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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1891
Page
4
A Buffalo Express poem by Harriet F. Crocker recalls a rural scene with a man and his companion Nell looking down a sixty foot well. The speaker fondly reflects on youth, memory, and the comforting view from the well while noting his peculiar tastes.
Arthur and Uncle Phin narrate a peril aboard the ark as a lightning storm drives oil flames toward them. They escape by cutting the rope and steering with poles, then wash ashore after dark. Arthur comforts Uncle Phin and plans for rescue as the boy wanders forests at dusk, fearing to be lost.
A terse exchange lands in a page feature, with a poet’s quip about lines cast aside. The verse hints at mislaid writings and a spectral sense of discarded art. The dialogue evokes a mood of lost poetry and creative frustration.
The Rev Dr Howard Crosby dies after a long active life as educator preacher and reformer. Born Feb 27 1826 in New York City he taught Greek at Rutgers and New York University and served as pastor of Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church. He advocated temperance high license laws and fermented wine in communion. Survived by wife two daughters and two sons including Ernest a judge at the international court in Alexandria Egypt.
A New Yorker known as poet and humorist, Harry J Shellman is described for his broad brimmed hat and dignified bearing. He edited Wit and Wisdom and later Texas Siftings, with a career spanning Indianapolis and Washington areas before settling in Brooklyn.
The lesson outlines Amos prophecy to Israel amid prosperity and spiritual neglect. It notes God’s patient entreaties, the sins of Bethel Gilgal worship with leaven, and repeated calls to return to Him. It highlights droughts, plagues, and wars as divine discipline, ending with a call to true penitence and forgiveness.
George Sand's childhood home at Nohant in Berri sold at auction in Paris. The estate later housed her own children and inspired many pictures of country life. The old castle remains only a tower and a small prison, while the modern house boasts a large, roomy building and a splendid park nearby.
In northern Wisconsin deer are so plentiful and easy to kill that locals tire of venison. They shoo the animals from fields and grow accustomed to surplus meat. The piece recalls old cautionary tales about forced daily foods and slave revolts over diet. Terrapin now fetches sixty dollars a dozen.
At a London sale of Tennysoniana a copy of Poems by Two Brothers by Alfred and Charles Tennyson sold for seventeen pounds. The author sold the copyright to a publisher in 1827 for ten pounds.
L. M. Bosworth, a local druggist with a broad stock of medicines and toiletries, is distributing many trial bottles of Dr Miles Restorative Nervine. The product is claimed to cure headaches dizziness and nervous exhaustion and to ease effects of stimulants. A free book on nervous and heart diseases is offered with purchases.
The parlor farce Their Ancestors will be contributed by Katherine Loring Van Cott to Harper's Bazaar. Prohibition organizing efforts are now active in twenty three states.
The passage touts Dr Miles New Heart Cure as a major breakthrough in heart disease treatment. It claims rapid relief from breathlessness fluttering and chest pains and notes widespread demand and a free book on Heart and Nervous Diseases. It also promotes Bosworths Restorative Service for headaches fits hot flashes and nervous disorders.
Robert Bridges, class of 79, contributes an illustrated piece in Harper’s Young People for April 21. He plans to reveal several insights not in the College Catalogue, useful to every Freshman or prospective Freshman.
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