16 Aug 1884
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1884
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription rates for the Intelligencer with one copy four months in advance and two dollars per year if not paid in advance. An out of county delivery rate of two dollars in advance is also stated.
A partial OCR fragment shows scattered words about cards lifelike notes and monthly items. It mentions business socials and political items but lacks coherent events or clear names.
Readable fragments describe Ames located on a major road north of Dex Moines. It mentions the Iowa State Outure and Media de Arte, a public school with several hundred students, a large connected building, and city coverage by police.
A fragmentary list shows county offices including Auditor Clerk of the Court Sheriff Treasurer Superintendent of Schools Surveyor and Coroner with partial names and headings indicating an official directory.
A dense listing shows banks, millinery shops, furnishing firms, restaurants, carpenters, blacksmiths, harness makers, and various trades. Firms include Bank of Ames, National Bank of Ames, Wright & Ives, G. H. France, Stuckslager & Son, L. Nellis, Coney & Ball, and S. Paxton. Nearby venues include Raynor House and Weat Hope.
An elderly speaker recalls youth, music, and old friends while watching changes from a riverbank. He notes progress in inventions and contrasts past gatherings with a modern flood of new devices. The reminiscence turns toward accepting change and not fighting the tide.
A London Telegraph discussion argues that electricity could replace rope ax or rifle in executions. It envisions instantaneous death via a completed electrical circuit, avoiding bungling hangings and public shock. The piece notes scientists and electricians should decide the method, hoping rope may be disused.
An ex major general recalls soldier companionships and a magazine story about loyalty between a high ranking officer and a common soldier. He narrates a scene at Chicamanga where a wounded general is freed by a brave soldier who risks his own life, then questions why sportsmen and soldiers cling to stubborn prejudices.
An old stage prompter explains his work during rehearsals guiding cues and scene changes while managing props and wardrobe. He recalls vivid incidents including a Macbeth mishap and a Juliet balcony collapse caused by a nervous debutante and her mother, all seen from the wings.
A letter argues Chief Justice Taney was misunderstood in the Dred Scott decision. It cites his freeing slaves, prayers with blacks, and oath as higher law guiding his duties, claiming his death came from fidelity to duty amid national strife.
The passage portrays Bonnie Jean, the forgiving wife of a betrayed man, who cared for his child born of an outcast woman. Described as kindly and musical though not intellectual, she earns respect through humility and steadfast devotion. Her determination to raise the child named a “needer’s bairn” earns public sympathy and a lasting place in memory.
A French mother refuses to face aging and has her 15 year old son made a Scotsman to justify dressing him in short clothes with uncovered limbs. The scheme lets her maintain youthful self image and keeps her son in styling.
Fragmented OCR text from Cincinnati Sun sketches a political platform with brief phrases about jet offices courting votes and other unclear aims. The readable portions suggest a political message aimed at influencing voters, but the full context and specifics remain obscured.
The writer elevates the presidential candidate choice as the nation’s peak political act. He notes intrigue and chicanery in selecting nominees and predicts historians will study elections as a record of a transformative period and the people’s sovereign at the polls.
George Alfred Townsend known as Gath is a daily Fifth Avenue Hotel visitor and noted interviewer. He commands an astonishing memory and can discuss many topics fluently while avoiding note taking. Townsend lives on Twenty third Street and earns a substantial income, with broad connections among prominent national figures. He was mentored by the late Colonel Forney, served as a war correspondent, has traveled widely, and is regarded as a dignified unobtrusive conversationalist.
Mia Davis forbade John Doyle from selling her husband rum at North Adams Mesa. Doyle claimed Davis could drink with money, and she did, losing both legs in a locomotive accident while intoxicated. A verdict of 5b is noted and the Supreme Court upholds similar civil age cases across states, as reform efforts grow in San Francisco to prosecute such cases free of charge.
