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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1878
Page
1
John Watts of Ames Story County Iowa notes rates of advertising and invites readers to submit items of general interest. Readers are urged to write up local news for publication.
A grim poem steps through a cold street scene where a poor man succumbs to a fiend named Duinx. He forsakes family, health, and virtue as the fiend drains life and joy from his home. The verse ends by noting the tragedy occurred in England, with the fiend's name proclaimed.
A plantation fire rescue tale centers on Julia and the faithful slave Juba who saves Mrs. Stewart and her child amid a devastating blaze. Juba perishes with a final prayer, and a marble tablet honors him with the motto Faithful Unto Death.
An extended opinion piece attacks Confederate democracy, praising its former munificence while warning that postwar reforms threaten the legacy. It covers political profiteering, fraud investigations, and calls for liquidation of rebel claims, arguing reforms harm loyal states but benefit the Confederacy’s memory and power.
A 19th century view suggests irrigation could revive the Colorado Desert without huge costs. Sediment build up created a dam in the gulf area, raising the riverbed and drying the gulf side, with oyster shells proving historic water presence. The author argues natural processes might reconvert the desert to a lake if currents shift.
A Florida plantation tale begins with a thirteen foot alligator charmed by a rattlesnake near Lake City. The scene shifts to a humorous Mayor’s office where a dirt-soaked farmer seeks a marriage license for his daughter, arguing with playful law talk and literary references.
A fragment from a historical piece extols blessings on those who keep calm and trust simple remedies. It contrasts the prudent man avoiding needless extravagance with a rustic image of cabbage leaves used against hardship.
A father, amused, asks his son to prove there are three fowls on the table. The boy assigns one to each of three diners, prompting the father to accept the demonstration while the mother looks on in disbelief.
Dr W R Williames muses on blessings as a cloud of mercy, tracing how divine grace travels from hidden sources within humble hearts to bless churches, pastors, children, and distant heathen lands. The piece links intercession to heavenly rain that uplifts the wilderness and solitary places.
The Trenton Gazette urges restraint in hot weather, endorsing fruits and vegetables while condemning excess meat and rich pastries. It argues that overeating causes weakness and illness, calling for a simpler diet to improve health and vitality.
Mr. W F Buchanen, superintendent of motive power for the New York Central and Hudson River railroad, reports 1877 Hudson River division mileage at 3 726 919 with 97 engines in service and an average annual mileage per engine of 58 422. The top engine is No 83 with a remarkable fourteen month to fifteen month period in 1877 into 1878.
The source cites a mileage total of 117,872 miles and calculates an average of 7,858 miles per month, as reported by Scientific American.
A backwoods passenger ribs the engineer of a racing Mississippi steamer. The engineer debates blowing the other boat to steal victory but decides to proceed, finally the man abandons the yawl and swims ashore saying he will walk.
The piece recalls how Adams Jefferson Madison and Monroe vacationed at rural homes in summer. It notes Andrew Jackson sailed to a Potomac fort site unfinished by then and that Polk Fillmore and Pierce used Georgetown heights summer homes. Buchanan stayed at the Soldiers' Home as a thrift example later followed by Lincoln Johnson Grant and Hayes.
A Cambridge woman visits a Boston dentist for a full teeth reorganization. He questions her neglect while noting the damage, she replies she had no time, and she later receives patient and considerate treatment. The piece weaves in brief society observations and local anecdotes.
In a New York Tribune piece a call to retire the old Virginia custom is voiced. It condemns Hunton for violating Virginia anti dueling laws, notes possible penalties and disqualification for office, and argues to uphold the modern legislative standard against violent politics.
The text envisions a Democrat ascending to the White House in 1881 and guiding a Democratic Congress toward a political revolution. It outlines a programme to erase constitutional and statutory remnants of Newlandreas, destroy certain powers and amendments, and redefine reserved rights of states with a broad, sweeping reform agenda.
The paper prints support for a restoration agenda and opposition to negro amendments. It claims Southern leaders seek to rewrite constitutional provisions and to undermine political rights, urging Northern laboring men and Democrats to answer at the ballot box.
The text portrays Jeff Davis clinging to a Southern secessionist dream. It suggests his hope rests on a political party gaining national power or failing which he might pursue a self-made secession agenda aligned with loyal followers.
A distinguished French physician classifies homesickness as an actual disease. Nostalgia is seen as a form of insanity with symptoms of sadness, loss of appetite, and reveries of home. It is less common in children and the elderly, more in young infantry recruits and some men, with stages ending in illness and potential death.
An unclear report notes a barrier failure at a British site allowing entry to tobacco samples. John Straiton allegedly caused the breach by sending samples and retaining portions of plug tobacco. The text references a specific monetary value and dates but is garbled.
A garbled OCR note describes outfits and attire but lacks clear names places or events leaving only fragmentary references to cot and fashion. The intelligible portion does not provide a coherent report or identifiable subjects to summarize into a concrete news item.
The Job Printing department advertises latest type and material, offering neat, dispatchable work. They claim to match or beat any printing establishment in the state and stock legal blanks. They print bill heads, letter heads, books, pamphlets, posters, auction bills, cards, etc.
Fragmentary verse narrates a woman performing many domestic chores including milking cows feeding chickens tending goats making cheese baking fruit preserves and sewing It reads like a devotional plea asking for blessing and help for her exhaustive daily labor and teaches gratitude for her work
A collection of quips and puns with moral flair and regional flavor. Jokes touch on land sighting, gardeners, time, nurses, impostors, mosquitoes, and sayings. Readers encounter editor sharpness, rural humor, and a grim but playful tone from a Cincinnati Breakfast Table flavor.
In Paris letters by Prentice Mulford the diary notes lack of water pitchers in chambers and the landlord's attitude toward replacement. The piece mocks French habits of cleaning with emphasis on a landlord’s excuses and the ritual of waxing floors as a sign of effort.
The article notes Liebig showing oatmeal nearly as nutritious as English beef and richer than wheaten bread for bone and muscle. Prof F of Edinburgh tested arm and loin measurements among students, finding Belgians lowest, then French, English higher, with Scotch and Ulster Scots highest in early life due to daily oatmeal porridge intake.
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