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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1885
Page
5
A juvenile prose poem and vignette describe a mother dressing her baby for a visiting father. The narrator highlights care in grooming the child and anticipation of the father’s arrival, ending with the door opening and the papa returning.
A group of boys plans a Halloween prank by moving a heavy wood load into the Deacon's shed. After a difficult night of hauling past bricks and bushes, the Deacon reveals the joke backfires into a lesson of kindness and teamwork, thanking the boys for their effort.
A fragment describes sea horses or hippocampus as six to seven inches long bony pipe fish with a small head. The passage focuses on their size and distinctive form within the water world.
A detailed account from Youth's Companion describes the walrus and Eskimo hunt. It covers the hunt sequence from camouflaged approaches to harpooning, tying lines, and eventual securing of the wounded animal. The piece notes the walrus size and ivory value, and conveys the intensity and skill involved in the chase.
AUtica Observer discusses planchette boards as a scientific puzzle and a potential mental science advance. The piece urges skepticism toward supernatural explanations and stresses careful, nonsuperstitious testing of the device.
Mrs. Smith notes headlines that the German government dismissed thousands of telegraph operators. Mr. Smith explains the action followed pressure on efficiency, as operators allegedly spoke too quickly, not giving electricity a chance.
Customer asks for a drink then notices a glass object on the wall and learns it is a fire extinguisher. He thanks the bar staff and asks to be turned on, prompting a quick reaction from the bartender in a humorous Chicago Herald tone.
The passage argues that sheltering manure after fermentation stops preserves soluble plant food and reduces washout. It questions the benefit of drying coarse manure, especially horse dung, noting risks of firing and heat when moisture is too low.
The Orchardist explains that when an orchard loses bearing while trees stay sound, applying labor and manure to restore productivity pays off. It warns that young orchards may be overmanured, causing excessive leaf and wood growth, while old orchards use fertilizer mainly to form fruit buds.
Mr. Parker Earle of Cobden Illinois president of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society offers practical strawberry planting guidance. He urges using good land if possible, or poor land otherwise, with favorable conditions for commercial plots. He advises fall and spring plowing, avoid trenching waste, plant in spring, mark ground, trim and dip plants, and use a 45 degree spade angle for efficient work. A man and a boy can set about 4000 plants daily.
Reports from a New York State Horticultural Society meeting advise diverse mouse and rabbit control methods for young orchards including corn feeding, binding stalks, removing soil harbor, mounding, straw wrappings, wax coverings, and tarred paper. They praise low branched trees and hardy winter apples like Salome and Wealthy, emphasize continuous ground cultivation, warn against grease, and note tar and whitewash as protective. Poultry tips cover feeding wheat, limiting corn, egg handling, and incubation delays under cold conditions.
A reminiscence guides the young housewife to imagine a bright kitchen with broad windows a veranda and a brook view. The piece urges cultivating imagination in children and outlines practical kitchen enhancements for comfort and beauty in city homes.
The article debunks oats harming colt feet and argues grain limits depend on hay price and pasture. It suggests two to three quarts of oats daily with wheat bran and premium hay, warns overfeeding harms stomachs and growth, and emphasizes monthly hoof checks and rasping to prevent lameness. It notes comfort and bedding impact as well as overall care for market-ready animals.
The article discusses liberal feeding from birth to disposal, pumpkin as a fall feed, and keeping heifers from calving too soon to ensure long milk production. It compares horse conformation indicators of character and speed, then notes Hereford cattle as efficient beef producers, citing J. H. Hawes of Colony Kansas selling $40,000 to $50,000 worth of white faces from his own breeding.
Dr D E Salmon recommends a cheap disinfectant made from three pounds of sulphuric acid to forty gallons of water to combat chicken cholera. The solution is sprayed to thoroughly wet floors roosts and grounds after removing manure, with care since sulphuric acid is dangerous to handle and can damage clothing.
The article argues that meticulous order in every household department creates a beautiful whole. It stresses stocking storerooms, using a good cookery book, and buying the best goods to save money and maintain discipline. It cites a military post example showing dress influencing behavior and decorum.
A brief recipe instructs beating two eggs until light then adding a cup of milk two tablespoons chopped boiled ham a teaspoon of onion and parsley minced. Mix well and fry in butter until a delicate browned result.
Apple tarts are prepared by boiling ten tart apples in half a cup of water until soft then beating smooth. Add three eggs one grated lemon half a cup butter and one and a half cups sugar. Line patty pans with puff paste fill and bake in a hot oven for five minutes.
Instructions describe baking upper and lower crusts first and cooling them before filling. To make the cream mix corn starch and sugar, stir into scalding milk, boil three minutes, then add two eggs and flavor with vanilla once the cream nears cold.
Slice a pound of cold boiled potatoes. Fry a small chopped onion in butter until brown. Add potatoes and toss until they color. Stir in minced parsley and serve immediately.
