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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1893
Page
3
A poem from Margaret E. Sangster in Good Cheer reflects on the comfort of aging shoes. It depicts family scenes and home life with nostalgic imagery of easy old shoes preserving warmth amid travel and daily toil.
Nora Lorimer’s complex love triangle unfolds as she confronts John Lorimer and Ida Fairbanks. After a fraught confrontation Nora retreats into the bayou, seeks solace in a remote cabin, and resolves to finish a secret writing project while John and Celeste face the aftermath of her outburst. The scene hints at mounting tensions and a looming secret as neighbors discuss Nora’s mental state and a mysterious ghost tale.
A Detroit Free Press quote reflects on honesty with dirt showing easily a metaphorical view of truth and character. The piece muses on singing prayers, sorrow, love, beauty, and poverty, linking moral ideas with everyday images in a reflective editorial tone.
The Fifty third Congress shows the south in firm control of key committees with Georgia’s Speaker Crisp assigning thirty chairmanships to southern Democrats and only fourteen to northern Democrats. Southern majorities dominate thirty seven panels while northern Democrats head sixteen, triggering claims the party remains sectional despite prewar rhetoric.
In a New York Tribune critique the Ohio Democratic convention is condemned for evasive stance on free silver and tariff reform. The piece asserts the platform disguises true aims and pledges support for Cleveland-era currency reforms, while Ohio Republicans plan a bold campaign under a strong leader to defeat the party in November.
Stirring excerpts recall Lieut. Col. R. E Lee at a cavalry post before the war. Fitzhugh Lee, sons in the Confederate service, and a young driver asking to be put in again highlight Lee’s reverence for duty. The piece notes Lee’s momentous decision to join the Confederacy on April 27, 1861 and details his staff and character.
Union captain Creed Milstead of Portsmouth, Ohio, saved a Confederate soldier during the 1864 Lynchburg campaign. Decades later the rescued man, Texas-born R. H. Phelps, wrote Milstead from La Grange, confirming their forgotten link. The piece also notes Rev. Thompson L. Smith as veteran Confederate chaplain and John Swearer, first wounded at Sumter, has died in Baltimore.
A collection of editorial quips discusses Democratic stances and infighting. Citations reference the Chicago Inter Ocean Albany Journal St Louis Globe Democrat Toledo Blade and New York Tribune. The excerpts mock party factions warn of veteran policies and question wheat price pledges amid 19th century political tensions.
A veteran recounts a farcical yet brutal incident from Baker's Ford using percussion shells in fog and misfiring, ending with a massacre image that rings false to the grocer. The tale twists from war memory to a grim punch line about an army mule and a ruined pension.
A lullaby style poem describes the Sandman moving through town at dusk. He shakes his sand box, blessing baby eyes with gentle sleep. The verse paints sleepy heads nodding like sunlit flowers as children drift toward quiet hours in Babyland.
Aunt Susan praises Johnny's first got new clothes while a nearby barefoot boy helps a distressed woman. On the town car ride, Johnny learns true gentility comes from action, not attire. A kindly old woman, a soft voiced lady, and a barefoot helper show that character matters more than dress.
A young Italian bootblack, growing from street vendor to florist, evolves from a corner chair with violets to a tiny shop and window of flowers. Over the years his persona shifts from dreamy youth to a shrewd businessman, ending with a reminder letter and an unpaid bill as he moves to a larger store.
In a humorous note from Youths Companion, Bobby laments heavy mosquito bites saying he will be left with nothing, while Flossie replies the welts will swell and make him larger than ever.
A playful vignette from St. Nicholas describes a robin in a peach-tree tower reacting to rain as the flowers insist on privacy. The scene shifts to a street car where a baby in kilts refuses a lap, noting that all the gentlemen are standing.
A judge comments on a humorous exchange about Essie and Mamma arguing whether Aunty Fatte is made of soap with a playful mischief about bubbling from the waist.
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