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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1891
Page
4
A neighbor sits in her open door under a locust tree and sings a song with wings. The singing brings joy as she remains while storms may come, yet the skies stay blue in the song she sings.
Bruce Barlow equips for river voyage with Bruce and Uncle Phin. Arthur wakes aboard the ark to a dawn, rescues Phin from the water, and meets oil-town locals. They dock, gather berries, and Arthur adopts a bull-terrier pup named Rusty.
Arthur, a landlubber, stands torn between fear and action as a strange cry echoes aboard a vessel. He weighs what to do next while uncertainty about Uncle Phin’s fate looms over the scene.
A ball scene shows a mother and daughter debating Sig. Arturo who has danced with the daughter all evening. The daughter confirms his intent to marry but the mother shares a twist: Arturo declares he would never marry.
A fragment recalls a corner seat passenger scolding George who wishes to weep and close his eyes as another rider protests. The text blends comic dialog with a moral about temper and self control, set amid lively streetcar chatter and period slang.
The piece presents a Bible lesson on Jonah and Nineveh from the Lesson Helper, focusing on Jonah's prayer, obedience, and God’s mercy. It portrays Nineveh's repentance led by the king and citizens, urging personal obedience, turning from evil, and the Christian call to respond to God’s warning with contrition and faith.
A man laments high gas costs noting sixteen burners on full blast at home. He returns excited asking who turned on the smoking room light, then learns it was Weet Shore.
A St Paul resident recalls a bizarre event on a foggy winter morning. An icicle from an eight story cornice allegedly pierced Sam Bones on the head and pinned him to the sidewalk. He survived as the ice melted and he walked away.
A speech extols farmers as social and political bulwark against corruption and monopoly. It argues for public education, kindergartens, and manual training, and calls for government control of railroads seen as misused public money. The speaker warns against corporate monopolies and urges political honesty.
General Berdan submits a letter to Francis Newlands chairing the national silver executive committee proposing a dollar formed by a silver twenty five cent coin with a central hole into which a gold plug worth seventy five cents is pressed. He argues congress would fix silver grain weight and solve objections to current silver and gold dollar sizes.
The Boston Herald attacks the sub-treasury proposal saying special legislation favors farmers as it does manufacturers and ship owners. It argues that such aims follow past party practices and would extend public aid to the broader business community.
A Cleveland dispatch cites dwindling rural population, rising mortgage debt, and a $200 million fall in farm values since 1880. It notes farmers in distress and a rapidly expanding Farmers' Alliance in Ohio over the past six months, signaling widespread discontent.
An excerpt from the New York Ledger argues that success requires effort and that paying the same wages or granting applause for idleness would destroy the meaning of achievement. It highlights how skill, energy, and perseverance drive true happiness and purpose.
An examiner asks what comes next to man in the scale of being a boy replies with shirt. A question on fort versus fortress yields a witty distinction: fort for men, fort ress for women. Asked the chief end of man a boy asserts it as what’s got his head on.
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