26 Apr 1878
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1878
Page
1
The Ames Intelligencer invites readers in Story County Iowa to submit items of general interest for publication. Advertisers may learn pay rates by applying to the proprietor. Readers are asked to send in any news or notices for inclusion.
An illustrated tale recounts a man boasting of his work versus a wife who manages many chores. After mishaps and a fatal accident, the lesson shows the wife can perform more in a day than the man could in three, ending with Jonathan realizing his wife’s greater daily labor.
Profile of William M. Tweed tracing his rise from chairmaker to Tammany power. His leadership of the Big Six fire company, political machine control in New York, and role in the Supervisors ring. The text outlines his trials, civil suits, indictments, and dramatic escape to Cuba before final capture.
The article revisits the Lincoln Shields duel sparked by caustic letters signed Aunt Becca. Miss Todd, later Mrs. Lincoln, is named as the author and mischief maker, prompting a pistol duel challenge that was settled without bloodshed and led to lasting public life stories for Lincoln and Shields.
A fragmentary piece reflects on the Sabbath bell as a holy call stirring memory and hope. It contemplates life, death, and the solace of sacred tones, with a distant Washington Letter vignette about Mrs. Hayes guiding virtue at the White House amid intrigue.
The Job Printing department offers latest type and materials with neat dispatch. We can match any printing, including bill heads, letter heads, books, pamphlets, posters, auction bills, cards, and legal blanks kept in stock.
A rough collection of dessert and bread recipes describing lemon custard rhubarb pie and several custards. Also notes on rhubarb preserves and a corn bread variation. Contains numerous ingredient measurements and baking steps with several misspellings and garbled phrases.
Court scene described as Napoleon Bonaparte Gibbs stripped of clothing by a judge. a traveling agent for a whitewash brush, Gibbs explains fluency issues and multiple layers of garments revealing a dramatic, exaggerated arrest. New York Graphic presents the farcical proceedings with vivid dialogue and colorful judgments.
Over six weeks a steady stream of migrants moves from Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois into Kansas and Texas. Small farmers and some Black settlers from Kentucky Tennessee and Iowa seek land to farm, with an estimated 50 000 new residents or 10 000 new farms added to each state as the crop season approaches.
The Sanitary Journal of St Petersburg notes 670000 inhabited houses in the city. Brick and stucco predominate in wealthier districts while poorer areas show many wooden, narrow-walled homes. The town is unhealthy with high mortality rates and significant births and deaths figures cited.
The text contrasts spiritual sustenance in Christ with worldly bread and examines Daniel Webster’s disillusionment with political reward. It recounts Webster’s career, influence, and enduring fame, noting that even extensive public service rarely yields adequate personal reward.
Iowa items report municipal finance moves, court decisions, and civic notes across Des Moines Davenport and Muscatine. Highlights include bond debt levels, bank redemption in gold, reform school lease, saloon closures, road and ferry ideas, a fatal assault, library transfers, and a new kerosene sale law.
A Columbus caucus of Ohio legislators and state Republicans backed a strong fall fight. Gen Beatty urged unity with Hayes opponents while ex Gov Dennison spoke for GOP success. A Sherman letter praised party discipline, warned against Democratic return, and urged financial stability and reconciliation.
Six brief maxims from Central Christian Advocate exhort readers to daily private prayer and Bible reading, act for Jesus, seek guidance in doubt, not take Christianity from others, imitate Christ, and trust God over feelings. References include Colossians 3, John 14 27, Romans 3 4, and 2 Corinthians 10.
The passage argues talent and tact differ yet complement each other. Talent is power and wealth, while tact is skill and momentum. Talent guides actions while tact ensures they are well executed, making a person respected and ready for practical life challenges.
A reflective meditation on counting life by days as in biblical arithmetic. The speaker contrasts days given by God with personal use and warns against wasting or neglecting time, urging thriftiness and self-correction in the account of one’s life.
Early in his reign Rutherford hosted a card party with President Hayes and guests Evarts Sherman and others. Madame Hayes attended, worrying about health and clams, while Sherman and Thompson debated games. A panther encounter follows a hunter’s brave stand against a nine foot puma in Canada, where Farquarson slew the animal after a fierce duel.
A tall, swarthy hunter with powder stains and rough hunting attire roams a wild covert. After firing at birds, he accidentally shoots a man who touches his shoulder and asks if he has hit him, prompting a terse, stunned reply.
An analysis predicts Republicans may win the next U S House despite a Democratic Senate in the Forty sixth Congress. It surveys close districts in the North and South, noting past majorities, contested seats, and possible recoveries in Alabama Arkansas Connecticut and Colorado with attention to how campaigns may shift control.
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