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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1886
Page
4
A poem in narrative form recalls a night when a bird seeks warmth and light at a window. The speaker shelters the bird in darkness then releases it at dawn. The creature, overwhelmed by brightness, circles lamps until rain and night return, finally flying away forever.
A critical meditation on evangelists chasing crowded centers for applause while desert preaching fades. The piece contrasts crowd preaching with older church practice, notes reformers and reform movements, and nods to Sam Jones and broader religious tensions. It weaves in reflections on proof readers and Tacitus linking faith to history.
In Columbus Georgia a governess teaches a young pupil who shows sharp logic beyond his years. While reading from a first reader he misreads the line starting with Up up Lucy as Double up Lucy and never finishes his recitation.
A victorious general orders a night encampment with sentinels ringed around the camp. One sentinel, approaching his son Sela, mutters to himself as the night watch begins.
A humorous exchange at an evening Chicago party puns on Bacon and the Shakespearian controversy while noting a pork merchant’s remark that bacon is rising as lard falls. A Boston subtreasury coin trick hints at a hollowed center with a child’s photo inside. Also reported: small Italian regions lack physicians and chimneys, with cholera returning in fifty years.
A historical note recounts 19th century theories on vinegar potency. Some thinkers imagined the tang arose from eels tapping their tails on the tongue, while others argued pungency came from the pointed salts floating in the liquid.
The quote stresses two real faults idleness and cruelty. It argues true kindness to every creature prevents cruelty and highlights the ethical duty to act with deliberate kindness toward all beings.
A parable line notes silent people resemble their mouths as they hold their tongues. It then cites the Tur temple of Belus at Babylon claimed to stand 666 feet tall.
A narrative about Gettysburg's last day and a child’s musket encounter with a weary general. The piece shifts to Gettysburg’s fallen and wounded, then to the Little Girls and Boys in the Children’s Hospital. It honors hospital care, flowers, and the hope of the young patients as moral witnesses to compassion.
A foster child Harry asked Jesus to fix his stopped watch and it began ticking again. His plain talk about prayer and God’s listening heart moves adults and children to take everything to God in prayer. The grandmother recalls sharing this true story to inspire faith.
A 12 year old boy away from home at a boarding school struggles to pray hiding under his bedclothes. Conscience, scripture readings, and a memory of Elijah lead him to confess to his mother and seek forgiveness for cowardice. From the St Louis Republican.
A reflective prose fragment describes a hospital children’s ward where dying and recovering children endure pain with quiet dignity. It contrasts a cat’s gentle patience with the children’s suffering and urges visitors to learn from their strength and resilience.
A Southerville Journal item notes eccentric quirks of public figures and others. It cites Dr. Johnson touching gate-posts in London and a Washington bureau chief repeating gate post touches, Folger favoring the number three, Jefferson trimming his own hair, Stevens picking pins, Corcoran delaying sitting, and Senator Vance fearing a midnight cock crow.
The article recalls Washingtons headquarters at Newburgh on the Hudson and La Foyettes Paris supper reverie. It then surveys Horace Scudder notes on late 1820s prices in Rochester including calico, shoes, and wood costs, plus wages, food, and postage as scarce money traded by barter.
An interview with Dr. Clark defends a liver and kidney acid theory of consumption and endorses Warner's Safe Cure as the only specific treatment. Publishers note the remedy is praised by state health presidents and insurance physicians, with testimonial claims of thousands of cured cases and calls to publish the piece.
In Washington during 1864 65 General Fry sought a presidential substitute for Lincoln. A Third Ward Draft Club member recalls the scheme to pay 800 from the White House, a likely ministerial son deemed a ne er do well, later presumed killed in the Wilderness. The speaker, drafted himself, later learned his substitute deserted after the war.
A Philadelphia Daily News piece links cigar habits to personality. Light, relaxed smokers imply easygoing or sharp minds, while those who clench or mismanage cigars signal nervousness, tenacity, or bulldog perseverance, with fop-like posture indicating vanity.
A St. Louis Globe Democrat dressmaker notes pockets in women's gowns are hidden in plaits and hard to locate. Shoppers repeatedly misplace items as entrances to pockets are concealed, leading to multiple return trips to stores to retrieve what they need.
Aunt Lyddy, a storied Old Dominion cook, remains faithful to family craft teaching younger kin the secrets of her art. Known for delicate preserves she demonstrated to a daughter how ripe berries must soak in sugar and steam slowly before cooling before bottling, as described in a New York Com- piece.
Chicago Herald recounts S. S. Merrill, longtime GM of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line, noted for exacting standards and curiosity about every detail. A train-yard anecdote shows his patience with a boastful quip from an old wheel tapper named Pat.
The piece recalls a duel between the Duke of Wellington and Lord Winchelsea, noting the Prime Minister’s restraint and humorous exchange with the King. It references a London News line about M Grevy and contrasts historical and contemporary duels in a witty, dismissive tone.
G. C. Staley, starred in Michael Strogoff at Oakland California, was nearly unable to continue due to a severe cold and hoarseness. He recovered after using two bottles of Red Star Cough Cure which did not cause nausea.
The New Orleans Picayune recalls Col. McClung of Mississippi who once kicked a rowdy out of the Prentiss House in Vicksburg. Weeks later in New Orleans the same man, now a kicker, meets him on St. Charles Street and admits the prior deed while cautioning secrecy.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets as small, pleasant remedies that cure sick headaches relieve torpid flovers and are vegetable so they harm no one.
Country editor recalls taking a swipe at the local brass band and faces a cruel revenge as they serenade him in retaliation. A stray line ends with a stray note about the boy with the trick-goat and the St Jacobs Oil bottle.
A humorous exchange from the Omaha Herald shows a cowboy seeking work and choosing the title The Responsible Editor after being offered the desk near the door. The dialogue underlines bold self-confidence and a backhanded punchline about editorial responsibility.
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