Select solid portions of mutton or veal cutlets and simmer with tomatoes parsley clove pepper and salt. Make a butter and flour roux add sieved tomato, cook, pour over broiled cutlets, and serve hot at once.
A recipe for corn muffins uses eggs sugar butter milk flour corn meal soda cream of tartar or baking powder salt. Cream the butter and sugar then add eggs beaten well then the milk with dissolved soda and finally the sifted corn meal and cream tartar or baking powder. Bake thirty minutes in gem pans to yield fifteen muffins.
The text warns against drinking tea with fresh meat due to tannin interfering with digestion and stomach irritation. It notes dried meats like tongue or ham are less affected as fibers are tougher from curing. It also claims afternoon tea is injurious, causing dyspepsia and irritable heart, and advises not to drink tea very hot or very strong.
Dr. Levick describes a pneumonia treatment from the City Hospital in St. Louis during 1877 78 using salicylic acid with potassium bicarbonate glycerin and syrups. The regimen aims for rapid therapeutic effects and tolerability, with dosing every two to three hours for acute rheumatism and notes a trend toward larger acid doses accompanied by increased potassa.
A Knowledge correspondent argues hot drinks damage the tongue and teeth and irritate the stomach while cold drinks are gentler. He cites dental decay, numbness, and stomach inflammation as risks from hot beverages and suggests water as the best thirst quencher with lukewarm cocoa as a milder option.
A readible set of old household drink remedies describes pineapple for invalids with grated fruit and sugar simmered soft, sago with milk for invalids, a half gallon milk turned to cream by slow baking, and citrus juice with ice and pineapple for a refreshing summer beverage suitable for the sick or well.
Dialogue from the Chicago Ledger recounts a courtroom scene in which a witness gushes over recognizing a man by family ties and a hunting dog. The exchange shifts from dog stories to the key question do you know the prisoner Bill Gimps with comic insistence and blunt refusals.
Bengali legend on a palm hut mouse turned through forms from cat to dog to ape to bear to elephant and finally to a maiden named Postomani. She weds a king, dies, and the sage reveals the well burial will yield the Poso tree and the opium drug with mixed animal traits in its user.
Damala and Sarah Bernhardt quarrel at breakfast over Jean Richepin and who is master in the relationship. Sarah invites Richepin to join, Damala objects, and the pair trade barbs about who controls their lives. Later Sarah and Richepin comfort each other amid the tension.
A Boston Commercial Bulletin humor piece features a child asking about longevity and an old lady replying she hopes to live to see him grown. The boy quips that grandma need not wait to confirm his behavior, saying Vl telegraph.
In a rural tale Uncle Zach doubts the air brake's power while a narrator notes appearances can mislead. A New York figure, Philip Beers, raises funds for a Bartholdi pedestal, while a physician questions cures for Brights disease. The piece ends citing Warner's safe cure as a metaphorical air-brake.
The narrator travels the Great American Desert along Utah’s northern boundary with barren hills and a lifeless plain. A stoppage at a railway section house ends with a fall into a cistern while rescuing a half drowned Indian, then escapes soaked but unhurt and continues eastward.
An old physician writes to a Cincinnati medical journal urging rural residents to use only cough remedies free from opiates poisons and narcotics to avoid danger and fatal outcomes. He endorses Red Star Cough Care as a safe vegetable option proven by health boards and effective and harmless.
President Gilman of Johns Hopkins declares American higher education is entering its university phase. He argues the future American university should harmonize with global progress while remaining distinctly American, emphasize thorough prep, culture, and religious understanding.
The article extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a balanced remedy for constipation. It claims the tonic strengthens the bowels and stomach, aids bile removal, and increases liver activity. It also asserts rheumatism fever age kidney issues and general debility improve with its use.
Bob Burdette told a church society that advice to young men makes only a small impression. He illustrated by dipping a finger in water for a minute and noting the tiny hole left to show how little impact advice has on a youth’s mind.
A Burlington Hawkeye quotation argues that the poor show less crime and more generosity per capita than the rich. A Tennessee item notes climate and vigor, while Teras Sifting comments on warm climates fostering a shiftless life. Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy is advertised as soothing and healing.
The note warns that imitators imitate Ely's Dream falm a real cure for catarrh hay fever and cold in the head. It urges buying only Ely's Cream Balm and claims many in the area commend it. A small amount is applied into each nostril with no pain and agreeable use. Price fifty cents.
Advertisement notes a cosmetic cure for facial pimples and rough skin using Junier Tar Soar by Caswell Hazenpe Co New York and promises effective treatment for hands face and skin at the Gault House location.
A travel notice touts the Grand Union Hotel offering 600 elegant rooms at a million dollar stage price. It claims guests can live better for less than any first class hotel in the city, emphasizing value and comfort.
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