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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1878
Page
4
The article notes the German Parliament passing an anti socialist bill deemed satisfactory to the Government and granting broad authority to suppress dissent. It also mentions annexation proclamations by the Prince of Roumania and reports on the Pommerania sinking with forty eight lives lost.
A successful raid in Jackson and Macon counties Tennessee returned to Nashville with seven distilleries destroyed and eight operators arrested. Also reported are deaths of notable figures Lyman Tremain former New York congressman at Albany aged 160 Commodore Spicer and George Henry Lewes husband of George Eliot in London aged 61 and the deaths of Bishop J P B Wilmark in Philadelphia and Louis A Godey veteran publisher of Godey’s Lady’s Book aged 74.
At midnight on November 344 the steam ship Pommerania from New York to Hamburg collided with the Welsh bark Noel Eilian off Folkestone in the Strait of Dover and sank within ten minutes. About 170 of 220 passengers and crew were saved. The bark reached Folkestone in a sinking condition with its bow destroyed but water tight compartments kept it afloat.
A strike in England’s cotton district halts 100 mills, leaving about 12,000 workers idle. The report notes widespread job losses and a sharp downturn in the industry alongside financial figures from allied institutions.
The Central Executive Committee of the National party in Washington fleshes out goals and strategies. It urges nationwide organization, predicts majorities in Congress and state legislatures, and denounces specie payments and bank bonds. It cites sixteen incoming Congress members likely to support the party.
A New York letter sketches Stewart as the era’s greatest trader with vast fortune and keen, exacting habits. He is portrayed as plain in dress, tall in youth, blue eyed with auburn hair, soft spoken yet piercing in judgment, and relentless on small details in the warehouse.
The article profiles D Hartancourt, the famed tiger slayer in British service via Singapore, born in the American West with French roots. It recounts his father’s Moscow campaign, Siberia exile, and escape, D’Hartancourt’s sea wreck off Formosa, and his plan to hunt lions in Algeria under French authority to rival Girard.
The global sugar output is estimated at 3.42 billion units while the United States consumes about 33 pounds per person annually, higher than any other nation. The text ends abruptly with unclear phrasing.
Intelligence from New Britain reports four Wesleyan mission teachers killed by interior tribes after a warning from a clef named Talil. The attackers urged aid from nearby plantations and murdered the unarmed missionaries before distributing their bodies to ritual cannibal feasts. Rev. George Brown led reprisals, resulting in many deaths and widespread town destruction.
Liebig’s theory that liquor drinking conflicts with farinaceous diets appears supported by an English experiment on twenty seven drinkers. A 60 year old temperate man with long habit of weekly sprees faced insurance difficulty after delirium tremens, underscoring frail constitution.
A historical note credits Hostetter’s Bitters with solving long standing medical problems. It asserts the remedy's public notice, near universal American trust, and its role as a first order tonic in Calcutta references, aiding fever, digestive disorders, liver health, and rheumatic tendencies.
An advertisement extols Allan's Anti Fat claiming it is harmless and prevents fat absorption by discouraging excessive intake. It targets women with supposed predispositions and promotes vinegar avoidance as a path to slimmer forms.
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