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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1886
Page
4
An excerpt from a Religion section reflecting on immortality and divine purpose. It contrasts Bismarck and Gladstone's faith with political duty, noting belief in God as motive power for great deeds and moral action. The piece closes with a quote about trusting in God and following a silent sea.
A late author condemns forced marriages for wealth or status. He warns that a wife who marries for riches faces gilded misery and a harsh old age. The piece contrasts glittering grandeur with heartache and divine judgment.
Sam Jones warns mothers to focus on domestic duties before temperance and missions work. He critiques women roaming the streets and extols tending home duties, even joking about divorce if a wife carries a dog. The piece shifts to the hot water tax uprising of 1799 and a May morning school scene with May and Willie emphasizing kindness to animals.
The passage traces Otto von Bismarck’s early life filled with dissipation and boredom until marriage to Johanna von Putkammer sparked religious awakening. His wife's family and newfound faith guided him toward personal loyalty to God and a duty driven life, culminating in introspective letters about self contempt and the burden of living without faith.
The five largest states in 1870 held 14 849 000 people across 253 000 square miles. By 1880 New York and Pennsylvania would remain first and second, with Illinois Ohio and Iowa likely third to fifth, though Missouri could challenge Iowa. The piece notes westward expansion as the star of empire.
United States Treasurer Jordan dispatches a busy note to Congress about meeting him at the Treasury. The story recalls William Polk in Naples who, upon credentials to the Foreign Office, is told the king will see him next day at 11. Polk replies he is busy and invites a drink, offering whisky.
A cautionary note urges readers to think carefully before acting or judging. It emphasizes careful reasoning and avoiding snap judgments in daily decisions.
A child speaks truth to her father about drinking, urging abstinence. The scene shifts to a cautious father who throws away his liquor after his daughter Mary urges him to quit. The essay contrasts a hungry alley cat’s longing for kindness with a family moment prompting sober resolve.
Emily Johnson on a steamboat trip with her father grows seasick and refuses a stranger's offer of brandy. She warns him against drunkenness by naming Mike Brady, then recalls a prior drunkard’s abuse. The tale shifts to humorous prayer quips from a Boston Record column.
A lengthy critique details how hotels increasingly offer special rates to almost every patron from reporters and ministers to travelers and regular customers. It argues the practice could force higher base rates as proprietors seek to balance demand with discounts and features a humorous anecdote about a drummer who learned to stop rolling the window down for women on trains.
A collage of witticisms and short anecdotes from various papers, with jokes about labor, doctors, cyclones, saloons, editors, and editorials. It includes humorous exchanges, orthographic verses, and editorial snippets on writing style, cant, virtue, and social behavior. It ends with an advertisement for Grand Union Hotel services.
The piece notes happiness helps health and recovery more through family and friends than a doctor, urging readers to value supportive relationships in patient care. It frames emotional well being as essential to preservation of health.
A reflective line notes that many people spend their early years building toward lifelong misery rather than happiness, implying a cycle of poor choices and regrets shaping adulthood.
The article urges giving boys responsibility and clear explanations to foster intelligent growth. It cautions against dismissing curiosity, advises early trust and encouragement, and notes tools and hands on work build self reliance and discipline for future careers.
A narrator recalls saving a penny in Glasgow by asking for tram directions and alighting after a long walk. The tale contrasts a friendly local guiding a stranger with a long trek, ending with a style note on Gainsborough hats returning tall crown is now vogue resembling a cavalier chapeau.
A humorous Yonkers Gazette critique contrasts love across social ranks with the pomp of state. The dialogue mocks doge imagery and argues reform favors chosen, well born unions over unaided affection, noting love now seems a commodity suited to public display and status.
A Damariscotta schooner captain chases a green hand who bolts toward a lumber pile on the wharf. A struggle ensues with a loud splash as the captain seeks the other deckhand. Detroit Free Press report captures the episodic nautical scene.
A bereaved neighbor recalls Mrs So and So who attended church regularly yet did not profess religion. The survivor notes she practiced faith all her life, in the village near Boston where one died and the other lived as longtime neighbors.
A compact reflection likens a single virtuous man in a bad place to yeast in dough, suggesting one good influence can leaven a larger whole. The metaphor emphasizes moral potency of individual integrity in adversity.
A father explains he will keep a self written speech for use against Col. Bibly in the next campaign. The boy notes the self authored words undermine any attack and the mother cautions that cold print can ruin a man in politics.
A reflective vignette recalls fathers who rush from home and miss their children. One morning a man wakes to find his son already upright and playing on the sidewalk. He sends the boy inside and spanks him. the child screams as the father leaves for work. The mother asks what happened, and the boy sobs that it was the man who stays here Sundays.
Mrs Greening recalls their quarrels and a vows to reform while Mr Greening jokes that marriage resolved their flirtation. The Rambler notes a playful exchange about love and proof of marriage.
An orator at a lecture on The Decline of Literature declaims in a garbled speech while a gallery voice responds with a fragmented, resigned exchange about the event.
The article extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a key aid to restoring digestion liver bowels and kidneys and resuming activity. It argues that digestion when suspended leads to biliousness constipation headaches and poor blood and claims the Bitters removes these causes and accelerates health recovery.
A store clerk jokes about a fellow out of work choosing to enlist in the U S artillery. The dialogue contrasts perceived glory with grim practicality as the recruit laments starvation and notes the only lure is thirteen dollars a month plus rations. The exchange captures wartime civilian sentiment.
A persuasive health notice urges neighbors to comfort mothers facing a child with consumption. It claims consumption is curable and cites Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a superior treatment, claiming many cures and listing druggists as sellers.
The Boston Record dubs a cashiers killer or thief as A Spotted adder, labeling the suspect with a grim nickname amid coverages of the crime wave and police hunts securing leads and warnings.
A fragment promotes a medicine described as a cure with many testimonials. It mentions druggists distributing the product and labels it as a saner option amid irregularities in other remedies.
Readers steer away from society notes and favor ordinary bank notes. The preference shifts toward simple financial records over social items in this era.
In Derby Assizes Samuel Lowe and James Halligan face a ham theft case. Foreman admits Lowe stole it while others insist Halligan received it knowing it was stolen. Judge presses for a clear verdict as jurors hedge their statements.
An OCR fragment lists patent medicine claims for Dr. Pierce pellets and other tonics, along with stray quips about court cases and misdirected youths. It mentions Ayer’s Ague Cure and Rough on products, including corns and sores, with scattered ad style lines and unrelated dialog snippets.
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