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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1880
Page
4
Widow Thornley faces ruin as a mortgage nears foreclosure on her rural home. Her son John travels from town to town to earn money and pay the interest, risking his health. A shocking theatre accident reveals his courage and a mother's final sacrifice.
A column of home cookery outlines recipes for flour dishes and desserts. Instructions cover Graham base doughs Washington Pie soft gingerbread dried peach pudding tapioca pudding and maccheroni with cream and cheese including quantities methods and baking hints.
A garbled OCR excerpt mentions chicken soup preparation and a hen hung to make shadow fall into water. Only one day is referenced and the text ends abruptly.
A childhood portrait of Bessie Dean a thrifty country girl who saved little possessions turned into a home full of quilts pillows and keepsakes storing away scraps beads shells and ribbons in a blue chest her early thrift underpinned later comfort and devotion to family and home.
An OCR fragment describes Union Grand Central Depot in New York City and Casvinge Hire Hotel with nearly 850 rooms and daily rates. It mentions a Grand Union railroad link and dining at the Grand Union, indicating a railroad hotel complex at a major city hub.
The Senate debated the Ute bill with amendments on surrender of criminals and funding for education of Ute youth. Kirkwood led an amendment to require delivery of guilty men before payment, supported by Dawes and Pendleton. it passed 35 to 11 after modification. The session adjourned with talk of Indian policy, armor bills, and census issues. similar measures and bills were discussed in later days.
A poor, reclusive Jew in Dunajewcc dies aged 59 after cold and hunger. Neighbors find him in a heated room of squalor with over 500,000 roubles in gold and jewels hidden, revealing a notorious usurer history under another name for a town twenty miles away.
An advertisement touts Gilt-Edge re-maker enhancing butter yields and price, promising safety and higher production. It also promotes Laycock's Worm Killer and Hunt's Remedy as health aids with trial sizes, while mentioning a Theological Institution president addressing students about health and dieting.
Travelers seek reliable lodging and the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot in New York City is praised for prompt service and affordable first class stays. The note urges families to choose it for better value and comfort. A separate notice promotes the Farmer's Friend and Guide book sold by Frank Harrison & Co. at 206 Broadway New York.
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