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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1882
Page
3
Poetic note from Mrs. M. A. Kidder in the New York Ledger reflects on garden fairs and the fragile promise of early summer. The piece contrasts hopeful blooms with fading buds and the communal longing for sun and rain to bring fruit.
In a village scene Miss Roxbury, a stern widow and landowner, confronts a charitable impulse as she hosts two distressed families from New York. Her encounter with Dot, a fragile child, softens her heart, leading to adoption of Dot and Mrs Winthrop. The tale ends with Roxbury embracing renewed faith and community service.
A collage of domestic advice on cooking methods grease for nails oven water with meat breads puddings and cakes. Veterinary and dairy commentary discuss herd health milk production and the role of cow care in profitability and nutrition.
An American correspondent describes Italian fruit abundance and varieties in markets across Italy. They compare table grapes, olives, figs, and melons to American produce, note olive cultivation, and recount a Gordon-like mystery fruit identified by an Italian waiter as the nut peach.
The article notes that total U S exports have rarely surpassed one thousand million dollars with 1881 at about seven hundred fifty million. Domestic commerce via railroads and waterways amounts to about thirty-five thousand million annually. It discusses breadstuffs and cotton, predicting a large corn crop but lower than 1879 and 1880, and expects beef and pork exports to decline.
To prevent discoloration from bruises apply a cloth wrung out in very hot water and renew frequently until the pain ceases.
The Drover's Journal argues that cooking and grinding corn before feeding can make it go twice as far as dry ear corn. It cites experiments showing cooked meal yields more pork per bushel and stresses proper grinding and boiling fixtures for full-scale use. It also notes selecting good feeder hogs and early maturity traits.
Agricultural note recommends mixing salt with dry lime as a top dressing, allowing 2 to 3 months for decomposition to form a chemical union. Apply 20 to 30 bushels per acre to improve soil, destroy pests, and improve organic matter, with notes on manure decomposition and fertilizer value.
Euclid Curtis of Winona Mississippi, a lawyer by training, forms a band of outlaws with fellow loafers after adopting highwayman fantasies. They murder an old farmer named Pace in front of his son, then plan to kill more before surrendering to the sheriff. DetrowTrib ut.
A humorous list of household tips covers cleaning ceilings with borax turpentine and rain water, drying clothes on a line, treating burns with egg white, deglazing irons by grinding on a stone, and odd cautions. It includes odd recipes like liniments for toothache, softening water with lime, washing silk stockings, and washing wool with an axe in tepid water, attributed to Nye's Boomerang.
A detailed guide on dairy hygiene and butter production including washing utensils with warm and hot water, avoiding soap on churns, sterilizing with boiling water, and air drying. It covers milk handling, skimming timing, storing in two jars, cellar placement, daily stirring, and churn timing to yield fine butter with brine storage and tub preparation.
Hon George B Loring argues for moderate feeding of calves to avoid oversized stock. He cites Scotch practice of early dam separation, oatmeal feeding, hay tea and roots with skimmed milk as a way to promote vigorous calves that produce milk. Grain is discouraged for young dairy stock and cows in milk.
Mr. Mackey has secured a site in New York for a palace he proposes to erect. the design aims to surpass the Vanderbilt mansion, according to the Graphic.
The St James Gazette notes the season’s first real London fog, dense and dirty despite promises of cleansing. It recalls prior talk of eradicating the nuisance and laments the fog’s persistence, stating its autumnal season has begun earlier than usual.
James Collins of South Lawrence Massachusetts is 110. Born in Ireland, orphaned as an infant, he spent 95 years on a farm before emigrating to the United States. He buried his wife 40 years ago and is cared for by five Lawrence children. He remains active, sees well, and still sports auburn hair.
In the San Francisco Evening Bulletin Mr Rosenthal of Rosenthal and Roesch 538 California street says We all know of St Jacobs Oil and are perfectly amazed at the relief it affords He urges anyone with rheumatism bruise or sprain to use it The item also notes a deacon addicted to gambling and some editorial quips from Boston Transcript and Chicago Tribune
Dr J Turner of Shirrells Ford North Carolina is cited in the Ravenswood news as praising St Jacobs Oil as an elegant remedy for all aches and pains.
The Lime Kiln Club debates forming a private army to defend the country in peril. Rev Penstock and members quarrel over suitability and rank as the plan is postponed with talk of using substitutes if the nation is endangered.
The piece extols Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as counteracting debility from anxiety and care. It claims the medicine refreshes mind and body and praises Kidney-Wort as curing everybody with specific action on liver bowels and kidneys.
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