35, plus 3,000 standing troops armed with Remington rifles. It mentions limited artillery, six breech-loaders and eighteen Gatling guns, and a modest navy led by the iron single ship Morozan with Krupp small guns and eighty five crew.
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