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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1883
Page
5
The New Schoolma am and Tom Jones in a Kind Teacher Tale
A teacher Miss Wescott enters a rural class and earns Tom Jones’s trust through patience and books. She assigns greenery and geography study, promising personal guidance to shape his character into something better. The story follows his transformation from rebellion to engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willy
Piers
Westcott
Tom
Pepale
Jescbit
Thomas
Sélionl
Wescottart
Wescott
Jones
Sted Mion Pha
Miss Wescott
Wiss Wescott
Tom Jones
Tom Jones becomes a model pupil under Miss Wescott
The following schooldays show Tom Jones changing from a wayward student to a diligent learner under Miss Wescott. She gains respect, disciplines the class, and teaches virtue, while Jones vows to excel and cites her influence behind his later high judicial position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Jones
Sam Evans
Tom
Miss Wescott
Jeli
Otra
Verdant Tracks on Pennsylvania Line Mystery
Passengers between Philadelphia and Pittsburg notice a green carpet along one track, while the opposite track remains bare. Eastward freight trains laden with grain scatter seed that takes root, grows a few inches high, and reddens the road bed with a verdant appearance.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Egg as First Aid and Digestive Remedy in 19th Century Advice
The article promotes using white of an egg for burns and as a coating to cool and protect wounds while excluding air. It also advises eggs as a mild remedy for dysentery and stomach inflammation, eaten beaten with sugar up to three per day, emphasizing light diet and rest for recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St ix
Life's Limite and Inheritance of Vital Traits
An 19th century opinion piece argues that children of long lived parents tend to live longer, with vitality divided among siblings. It claims a child reaching a parent’s death age often falls ill near that anniversary, and notes natural life limits predate laws, linking biology and law.
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Len
The
Indies
Nature
Congress
Rose Bouquet Note From Secret Admirer
A young lady received flowers with a handwritten note in misspelled old fashion English. The message expresses enduring love and secrecy while mentioning a night shade keeps dark, a red rose, and a posy. It hints at a romantic, poetic appeal from an unnamed sender.
Salmon instinct and migration mysteries explored in rivers
The text discusses whether salmon long migrations are instinctual or sensory driven. It cites naturalists and experiments showing fish navigate by river scent, coastlines, and inherited guidance, with examples from Delaware and Bushkill Creek and a Pacific river incident. It notes limited vision and possible reliance on senses beyond smell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gilpin
India
Delaware
Bushkill Creek
Delaware River
Russian
Pacific
San Francisco
The Age of Inventions and Its Surprising Pace
The Cincinnati Times-Star asserts that the last fifty years surpass all prior eras in invention. It catalogs steam locomotives, ships, telegraphs, telephones, photographs, lithography, presses, cobbling steel, synthetic dairy products, and anticipated advances like air travel and electric propulsion, noting ongoing breakthroughs across heating, medicine, and materials.
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Cincinnati Times-Star
Girls urged to marry teetotalers to avoid misery
The piece urges young women to reject rich tipplers and marry teetotalers. It argues that alcohol ruins families, despite social pressures, and stresses virtue, character, and integrity as path to happiness and respectability.
How a Career Began Lydia Maria Child’s Early Writing
The passage recounts Lydia Maria Child’s shift to literature while in Maine visiting her Unitarian brother in Watertown Massachusetts. After reading a paper by Dr Palfrey valuing early New England history for fiction she began Hobomok the first chapter completed by afternoon service and she never stopped writing afterward.
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Lydia Maria Child
Maine
Watertown
Mass
Palfrey
New England
Hobomok
I Like My Life and Love My Wife
A reflective verse expresses defiance toward pessimistic views of life. The speaker vows to continue loving his wife and embracing his chosen life despite others’ toilsome criticisms.
The Wife's Management of Household Finances
This piece argues husbands should set a definite weekly or monthly allowance for wives to manage purchases for clothing and home needs. It claims formalizing funds builds economy, foresight, and harmony, while increasing a wife's sense of discretion and bargaining, and improving household comfort.
Education of English Girls and the Ball Room Culture
The piece contrasts English and American female education arguing English girls receive surface accomplishments suited to marriage while moral home instruction is stronger. It notes pressures of London society and the upper class to marry or be labeled blue stockings, and observes how limited early schooling can fuel vanity yet later foster reading and self-education among some.
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London
What Van Might Do With His Momey
A witty calculation speculates on William H. Vanderbilt’s vast income from $51 million in four percent bonds. At $5,000 daily, he would earn $208.96 hourly and over five cents per second, making it impossible to spend or waste all his money in a day or even a month.
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Witty Observations and Quips From the Early Era
A collage of humorous groaners and wordplay on everyday life. Jests touch on health airbury balloon ascents and ship gender. One pun notes a man reaching ninety as XC ing old. The piece mixes letters, phrases, and slang in light fare.
Death of Michigan editor stirs memories of weekly papers
A reminiscence recalls a jovial Michigan editor famed for liberal print space and frugal pricing. A confrontation with a rival writer led to a boast of higher circulation and plans to publish the attack in mill-feed, but the moment passed as officials cooled the issue.
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Thar
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Sonia
Rethinking School Life Emphasizes Health Over Excess Study
The piece argues current methods burden children with long lessons and unpractical topics. It cites headaches and fatigue as common due to heavy night work and reduced rest. It calls for fewer subjects and hours to improve physical health and in turn mental gains, stating a sound mind needs a sound body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parede
Epizooty remedies and early treatment guidance
The article warns that epizooty can be avoided with timely remedies. It describes a quick three day danger reduction and ten to fifteen day full recovery in most cases, using caustic balsam on the throat and between the nostrils, ferrum phosphate with internal dosing, and adjustments for pustular symptoms with kali sulphur.
Old Saws Reinterpreted In Quirky Adages
A historical fragment presents a series of altered proverbs and humorous refrains. It mocks common sayings by pairing them with awkward phrases about pigs, gold, hay timing, knives, rolling stones, wishes, and early to bed. Signed by 17. E. Rounds.
Early newspaper days and a printer’s rough beginnings
Burdette recalls rough early newspaper work in Burlington Hewakepe with copy being drawn by lot and printers hiring boys to threaten and break things. He notes a hard labor scene, a brash rivalry, and how things improved as patron support grew, though the craft faced rough treatment and browns in writing.
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