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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1883
Page
2
A brief item notes residents in Nevada enjoy free rides by Indians but the transport is limited to platform cars. Weather wrap included.
Readable items report party nominations in Iowa counties. Marion County backs KR Cassatt of Pella for state senator as local conventions name candidates for representatives and note party platform support.
The column reports U S Rolling Stock shops in Chicago burned, cattle sales in Chicago, and notable deaths including August M Herrington. It notes harvest in Red River Valley, a boiler explosion at Falls City brewery, a cyclone near Oglesby, and railway earnings of the St Paul Minneapolis Manitoba line. Also covered are Galveston drought, religious consecration in Chicago, a Winchester blast powder accident, fires in Moline, and various local incidents from Kentucky to Ireland.
The death of Judge Jeremiah Jere Black occurred at 2 10 a.m. Sunday August 19 after a brief illness. The Philadelphia Press recalls his long public career starting as a Somerset County lawyer in 1830, serving as judge and chief justice, Attorney General and Secretary of State under Buchanan, and ending with private practice. He left a bereaved family and was mourned in Washington and Philadelphia.
A New York meeting of telegraphers reports the strike ending with injunction to resume work. Women workers are given first reemployment access at Western Union, while men face limited reinstatement and scattered postings in Pittsburgh and other cities after Campbell signaling a failure.
A 19th century voice predicts New York will outpace London in population by the next century. The piece cites vast fortunes and names figures such as Brassey Morrison and the Duke of West. it also recalls a 1864 piracy case involving Ward and Kirkbride, a syndicate, and a murdered prospector with a ring clue.
A reading contrasts monuments with living memory, noting Providence works unseen and offers no explanations for questions. The speaker rejects defeat, commits to effort, and trusts God for outcomes while pursuing success.
In the August session the supply bill closed, the Irish tramway bill reached a third reading, and the government pledged 290000 to immigration. The bankruptcy and national debt bills passed third readings, while the tramway bill advanced to a second reading, with a government guarantee of £1,000,000 noted.
A exhortation to cultivate intellectual spiritual and physical potential and to stand with brothers in the Lord s work. It promises that if sweetness is not granted, what is meet will be provided, urging action as a reflection of thought and charity as outward expression.
Aug 10 crop summaries indicate winter and spring wheat averaging 14 bushels per acre, barley near 20 to 37 bushels, corn at 64 percent condition, and substantial township coverage across 95 to 99 counties. Reports cover oats, flax, sorghum, buckwheat, potatoes, and onions with varied conditions.
A fragmentary narrative recalls Kosky Dalrymple facing vigilante justice with a dramatic defense at a grove. It contrasts with a college prize scene, moral reflections, and sermons on virtue, work, and character, set beside references to Hillsdale and local civic life.
A narrator recalls May beauty and a charming face that seems Edenic until a revelation turns her into a chromo after all. He realizes the relationship is illusionary and breaks free as light returns after the shadow.
A Washington narrative describes Kate Chase's Edgewood estate known as Edgewood. The mansion is left idle as she seeks $200 monthly rent or $150 offered, taxes and debts loom over the $30,000 property. A longtime servant recalls the proprietor’s frugality and eccentricities.
The narrator recalls a large hornet nest kept in a cabinet and an encounter with hornets that triggers vivid memories. He describes past incidents with hornets touching his skin and hair, leaving whimsical, comic images and reflecting on memory and surprise traits while noting the hornet’s peculiar ways.
A Natick Citizens tale recounts Mr. Messersmith cashier counting Lee’s army as it passed through Chambersburg Pennsylvania in 1868. He used corn grains dropped for each hundred men and extended to sixty thousand. He stood in the sun and later relayed his tally to the governor.
The article notes that over the past two years more than 3,000,000 acres of public land have been transferred to private hands annually, reaching 17,914,969 acres in the year ending June 1883. It argues much land remains untapped and urges halting large block sales to reserve land for actual settlers.
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