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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1883
Page
4
A garbled OCR passage describes seven horses racing with laughter and action as they round a bend toward a turnout. The text mentions shouting, slipping, and chasing behaviors, ending with a sad line about a boy being mad.
A fragmentary meditation explores unity and divinity permeating all beings and nature. It asserts that nothing is truly high or low and urges recognizing personal power within divine order, while noting human limits against a vast, unknowable cosmos.
A physician recalls early practice and a tragic rival, Angelina, and a courtroom fate. A jailbird ruse leads the doctor to a perilous grim house where danger and old loyalties collide in a tense confrontation.
A narrator recounts a captivity by violent men who search him and force gambling. He laces a chloroform sponge to render captors unconscious, escapes down stairs, and fatally strikes Sommers in the confrontation. He returns home fearing discovery, resolving to avoid such peril again.
A wealthy Australian settler, Mr Brown, roams New Caledonia and stumbles upon a native village. Chief Atai invites him to rest in a cabin, where locals cook travelers by burning the cabin to death. Brown defends himself, deceives the attackers, and escapes with the native guide to warn French settlements, preserving his life and ventures.
A Washington reformer started a penny lunch in response to widespread hunger among the unemployed and the poor. What began as a small charitable effort in a Sunday paper club grew into a lasting institution with meat, bread, and tea circulated to those in need, supported by local donors.
A historic account describes Mrs. Roberts feeding about four hundred people twice daily from a modest soup kitchen on E Street. Donations from W. W. Corcoran and others funded meals of mush and molasses, corn bread, coffee, and occasional pork or beans.
The article warns that arsenic in fashionable colors and linings has caused poisoning from stockings hats gloves and clothing. It cites cases in London New York and Germany and urges testing and possible prohibition of dangerous dyes. It calls for safer dyeing processes and regulatory action.
Andrew J. Green, walking toward Sanquit, New York, was mobbed by a large flock of sparrows that swarmed his path, pecked him with their bills, knocked him to the ground, and left him exhausted with bleeding. He fled to the village for safety.
A man in Port Hope feigns suicide to frighten his wife who buys poison and watches him through a keyhole. He pours liquor which she then screams about, but she exposes the ruse as he pretends to drink and threatens self harm. The tale ends with his mortified reaction.
A chronic hoax described in which native practitioners use tiny worms hidden under paper on a spatula to claim they relieve toothache. The dentist pretends to extract the worms and proves relief by bleeding the gum, while keeping live specimens to fool patients.
A Massachusetts judge recalls a juror named Thomas H. Perkins who paid a fine to avoid service. The judge demands Perkins explain his ship fitting in the East Indies and asserts the laws enable ship fitting through proper administration, then orders him to take a seat with the jury.
A compact survey traces origins of common words and phrases to ancient myths and places. It notes Pamphlet from Greek euthonems Pesiphylis, Panchand Judy from Pontius and Judas, Bigot from Visigoths, Hamburg origin for Hamburg news, and other terms linked to Gaza Gaza Silk Atab Baghdad Skratti Niki and the Sami tale.
A town-desk editorial urges parents to curb idle evenings of boys and youths. It warns that wasted time breeds bad conduct and underlines home life, reading material, and constructive routines as remedies. It stresses leading by example and fostering industry to reduce a rising army of loafers.
The article argues that talent grows with use and neglect ruins it. It urges regular mental and physical activity to keep the mind sharp and to prevent a dwarfed, unhealthy life. It emphasizes observation, practice, and sustained effort to maintain “touch” and rhetorical discipline.
A garbled old clipping cites sayings about a tin kettle and adornment of a tail. It mentions a Seacapele maiden tugged by a stalwart lover and muses why American men become cald-headed young, noting straw hats worn until frosts strike and topple their hats.
A New York commission offers directions for packing eggs to survive transport. Use long straw or hay at bottom and between layers, avoid oat chaff, and fill with fine packing to prevent shifting. Pack sizes vary by barrel, ensure dryness, and ship promptly to prevent spoilage.
Robert Cross describes how Brazil’s India rubber collectors tap trees at daybreak using clay cups and small axes. Cups are placed along trunks as the milk oozes from fresh cuts, with daily lowering of cuts and careful collection into calabash. The piece notes plantation potential and risks to trees from long-term tapping.
The article explains starch production from the Manihot tubers grown mostly by Chinese farmers in the Malay Peninsula. Tubers weigh ten to twenty five pounds and are scraped washed pulped rolled washed again to separate fecula. The fine flour is washed dried bleached sun and air and finally formed into pearl tapioca.
A long list of questions and answers covers astronomy weather language and history. It includes why the sun appears larger at horizon, origin of Anno Domini, dollar and pound signs, regional nicknamesSucker State and Keystone, Philadelphia’s Brotherly Love, and other trivia on calendars protoplasm and dipping needles with brief explanations and dates.
The page strings together quips, jokes, and brief social snippets. It lampoons marriage, crime, religion, and daily life with a collage of sayings and light sarcasm, noting odd beliefs and human foibles without a single cohesive narrative.
An 18th century scene recounts Tallyrand seeking aid in Havre during the French Revolution. He meets Benedict Arnold, who reveals himself and delivers a defining confession about treachery in America. Arnold’s lifelong infamy haunts his final years.
A collection of home recipes for Washington Cake doughnuts and Green Gooseberries for Tarts. Steps detail mixing, firing, sugar finishing, and canning with bottles, hay, and boiling water to preserve fruit for later use.
A collage of ancient structures and empires is described with sizes and extents. Nineveh spans fourteen by eight miles with a hundred foot walls. Babylon sits within seventy five foot thick fortifications. Diana of Ephesus took a century to build. the Great Pyramid rises to four hundred eighty one feet with broad base. temples, temples of Delphos, and Rome noted for vast walls and plunder.
A hesitant shopper cannot pronounce Dr Bull's cough syrup and asks a clerk about Dr Cow Dr Calf Dr Buffalo and finally Dr Oxen. After a comic mix up she tries to buy Dr Oxen’s cough syrup and learns it is Cox’s hive syrup. The moment leaves her faint.
A Hampshire incumbent reported in the Pall Mall Gazette on misread vows in the marriage service where grooms mix phrases and brides misquote the blessing. He noted men stumble more in the ring exchange while women often remember better though one bride vowed to love and cherish with humorously altered wording.
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