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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1894
Page
3
Ames Intelligencer reprints Clinton Scollard verse from Chautauquan about piper melodies and seasons. The poem frames multiple scenes of harvest moon and lyric refrain cherry holly berry red of gold or jonquil spear and love time as the sweet o the year.
Mary uncovers a blood stained steel bar in Tom’s belongings linking him to a murder. Reuben Gorringe senses danger as Mary plans to reveal the truth while Savannah taunts Mary and Tom remains missing. A note arrives from Tom.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage argues the home is the first arena for religious practice. He urges grace in domestic duties, gentle child discipline, and active parental example, noting many trials, including financial hardship and sorrow, are best faced with faith. He calls families to establish daily prayer, Bible reading, and vows to train children for God and heaven.
A study notes the famine years after seven years of plenty, Jacob's family near starvation, and the caravan to Egypt. It details Joseph testing his brothers, their repentance, and the emotional moment when Joseph reveals his identity and forgives them.
A Kang Xi autograph dated era Pekin fetched over forty pounds at auction. Maine revenue data show liquor use below one-quarter of the national state average.
A reflection on forgiveness stating it is easier to pardon others than ourselves when we admit fault. The piece argues that acknowledging our own blame makes forgiveness toward the injured person hard, and that self-forgiveness is the real need behind indifference. Source attributed to S. S. Times.
A philosophical reflection attributes human life to a hidden impulse toward noble acts. The speaker cites a trembling longing to perform good deeds as life’s noblest spring of excellence.
A preacher argues that if all who rob God were jailed churches would need prison pews The sermon also notes the hypocrite behaves well only when he believes he is being watched
A collage of facts: French cooperative farming thrives, Manchestier Virginia uses chain gangs, Synacuss students wield bone cane handles, Tennessee labor largely native born, nine million serve in world armies and navies, Jamaica reportedly can reach thirty feet in six weeks, Japan has government owned telephones, Fujiama stands around thirteen thousand feet, global average circumnavigation about twenty two thousand miles, London police employ fifteen thousand eighty three officers.
The text notes leather trunks in Rome during Julius Caesar era and 1510 as tax distinctions for joiners. It cites Homer and Pliny on locks with Theodorus of Samos 730 B C. Moorish pottery brought to Italy in 1115 to teach natives. Cloth weavers' unions emerged as political forces in Ghent Bruges Brussels by the twelfth century. Romans learned yeast from Greeks during the Persian war.
In Ayrshire Palo Alto county Mrs James Anglum was watering three horses when a bite caused a chain reaction. A horse leaped into Mrs Anglum and both were thrown into an 18 foot well covered with ice. She sat with feet under ice while a horse lay atop her, its neck broken, until her husband returned hours later and neighbors freed her. She was not seriously injured.
A 15 year old girl, daughter of J. Tuckish of Protivin, Howard County, died after a tooth extraction and anesthesia. Friends, fearing burial alive, had the coffin exhumed and found the glass broken, hands cut, hair torn, and the body on its face.
Railroad managers in Iowa respond to the Western Freight association rule by keeping the old 25 cent minimum rate for freight, despite the new policy of no charge under 50 cents. This stance was conveyed to railroad commissioners as the industry weighs weight and distance factors.
Winners at Burlington for the Iowa Inter-county Teachers association oratorical contest are announced. First prize goes to Edith Steckel of Bloomfield, second to Grace Swift of Moulton, and third to Minnie Fair of Agency, with participants from Burlington Bloomfield Ottumwa Fort Madison Mount Pleasant Agency Columbus Junction and Moulton.
Burglars dynamited three safes after midnight hitting Thornton Elevator company Tiffany Bros lumber office and Fort Dodge Railway company. The Fort Dodge building was heavily damaged. Two suspects were arrested and jailed.
Etta M. Chandler of Akron sues L. M. Hartley of Fort Madison for 825000 dollars alleging a 1888 engagement and subsequent broken vow. She states they became intimate after meeting in Akron and he then refused further contact.
A Jefferson Cemetery was broken into during the night. Nineteen graves were looted and monuments uprooted with shafts shattered. No motive could be determined for the vandalism.
Obituaries and notices describe William Lawry and Rudolph Linder deaths. Hannah Chase suicide. Mahashes of criminal cases in Fontanelle and Creston. bank and insurance suits in Independence and Burlington. Burglaries in Keokuk. a barber claims egg-eating record in Portland. a 3 year old burned in Sioux City. multiple court actions and local incidents reported from Des Moines Keokuk Davenport and Fort Dodge.
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