A satirical look at journalism schools and the push for formal training. The piece mocks old methods of entering the field, outlines imagined courses and exam ideas, and jokes about campus scandals and industry practices, including interview techniques and office politics.
A Yorkshire tradesman Mr Peckham recalls a tale from Ripon at the Unicorn inn about conversing with animals. An old man with a donkey and cart enters, prompting a discussion on talking with lower animals and Peckham’s claimed ability to hold conversations with several species.
A Philadelphia Times reminiscence recalls volunteer firefighters of old marching to fires with air hose carts. A veteran recalls Race street fires, the wordy race to a water plug, and how No 9 lagged before Niagara arrived. He swears volunteers were best and laments paid sellers replacing them.
A young Douglas Jerrold worked as a compositor on a magazine where he first sent a critique to the editor. After a night of doubt, the editor asked for more contributions the next morning. His sisters recalled his bursts of joy when a pamphlet he carried proclaimed success.
The writer notes a surge of mendicants in Leon and surrounding towns with crowds at railway stations hotels and church doors. In Astorga the numbers are lower but in villages the proportion rises as children are taught to kiss strangers for a copper, a practice halted by fears of skin infections.
Irish authorities push to abolish traditional wakes citing their role in spreading infectious disease and causing fatalities in some cases.
A Texas owl confused a sleeping man’s head for a chicken and fastened its claws into his hair and scalp. He woke to find the bird clinging to him and asked, What’s the matter now, old woman?
A report on Omaha kinship law notes that when a parent dies the child joins the paternal or maternal gens. widows may remarry and mothers keep primary maternal rights. The essay details how gens distribution shapes child care, inheritance, and family links amid tribal customs. It also surveys a later cultural piece on whisker fashions and social signals in men.
A Bulletin report features Capt William Coppin of Londonderry proposing a 120 foot wide triple hull steam catamaran to achieve extreme stability and high speed. He outlines three hulls, reduced water resistance, and danger from storms with a safety advantage and no ballast need. The piece also includes a sensational Windsor court anecdote about Tom Thumb and a burglary thwarted by the tiny hero.
The Cincinnati Enquirer cites proverbs and authors like Holmes Carlyle to argue parental influence on children runs through generations. It suggests moral reform starts with parents, noting ancestral defects may be inherited and the punishment or discipline of offspring reflects aims to curb inherited faults.
The article discusses nails as altered skin, noting their flattened scale-like appearance and the softer young cells. It cites the frog family as proof with thickened skin at digit ends, mentions nails growing on amputated stumps, and describes Napoleon’s toe-nails protruding from his boots after burial.
The piece notes that early Jewish physicians held unusual ideas about finger nails. It claims the first humans were transparent before the Fall and that nails are the remaining vestige of humanity in Eden.
A passer by exposed a dead monkey carried on a bier by pariah carriers who demanded copper from shopkeepers as if it were a child. The scene in Kothaval Chawady Bazaar drew fear and revulsion as the sham funeral proceeded.
The nation has six ramn distilleries and all are located in Massachusetts. About 500000 gallons of ramn were exported last year with the majority sent to Africa.
A fragment describes Tom Thumb as a brave figure in a New England town with gifts including a valuable snuff-box. The readable text hints at a scene involving burglars and the character’s ventures.
The piece satirizes fashionable Boston society where businessmen with refined wives display lingering barbaric traits like coat removal at table. It laments self induced airs among prosperous families and notes in the West some nouveau riche avoid natural dress, clinging to elegance yet lacking thrift.
A Kansas City widow recounts years of sorrow after her husband's death and describes a plan to take poison to join him in the afterlife. She reveals she promised him she would not, but now chooses to die and be laid beside him, accepting release from that pledge.
The Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society notes Blackwall's explanation of insects walking on walls. A glutinous liquid exudes from the hairs at the foot lobes, enabling adhesion to glass seen under the microscope. Direct observation with the foot fixed uppermost shows the hairs’ ends emitting a transparent substance that lets the foot cling, leaving drops when detached.
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